Cold & Flu

Family and Friends,
 
The cold and flu season has officially arrived, at least for me that is. Tuesday morning I felt the onset of a head cold and began trying to fight it off. As the day went on I just felt worse and worse. By Wednesday afternoon I was miserable and left work about an hour early. I stayed in bed until Thursday afternoon, at which time I was feeling better. I got up and cooked supper, worked on my Spanish lessons, scrap booked our Taos trip, and made brownies; and I had plans to go to work on Friday. Doing those things was probably a bad idea considering by bedtime I had nearly gone through an entire box of Kleenex, had a throbbing head, and was coughing up a storm. Once again I was deemed to bed, but this time until Saturday morning.  I am still hanging on to the shirt tail of my cold, but I am back at work with a clear nose and head, yet an occasional cough makes its presence known.

Despite being sick and stuck in bed I managed to I spend some time attending to my online writing club and made significant progress on my Spanish lessons. I am almost caught up to Jimi.

Saturday morning we watched the movie "The Godfather" and later "Godfather II".

Saturday evening, we went to the University of Colorado football game. My girlfriend, Vicki from work, her boyfriend and son also went. We didn't stay for the whole game. It was cold the game was kind of boring; probably because we aren't really fans and not to mention because our home team was playing badly. 

Sunday we went shooting with friends, Brad and Ellen, at a shooting range in the mountains. We shot a 9 mm, a 22, and a 357 Magnum with both 38s and 357 bullets. Jimi also brought his 12 gauge shot gun, but he was the only one who shot it. We shot targets taped to boxes and full pop cans. We had a great time.

Sunday I helped Jennifer Nance take her dogs (Molly and Razor included) to the pet clinic for their annual shots. It was wonderful seeing the little dogs again and they were oh so excited to see me too.

Jimi worked on fixing the brakes on my car along with some other maintenance for our trip. He put in a new master cylinder and we sure hope this fixes the problem; however, just a few hours after the breaks were fixed something else went wrong and the idle was not high enough to even keep the car running. I am now driving the truck and he is trying to investigate what it wrong with the car.

Jimi won a contest making a poster advertisement for a local karate school and earned $100.  His first paid job.

We are preparing for our trip eastward bound later in the week. We are excited and looking forward to seeing friends and family. In addition, Christmas is approaching quickly and we are preparing for Jennifer and Daniel's visit.

I'm not sure if I will be writing next Monday, since we will be busy visiting loved ones. It may be that I will skip next Monday and catch up the week after when we return from Illinois and Michigan.
 
Love Everybody,
Lorie & Jimi