Not sure if I mentioned this or not (that's what happens when you update so rarely, I guess) but a couple weeks ago, I came down with something for the first time in ages. For two days, my fever would end up over 103�; backache, head & chest congestion, hard to breathe, lots of "dry" coughing. Still, once I got past the fever, I tried to continue working on cleaning up the new house. I rolled up & pulled the moldy carpets out of the basement, but in doing so, I went into another coughing jag, lasted probably a good hour, and was to the point of me coughing so hard I would almost throw up; more trouble breathing too, for the rest of that night. Didn't occur to me until later that I might have inhaled a bunch of mold spores from that basement & carpeting. So here I am 17 days after the fever started, and I'm still getting winded splitting firewood, or carrying stuff up the stairs, still "dry" coughing, still feeling fairly weak, and pretty much constantly tired, so I called the doctor's office & talked to a nurse about all my symptoms - she said I should get in to see the doc within the next 2-3 days. I have an appt. for tomorrow, so I'll see whether or not I have a bunch of mold growing in my lungs now! lol
The thing that's pissing me off right now is that I have a shit-ton of work still to do at the new place, and I'm quickly running out of time in which to get it done. I'm loath to go back to the house before seeing the doc, in case the mold is really a big issue, yet if I don't get to this soon, I'm not going to be able to move in on time, and that will really irritate me!
Also, I'm having some trouble coming up with color schemes to paint the new place. I think I have an idea for the living room, based on an area rug I found that I really like, but I need to see it in person to know if it will work. I'm going to go to the store & see if they have it in stock today on lunch. I would go after work, but I have a guy coming over to check out the old bedframe I have at the old place & he's going to give me a ride back from dropping off my car at the shop to have some work done. Once I get that fixed, I can put it up for sale. Hopefully, it will sell fairly quickly, as I could really use the money right now.
On a side note, I've been learning a bunch of new songs on guitar recently (since I really can't do much of anything else without getting worn out). I'm never going to be an amazing guitar player, but I can sing and strum well enough that people can recognize the song, or at very least, not make fun of me for it! :-P I think I'm up to maybe 20-30 songs I'm working on, with maybe 10-12 I can play straight from memory.
Thing is, a bunch of them are old classic rock-type songs & I'm not really sure I want to play those in front of people - they're kind of cheesy, so I'm trying to find more interesting, obscure songs to play. So far, I've got a some Smithereens, Toad the Wet Sprocket, a Keith Richards song, an old Dr. Hook song, a couple (slower) Motorhead songs, 1-2 Lovin' Spoonful, 2-3 Seals & Crofts, several Rolling Stones songs, a couple Bob Seger, one song by a guy named Wreckless Eric (saw it in a movie & dug it!), a couple Beatles songs, etc...
I've actually written two songs of my own already too! Well, four actually, but only two have lyrics/melody, the other two are just the guitar part. I'm not really sure I'll do anything with the two songs, because I'm really unsure of just how good/bad they might be. I feel like they're really cheesy, and I'm very hesitant to play them for anyone. I might record them sometime & if I get the nerve, *maybe* I'll post them here to get some input, but that's a BIG *if*...
I do still have something to write about (the bit I hinted at before about everything coming together) but 1) I'm unsure if I should bother writing about it as I might jinx things, and 2) I really don't know what I think of the entire situation, so I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, and therefore have no idea how to approach it. Maybe I'll address it in another entry later this week...
10:49 a.m. - 2011-03-23
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