Eudora Welty - Losing Battles

February 5
I am sick today.  I must have picked up the bug from my son.  I haven't been sick for awhile.  I took vitamin c this week but it still hopped onto my back.  I am listening to music, taking it easy.  Not so sick to be completely incapicitated but enough to slow down.  There is some sun shining outside and my son went to his friend's house.  After being sick for 3 days, he wanted to spend the night at Alex's house.  I said no.  He asked me 3 times.  I guess you can say that he can be persistent.  I found a book at the library that looks interesting which is called Losing Battles by Eudora Welty.  I have never read her work before.  She has some wonderful descriptions.

"An old Ford coupe, that looked for the moment like a black teakettle boiling over and being carried quick off the stove, crossed the yard." 

"She wore a dress of shirting in purple and white stripes, with sleeves so short and tight that her vaccination scar shone at them like a tricky little mirror high in her powerful upper arm."

"But everywhere else, every other visible inch of her skin, even to her ears, was freckled, as if she'd been sprinkled with nutmeg while she was still dewy and it would never brush off."

Not much else that I can think of to write.  I had lunch yesterday with a guy I thought I might be interested in but nothing came of it.  I keep thinking that I am o.k. with being single and have many friends but then the loneliness makes it self comfortable in my heart and I want to kick it out of there.