My husband woke up feeling sick again and took a day off from work again. He is originally weak in his throat. When he woke up, his voice was completely affected by viruses. As for me my throat was just fine. I still had chills and body ache in muscle and joints. I didn’t feel like doing anything. I had a dental cleaning appointment but I requested to reschedule.

At 5 a.m. my husband came to me and told me he would take a day off from work. He had the same symptom as mine suffering from chill and ache all over his body. He went back to bed and slept through the day.

As for me I woke up with severe headache. Same as yesterday I forced myself get out from bed and prepared food for my family and did laundry. After I hanged the clothes to dry in the backyard, I went back to sleep. In the evening I got out from bed again and prepared dinner for family. Even in sick, my husband had appetite and woke up being hungry in the evening. After he ate, he went back to sleep. In our family my daughter was the only one who was totally healthy and active. I am glad she fully got recovered.

Same as yesterday I could get up from bed only 2 hours a day. Still I was happy that I could somewhat cook food for my family and did the laundry and cleaning. I didn’t have coughs but suffered from feeling cold around spine areas and unbearably painful body ache especially upper back.

Even though my flu symptoms started two nights ago, I could still move around during the day time for the past two days. Today was different. My flu symptoms realty kicked in.

I woke up with body ache. I could somewhat go for a walk with my family. After I prepared breakfast for my family and did the laundry and hanged the clothes in the backyard, I went to bed. In the evening I got up and fixed dinner for my family. I didn’t have appetite. I had a small cup of okayu (2 tea spoonful of brown rice and hot water soup with umeboshi).  I was only 2 hours up out of 24 hours. I stayed in bed the majority of day and night.

In the evening I had another follow up meeting with one insurance agent. It was our third meeting. At today’s meeting, we spent our time more chatted than the topic of insurance itself. For this annuity purchase, I want to patiently keep looking for my right agent even though it might take longer than I think. Because it will be a big shopping, I want to find the best suited person for me.

This month has been hectic. My husband got sick for two days. He got sick for his weekends, so he didn’t need to take a day-off from his work. I was amazed that he had a high fever during the night and recovered from flu symptom. Then my daughter got flu. She had been the same way as my husband. For her it took 4 nights to detox. She could move around during the day time even though she had body ache. She was recovered from the flu.

During my family got flu, I had been fine. I was hoping I would be able to stay healthy this winter. But today, I felt chill in my spine. My body ached. It seemed to be my turn to get flu.

Today I prepared homemade rice koji for my second trial. This time I used white rice instead of brown rice. Other ingredients and the procedure were the same as the last one. I hope this one would turn out well.

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In the evening I had a follow up meeting with one insurance agent.

I had a meeting with two new insurance agents. One was at 10 a.m., and the other one was at 1 p.m. I still don’t know if I can fully trust either one or not.

I have had a meeting with one insurance agent four times so far. I decided to purchase 4 different annuity insurance packages from this agent. Since February 17 is a good day in Japanese calendar, I was planning to apply all the four applications on the day.

However, something kept on telling me to wait. I don’t have any complaints about this agent. Just my gut feeling told me to wait. My gut feeling equals to my family spirits. I wanted to know the reason why my family spirits want me to postpone for the purchase.  

All of a sudden I realized one thing. I fully trusted the agent and never did some research of the insurance companies by myself. After I searched the company reviews, I know why my family spirits want me to postpone/cancel this cases. One company had bad reviews from customers and the bad reviews were made recently even in this month. The customers’ complaints were almost the same. Their customer support was really bad and not helpful at all.

I contacted the insurance agent and told what I learned from my research. She seemed to be mad and replied back with some attitude saying she cannot be any of more help.

I got relieved for some reasons. Even though it ended with a not fun ending, maybe I was not supposed to work with her. My insurance purchase procedure has gotten back to the starting point. I know I will eventually meet the right person.

For these past 2 weeks, I have been aware of one plant growing in the backyard. Since these plants were not what I planted seeds, I didn’t know what these plants were. But for some reasons, these plants were shining to me and emitting brilliant energy to me. I thought I should look these plants up. I did some research on the Internet. I sent a picture to my friend who knows more about plants than me. I found out these plants are called mallow. My friend agrees with me.

My friend recommended me to use the flowers for tea. She told me to pick flowers up and put them upside down and let them sun-dry. She used them for bath too.

Mallow can soothe the issues of mouth and throat, dry cough, and bronchitis. It is also used for stomach and bladder issues.