Catching Up

Hey, you.

I'm so glad the party was a huge success, as I knew it would be. What a great way to honor your parents. I'm also happy to hear that your didn't spend the entire weekend getting J from friend to friend, without spending any of the quality time together that you both deserved. Can't wait to see pictures. And C's toast? Precious :)

Well, it's been almost 24 hours since my first dose of elixir, and the Naturopath (her initials are MC too, so I'll call her MC2 - I crack myself up) said I might be feeling better already. J and I had a discussion about the placebo effect last night, so I'm not sure if the "better" I feel this morning is real or not. Either way, I'm having a pretty good morning. MC2 also taught me a balancing exercise that is supposed to balance out the left and right sides of the brain, which is supposed to be a guaranteed stress reducer in a moment of crisis. I need to do this whenever I start to feel emotionally overwhelmed, for about a minute. Apparently, it will help with things like decision making, and figuring out what to tackle first when faced with a multi-part project. Or just not bursting into tears in a frustrating situation. Hmmm. We'll see. I did it right before I went to sleep last night, to see if it would help me stay asleep, but then I started to panic a little, thinking that if it didn't work, I would be exhausted today, so I got up and took Tylenol PM anyway. So much for patience. The herb for that is in the blue bottle too, so I'll have to wait for it to kick in.

Nothing planned today but a few small errands (Goodwill, bank) and cleaning the rest of my bathroom. JJ's friend E is coming over after school, but other than that, it's pretty quiet. C leant me some movies so maybe I'll treat myself to one this afternoon.

Tomorrow is the redo on my root canal (woo hoo!) so I have nothing else going after that. This weekend we've got Wine Club and then JJ and I are going up to Safeco for Mariner's FanFest - kind of a baseball season kickoff thing they do where kids can meet players, run the bases, that sort of thing. We're going with E and his mom; should be a great time.

So glad to hear you got grading done. Hang in there the rest of this week!
Love you,
A