Eclectic Waters

Archive for January, 2007

Four tylenos, chicken soup, a back massage and a movie later. Goodnight.

Symptoms : aching back, headache, knotted neck, nausea, chills, muddled thoughts, inflammed throat, itchy throat, and some retching
Action Taken: left work two hours early. Came home, took a bath and went to bed for four hours, got up, cried to my siblings who then came to love on me

Currently feeling: sick and loved

I hate being sick!

Tonight: I am going to watch Troy. An educational and peaceful movie. (slight sarcasm) Actually I’m hoping the blood and gore will take my mind off of myself as I consistently cover my eyes. And I will eat soup. Chicken Noodle Soup. Second only to my favorite Tomato Soup.

I hope you are all doing better than I am.

It rained today. Hard. This was the good part of the day; the negative part was going to bed and then waking up with a scratchy throat. It feels like someone took sandpaper and roughened the top layer of my throat. Yuck! So I’ve been drinking lots of tea and I took a short nap before heading to Thrive where I somewhat successfully tried to stay on key and not have my voice, which is now deeper, crack during worship.

Tomorrow I have added drinking orange juice, buying airborne and trying to rest between the two seminars I am attending to my list of ‘trying to not get sick and get over this little bit of sickness’ list. One seminar is going to be led by Josh McDowell. I’m not sure what it will be on. The other is led by Bill Farrell and will be on ‘being a servant writer’.

Two days ago I was sitting at work when one of my co-workers, who I do not know well, emailed me. The heading popped up in the lower right hand corner of my screen “Do you feel called to write…?” I thought, how did she know.

It turns out she didn’t. It was simply part of the heading for the seminar reminder. I laughed. Not everyone is born with the gift of telepathy. Only some of us are.

I am sitting on the couch in the apartment I will be living in for the next months (at least until June). The living room is huge and the couch has the perfect buoyancy for me to sit crosslegged on it to type. That’s what I am doing right now.

Jesu is puttering around, putting things away and trying to get ready for school tomorrow. Teaching is an intense job. If any of you know teachers, I want you to find them tomorrow, give them a BIG hug and tell them how amazing they are. Buy them coffee. Help them grade papers… Teaching is hard to survive, so be extra nice to them.

My parents leave tomorrow morning back to S.C. The fact that they helped me move and bought pizza for the crowd of movers shows that I have amazing parents. Before they left Rachael, Mum and I all got teary-eyed, I snuggled with mom on the couch and I hugged both of my parents at least four times. We’re close like that.

Now its time to rest, take a bath and then get some sleep. I’d call it beauty sleep but I am already beautiful. The knot that has built itself in my neck today needs to dissapear and I’m hoping the aforementioned actions will help dislodge it.

I am not sure why most of my webpage is showing up in a weird font – but I will try to look into it this week.

I’m busy moving today. Hope you are all well.