IKR!? What is up with men being such big babies when they are sick???
Things went downhill fast in our house at the end of the week last week, LOL.
Friday, the BF started to complain that his eyes hurt, and they were goopy. By Friday evening, it was really bad, and I can sympathize with that! We decided it was best to head back to the prompt care, except the one we went to wasn't open (they close at 6pm on a Fri, what the heck!?), so we had to go to a different one. He was still seen fairly quickly and they decided it was a sinus infection, and it was literally coming out his eyes. BLECH!
Thankfully, it wasn't pink eye, but it was basically acting like it. So they gave him eye drops and started him on an antibiotic.
Saturday I came down with it, and on top of that was really disappointed because we were supposed to get a load of hay from my hay guy, and he didn't communicate all that well with me (he's a farmer through and through...) and so he wasn't there when we got there, and the bricks were stacked too high to really easily load them into the truck. So that means we drove the gas guzzling pickup truck all the way down there for no reason, and it also meant that we had to come back on Sunday to get it loaded. I was really, really disappointed because I had swapped my barn chores so it cleared my schedule Sunday which meant I wouldn't have anything to do Sunday and wouldn't need to take care of any horses. This meant I'd have to go move the hay, which is what I didn't want to be doing. I really fell into the pits about it, and was just feeling terrible, plus I could tell I had caught the BF's cold. That afternoon he finally coaxed me into talking, and that was a good thing. We got back on the same page together, and so that was good. He can end up resenting times when I'm working extra hours or doing business stuff and I'm not available for him. He forgets that those things are so that I can have better outcomes later, and keep my bills paid. And he also forgets that as soon as he gets his read end back in school he's going to be unavailable for me almost completely. He was a bit more level about it after that, which made me feel better since it was frustrating that he resented when I wasn't right there for him. Of course, what the heck he expected us to be doing if I was there for him I don't know, because most of the time it wasn't like there were other things we could have been doing if we'd had the time together. I reminded him of that, too, and he seemed to make the connection. So I spent most of the day napping and laying low. I had to take care of Cowboy and Coyote one more time, and so he went with me and we got Chinese food, which was nice, and ended up lasting us over 3 meals. Pretty good deal LOL.
I guess I haven't updated since the snow.... That was CRAZY!! I've never seen that much snow in the middle of November in my life! We got about 4" before it started to rain, and the roads were really BAD when I was leaving work headed to the barn. I got soaked and was exhausted by the time I was headed home. The horses are always so antsy to come in when the weather is like that, which is no fun after I've been cleaning stalls for an hour and a half already. I was drenched when I got in the car since it was raining pretty good at that point. The snow was really tough to move around in because it was so muddy underneath and the snow itself was really wet. By the time I left the farm at almost 5 the roads were much better than they had been since it had been raining. It mostly all melted on Friday, though anywhere it had been plowed it's still sitting, which is surprising.
That brings me to the Thanksgiving forecast... The HIGH is only 30, and the low is 18, which means colder on the farm!
I have to do barn chores on Friday morning. It's gonna SUCK!! Everything is going to be frozen solid!! Although, in the car, I did just realize that I think we have an old fashioned pair of ice tongs somewhere in the house that were here when we moved in... and if I can get some kind of basket on a handle, and then something like a crowbar, I can chop the ice and get it out of the troughs a lot easier than using the heavy pitchfork, which I have to carry to all the tubs. I'm gonna have to think this one through and see if I can figure out how to make it happen... Because carrying that dang pitchfork stinks!
Anyway, Sunday, we didn't do much other than move hay. There were 3 busted bales in the brick of 21, which was super annoying, AND as I was trying to move the flakes as best I could so it wasn't wasted, a whole bunch dumped back on my face. I dumped a crap load of hay out of my shirt when I got home. I soaked in the tub later that evening, and that helped me feel a lot better.
So I'm doing ok today, still not moving fast, and my throat is a little sore from not being able to breathe easily, but not that bad, really. The BF really did have it a lot worse than I did. I try to be compassionate, but dang it's difficult. He does take pretty good care of me when I'm sick, so it isn't fair to complain. Now we just have to find the energy to clean up the dang house, it was dirty to begin with, and not it's dirty and germy which is just gross! Thankfully I don't have to do any barn chores on Thanksgiving, which is awesome!
Oh, AND in the news of things that are a bit surprising... the mortgage company finally did refund the double payment. Now I don't have to worry about an extra payment coming out on Dec 1. It cost us a $10 wire transfer fee from the bank, but whatever. It'll sit in our account for 2 weeks until it's ready to be paid again, and then we'll be back on track. So as of right now, I will still have 1 full payment ahead. That will probably change when we have to get the gravel, but I'm thrilled that I'm this far ahead! I also double checked, and we started using this version of the budgeting system back last Nov, and the BF has managed to bring his net worth up by about $5000 in a year. Most of that was due to the tax return, plus we paid out the insurance in one lump sum, so if it hadn't been for that, it would have been even higher. That's pretty amazing. He has about $1000 on one credit card, plus just over $1000 on another that I think we'll be able to eliminate when the tax returns come in, they'll be lower by then anyway. I'm super proud of him for doing all of that while paying the mortgage and power bill, plus the water bill, himself. He was only paying $465 towards the rent, and no power bill and we had no water bill before we moved a year ago. So he's managed all of that on his salary with only a tiny raise late in the year. I know he doesn't feel like he's in a better position, but he really is. Plus we've been able to arrange it so that we can eat out and do some things along the way without going deeper into debt. That's just amazing! (If anybody wants to check out YNAB (you need a budget) let me know, I have a referral code, they offer 34 days free, plus a discount if you use a referral code. It's SO worth the cost! I happily pay for that every year!!)
Happy Thanksgiving to ya'll. Very grateful for my "family" here, ya'll listen to me rant and rave and hear the annoying parts of my life. I've really come to enjoy your company over the years (geesh, it's been a long time, hasn't it!)
