{"id":668,"date":"2008-12-13T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T03:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2008-12-13T22:09:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T03:09:53","slug":"feeling-better-doing-what-needs-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/feeling-better-doing-what-needs-to-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling better; doing what needs to be done"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:30pm\u00a0\u00a0 Today has been a productive and\u00a0active day.\u00a0 I woke up at 12:47pm and realized I’d slept since about 11am- two hours in a row, yay.\u00a0 I thought, “I feel good enough to go to the post office, and I can get there before they close.”\u00a0 I got up and ready to go out the door when\u00a0I realized it was 2:47pm and not 12:47pm.\u00a0 But I was up and dressed and feeling pretty good about being vertical, so I headed out.\u00a0 That also meant I’d slept almost 4 hours in a row!\u00a0 I felt very much revitalized.<\/p>\n

I dropped mail at the post office and was glad for it to be so close and located in a small shopping center.\u00a0 I went into Beall’s Outlet next door and bought a white ribbon fabric shower curtain, and a set of nifty cameo-looking shower hooks.\u00a0 I’d suddenly had the idea to swap out my former\u00a0shower curtain, new just last year, to give a new look to the room since I’d be taking more baths now.<\/p>\n

After Beall’s,\u00a0I went next door to Big Lots for a\u00a0new silver tension rod, then on to\u00a0The Waterman to refill the 2 five-gallon bottles I’d had in my car for a week.\u00a0 I’d figure out later how to get them out of my car and into the house.\u00a0 Usually I could carry one easily, sometimes both since they have handles, but today I definitely wasn’t at full strength so I wasn’t sure what the plan would be.<\/p>\n

I ended up getting the bottles out by using\u00a0rolling chairs, one to the car trunk, one to the hallway\u00a0door,\u00a0and I kinda slid the bottles back and forth\u00a0between the chairs to get them inside.\u00a0 Not as tough as I thought it might be.<\/p>\n

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I installed my new silver shower rod and hung up my new white ribbon shower curtain using my new cameo shower hooks.\u00a0 I took all the discarded packaging into the garage;\u00a0there was a lot of it.\u00a0 It made me glad I don’t often shop;\u00a0 I just don’t like to use paper or plastic unecessarily.\u00a0 I also don’t\u00a0often buy new things just for a new look.\u00a0 I tend to use things up.\u00a0 My original water heater lasted me 24 years; my original\u00a0a\/c unit and washer and dryer\u00a0lasted me 20 years.\u00a0\u00a0 My stove also lasted me 20 years, although I’d 2-3 times\u00a0replaced the oven element or one of the stovetop burner elements.<\/p>\n

7:00pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I felt I was running out of energy, but didn’t want to just lie in bed again.\u00a0 I decided to move onto the living room couch and made myself\u00a0a cup of Better Than Bouillon vegetable broth, which revived me.\u00a0 It revived me so much that I opened a can of Progresso Italian Wedding Soup and heated it up.\u00a0 I put the meatballs down for\u00a0Izzy, who wouldn’t eat them.\u00a0\u00a0I strained away 3\/4 of the pasta and ate the rest of the soup.\u00a0 It felt good to chew.\u00a0 I wanted some romaine lettuce but since it was raw, I wasn’t sure if I should so I didn’t.<\/p>\n

So now at 10:30pm, my tummy feels fine and\u00a0I feel pretty good, although tired.\u00a0 I’m going to sit on the couch awhile, just to be sitting up.\u00a0 I’ll bet by tomorrow I will be good as new.\u00a0 The January Horizons is done on time.\u00a0 I couldn’t ask for much more.\u00a0 Goodnight.<\/p>\n


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