I thought I'd blog while I eat breakfast this morning. Actually it is my second breakfast, this one is toast. I had oatmeal earlier. So this week, I'm feeling all right. The nausea is still hanging on, which is good, and so is the sleeplessness. Elise woke us up again at 5 am and I couldn't go back to sleep until around 630 or so. But I was able to go to sleep good last night. My friend Karen talked with me the other day about what she does when she can't sleep. I tell you it is the best way to fall asleep. She thinks about the temple. Goes over the what things are, the covenants made, etc. It was a wonderful way to fall asleep last night. I really enjoyed it. And since I'd much rather not throw up IN the temple, I enjoyed "being there" in spirit and going through the motions of it. It was such a break from the usual that I do, worry, fret and toss around. However, it didn't work at 5 this morning... I should have just got up.
Work: I feel like the last one on the island with a boss that just isn't the best. As a human goes he's fine, but as a boss, he's less than stellar. He's demanding and controlling and he honestly believes that everyone's lives should be work. Which mine isn't and won't ever be. I'm just not made of that kind of stuff. I can work and work, but the minute the family or the house needs me, I can't focus on work and I won't focus on work. Home is where my heart is, and it always will be. For the sake of my co-workers who are headed out the door soon, if not already, I won't mention any names. But we're looking for office staff!! The pay is terrible, the rewards are few, but you'd get to work with me! Here's to finding more good help to help us all suffer through this.
Home: I'm still not doing great at this keeping the house clean thing. I can't seem to stay on top of it all. I got it all cleaned up so nice in August. Mike and Elise helped out great. Then I got the nausea and the exhaustion that come with being a first trimester pregnancy and it's all gone downhill from there. I washed dishes for 45 minutes with the dishwasher loaded to the max yesterday (or was it the day before???!) and this morning I have two sinks FULL of dishes and a clean dishwasher full of dishes, and four loads of laundry to fold and put away. Oh, did I mention I work about 6 hours straight on Fridays? Which exhausts me completely. Here's to another day. Hurrah!
Friends: I have this one bestest friend ever and I swear she just can't catch a lucky break. Pray for Linds, she's got to have her jaw bone broken so she can have her wisdom teeth finally taken out. Pray for her husband, he's got to have his nose broken and reset (it's been broken three times already) so that the docs can do surgery to fix his deviated (obviously!) septum and drain the gunk in his sinus on that side. And these folks aren't made of money. They have not come anywhere near a money tree in a long time. These things too shall pass Linds, sometime!!! I love you!
I have another friend who needs prayers as well. Karen. Her husband has had the worst hip replacement surgery ever. His surgery was in June and he's been sick ever since. The infection is just terrible and he's going back in next week to have the replacement taken out, a cement and antibiotic loaded replacement put in, and then if the infection stays away after 8 weeks, he'll go have another replacement put in. All this time he'll be out of work, and unable to do much. This poor family. I don't think they've caught a lucky break in a long time either. My heart just breaks when Karen tells me of her pain and stress over this situation. And I feel worse for her than her husband, I tell her, because he gets drugs for the situation, she doesn't!! She just laughs and knows (I hope) that I feel so badly for them both. What a rough life. I have it SO GOOD! I have had my rough spots though, and I am enjoying this time I have right now. I get to help care for others and love them as they are and try to help them to feel better, loved and cared for. I totally can't complain, except about nausea and exhaustion!
Well, better head to work. Hope ya'll still love me! ~Vicki
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