First flu in 50 years

I think that was my first flu in 50 years (I have been taking the flu shot for 40 years and I will be getting my shot soon). Top it off my hydro was off for nine hours while they were doing some work and it was a lousy day but I slept a lot of it. Did absolutely nothing and yesterday I didn't do much either although was improving. Having grown up in a houseful of people (2 adults, 7 children) one is used to having someone around but there I was totally on my own sick. I also missed my dentist appointment now re-booked.  Amazing what you can do when you have to. 

Today need to get the collection out to the street and then I will have a relaxed day until I have to bring the containers back in again. I think my doorbell rang twice - I didn't answer it (I have decided not to answer it unless I know someone is  coming officially). That is the way with being old I think and probably a good idea. They can just leave a note in my mailbox; I am not buying anything at the door. 

I am a bit tired of dry toast, applesauce, bananas but they are easy to prepare especially as two of them are complete as they stand and you just need to put the bread in the toaster. Last night I bravely ate one hard boiled egg and I feel fine today. I slept nine hours last night; my daughter finally said to me at 7:30 you should just go to bed you look tired. So I did. 

I did however do maybe 20 matches on Chromosome 6 and they are easy. For some reason this chromosome is well covered by cousins and siblings and all the matches just fit right in. I have only verified one cross over point thus far but that will come there are still 110 to do. I am finding my interest in medicine may have returned with my flu bout as I gazed at Chromosome 6 and wondered what is there; mostly we know a lot about the chromosomes but there will be a lot to learn especially as they are randomly broken up and handed on to the next offspring mostly coming from entirely different lines although luckily we do end up with cousins and especially third cousins seem to be very handy for looking at the passage of chromosomal material down family lines. Also my name is on a paper for one of the studies that I got involved with when my husband was ill. That also excites the mind to the possibilities however at 80 I find it drifts away again although the interest is there still.  

 Drinking my tea, already ate a piece of toast lightly buttered, and finishing up this blog. Solitaire puzzles to play and will try for some exercise today. I feel like that just a little I will not push it. 

Thank you to the very thoughtful members of Parliament who supported the Budget through this first test. I will be really ticked off if there is an election - what a waste of money and time (our time)! This budget is as good as it is going to get; we are in deep crisis with the present situation of tariff on goods going to the United States (this is not something you can fight; the United States has an economy 8 times larger than us and we were a willing supplicant to providing them with what we thought they wanted but that changed suddenly and dramatically). The changes that are coming with this budget are fantastic and I have waited my entire life I think (on the sidelines, being in politics has never been my thing) for Canada to become the great nation it will become. We have all the ability; all the resources to do anything we want to do. We just have to have the patience as it will take time, the determination to follow it through and budget wisely at home because it will be difficult.