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WHAT is with that?
Oct. 15th, 2006 09:12 pmSo what is this thing that makes my hands shake and my tummy tremble but will go away as soon as I eat something? I JUST had the glucose test and was above-normal (not in 'diabetes stage though) so it can't be blood sugar, right?
MAN, I hate that. I went to the movies with Arni - btw, we give "Man of the Hour" a BIG thumbs up - and when we got home I was all shaky and trembly. Just ate a pear... hope that clears it. It's weird as can be, like an alien took over my system or something. Yuck.
Brigit gave me a ride to a local battered-women shelter so I'll know how to find it (naturally, it is not an easy location) tomorrow. I'm going to drop off the stuff she had gathered along with some stuff that I found (she gave me recommendations of things they needed). Tomorrow I can pick up a 'wish list' from there and happily apply myself to some anonymous 'making life easier' for people who are so worthy of a hand up... That's one of the hard parts about my religious path - I grew up with the idea of tithing via my church and that's not really possible for a solitary practitioner of Wicca so I have to be creative. In the years that I've been doing this or that, I've learned some interesting things. Money sent to volunteer EMS in my area will not be shared out among stations but will, instead, go only to the one whose name is on the cheque. I learned this after giving a donation to station #2, who had sent me a letter a few weeks after an ambulance from station #5 had given me a ride to the hospital... turns out that station #2 has a *really* good advertising/fund raising team. Their station house is HUGE and brand-new and amazing in it's gadgets. Station #5 isn't all that fancy... and they didn't get any of our money because station #2 tracks the 'run reports' and sends a letter to recent victims no matter which station actually responds to the call. I didn't know that then but I do now (we sent a different cheque later). So that was a learning experience. I've learned that if you donate to a little Catholic school on an Indian reservation in the state that your husband grew up in, every other Catholic charity organisation will send you free gifts and big envelopes in the wild hope that you will aid them, too. We now have more rosaries, St. Francis medallions, notecards and bookmarks then we will ever need. And if you are subscribed to things like the "Smithsonian" or "Biblical Archeology" magazines, well... the charity lists that you are on from them are truly amazing. And pretty tempting, too, really.
Tomorrow looks to be a day filled with finishing electronic paperwork, a trip to the shelter, a trip to the DMV for a new driver's license, then a trip with Arn to the optometrists for new prescriptions and (in my case) a probable chewing-out. *sigh* I have this feeling about tri-focals in my future. I have never broken the habit of holding my embroidery close to my face... the things we do....
The Quakers have a saying, "holding someone in the Light" for wishing a person well - much like 'remembering YYY in my prayers". I like 'holding them in the Light' because I can't actually pray for someone without their permission but I believe that I can 'hold them in the Light' without it. Which makes my mind a little easier when I want to add my voice to those who are saying, "Please help this person get better, heal, get what they need for a better future". So - tonight I am holding some side friends (those known to me closer than acquaitances but not so close that I could pick up the phone and chat) in the Light. May their doctors find what is needed to diagnose and treat that which needs to be treated. May their sleep tomorrow be better than their rest tonight. May those going through the pain of divorce find a path to keep their friendship with their Ex-to-be and part without the rancor so common in the courtroom.
Some of you are who I am thinking of - and some of you know who else I am thinking of. And some of you are thinking of folks I don't even know. Go ahead - join me in wishing them *all* well.
MAN, I hate that. I went to the movies with Arni - btw, we give "Man of the Hour" a BIG thumbs up - and when we got home I was all shaky and trembly. Just ate a pear... hope that clears it. It's weird as can be, like an alien took over my system or something. Yuck.
Brigit gave me a ride to a local battered-women shelter so I'll know how to find it (naturally, it is not an easy location) tomorrow. I'm going to drop off the stuff she had gathered along with some stuff that I found (she gave me recommendations of things they needed). Tomorrow I can pick up a 'wish list' from there and happily apply myself to some anonymous 'making life easier' for people who are so worthy of a hand up... That's one of the hard parts about my religious path - I grew up with the idea of tithing via my church and that's not really possible for a solitary practitioner of Wicca so I have to be creative. In the years that I've been doing this or that, I've learned some interesting things. Money sent to volunteer EMS in my area will not be shared out among stations but will, instead, go only to the one whose name is on the cheque. I learned this after giving a donation to station #2, who had sent me a letter a few weeks after an ambulance from station #5 had given me a ride to the hospital... turns out that station #2 has a *really* good advertising/fund raising team. Their station house is HUGE and brand-new and amazing in it's gadgets. Station #5 isn't all that fancy... and they didn't get any of our money because station #2 tracks the 'run reports' and sends a letter to recent victims no matter which station actually responds to the call. I didn't know that then but I do now (we sent a different cheque later). So that was a learning experience. I've learned that if you donate to a little Catholic school on an Indian reservation in the state that your husband grew up in, every other Catholic charity organisation will send you free gifts and big envelopes in the wild hope that you will aid them, too. We now have more rosaries, St. Francis medallions, notecards and bookmarks then we will ever need. And if you are subscribed to things like the "Smithsonian" or "Biblical Archeology" magazines, well... the charity lists that you are on from them are truly amazing. And pretty tempting, too, really.
Tomorrow looks to be a day filled with finishing electronic paperwork, a trip to the shelter, a trip to the DMV for a new driver's license, then a trip with Arn to the optometrists for new prescriptions and (in my case) a probable chewing-out. *sigh* I have this feeling about tri-focals in my future. I have never broken the habit of holding my embroidery close to my face... the things we do....
The Quakers have a saying, "holding someone in the Light" for wishing a person well - much like 'remembering YYY in my prayers". I like 'holding them in the Light' because I can't actually pray for someone without their permission but I believe that I can 'hold them in the Light' without it. Which makes my mind a little easier when I want to add my voice to those who are saying, "Please help this person get better, heal, get what they need for a better future". So - tonight I am holding some side friends (those known to me closer than acquaitances but not so close that I could pick up the phone and chat) in the Light. May their doctors find what is needed to diagnose and treat that which needs to be treated. May their sleep tomorrow be better than their rest tonight. May those going through the pain of divorce find a path to keep their friendship with their Ex-to-be and part without the rancor so common in the courtroom.
Some of you are who I am thinking of - and some of you know who else I am thinking of. And some of you are thinking of folks I don't even know. Go ahead - join me in wishing them *all* well.
