...sick sick sick....

 ...Silly Sammy Slick, sipped six sodas and got sick sick sick...

Dr. Seus...

First of all, I do want to apologize for the snarky tone of yesterday's post.  There was something in it that just didn't sit well with me.  I have such nice blog readers, and from now on, that's who I address.  So what if one or two or three people had comments I didn't appreciate way last year, who cares, let it go, and be nice.  That's one of my new New Year's resolutions, as of right this minute.  

I honestly don't mind when people chime in and beg to differ, because that's what makes the world go around, when we listen to each other and respect each other and learn new things.  

Anyway, having the dreaded virus in the house is not fun, nor is it actually unfun.   I mean, picture this:  Sonja, Jon, Charlotte Claire, Camille (in her big fluffy Christmas robe and new slippers, it's as if we KNEW she was going to get sick, and prepared with the perfect apparel!  Jonathan also got a new robe, he looks spiffy, right with the fever!)...anyway, all of us, eating our dinner in the living room of piping hot homemade Mac and cheese (oh, my cauliflower and cheese was Devine!  I also had a few spoons of the Mac and cheese, and yup, nailed it!), and our popcorn chicken from the air fryer, watching a few episodes of Psyche!, under our blankies...not too shabby.  

Sonja has downloaded SIMS! onto her laptop, the girls take turns building their little houses and families...I was feverish last night, dozing on the couch, and they were talking about a baby that wouldn't eat and might die, and I thought it was something real....thankfully not.

I will mention that my throat hurt like the devil, it hurt to cough, but I couldn't NOT cough, I spiked another fever in the night, and felt the absolute worst yet, this morning.  I almost fainted when I got to head to the bathroom.  I didn't even get coffee, just got back on the couch under the covers for a few hours...if you know me at all, you'll know that this is not normal.  I usually have coffee-on-the-brain as soon as I open my eyes...

I do have my coffee now, and feel a bit better, but shh, I got up and vacuumed, because I feel like I need to intermittently move around...I feel like I ran a marathon, not that I know what that feels like.  It's back and forth, like the bunny hop, two steps forward, one step back.  

So we will make the best of things, and I am thankful we are doing as well as we are.  I'm holding on to the hope that this new variant is milder, and that I'll be fine.  I know that the very hairs of my head are numbered, and that not a sparrow falls from the sky without our heavenly Father's knowledge.  I know that He sends all things for the very best for those who love Him, and that there is so much to learn in it all.  "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall attain mercy...".  

So I am extremely thankful for so many things.

...and, here's the daily press release from our county, which has 76,576 people...looks like officially, one in six have had positives....

...so from this update, which I didn't make up, I simply took a screen shot from the county's official webpage report...14 of the 24 hospitalizations are vaccinated, more than double of the new cases are vaccinated...it's baffling.   All vaccine talk aside, it's almost criminal how early treatments have been discouraged and criminalized.  I'm not going to get in to all of that today, because I don't feel so great, would I feel better right now if I had been vaccinated?  We simply don't know.    

But, thankfully, here in the U.S.A, we still have freedom to decide for ourselves, to think for ourselves, and to speak out for what we believe in....thank you all for your kind comments and prayers...