Welcome to the first day of March and blog post number three. I’ve been sick since returning from vacation, so much so that I had to take the rest of the week off and then I had President’s Day off to assist with recovering. I went back to the full-time job that Tuesday but still coughing, sneezing, a runny nose, and congestion. Thankfully, not Covid, Flu A or B (took two tests for Covid, both negative). I’m better now, but still have the occasional coughing fit.

Good news, well mostly good news, is that doing gluten-free for 99% of my trip allowed me to feel better. Between that and being sick, I’ve lost 10 pounds. Not a great way to lose weight since I ate little during the height of the illness, but I’ll take it. Found out from parents when I visited with them the Saturday before the cruise that both of them have issues with gluten: Mom sticks to not eating where as Dad continues to eat it but in smaller portions. I guess I get it honestly. 🙂

Unfortunately, that means that while I’ve kept up with blog tours/blitzes this month, I ended up posting the day of that I plan to post. Last week, the family learned that my partner’s grandmother passed away, and they will hold the celebration of life at the end of the month. She had taken a turn for the worse the week before, so her passing is not unexpected, but we will still feel her loss. We have plans to carpool to the funeral home and make it a day trip. She was 100.

As for finishing the edits for Charon’s Dilemma to send off to the editor this month, that hasn’t finished yet. I had planned to work on it during the cruise, but I got caught up in other things and didn’t get to it. Then I was sick and still not feeling it. I’ll get there. Maybe I will later today or sometime this week; possibly the next day when we get back from the funeral. I will have to see.

Good news is that I got the chair my parents got me for Christmas and my daughter put it together last week. It’s so much nicer than my old chair and the hydraulics work nicely. It’s a Laz-Y-Boy brand and very nice for the price. They bought it at BJ’s when it was on sale right before Christmas. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it in Georgia, and that’s why I picked it up while I was in the area.

Now I need to get another one, possibly a gaming one for my personal laptop setup upstairs. This one will be used with my work office.