November 5, 2008

• Taking a Break

  Snippets from yesterday and today.

  *  Tuesday, after getting dressed, I found I had no desire (energy) to go anywhere.  Jesse offered to take us all to lunch, since the girls and I have eaten lunch at home virtually every day for the past month or two.
  *  Went to Golden Corral’s buffet, but can’t say I enjoyed it.  I wanted to be “waited on” and not having to stand and walk through food lines to gather my lunch.
  *  We loaded up in the truck, after eating, and Jesse said, “Ready for the doctor?” and my reply was something like, “All I really want to do is go back home.”  But we didn’t.
  *  This is a walk in clinic, a converted 800 sq.ft. home and is usually packed.  First come, first served.  There was NO ONE in the waiting room!  Yay!
  *  I called Jesse and told him they were taking me back to the second exam room, rather than me going back to sit with everyone in the vehicle.
  *  I was in there forever.  NOT because of being ill or the foster care form and problems; but, because I witnessed to the doctor for almost a half hour!!!!!  He is Asian, went to a Christian college, and was curious about my type of dressing and my head covering.  He said many girls at his college looked like me.  Another patient came into the other exam room, he ignored the patient and continued the conversation with me!  Said he didn’t go to church because his children didn’t want to.  Said (and I agreed) there is religion and then there is spiritualism.  The latter being what you really are inside and the former what a formed church assembly tells you to be.  We crammed a bunch of talk into the 30 minutes!   Wow!  Talk about totally unexpected.  But, Jesus told us to be ready – if anyone should ask . . .
  *  He said I didn’t sound well, I explained the past few days to him and he said, “I can give you a shot.”  I said, “But, I don’t want a shot.”  He said, “It could help you feel better.”  I said, “Then what kind of shot – not something weird, right?”  He asked, “What to do you consider weird?”  I told him B-12 and other herbal weird things.  He said while laughing, “I was thinking of a steroid injection to help your joints from aching and your swollen throat.”  Oh!  Okay then!  However, my sleeve wouldn’t pull up over my fatty upper arm and I ended up unbuttoning my top 3 dress buttons and sliding the neckline down to my upper arm and cricking my neck to the opposite side.  I laughed and told him to hurry as my neck was getting a spasm.  He said the steroid shot would help that too!
  *  We left there, came home and the girls (still full from lunch) ate popcorn for dinner and Jesse and I ate nothing.  I went to bed to read, ended up watching 3 episodes of “House” instead.
  *  Jesse came to bed and we talked and laughed until 11pm,  I reminded him that was our “old” midnight and we couldn’t believe we were so chatty.
  *  We fell asleep immediately, but I awoke around 4am this morning.  I never could go back to sleep.  My head, neck, and back ached.  I took 2 aspirins around 4:30am and then my tranquilizer (for high blood pressure spikes) around 5am and thought maybe I was just tense about the worker coming to day to interview us.  I gave up at 6am and got up, took a shower and washed my hair and started some laundry.

  *  Actually, I was a little ticked, too.  Waiting in our mail box yesterday was a large envelope with a list of everything we needed to do over the next couple of weeks.  Most of that stuff has been done and is contained in our 4-5″ thick DHS folder given to her.  But . . . that’s “the system” and if you want it done (or done right) you have to do it yourself.  Sometimes four times.  I did it all last night.  Made a gazillion copies on my S-L-O-W printer of stuff I KNEW she had in our folder.  No wonder I had no appetite and was wired!  All we lack is a medical statement that each of our girls has no communicable diseases.
  *  I’ve swept the kitchen, Sampson’s hall, and foyer floors and walls.  Jesse said he’d Pine-Sol and rinse them for me.
  *  I’ve tried something new today.  I’ve made lists for each child, Jesse, and me.  Well, for *me* isn’t new.  We’ll see how it goes.  I feel like “Honey Do” lists are nagging and I’m definitely not a nagger.  I get mad and do it myself or eventually hire it done after 6 months with no action from my husband!!!
  *  Jesse has a 1pm doctor appointment with a “FREE* clinic!  Yay!  He should be back before the home study guru arrives.
  *  The gal should be here around 4pm for our “inspection.”  I forgot to mention, last night, I also copied our previous home study and changed the easily changed changes (like our brothers and sisters current ages, our new address) and crossed out things that were no longer current – like Nikki not living with us, etc.  This should be a piece of cake for her.  AND, my girls go in November 14th for a “free” physical (offered buy their insurance) to say they don’t have lice or the measles.  I hope that’s all they need.  I’ve made it as easy as possible for a home study to be rewritten.

  I think that’s it.  I needed to sit down and cool off a bit.  I set up a card table in the garage for our summer clothes in Wal-Mart sacks and Jesse handed the Rubbermaid tubs down to me with the winter clothes.  I will get to those at my leisure.  Like I HAVE a lot of that (leisure).  At least the clothes are no longer piled in the kitchen under the bar and the attic clothes are accessible to me.
   
  Well, my last load of laundry just buzzed.  Into the dryer with the whites, out of the dryer comes the lights to be folded and then I’ll be done with Jesse’s laundry..

  The obvious reason I’m rushing around this morning is so I will, hopefully, be able to sit until 4pm.  I DO need to teach the girls, we didn’t have school yesterday.  Fortunately, not that much needs to be covered in school.

  At least my throat doesn’t feel as swollen today.  AND, the pain went away on Sunday night.

  P.S.  I need a minimum of 6 hours of sleep to function.  I had 5 hours. 

  Pray for me!

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