I’m unfortunate enough to have come down with a pretty nasty cold. Some are telling me that it is bronchitis while others are telling me that it’s just congestion. Either way I’m rather unhappy and when I can start breathing through my nose and not having such a rough sounding inhale through my mouth - things will be much better!

It’s kind of easy to stick to a diet when you’ve spent 24 of the last 48 hours, asleep! I’ve been snacking here and there on 100 calorie packs but I’ve been drinking a lot of tea as well. It’s very hard to get myself to the point of being as active as I used to be considering I’m having trouble standing up.

I managed to get a little bit of exercise in tonight though. Bella hasn’t poo’d in about two days because there is a rabid animal on the loose and it’s already attacked a 70-100lb pit bull, lord knows what it could do to a 18 pound Lhasa who thinks she’s a cat, minus the whole crapping outside thing, naturally. Sean went off to do his own thing, not quite sure what it was but no matter how dizzy I was, Bella was going to take her much needed nightly poop walk. So I threw my sneakers on and high-tailed it out the door. I admit, I was having some trouble and half way down the road I realised that I’d be screwed if something did happen to jump out at us because I’m in no condition to run anywhere, I just know that my dog is not going to be attacked by a cat/racoon with an attitude problem. So the littlest bit of noise that I heard behind me wound up having me walk just a little bit faster. Sean caught up with me just as I was getting back to the house so I’m certain that he made some sort of noise to scare me but either way no one was attacked, Bella got to do her business and now we’re home safe and sound.

It’s been very hot for the last few days, I know previously in the week there have been record highs all across the mid-west. I heard that one area hit the 115°F(46°C) mark. I felt so bad for those people, and then it made it’s way over on the eastern shore. DE hit high 90’s for the last few days but at least I was lucky enough to have the air conditioner in the window and being fast asleep during most of the heat. There was supposed to be some massive storm going through here today but nothing ever touched down. I noticed that my flowers are dead and I have to say I’m really annoyed by it. No one could think of watering them for me and even on top of that - where’s the rainfall? We’re about 5 inches behind this year, many farmers in the are are suffering pretty badly as well considering their crops depend heavily on the rain and I don’t think they’ve got those big booms that shoot water along their 5+ acres of crop like many other farms in the area do. Either way it’s hot and it’s just aiding in making me even more uncomfortable.

I waddled my self over to the office, took me a while to get here too. The AC is on but that trip from the bed to the office after walking her has left me with little to no strength. I’m more than likely going to get myself in bed as soon as possible, no need for me to be up if I can’t be productive about anything, you know?