Yesterday,..I felt meaner than a suitcase full of snakes!! I coughed up so much phlegm..that my cats were "hackin hairballs" in sympathy with me.

All my son could say when he would just get close enough to pass me another box of Kleenix was,.."Eeeeeeeeew,..mom! When Shawn comes over today,.I'm gonna entertain him on the back steps!!"

Have I gotten across the idea that I must be having another bout of something that is affecting my lungs again?

Can I describe what it's like to sit and cough your guts up or the feeling of blowing out gobs of phlegm so big that one feels like one is vomiting through one's nose? I'll spare my reader the delights of such descriptions.

Then,..THAT niece came over the other day to visit. My son let her in.

When I heard the cats start to scream, and THAT had to be a really loud noise for me to hear it,..I came a'runnin'! The niece had a cat's tail under either foot!!

What the HELL is a matter with that girl??? Hurting innocent creatures like that??? Her mother assured me she was getting the girl.."help!"

I was in such a bad mood that I wondered if the "help" that the girl needed was a good "bop in the nose!!!"

My son escourted his cousin back out the door. Thank goodness,..that the two baby nieces are beyond the reach of such meaness! I have no intention of ever letting her know that they exist!!

Today,..I will try waddling out my back door and over to the school library again. I have to force myself to go that far.

Then,..I'll go up and do my little "bit" to make "Ro" comfortable. I am not totally ineffectual..as yet!!

I would really like to know what Rosezelle and Daryl think that they are doing about the publicity campaign over our "Gold " win? The longer that they wait,..the more momentum that the story loses!! I will have to talk to Rosezelle about it this morning!!

How do I sum up yesterday?

HOLLISCHE!

Just HOLLISCHE!

AND I DON'T KNOW IF I EVEN SPELLED THE WORD..CORRECTLY!! Normally,..I would avoid using the "brogue" in public or around the educated. Right now,..I am beyond such "finesse!"