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Nov 17, 2010 08:35AM
I woke up this morning! felt great emotionally. woke up happy. happy I am still interested in the world out there somewhere. looking forward to catching up on terminalcoffee. there are so many people out there just locked into their own little worlds with no hunger to know more, explore different ideas, no intellectual curiousity...no curiousity. they have become rats in a maze and do not even know it. they have no hunger to meet new people with new ideas. So, yes , I am celebrating my very existance today.
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since i started to go back to school in my 30's, i realize how much i missed being able to flex a little bit of my 'mind muscle'. it is not so much that i lack a sense of curiousity, but i was simply so bogged down in my very narrow world of trying to simply keep my head above water. i was underemployed and underpaid, and i was just so consumed with keeping myself together. i just found it hard to really return to that sense of hunger and awareness when life was just so effectively kicking my ass.
When I take the time to think about this planet orbiting the sun, and us alive on it at this moment, I'm dizzy with amazement and happiness.
Barb wrote: "Can I borrow some of Michele's enthusiasm for the day? I'm having a very blah day, just the thought of trying to find something to have for lunch nearly threw me into a temper tantrum. Can I just..."Yes, you have official permission.
to suefly: hey, been there,done that and lived through several life altering events. I am the phoenix, always (so far) rising from the ashes. I was unfortunately (sometimes)born curious and even when I was juggling fulltime job,school,1 son and 40 hrs/month working for the crises service I still met people,asked questions,debated and squeezed in 4 books a week...only time I "lost" that curiousity was the year I had both mononucleosis and a migraine nearly every day triggered by the mono...actually,the migraine lasted 2.5 years and I call it my "black hole period"...even then I explored all the info I could get about mono,epstein-barr virus and migraines. always wanted to know stuff because knowledge is power. The reason I am so happy today is because this is the 1st migraine free day in a week.
the sky is blue and the bare,slender tree limbs profiled against that blue is just lovely. the house is quiet and I am on terminalcoffee. life is good. so what if I have no peripheral vision. Don't need it if I am stationary and on the computer. no pain,just occular migraine which has not happened in a long,long time. I hear some birds chirping and squirrels scampering outside. I guess some birds forgot to migrate. I'll have to pick up birdseed. Life is good. I am very fortunate.
Michele wrote: "I hear some birds chirping and squirrels scampering outside. I guess some birds forgot to migrate. I'll have to pick up birdseed. Life is good. I am very fortunate.
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I'll have whatever she's having.
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I'll have whatever she's having.
today is errand day...I always look forward to it because I am out and about..I get to see what is new at the grocery store. the weather is sunny and the trees are elegant without their leaves..I can smell leaves burning somewhere in the neighborhood and oour next door neighbor is burning applewood in his woodstove. the air is dry and crisp and the leaves are crunching underfoot. I am glad to be alive.
I've just started Stephen King's newest and am looking forward to settling in for a nice read. That is, if I'm not scared away first. So far, so good. Btw, it's a library book, not on my Kindle. I didn't want to have to pay $14.99 if I could get it for free. If the price had been $9.99, I may have considered it.
It's a robert frost kind of day: chilly, grey outside but nice and cozy inside. reading terminalcoffee, drinking gingerale..enjoying, enjoying...started the day with kitty kisses. will read something new later. finished "Grave Witch" and enjoyed it. good ,it is all good and will,I hope, stay that way.
slept through the night. kitty chin rubs given in multitudes all day..blessed quiet before the insanity of thanksgiving and I do not have to cook today.
Suefly, know what you mean about trying to keep your head above water. Definitely narrows your focus. So, you're in school now?Jan, what is King's latest? I've read most of what he's written, but those written in the couple of years after the hit-and-run were just too much for me. He knows the darkest places, and sometimes I can't go there with him.
The air smells so clean and crisp today. The sun is so bright I had to wear my sunglasses. Elegant tree branches waving in the wind against a blue sky and 1 lone crow. I threw him breadcrumbs. I woke up to kitty kisses and I rewarded her with 5 minutes worth of 1st class chin rubs. Mellow day.
The craziness of this holiday is over and I'm taking the time to sit and reflect on how lucky I have been to be gifted with wonderful family and friends..
there is a tree in our yard that has refused to lose it's leaves. They are all brown but still on the tree. My sister in law wonders why I notice things like this. I like to observe the beautiful and unusual around me. Like the stark beauty of bare tree branches against the sky. the way sunlight hits the windows in my neighbor's house and turns them a pink rose golden color that is spectacular. Wish I could write or paint but i am glad I notice things like this.
Oak trees usually don't drop their leaves very early, it could be an oak.
It might be a pin oak. They don't drop their leaves, even when they're brown.
that is possible. I'lll take a closer look at the leaf shapes tomorrow in the daylight
listening to the wind whisper through the branches of the trees in our yard. beautiful cloud shapes against the blue sky. hot cider on a cold night.
3rd day in a row without a migraine! My careful diet of avoiding any and all foods that could possibly trigger a migraine (and it is a lengthy one) seems to be working. It is very cold out but I am in a nice warm house with pleasant company trying to decide what I want for supper. That is a very nice place to be indeed.
Good for you Michele!I knew there was a "celebrate" thread.
While waiting for my checkup MRI - the news said Elizabeth Edwards was gravely ill. By the time I was done with the appt. they announced she had died.
MRI - all clear! wooooo
Carol, that is the best news I've had today! Congratulations...happy dance and hug.
Had a really great session with my therapist. discovered I feel really energized without the migraine to drag me down and suck my energy level dry. Ready to become an activist again. Public speaking on issues of rape and battering and about chaning the term/meaning of "senior citizen". I am not dead yet! Babyboomers unite: throw out the rocking chair image. lets go!
Didn't you write that in another thread as well?
It's like having an avatar, Sarah, the news demands to be shared.
Ah. I see. I guess anything worth celebrating is worth celebrating twice. That's why I have two birthdays.
i like to think people celebrate my half birthday (new year's eve).
janine wrote: "i like to think people celebrate my half birthday (new year's eve)."I do, Janine!
(I was joking about the two birthdays...sorry. I'm a little punchy.)
Barb wrote: "... and what exactly is a half birthday?"you know, when you're six months older, instead of twelve.
Why stop there? How about a 1/12 birthday every month?
but i already don't get presents for my half birthday, just the fireworks and hugs. if i start celebrating it twelve times a year it won't be special anymore.
You are wise beyond your years, Netherlander.
janine wrote: "but i already don't get presents for my half birthday, just the fireworks and hugs. if i start celebrating it twelve times a year it won't be special anymore."The Dutch fireworks tradition is quite a sight to behold. My wife and I were in The Hague for New Year's in 2007. The air was so thick with smoke and gunpowder, it was like a WWI battlefield--a wonder any buildings were left standing by morning. But actually it was fun and entirely non-violent/goodnatured and everything return to normal the next day. A very nice country.
Since my birthday is Christmas most people forget it. Except for my immediate family that is. One Christmas I forgot it! That was the first Christmas my son understood Christmas and I was enjoying his joy so much I forgot my own birthday.
enjoying Johnny Mathis singing christmas songs. looking at my handsewn christmas ornaments. nice warm house and a kitty warming my feet. life is good.
