Sunday, January 18, 2009

been away

i spent two days/nights at a friends house. it was good to get away. needed a change of scenery. it was an escape of sorts. holiday. out of my rut. got blessed. and got to bless.

but is good to be home. its nice when you can fall back into the little routines you have at home, comforting. boiling water for coffee. drawing the blinds at a certain time of day. checking email on my laptop - on my own computer, that has everything set up the way i like it... little luxuries.

have had a nasty headache today. left side of my head only, it dances around my face, around my eye, teeth, ear, temple, forehead, cheek, neck, nose, lips... the main part of the pain at different places at any given moment. ow. the music at church just knifed into my skull...

should take some pain killers, i guess. but it's not always good to numb out the pains in life. pain tells us something is wrong. i've spent too much of my life ignoring pain of various sorts (be it physical, mental, or emotional), so it's almost refreshing to *feel* it. to pay attention to it. it's different.

but still. take some pain pills, girl.
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1 comment:

  1. Ruth5:08 p.m.

    heck yes...i understand the pain...i feel like i was beaten up by a football team! My whole body aches and it shows no signs of letting up! So, I try not to move as much as possible (movement brings on spastic coughing which then shakes my body and causes it to feel like I'm being beaten up again!)
    Sleep...tea...sleep...medicine....aplle juice...sleep!
    This is all I want in life right now!

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