Spring Blues!!

It is spring time and aren't we supposed to feel all happy and springy? Well not me, I have been feeling a little down over the reoccuring rain we get every single week. I think it good to get some rain, but we have been getting rain every week for several weeks and I mean like 6-8 weeks or possibly longer.

Usually I uncover our pool end of March beginning of April, but this year temperatures have been lower and the rain just doesn't seem to go away. We get like 1-3 days of descent weather each week and then the rest of the week is over cast with possible thunderstorms. I think it gets a little depressing after so long of not getting to get out of the house much, or without seeing the sun shine more often.

I like a good rain at times so I can curl up and sleep in, or just have a movie day but after several days and then several weeks it gets really old.

My anniversary is this weekend and we were going to get a cabin on the lake but as the weather looks bad again this weekend, we are just going to go to a local lake of weather permits. It has been this way for weeks, for my birthday, now our anniversary, it seems I just can't get a break to be able to get out and enjoy nature. I love to hike, and go to the lake but the weather just have been really sketchy keeping us in more than out.

My daughter will be away for the weekend so I would really love it, if the sun gods would take over and push the rain god away at least for this weekend so that I can enjoy my anniversary weekend I would really appreciate it.

Spring time blues got me down but haven't knocked me out..So, I will grin and enjoy the weekend no matter what we do, but I really hope going to the lake will work out.

I will pray to the sun god's and see what happens!

Swine Flu Craze !

The Swine Flu or H1N1 virus literrally has people confused and I feel the media is causing extreme fears among people. Yes, of course it is a serious matter and people should take precautions in traveling, but we should not just stop living our lives or going about our day to day activities.

Some schools are closing or halting all sporting or extra events and for schools that have been affected and have cases of the virus prevelant I can understand taking precautions to avoid the spread of the virus, but I don't feel all parents should now be alarmed that the same should happen at their schools where there are no cases of the virus.

The Vice President made a major mistake in saying that people should avoid being in close confines with others such as the trains, buses and planes or any confned area at all. That sends a fear among people every where that it isn't safe to go to work or for their kids to go to school or for people to fly within the US or to travel abroad. No, I wouldn't recommend travel to Mexico as several cases have not only been confirmed in Mexico, most all cases in the US were of people who recently returned from trips to Mexico and not just Mexico City but several cases of people returning from Cancun have been confirmed and its to bad that we find this out now, just weeks after all the thousands of teenagers and college students just returned from spring break trips to different area's around Mexico..Maybe if this had become public prior to then people would have stayed home and not traveled and then bringing it back into the US.

The media has a way of always making things seem 100% worse than it is and yes, just like everyone else out there, I have my own concerns with the virus but I won't stop going to the gym or taking my daughter to school or going to the park or shopping at the store, we have to live our lives and they tell you the best thing you can do is wash your hands regularly, use hand sanitizer, and cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing and if you begin to get flu like symptoms go to a doctor right away don't wait and take a chance that it will get worse, just go ahead and go and be tested and treated as soon as possible to prevent it from getting worse or spreading to other people you may come in contact with. It is simple, use your head and take precautions and in the case you ever do become ill don't try to treat it yourself with over the counter meds as they will not help you, just go to the doctor and if you are sick they will treat you, the sooner you are treated the better off everyone is.

I just say, please don't let the Swine Flu Craze sweep you up and mess with your life, we can't live our lives in fear, of what could happen. I mean you could get in an accident every time you drive your car. So, don't stop living your life and don't let other people get you all stressed out over it, just be wise in your daily activities and remind your kids to wash their hands regulary and give them small hand sanitizers to carry with them.

And please, everyone the Swine Flu or H1N1 virus is not transferable from eating pork, they say it actually doesn't even come from pigs that is why they changed the name from Swine to H1N1 to stop to confusion of people thinking that pigs or eating pork would some how make them ill. Some countries confused over the name Swine having to do with pigs or pork began killing off all the pigs in the country to stop the speard, and the pigs are not the ones who are spreading the virus it is transfered person to person, not by pigs or by us eating pork..

So, everyone have your bacon and eggs in the morning and if you wanted to cookout this weekend and have some baby back ribs, go ahead it is perfectly safe to do so...