Bronchitis, Film Shoots, and more pumpkins

Hello lovely readers,

Seems like the blog writing has diminished to once a week, but I feel like that is an accomplishment so I'm going to try to stick to it.

I've had an illness of unknown origin for about 3 weeks now...started out as a painful sore throat and cough which started going away in a week and then came back a day later full force with migraines and the cough moved into my chest. I never had a fever though and Greg never got sick (praise God, I needed him healthy!!!). After about a week of that it seemed to get stronger and was accompanied by extreme drowsiness, congestion and heaviness of breathing. It was really unpleasant. Anyway, finally saw someone on wednesday and I apparently have viral bronchitis, which seems to have begun to subside today. I'm still a little congested, but no worse for the wear.

Greg has been on film shoots last weekend and this weekend (next weekend too). Usually these are enjoyable for him, but he often doesn't get home til after 3 am. I don't like that very much, but usually I'm prepared for it and its ok. Yesterday he was meant to have one and all day I was sad about it, I was probably being a little pathetic-and I really don't usually react this way, but I really didn't want him gone again. Someone asked me what I was doing this weekend and I almost started crying...yup, I'm a pathetic sick person. Anyway, I got over it by coming home from work last night and cleaning a bit and baking some really awesome cookies. I didn't have any chocolate chips, nuts, raisins, or oatmeal so I didn't know what to make but I really wanted cookies. I don't love straight sugar cookies, but I did have some flaked coconut so I decided to find out how much coconut I would have to mix in to make coconut sugar cookies. I went online and found that someone else had wondered the same thing and come up with an awesome recipe (1 1/3 cups of coconut). The cookies turned out amazing, and as I was taking the second batch out of the oven Greg called to say they were packing up the shoot due to the extreme downpour. He ended up getting home by 10:30 which was definitely an improvement from 3. I was so happy. He has to go again tonight, but it's not as painful because he got to be home last night.

Anyway, we've been continuing on our quest for fall in sunny florida. Nana and Popsie helped out by sending a picture of the foliage and a little wooden pumpkin. Thanks Nana and Popsie! Now, if I don't go outside I can almost believe that fall is here! We also had another pumpkin-y food this week. It was called pumpkin gratin, but it was really butternut squash. Greg loved it. I'm not the biggest fan of the taste of pumpkin or squash, but even I thought it was pretty good.

So that's life lately...you'll probably hear from me in another week...