If snot were gold, we'd be RICH around here!

Ugh, did someone get the tag number of that truck?! Tim came down with a bad cold last week.
It went into a fever and I put him on Zithromax.(It was late at night and I didn't want to call
the doctor's service) I called in the a.m. though and the nurse told me, "good call, finish the course." So the fevers wrapped up but the cough still lingers. Then my little "Typhoid Tim"
took out me, Olivia and our employee Alan, all at the same time. Holy Toledo, this is not your
everyday cold. Olivia had 104 temp and I had 102. Our employee had one too and was out for
2 days. I've always said that warm weather colds are the WORST and this one certainly is.
Our living room turned into a sick bay with me and Livvy flat on our backs aching and feverish.
We have to make a miraculous recovery today. Our head coach is off tomorrow for his son's
communion and we have to coach the game ourselves. Not that big a deal but I am whooped
and Olivia will have to pitch if we stand any chance at all of winning. She is feeling better but
this cough will take a long time to go away and I'm betting the 3 of us will sound like we have
the plague tomorrow. Once you start, you can't stop. Cough meds are OUT of the question. For one, they don't work and for another thing, I had a bad reaction to it the last 2 times I took it. The last time it caused me to pass out and I got an ambulance ride to the ER where a plastic surgeon had to sew my eyelid back together. NOT one of my better days. I'll stuff my mouth full of Halls and make the best of it. So, in other news, my neighbors' house got 4 offers and went to contract within 2 days of going on the market.
The buyers want a really fast closing and we may be just a few short weeks away from wishing
them a hearty Bon Voyage!!!! Yeehaw! On the out-law front: as we both suspected, it seems Tim's family thinks this ousting his sis-in-law was all my doing. To be honest, we've always had a thing where Tim makes decisions concerning his side of the family(what events we go to etc.) and I make decisions for my side and the other abides. Though I did not want to be around her anymore, this was Tim's call and I would have sucked it up if he didn't want to do this. I am certainly not going
to be the one who seperates him from his family. So, we drop the bomb and his dad doesn't speak to me or even look at me the next 2 times we are around them(one being mother's day.)
Considering the amount of snide comments he's thrown my way over the years, I'm thinking
"heck, no big loss" right! 2 for 1. Then Tim tells me that he thinks his father is going to confront him about all this. I said, "I doubt it." He said, "he will." Well......he did. Tim was working at a job
the other day and his father was working with his friend at the same house and he spoke to Tim.
Says he doesn't want to get involved but wants him to keep communication open with his brother and call him. REALLY. Last time I checked, his brother's fingers weren't broken and I
believe the ball is in his court. So Tim starts getting into this with his dad who says he doesn't want to hear it and Tim says, "well you're gonna hear it. Mom doesn't tell you anything and you need to know what is really going on here." So yadda, yadda yadda and Tim gets it off his chest including the fact that this was his call and at
one point his father says, " I know sometimes me and Denise don't get along and I say some things to her that I shouldn't." Long story short, I am a smart woman who is not intimidated by him. I also have no patience for adults who throw temper tantrums and all that ruffles the man's feathers a bit. So Tim says, "And that is going to stop! I've had it with the crap she takes in this family. I want you to think about who was there for EVERYONE in this family, including your mother when she was alive, whenever they needed help or anything. It's always MY WIFE. So this
is going to stop now. It's stressing her out and that stresses me out and we don't want to put up with any of this anymore." So cut to Olivia's game that night, Tim's p's come and now his father is all smiles around me. So it seems the end result is that everyone realizes the s-i-l is a toxic
person who has caused a lot of aggravation in this family for many years. That's nothing new. They realize, though
they may not like it, that our putting her out of our loop is not shocking considering what she
did to us. They hope that Tim will have a relationship with his brother but we'll see how that works out. Considering no one has even apologized to us or called, we do feel it's his brother's move to make. I'm sure some of them may pooh pooh all this and try to say we're over-reacting but no one in this family is in our situation or had anything like this done to them and I've
never been all that swayed by hypothetical opinions. People believe what they want to and the truth is, I really don't care. They don't get to decide just how much we are willing to put up with.
True to form though, I have never met anyone whose own mouth shows people all her character flaws as well as this s-i-l. She really showed everyone how low she could stoop. We were told that Tim's brother told her "well, you really made your bed this time." Someone needs to slap a
muzzle on her. I've met five year olds who could edit themselves better than her. Gotta go. Got
a date with some gator-ade today.