Daily 5 - Day 173

Today's Daily 5:

1. T. & L. made their engagement officially public on facebook tonight.  Some of the comments made me smile.  Particularly one from J., my other brother.  He's the middle child and has a great sense of humor.  His comment on this facebook news was "WHAT?  SINCE WHEN???!!!"  Made me laugh.
2. The bad joke of the day (posted earlier) made me laugh
3. Deeply moved by the photographs taken in Haiti by Jeremy Cowart that I also linked to earlier.
4. Thankful to have made it through the first day back at work.
5. Thankful that there was nothing pressing on the schedule at all tonight, and I was able to spend the last several hours pretty much unmoving, and unthinking, just sort of resting and web-surfing.  And now able to go to bed nice and early.

Gnite world!

A Few More

Earlier I linked to a photo by Jeremy Cowart, taken in Haiti.  If you don't follow him on twitter, you should - even if it's just so you can see these photos from Haiti that he's been shooting and linking to.

Here are three more, incredibly attention catching shots of his:

Rest in Peace...

Where do I go if it rains?

I'm impatient for God to heal my wound so that I can get back to helping others

Bad Joke of the Day

This one really did elicit a good laugh this morning.  Totally a groaner, but I've kind of favored these sorts of plays on words lately.

How did the bishop make holy water?

He took some tap water and boiled the hell out of it.

Stunning Photo - "Love Conquers All"

I just started following photographer Jeremy Cowart on twitter.  He's in Haiti right now.

Check out this picture of a wedding the other day.  The sign the man is holding reads "Love Conquers All".  Cowart's twitter reported that just after taking this photo from their wedding, they drove the couple to their "honeymoon" in a tent city.

Half-Way

So, I'm about half-way through the work day.

I'm wishing I had one of those funny, squishy, horse-shoe shaped pillows that you stick around your neck.

I'm also wishing that I'd brought the makeshift sling that I used last week to work with me again today.

But, I've gotten a few things done.

I can tell that my body and my emotions are not recovered yet.  My body hurts, and everything right now makes me want to cry.  It's partly exhaustion, and partly the accident.

So.

Lunch hour comes soon.

And then a few more hours of work.

And then I get to go home.

When I get there, I'll make dinner, wash a few dishes, and then I'm pretty much planning on crawling straight into bed.  This may just have to be my grace week in terms of moving preparations.  Next week I'll get busy, but I think this week may just be one where I need to take it a bit easy.  And that's okay too.  Because the idea really is that I care for myself properly.  I'm trying to make that a priority these days, because it's not something I've always been good at.  But it is something I'm committed to being better at.  So I'll rest in bed after the few necessary tasks are done.

Back in the Office

It's Monday morning, and a bus and a train and a walk later, I'm back in the office.

I've been here for an hour and a half.  I'm already looking forward to being home and back in bed.

Answers to the popular questions:

• Yes, I'm still sore.
• Yes, my energy levels are very low.  I generally want to crash by 2 or 3 in the afternoon.  I'm hoping to push through that and work full days.
• Yes, I'm still taking pain killers, though (as they've always been) they're over the counter ones, and I'm trying to take them a bit less often.

It's also February.  A new month.  A new week.

A month with so much to do.  An aunt coming in from out of town who we only see every several years or so because of the distance.  A car to buy.  Getting comfortable behind the wheel again (I still haven't driven.)  A new room to paint.  A house to pack up and move and then unpack.  A body that definitely needs to recover.  Various wedding planning details to help out with.

This morning, though, I'm trying to just think about the few little things on my desk in front of me.  Because I'm still quite exhausted, everything still makes me cry, and if I think too much about the big picture (even though I'm a big picture kind of person) I feel overwhelmed, anxious, and frozen in time and space.  So this morning is about the little piles that accumulated while I was at home last week, recovering.

And breathe.

Here we go...