Shingles + exhaustion = Contemplation

Yes it is true, I have come down with an illness that mainly 60 year olds get. Now I haven't really felt sick, the painfulness that everyone speaks of isn't really there either. It is not all over my body, just in one small spot, but the exhaustion is something close to mono. Here all week I thought that I was just unmotivated, tired and maybe even midly depressed. All I wanted to do was stay in bed or on my couch. I felt tired just walking to the kitchen. I knew I had this weird small rash on the right side of stomach. But I never put the two together, until I went to the doctor. She knew right away that it was shingles. I told her I didn't feel sick, then she asked "have you been tired?" A light went off and I responded "exhausted!" Now it was all making sense. She told me to rest this weekend, let my immune system heal itself. So rest I have done. I had to get off the couch for a few hours to run some errands and of course needed to do laundry, strip my bed and pick up a little. Turns out, I can't just sit on the couch. But I have been trying, I even rented two movies to try to make the evening that much easier.

I have been on the couch since 4pm and I am starting to get restless... movie number two is, but my brain is running. I want to get to know more people, I want to entertain, I want to read more books... wait ... yes..that is it... A BOOK CLUB!

I love to read, and I love to be brought out of my comfort zone when reading. I tend to pick up the same kind of book everytime, but if someone else, or a group picked the book then I would read it and make myself finish it. So I have decided to start a book club. Not fully sure who will join with me, or how many books this will last, will it be a weekly thing, monthly thing, bi monthly thing? Maybe have it so each member will have a change to pick the book, if you pick the book you host the club at your house... something like that. I don't know just throwing ideas out there.

Has anyone out there ever hosted a book club? How did it go? Let me know these things.

Pictures....

Pictures of the new house are coming, I promise. For now, to tide people over... I am posting some pictures from a realtor website. These were taken months before I moved it, but you will get the idea of what the place looks like. Hopefully this weekend (since I am not working) I will be able to take some pictures of the place with my stuff actually in it.

So far living here has been fantastic! The idea that I am coming home to a place that is fully mine. Not a place a rent, I can paint, garden, buy furniture for specific areas of the place. Not of this have I actually done, but I could if I wanted to.

So here are the pictures, with more updates to come!