Sunday, October 24, 2010

What a blessing to feel good! I slept all night --only took 2 Advil yesterday and can't believe how much better I feel. Swelling is no longer a knot in my jaw and is going down. I want to scream with joy.

Today I want to get some things in order. I have my list done already and it is 8:23 a.m. Liz is coming this afternoon so I try to get a list done and then I work on it until she gets here. So many things are little tasks I have not taken care of during this ordeal.

I read the paper today and read an article in Parade Magazine I liked called "The Lists that Keep on Giving". She and her husband live in different parts of the country and they keep the relationship alive by making lists of things that happen during the day that they talk about at night on the phone. Lillian Hellman once called these things "the daily mess of life". The author, Connie Schultz, says "The nice thing about list keeping is it makes you cherish the world around you." She goes on to say that the last thing you want, at the end of the day, is a list of nothing to share. So you are more observant about yourself and the mess of life you live ordinarily.

I do this with Blog. I am far more observant about the menial tasks that I do each day and wish I had kept better notes. George Will said: 'It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is." God did not make anyone ordinary. We should all remember that!