And I can't let my mother know this or else she'll either a) do something to make me feel worse or b) she'll try to take advantage of the situation.  But it's not a holiday, so we should be good.  I can hide my illness from her most days.  

When I wrote this above, I was writing about having a POTS flareup a few days ago.  It was horrible.  Which is why I didn't finish the post.  But today I am actually sick, as is my husband.  We are waiting on Covid tests to be delivered.  We have many of the symptoms, but no fever, so probably not.  We probably just have a cold. 

We are avoiding my mother and I am making chili for dinner (my usual recipe, with a 1/2 t of cinnamon and a can of pumpkin added in--and idea I got from a YouTube video).  I hope to avoid her all day. I feel like trash.  My throat hurts.  I keep sneezing.  My nose is stuffed a bit (in the back, which is painful).  I am tired AF.  I have a headache.  Hubby has all the same symptoms.  I have so much to do, and now I have to take the first cold days of fall and lay around doing nothing.  Ugh.  I am so annoyed.  But I am going to read my book soon, so at least I can say I didn't waste all my time, right?  

Oh, and the past two nights we couldn't sleep--like neither of us were tired until like 3 am.  So weird.  I hope to get some real sleep tonight.  That would be nice.  Okay, off to go read and make my pumpkin chili (which I hope is yummy!).  I may add some pumpkin to my cornbread too, but we'll see.