I actually got "out" this weekend! Shocking, I know. My baby girl brought her boyfriend home - forcing me to actually go to the grocery store prior to their arrival - and then we enjoyed an evening at Mass, out to dinner, and then back in for conversation (along with one of my "adopted" sons).
The snow has melted - actually helping to alleviate my winter-time blues. (I no longer enjoy "snowy" days - a sign that I need to go "south"). I was always so contemptuous of "snowbirds" when I lived in Florida - of course, I am actually speaking of moving South for good - not just the winter months....
And, I think that I have finally eliminated the source of my respiratory illness these past several months. It took an extreme migraine to "trigger" my super-sensitivity to smells mode and I discovered that there were still traces of scent from when that feral cat was locked in my house for over a week last year. I mean, it was so bad that I vomited. (Not to be too disgusting but I couldn't go anywhere near the front room without a mask). After cleaning the carpet four times, I finally contacted my friend who is a professional carpet cleaner and his professional opinion was "rip it out". So, my very favorite carpet in the entire house is now gone. The room is still torn apart as I need to continue to scrape up bits of carpet pad clinging to spots here and there but I have used Murphy's oil soap on the main areas and I'm not smelling anything offensive wafting into me in the family room at the moment. JOY!
I have also experienced another breakthrough in the midst of this hard work and joy for three nights in a row: No nightmares! Not entirely restful sleep but I had dreams - and they were in Korean. No, I'm not fluent yet so it was more "Konglish" but also the people in my dreams were all Asian. No one represented anyone who makes me frightened or sad in my nightmares. I woke up feeling the best that I have in a really, really long time.
Well, enough of this: I need to grade papers.
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