The Pine Forest is Beckoning...

I see that i am getting more into this "blogging" thing. Hope someone is reading it! Anyway... thought I'd say that I am (what I think is miraculously) feeling better... maybe I did really have a urinary infection? Who knows... but all I really care about is that this afternoon I think I might finally feel up to hiking the pine forest behind our school that is halfway up part of a mountain. I've wanted to do it since September! Maybe I will be able to start getting back into shape if this feeling of wellness persists...

Full of Grace

The winter here's cold, and bitter
It's chilled us to the bone
We haven't seen the sun for weeks
To long too far from home
I feel just like I'm sinking
And I claw for solid ground
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
Oh darkness I feel like letting go
If all of the strength and all of the courage
Come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
Full of grace
Full of grace
My love
So it's better this way, I said
Having seen this place before
Where everything we said and did
Hurts us all the more
Its just that we stayed, too long
In the same old sickly skin
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
Oh darkness I feel like letting go
If all of the strength
And all of the courage
Come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
Full of grace
Full of grace
My love

- S. McLachlan

Urinary Infection?!

Well... I finally made it back to the doctors and managed to get out of there alive. I explained my flu-like symptoms to him and then the next day I find out he diagnosed me with a urinary infection. What?? I really don't think I have one. Anyway - so he gave me antibiotics and arthritis pills... yes, the doctors here are questionable. So I will take the pills.... I've been taking them for 2 days now and already feel a bit better so maybe there is something to this diagnosis. Onward & upward....

My mother-in-law is coming to visit next month! I am really excited about it - she will be here for 7 days and we will get to spend about 4 or 5 with her. Hopefully we will get some time on the beach!

Right now my main concern is still feeling better physically, so keep praying for that!

"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."

Saving your excrement.

Here I lie in my bed... lined with fleece sheets. I thought it was supposed to be hot.. . but I am shivering my goosebumps off. Sometimes I feel it is not fair; but I do not want to be another person who is always complaining about the fairness of life. So I won't. However, I have been sick on and off since coming to this tropical country about 5 months ago. What is it?! A reoccuring parasite... an amoeba? I don't know... but the other day I went to the "clinic" and they tried to shove an I.V. in my arm and keep me there overnight. I said hEcK nO! So now I have to bring in a poop sample - isn't that fun? I don't think it's that embarrasing since I actually enjoy the subject of poo. Here's an idea: whenever you have an unusually large log... don't flush! Leave it there for the next person to see. After all... if you actually told them how big it was, they probably wouldn't believe you.