Monday is the day that is the worst for me, and not in the typical way of most folks that are having to go back to work because the weekend is over and have to go back to work.

Hubby has had to give himself an injection in the stomach every Sunday night for the past six months, and the treatments make him seriously ill for several days after that, Monday being the worst. 

The treatments keep him pretty much bedridden with severe flu like symptoms, which is something most of us only have to deal with maybe once a year, unless you are smart and get a flu shot.  Hubby has never wanted a flu shot, but this year he did get one, and hopefully he will get one every year after this horrible situation is over with.

So my Mondays are the pitts because he needs me near in order to take care of him until he gets to feeling better on Wednesday.  This puts a serious strain on the whole family but we are dealing with it one day at a time.

  The good news is that last night (Sunday) was the last of his injection treatments and surprisingly he got up before I did this Monday a.m. and isn’t feeling the usual flu like symptoms, he isn’t feeling the greatest, mind you, but better than he usually does.  I hope tomorrow morning there isn’t a relapse in store for us.

My sister helped me get my Federal tax return prepared today, tomorrow it will go out with the mail.  I had brought my daughter’s tax papers with me also so that sis could help to do hers at the same visit.  Unfortunately we were missing one of her W-2’s so hers didn’t get completed, which means my State return didn’t get completed either.  But that is O.K. I found the missing W-2 as soon as we got home so I’ll just fax it to sis tomorrow so that she can fill in the blank spots and email me the finished returns for us to sign and mail out.  You just gotta love what you can do with emails!

I’m so relieved to have all of that out of the way, the money surely will be put to good use, I estimate that it will last in our pockets 3 possibly 4 days, ha ha!

Got home to a dirty kitchen as usual and cleaned up in a jiffy.  Hubby is so glad to see us back home again and CR had time to shower and do her hair for the start of a new school week, tomorrow.

I always manage to come home with a new book from my sister’s house, this time it is a new Monk book, based on the TV series of Monk.  The Monk book series are nice easy read, which is a nice break from some of the real long intense books that I find myself reading, ones that I have picked up from  only God knows where. 

I seem to be at some kind of medical appointment at least twice a week, what with all of the appointments for Hubby’s health issues and the kids appointments and of course my own numerous appointments as well.  Most of the places that we go to offer boxes of used books for you to look through and to take home, I love it, I rarely go home empty handed.  I mean you just can’t beat free!

On the drive down here I was thinking how much I would miss posting on my blog while I was down visiting with my sister, it didn’t even cross my mind that I could jump on her computer and do my “stuff”.  So here I am, she’s in bed and I’m using her PC.

Sis is a bus driver and during the week she needs to get up at the ungodly hour of 4:00am to get her morning route done, so she usually goes to bed by 8:00pm or so.  While with me, I work at night and usually don’t get to bed until midnight or so.  Hubby’s health makes it hard for him to sleep, which makes me not get much sleep.  His snoring is bad enough, then you place all the load moaningand groaning due to his pain, into the picture, and let’s not forget the hot flashes from his medicines that soak the bed linens, it makes it impossible to get any quality deep sleep for me. 

I have been a light sleeper since my kids were born, always having a ear out for the baby’s cry, and then when the oldest turned into a teenager and started having teen issues (like sneaking out of the house which means that you have to sneak back in, or sneaking someone one or more people into the house, the telephones ringing at all hours of the night and and of course the old sneak out of the house and take mom or dad’s vehicle out with friends for a spin issue) my sleep has been greatly disturbed.

Of course the cherry on top of all of this is when I started menopause (and that issue will be addressed in some other blog, some other time) the hot and cold flashes are unbearable. I could write a book on that subject.

I went to the doctor a few years ago to address my sleep situation and I made a list of things that prevented me from sleeping and the list had over 25 different reasons on it, the doctor told me that it sounded like it was time for me to move into my own bedroom!  Yeah, right lady.  I have a dream.

One show that the entire family enjoys watching is Monk.  Last night was the last episode of the season, what a bummer.  I’m assuming that the writer’s strike made it a short season and now we are stuck watch more reruns for I don’t know how long.

It seems that the USA channel has put the shows older reruns on during the daytime, I have seen most of them but CR is getting the opportunity to watch a lot of the earlier that she did not get a chance to watch before, so she is a happy camper, but I have seen most of them several times already.

I thought I would check out the Monk website, I’ve seen it before several years ago and it hasn’t changed all the much, so it didn’t hold my interest for very long.

 I hope that it doesn’t take too long for new episodes to come around for our enjoyment.  I mean, do we have to wait until Fall to come around, I sure hope not.

I have found that most people have a bit of Monk in them, it is funny when I get to say to someone in the family that they are being Monkish.  It makes you think.

And most people of aware of bats being able to find their way in the dark using an echolocation system, or sonar.

But then I found some other interesting bits of info:

Rattlesnakes have heat detectors (just behind their nostrils), which are so sensitive they can detect an approaching animal from temperature changes in the atmosphere.

And:

Migrating birds are among the most remarkable creatures, using natural navigational equipment as sophisticated as any modern plane.  In order to fly on track they rely on data from the following:

• the movement of the Sun during the day, even when it is hidden by thick clouds
• the position of the stars at night
• the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field
• checking landmarks en route and recognizing the same “home area” every year
• identifying familiar smells

Animals are so fascinating, as a family we really enjoy watching the Animal Planet Channel at home, we always learn something that is interesting about our animal friends.

Our youngest CR, wants to be a dolphin trainer when she grows up and I think that she really will do her best to become one.