How's everyone doing?

[Siwsan]

1. I've been sneezing like crazy, too

I just need to pull up this old 40+ year old shag carpeting and get busy working on the wood floors, beneath it. The more I vacuum the carpet, the more the old padding underneath breaks down - it's a vicious circle.

I am having a really rough time with the holidays. I miss my sister like crazy and still cry more days than not. And, of course, I also miss my Mom and Aunt, and all of those special holiday foods that they used to make. I don't anticipate this getting any easier until I get past the one year anniversaries of Mom and Chris' deaths, coming up in January and February. Then again in September, for my Aunt. I can't wait to see the end of 2015. It's been a gawd awful year, for me.