Travel prayers

Dear God, please, keep my man safe throughout his travels, especially tonight and tomorrow, and on his return to the US at the end of his month-long stay. Help us always to pursue your will and to be the people you created us to be. Help us to choose you. Help us to love and to live fully the lives you have offered to us. Keep him safe, happy, healthy, holy, please. Thank you for him and for our relationship and for the wonderful, love-filled hopes for our future together, through you and with you. Help us to live it, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Kissen

Specifically, Kopfkissen… I believe now truly that I need a new one. We stayed at my aunt and uncle’s house over the weekend while moving my grandma’s stuff, and the pillow I used for my head was kind of exactly what I think I may need at home. I love the ones we have – Tempur-pedic-like with gel on the front for coolness – but mostly only for when I am awake or am sleeping on my side. But I sleep best and most comfortably on my back… and this pillow resists my head just a little too much. I have to have just the right eye cover in order to keep my head from shifting side-to-side all night, and that seems to be too difficult to manage consistently… If I just had a pillow that would let my head sink in a bit more, but not lots, it could work for sleeping on my back and on my side.

Just have to find that pillow… so, time to ask my aunt what pillow I may have used! Fingers crossed she knows!

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Wow

Three things (I think…)

Firstly, we got everything packed up and in the moving truck (or another vehicle that will go to Houston with us all tomorrow), or it was picked up by this couple who came at the last second and saved them from having to be thrown to the dumpsters, since they weren’t picked up by the donation place. Tomorrow, we go to Houston and unload it all and start unpacking it.

Success(!), Part I.

Secondly, my friends daughter just started ballet classes, and they are stupid cute. She is three years and a month old, as of yesterday. Her whole class is ridiculously adorable, and I can hardly wait to see her learn more. Also, it makes me want to teach such classes – super useful, super adorable, and, very likely, super fulfilling.

Thirdly, I love my man and am super grateful for him.

Dear God, thank you for the blessings of today and for the blessings of this life. Keep us happy, healthy, holy, and safe, always pursuing and fulfilling your will. Heal my grandmother, please. Help us all to love more like you each day. Thank you for this life. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Weather

Slightly higher altitude and lower humidity levels make a huge difference in the enjoyability of the outdoors, especially at night. We are in Wimberley this weekend, and we totally could hang out on the porch most evenings and nights here, and enjoy it thoroughly. If we were home in Houston right now, we’d be sweating and be attacked by mosquitos all evening and the whole first half of the night.

Hmm…

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Moving day

Tomorrow is moving day for my grandma. There is much to have happen and much to do both tomorrow and throughout the weekend.

Dear God, please, help to heal my grandma. Help her to her appointment with the chiropractor on Tuesday, and allow her to accept the healing offered by the chiropractor. Help my grandma to see that is is wanted here and is fully capable of being here and living a fulfilled life, even and especially now, though she has lived blessed already so many years. Help her to have a few more wonderful and fun and love-filled ones with us here. In your name, I pray in gratitude. Amen.

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Nerd

So, my man has a sinus infection. Our family nurse told him to go ahead and go to an urgent care place, since he had a fever as of this afternoon, and he still was coughing up all the yellow stuff. (Fun fact: Just before he went, he finally gave in and used the saline rinse nasal pot. He did a very good job, and I am still proud of him for letting go of that fear enough to give it a go again. I hate using them, too, and only do it when I really need to use it.)

Anyway, the doctor said he was fine to be around people and all. Just don’t make out with people, share drinks and utensils, cough on people, etc. So, he stopped at the store on the way home.

While he was there, he was trying to get connected to the wifi at the store, while on the phone with me (because I’d told him that they actually have wifi and it works effectively, and you can actually send and receive photos easily when connected to it). He puts me on speakerphone while he tries to figure it out, and starts kind of cursing up a storm in his ‘I’m already sick and now I’m also stressed and annoyed’ frustration/exhaustion. I tell him, “Chill…” After a short beat, I realize and add, “Although, I guess you can’t, since you have a fever.”

We definitely shared a moment of enjoying that idiocy together. 😛 😀 And it was glorious.

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Great quotes

Very interesting that his sputum went from clear to all different colors of the rainbow in a matter of seconds

Because my man sometimes has trouble answering with clarity… 😛

What had caused such a response? My previous messages had been as follows:

Clear snot and clear stuff he keeps coughing up, he says


He said “it is tinged between white and orange, like tan”

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He just coughed up a yellow chunk, and then told me he gets those a bunch in the morning

Valid response, ma’am. Valid response.

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