Sad News in Muddling Through As Best I Can

I just got a text message earlier this morning that my cousin Tammy's husband passed away during the night. Rick has had health problems for several years and has been in hospice recently, so we knew it was coming just not this soon. Sad for her this morning, they were together almost twenty years. She also lost her Dad this time last year so it's kind of a double whammy on her. She wanted to call my sister, but I dissuaded her from that. Sue, my sis, is dealing with cancer right now and it is incurable according to her doctors. She hasn't told anyone but immediate family and has said she doesn't want to talk to any of our extended family as yet.

Yesterday, got off work about 9am, went home and slept about four hours, then had to get up and help my youngest with a term paper in Economics that is due today. Nothing like waiting until the last minute right? At any rate, we teamed up with another cup of coffee and got the paper finished. Thirty five years since my last Economics class and I still was able to help. Ole Dad still comes in handy once in a while. It was an extremely long night at work, and I still have two and a half hours to go out of a 15 hour shift, but feeling amazingly chipper. I know my body is going to protest at some point during the day, but that second wind has apparently kicked in.