Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cloudy, windy, and teary day

A storm front is coming through soon, so it is very windy, with big clouds racing across the sky.  It’s very uncomfortable to be outside – even though the temperature isn’t too cold, the wind makes it too chilly to want to walk. 

The weather matches my emotional state.  I’ve cried several times already today – once while driving up a canyon to see “my” bald eagles, and the other a long, desperate session a half hour after I got home from the drive.  I apparently needed the release, the cleansing action of tears today, and more than just a sad gentle cry. 

I keep being haunted by what should be happening at this time of this month in this year.  Liam’s due date was last Thursday.  I was planning to stay up in the city from just before his birth until 10 - 14 days after.  But instead, here I am, at home, no grandson, no joy, and lots of grief.   I’m trying to keep busy, but that isn’t working very well.  Thanks to the prednisone and its associated side effects, there is only so much I can do.  So I’m reading, listening to audio books, taking walks weather permitting, writing in my blog, but not much else.  Thanks to my heart being irritable I am hesitant to take long trips in my car (even though I drove ~700 miles last weekend).  My brain is still a bit fuzzy, so my Spanish lessons via rosetta stone aren’t working very well, and I’ve mostly stopped those for now.  I jammed the knuckle of my right hand index finger a week ago, and reinjured it yesterday, so playing my flute is out until it feels better.  Whine, whine, whine!!!!

I’m just feeling down today.  I do better on sunny days.  It’s going to be storming on and off for about a week, so I’d better get used to this.   

I will get better, feel better, it will just take some more time.  Time….

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