The Genie

I don’t understand it: Why not free the Genie with the first wish? Aladdin knew he was going to don’t on the third wish, anyway. The Genie clearly liked him. The Genie is magnificently powerful, yet restrained by having to have a master. Why would he not do all sorts of wonderful things for Aladdin once he were free, if Aladdin were to free him?

Right??

Or am I just nuts?

Genie would have been able to save him without a wish in the water. Genie would have been free to help in just about any way he wished – keep in mind that Genie showed genuine interest in Aladdin’s success, giving constant unnecessary but voluntary and useful support and guidance and all.

This just baffles me… and yes, yes, I know the movie wouldn’t have been the same that way. But why does the situation ever present itself that way anyway? Only three wishes, and someone might use the third to set the genie free. Just do it right away. Hopefully, gratitude will present itself in the genie’s helping the individual without obligation but simply out of free will and gratitude.

I am nuts for this, right? I have thought about this for years, by the way…

Dear Lord, guide us kindly and clearly, please. Keep us safe and loving and together. Help us to communicate with love. Thank you for our home and family and love and your guidance. Stay with us. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Physical therapy

I am enrolled in pelvic floor physical therapy. At first, the exercises were difficult for my vagina and abdomen to do. Now, they’ve hit a point where they are hard for my normal muscles. While that is upsetting because the movements are all very simple and with almost no weight or no weight at all – nothing near even a single normal exercise I used to do in workouts – yet they are quite difficult for my main muscles… thighs, shoulders, etc., it is still a good thing that I am now exercising all of these muscles again.

However, it also has me wonder if the focus has been removed a bit too much from my pelvic floor and moved too much toward general movement. This shift has happened since I began with a different physical therapist. And both sessions with her wet harder on my body as a whole than any of my previous sessions with the original physical therapist (who moved, by the way). Hmm… I guess I just need to bring this up to her next time. Because I imagine my pelvic floor is getting stronger – it feels like some of these exercises have gotten easier, ones I was already doing before the therapist change. But it feels like the focus now has been shifted to things outside of what was originally the focus, my pelvic floor muscles. So, yeah, I’ll ask about that.

God, guide us clearly, please. Show us how following your will can be easy and beautiful and powerful, please. Grant us this path forward financially, please. Help us to love and to be loving with one another. Please, keep us safe and well and together. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Tidying

KonMari Method, Imma comin’!!

And I am terrified and already wanting to evade the situation.

God, I pray that you give me the strength I need for this process to be successful and for me to clear and clean up our home, my mind, and this life as I go through this tidying process. Thank you for this life and this family and this opportunity. Help me to be my best self each day, always improving. Thank you. Please, keep my husband and daughter safe and well and whole and with me. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Remembering things

Either I need to do it right away or I need to write it down right away. I do a very good job remembering within the initial anticipated short timeframe. But, if it stretches at all beyond that original mental timeframe, my brain seems to dump it out the window, leaving only a vague memory of how I was supposed to do something about this something, but I cannot recall the specifics at all anymore at that point.

Ugh.

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Ugh

Too tired to care right now about much. So much to accomplish tomorrow and the rest of the days this week. And it feels like I can prepare for 90% of it not to get done, aside from keeping my child alive and well. Which, to be fair, that’s my number one job right now. But I’m miserably failing at my number two job of caring for the home, and the ensuing feelings about that really suck.

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Processing

I am very, very tired and sleepy. But it was quite relieving to have the time with family tonight. We were mostly only just beginning to process through all of the emotions tied to the surprise situation, so there was a lot of negative stuff expressed. But we also all get that this is just the processing process, not our permanent thoughts and feelings about it all.

It was funny, though, when we were talking about how much dinner had cost – rather higher than an average dinner for any of us, though it was a lot of food that my husband and I will finish eating tomorrow and, possibly, the next day – my mom had said, just spur of the moment, “It was the processing fee.” Such a dad joke. Absolutely stellar. (Because it was dinner for us to get together to process things. And online ticket purchases always have a processing fee now that is absurdly high and unnecessarily so and that makes the ticket price feel super high as a whole. So, overpriced dinner, like overpriced tickets. Dinner for processing. High cost of dinner? Processing fee.) Haha

Yes, I am aware that I am a dork.

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Thank you, God, for the love and the family tonight. Please, help us all to process well and to heal well from all of this. Guide the house development to become the house and home I’ve longed for it to be, please. Keep us and our home safe and well, please. And keep our cars safe and whole, too, please. Thank you for everything. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Progress

Okay, some clarity was found. Now I don’t have to wonder so much. Sadly, what I feared was confirmed, and it is all rather nasty in my eyes. But I am now clear on it all and am not having to speculate and then feel bad about the negative speculation. So, positive progress in a super sad and mean situation.

But I trust you, Lord. Guide us clearly and lovingly forward in your will. Help us even more than usual to be the people you call us to be, to be our best selves. Guide us to build the homes and lives in which we long to live. Please, keep us safe and make us well. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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What?(!!!!!!!?????)

Seriously, what the eff????! What in God’s name is happening? Please, help me to see it, Lord? I trust in you. This is still very upsetting right now for the hurt it is causing to those I love. And it is scary. God, help us to find our way and your way, please. Keep us safe and make us well, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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