I’m mostly ready for bed. Just have to go brush my teeth and such, and get into bed. It’s just after ten o’clock, and I keep falling forward, falling asleep in the chair In the living room. My husband asked me what I was doing, and I said I was trying to stay up to spend time with him. We both agreed that I need to go to bed… just after a brief foot rub, yes??
Thank you, my love.
Thank you, God, for my love and my home. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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After so many days with almost no sleep, a single night of good sleep was not enough. Tonight is round two for good sleep, I hope.
Thank you, God, for air conditioning. I am truly grateful. Keep us well and safe, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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I am delighted to be going to bed just after nine PM tonight. I got so little and such terrible sleep while the power was out and it was so hot overnight in the house. We’ve had two brief nights with the power back so far, but it hasn’t been enough to make up for nearly a week of not sleeping. Not to mention that they’ve both been shorter nights. Tomorrow is Saturday, and I get to sleep without an alarm tonight. And going to bed early basically will guarantee a positive chance at a good night’s sleep tonight.
(My brain is barely functioning right now, I know…)
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You know when you say something new aloud, and you have never said it before, but it rings incredibly true, surprising even you with its unexpected truth?
I had that in a job interview today, a couple times, even. It was even a bit shocking for me… but they were all true statements, and important for me both to say and to hear for myself.
Thank you, God. Please, guide me to pursue your will and be my best self. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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I feel like I am not that great at coming up with new ideas myself, but I am very good at improving ideas. That latter part is for sure. I am a great critic (in the good sense, actually finding points for improvement and how to improve them, not just trashing others’ ideas).
I wonder how I could use that to serve the world and God’s will in my vocation…
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P.S. Our home now has electricity again, as of this afternoon. Tomorrow would have made it a week without power. I’m impressed it has been restored so quickly, though I am nervous about the costs of doing such. There is some terrible damage, what with the several electrical towers crushed on the ground nearby and all… I hope there aren’t brown-outs coming soon, though they seem all too likely, since things have been supposedly rerouted temporarily… too much power going through too few channels right now…
P.P.S. Thank you, God, for a cool home in which to sleep tonight – we both are so tired, it has become very difficult for us to function and be kind at the same time. Thank you. Amen.
We had spirit dress at school today. My husband and I went to a baseball game with my brother and sister-in-law this evening, and it was both an eventful game and the Astros won. And it was dollar dog night, which I love. It was like a party. When we all got back to our homes, my brother and sister-in-law had power back at their home. Yippee! We don’t have electricity restored yet, but we are wired after the game. Today has just felt quite like a Friday.
But this has been Tuesday… hmm…
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I knew she was at that house around the corner! My husband went over there this evening to find a way into the yard. He ended up finding the owner – who was impossible to find yesterday amongst the fifteen other people living in that house – and the owner knew exactly which chicken Patrick sought. They apparently had it running freely in the house, not mixing with their own chickens.
And now she is home.
Thank you, God. Amen.
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Dear God, please, bring back the chicken. And keep us safe, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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This morning, my husband had to be up earlier than I liked in order to go have a flying lesson. (We won’t discuss the part where he didn’t end up actually flying until the afternoon, despite having gone up there this morning…) It was Saturday morning, and I was exhausted from the last couple days. Nonetheless, he finally got up to go fly.
After a few seconds, he says, “I’m gonna turn this light on,” giving me the warning he sometimes gives before turning on one of the lights in the bedroom.
Immediately, I responded with an exhausted, “WHY???” Just as quickly, however, I changed my tune to an easygoing, “Sure, go ahead.”
It took half a second after that before he cursed and we both started laughing. At least, I think we both laughed. I certainly did, at any rate.
Obviously, we were laughing because he had flipped the light switch to on, and no light came on… because we don’t have electricity still, from the storm Thursday evening. We both had forgotten, but I had remembered first and had used it to my advantage. 😛
And yes, we are idiots.
Thank you, God, for our silliness together. Keep us both safe, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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Today was both good and tough. It was good, in that I accomplished much clean-up in the backyard this morning from the storm. I also went for a good, long walk with a neighbor and her dog, and we checked out the neighborhood. I also got to see my brother and sister-in-law briefly when they came to pick up coolers to borrow for their freezer foods. My husband also got to have another lesson for his flight training progress.
It was tough, in that my husband was gone most of the day, and work had been canceled for me today. I struggled with food for myself, as well as water. I accomplished nothing I had hoped to accomplish yesterday and today, because electricity is still out. It likely will be out for a week or three, given what we saw on our walk. I felt tinges of despair at myself. And, though I comforted myself with the reward of a fun and lovely show, the intimacy shown in it saddened me due to how different it was from the relationship I have been able to have lately. And, though we have a generator hooked up, something changed, and now the bedside lamp flickers terribly, giving me a massive headache quite quickly. Plus, that means I can’t do my regular reading by lamplight, which is usually a massive help in my mental health. And I am going to bed with a headache.
God, help us to heal, please. Help me learn to camp well, too, please. Keep my husband safe. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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