my lymph nodes are swollen in my neck today, so my ears and throat hurt, plus with all the swelling I have such a bad headache.  Plus my hip is and back are just SCREAMING at me today.  My body is weeping  in pain.  Most likely because of the cold temps.  My body always cripples up so badly when I get cold.  To the point that I am all hunched over and can hardly walk.  I guess my body just prefers a nice warm beach to be on  haha.

New topic.  It is about -25 below this morning.  Just nasty and that doesn't include the wind chill.  EO really has the wood stove pumping out the heat so as to keep the house somewhat warm.  It is just going to be one of those days I guess.

Today is Steph's last day of work at the Merk.  They didn't even bother to open the coffee shop this weekend.  I was totally bummed, as it was my last chance to get a drink that actually tastes good.  She says there is no one to run the shop so they have no plans of opening it up for awhile.  But they asked her to stay and work this weekend... they are having their big winterfest, so why not have the coffee shop open?  I don't get it!  oh and they have their soups or something like that.  Oh well.  It's not like I can do anything about it.

I am super tired today.  I have been tired the past couple days.  I thought maybe it was due to the increase of some of my meds, or even the anti biotics that are fighting the infection I have.  I just don't know what it is.  But everyday, it is a struggle to be awake.  

So in a nut shell... I'm cold and tired today. 

EO is hoping it warms up a bit more as he wants to go see his mom today.  I guess yesterday was a horrible ordeal for her.  Being Friday, they removed about 800 ccs from the lung sac again. But they failed to send a pain pill along with for her, and she as in a lot of pain yesterday.  Plus, I've been hearing how the traffic up in Duluth has been nuts this past week.  I don't know if it is just from the road construction or what.  But it took forever to get Carol back to the Villa, and all that time sitting up, in horrible pain, stuck in traffic.  Yesterday was brutal for her. She is still not eating good, and just keeps loosing weight, so now she is so weak and frail that she can't do anything much anymore by herself.  We are all very worried about her.