Brrrrrr!

Happy Sunday morning!  I am oh so bright-eyed & bushy-tailed this morning!  And why is that you ask?  It's because it's 29 degrees outside, the frost is thick, & yesterday our furnace went out!  To say it's a bit "nippy" in here would probably be accurate although it's not as terrible as you might think.  I believe that God is looking out for me & not allowing me to shiver in the cold.  Yesterday I had the furnace on & smelled something burning.  My memory alerted me to the fact that I smelled this same odd burning smell last year.  At that time it was discovered a furnace part was overheating because of too much friction (or something along those lines) so a new part had to be ordered.  The furnace guys can't get here until the middle of the week so once again we will be living a truly primitive life (we had to do without hot water for a couple days a while back).  Well, probably not truly primitive.  I'm sure the pioneers had a nice fireplace to keep them warm but I guess I can pretend I have the same as I sit in front of the open oven door if things get too cold.  I'll even burn my candle that smells like a fireplace burning   : )

I will escape the cold this evening, however, as I am heading to Cincinnati today for an early morning doctor appointment tomorrow.  John & I will be luxuriating in a comfy hotel which I'm sure will have heat   : )   I've not seen this doctor before.  I would have a difficult time giving you an accurate count of the number of doctors I've seen over the past ... I don't know, 7 years maybe?  My menopause issues were & in some cases are once again extreme.  I thought I was seeing a doctor in Tennessee who knew her stuff but it turns out she was causing a lot of damage so now I'm on a quest again.  I remember my mother & my aunts talking about menopause & how wonderful it was because it meant you wouldn't get pregnant anymore!  It was quite a shock for me to experience all the things that, for whatever reason, they never mentioned.  Looking back I realize they also suffered from some of these things so perhaps they were attributing them to something else.

There is a Michaels store in Cincinnati.  I don't think I've been to a Michaels since we lived in Florida & that was ages ago!!!  Who knows what else I might find while we are there.  I'll let you know   : )