A day of remembering

This head cold or whatever it is is taking its toll on me. This might add to my tiredness as well, my body is sore from the non-productive hacking I am doing. My mouth is tender from sucking on lozenges which Justin provided me. He also shared his throat spray and I really like having that to calm my irritated throat. My friend, Ollavan, said her daughter-in-law has this now, too, so this makes us both think I am not suffering from an allergy. It might be something in the air, just not pollen or other irritants. Just a bug Patty and I have to suffer through. My nightstand looks ridiculous with bottles of cold medicine, throat spray, lozenges, and chap stick. You'd think it was a hospital room with all the junk needed to help me feel better. At least I can sleep fine and look forward to that shortly!

Some of my time today was spent watching commemorations of the terror attacks on the US in 2001. Across the bottom of the screen ran the names of those killed in the buildings and on the four jets which took people with them when crashing. I remember where I was that day and who I was with. In particular, I think of our former neighbor, Dan, having to work many hours as a traffic controller, trying to get the planes which were still in the air to airports when travel was being restricted. Dan and Lynn hosted a game night the following Friday evening for the neighborhood, to tear us away from our TV screens.

I tore myself away from the screen this afternoon and enjoyed a couple hours at the pool. Strangely enough, my cold or whatever it is does not bother me as much when outdoors. This would make it surely not an allergy thing since most irritants would be outside, I would think. It felt wonderful to be out there and soak up the sun with my friends around and in the pool. I went upstairs to watch The Five with Linda. 

Before that, though, Nancy W. called, wanting to go to dinner. I explained that I had a cold but she said some soup would be the right thing to fix me up. Off we went to Sweet Tomatoes, and she was right---the soup was wonderful!! I even had some salad, especially love their pasta salad with tuna and tarragon in it. The thing which really helped the most was the soft serve ice cream with sprinkles on it. I was so thankful she suggested it and that she came to pick me up for our outing!