I call him on my laptop, and he answers with his phone. He keeps dropping his phone, lying as he is on the sofa before bed. He gets his laptop to call me on it. I plan answer the new call on my phone. We will be on two FaceTime calls at once. He calls it a “three-way”. I just laugh at the stupidity of it.
Suddenly, his name pops up on my laptop screen. He has, instead, joined the original FaceTime call on his laptop.
Ridiculous.
Utterly ridiculous.
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Sometimes, it feels like I must pick between several things that are all happening on the same day, overlapping just slightly, such that I technically could do them all, but for shorter amounts of time than I would want to spend at each event, and knowing that I would be absolutely wiped at the end of it all. So, I must pick. And I have nothing to do on any other days – only on these days where everything is happening on the same day.
But then, oftentimes, when I start to see how I could make it all work, things pop up and declare themselves incompatible with something else suddenly, and so the decision is made for me. The priority items win out in the incompatibility contest, and the less important events are set aside and dismissed. What’s funny about it, too, is that I often end up not doing the one thing I was kind of really excited to go do. But, hey, the important stuff is ranked so for a reason. And they usually end up being wonderful, anyway.
Such is the case with this weekend. I had to decline several exciting things in order to do work and to give love somewhere that it is very much needed.
On that note…
Dear God, please, keep me safe this weekend. Help me to share your love with B—, such that she truly experiences your love for her. Help her to feel and acknowledge your presence. Help her to be freed of that which she carries so heavily right now. Help her to let go of all that does not serve her in your will and your love. Help me to say and do just what she needs to hear and experience, in order to find your love newly. Thank you for this opportunity. Bless me with your perfect words and actions this weekend, please. Thank you for this life. Help me help B— be grateful for it all, too. And, if there be demons in and/or around her, help me to wash them away permanently. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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Thank you, God, for granting my man and the dog safe travels last night and today. Thanks you. Please, keep them safe always, especially throughout their current trip. Help us all to pursue and to want and to fulfill your will. Thank you for these lives we get to live. In your name, I pray in gratitude. Amen.
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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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Well, it all is in the new place now, in the new city… now, just to unpack it all and set up everything… no big deal, right? 😛
Lolz…
God, help me to see clearly your next step for me now and always, that I pursue and fulfill your will. Keep my man safe, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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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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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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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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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”…
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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Sometimes, it is wonderful to experience a moment of others expressing exactly how you have been feeling for so long, and for which you have felt so alone and unwanted.
Thank you for that unexpected expression of love today, God. Thank you. Amen.
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