Ok body, you are exhausted. Like, not functioning-exhausted. Eyes hurt, feet dragging, all that jazz. So why are you not sleeping? Or if you are going to not sleep, could you at least be awake enough so I can study or write?

In happy news: there is a tree in my living room! A LIVE, smells-delightful-and-Christmasy tree!! With lights! My roomie

I just got home from midnight mass. It is Christmas. The anticipation of Advent is over and we rejoice. God made flesh. Do I even understand what that means? Can I understand? “I love you. I love you so much that I will come meet you where you are, in a way you understand, because you cannot come to Me. I love you unto death.”

Mary’s Magnificat has ( Read more... )

“I’ve become skilled at heeding the boundaries set by my activity monitor. This is the built-in system that alerts me when I am risking a flare-up of my symptoms because I have been too active or stressed. Now when the alarm goes off, as if on autopilot, I climb obediently into bed and take a rest until the pain subsides and my energy tank refills ( Read more... )

Ok,I have 10 minutes before leaving for dr day. Thus, yays/boos ( Read more... )

Now, I've never claimed my family was of the normal sort, and we've always gone a little overboard when we make gingerbread houses each year. Tonight however, we definitely took our gingerbread house making to the next crazy level. :) Wesley's has a cool roof and a carport (complete with tootsie roll car). Mine's this weird two-story, star-shaped ( Read more... )

Whahoo!! Elissa feels sooooo much better!!! (Dr. Olson upped my calories yesterday, so now I have energy, too much almost). It's amazing the difference an extra 500 cal makes. So anyways, I'm back to bouncing off the walls and being my silly self (yes, I've finally accepted the 'silly' epithet). Anyways, went to the big Christmas concert thingy ( Read more... )

Mwhhahahaha! I have Christmas music!!!