I went to bed last night with a bit of a sore throat and the beginnings of a head-ache. I'm going to bed tonight with a full-blown sort throat and a full-blown headache. I've been taking medicine, tea and fruit juice all day to try to alleviate my suffering (don't worry, it's not THAT bad, I'm just a bit of a baby when it comes to being sick!).
While laying on my little wicker love-seat (closest it gets to a couch in our house!), I realized WHY I'm sick. The young woman who helps to keep our house clean was washing the dishes and sneezing all over everything. We had a little lesson after that in how germs are spread and how to, shall we say, contain one's germs a bit.
I did have a fantastically productive burst of energy this morning, though, before it got too hot. I cleaned out our bottom kitchen cupboards - the ones that Zane has been hunting in lately. I threw away a TON of old plastic containers which had been seriously chewed on by rats. And found all sorts of other treasures. And now all those treasures and nicely organized and placed in such a way that one can see what treasures one has. So now all the coffee making apparatus is together. All the baking apparatus is together. All the storage apparatus is together. And there are boxes for all the un-chewed plastic containers and lids. Our poor house helper was a bit horrified at me because I was throwing away "Jackie's containers". So we also had a little discussion about the fact that this is also my house, even though she has never seen me living in it before :) (Sunday, the woman who used to help us, moved on to take care of her husband, rather than taking care of us, so Evelyn joined us while I was away).
Anyway, while the whole cupboard cleaning thing was going on, we had another little fire in the generator shed. Fortunately, this one wasn't so bad, and we now keep extra parts on hand for when this sort of thing happens, so it only took a few hours to fix. In the meantime, it was getting pretty warm in the house!
The heat, combined with my cold, caused me to spend an awful lot of time lounging on the love-seat for the rest of the afternoon. I didn't even feel up to going out to the market, which is odd for me, as I LOVE getting off the compound and just having an excuse to go somewhere. Instead, I sent along my shopping list with those who were going on the market expedition. And now I'm happily stocked up with bananas, eggs, onions, carrots, and potatoes for the week - and I didn't even break a sweat doing it! So nice to have kindly neighbours!
We were going to hike over to a local restaurant to grab some avocado juice and some dinner, but it started to rain just before supper time. And it rained and it rained and it rained. And it thundered and it lighteninged for a couple of hours! So we all stayed in and my housemate took very good care of me by cooking up some stir-fried veggies and rice. She even heated up the leftover matooke (plantains) that we had made for dinner last night. It was nice to be taken care of like that and not have to think about supper.
And now, I'm ensconced once again in my mossy net, and I think I will watch an episode of something on my computer before turning off my light a bit earlier than usual. Maybe another cup of tea with some honey will soothe my throat before I sleep, though...
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