Ginger Gargoyle's Gems

 I had a heck of a time getting toseemed like evderytime I laid down my head ached.

I didn't fall asleep until after 6am (local time) this morning .... didn't wake up until after my son got home from work, after he got the courage to wake me up .... at 1:30-ish pm.

Now I've not only got rumbling tummy for not having eaten all day ... but I have one heck of a headache too.

We were supposed to clear up the dining room table and the kittchen counters today ...

You see - we have a cat .... it came wih the house .... Mr. Katz was my in-laws's cat .... he's very sweet, kinda funny ... and well over 20 yearx old ....

My sister-in-law was WILLED the cat .... she had told my mother-in-law that she wanted it ....
BEFORE they went into debt during retirement, to buy a house and RENT it to her .... oh that's a delightful story or LIES and intrigue - but I'm not gonna poke the python laying there in the grass.

any ways ... she decided she didn't WANT the cat after my father-in-law passed away ... But that's okay - we had figured out an alternative person, our oldest daughter will take him .... once we actually move out of the house ... 
the only worry is that she has a little kid (cat is declawed) and a dog - who is used to having had a cat WITH claws, and he learned to leave it alone real fast."
Either way though ... we've got a plan

Meanwhile ... we've got the cat ... and I'm allergic to cats
I had NO IDEA until I started dating my husband way back when ... 

So - I can't pet the caat ... nor can I feed the cat - see cat food is made with FISH ... did I mention I'm DEATHLY allergic to fish??  So bad I used to get itchy palms after one of our past dogs would eat her supper ... turned out that he food's major ingredient was ... FISH ... I would have to wait at least 3 hours before I could pet her or let her lick me ... nasty.

So, taking care of the cat falls on my husband and my youngest son, who lives with us, but the cat and I get along pretty good ... although he keeps trying to get me to understand him ... I don't speak cat.

Whatever it is on him that I'm allergic to - hair, spittle, food, whatever it is - tends to settle on surfaces.

We have ONE "clean room" in the house -- which, once it had been professionally deep cleaned, has been cut off from the cat.
And the pantry has had minimum exposure to the cat, since I've been up here at least.

So cleaning can cause a horrible allergic reaction ... which starts with ...

a MASSIVE headache  

which I describe as "Just this side of a Migraine"

I'm at THAT stage ... only I haven't moved very much stuff at all.

UGH!!!!

This is going to be ineresting.

Cleaning will have to start once the sun goes down -- bright sunlight (which we are not supposed to be having today, but weather does its own thing) -- sunlight will push this thing straight into migraine territory very ... VERY ... quickly.

OR

The sress of the headache will move down into my spine ... and my back will start to "lock up", as I call it, but it acually just "grabs" and I have to instantly stop and find a wall to curl back up on.
Then I'm usually okay for a bit ... but it will slow me down a good deal.
It seems tto be a result of twisting/turning at the same time - it's just a tweak .... compared to when my husband's back actually DOES lock-up ... he has a couple bad discs in his back - last time it acted up, doctor put him on 3 weeks complete bedrest, and he said he hated it ... and he had to get phyical therapy ... 

So - its a Day At A Time situation here ... only its more like, an Hour At A Time right now ....

I just hope that, since son has gotten extra shift's due to a sick co-worker, I can get enough done during the night ....
AND still be able to get enough sleep tonight.

I've got to close the blinds in the living/dining/Great room once either the clouds we were supposed to have, finally show up -- or after sundown ...

that way I can SEE in the room via indoor lighting without blazing sunbeams killing me.

Sigh

Holidays

Love the family Get-Togethers ....
Hatte the cleaning frenzy.