Categories: church, life, housework, procrastination-techniques, random, friends
Date: 07 April 2009 10:18:30
I'm having a somewhat minimal Holy Week.
Oh, it's still busy by many peoples definitions, but I am not feeling obliged to go to everything on offer. Holy Week is done pretty thoroughly in these here parts, and I've got an eight day individually guided retreat starting on Monday. (That's eight full days, so I won't be emerging until the Wednesday of the week after.)
Yesterday I was like a grizzly bear with a sore head and a toothache and any other kind of ache likely to cause the bear to be cross and irritable. I was ready to fight my own shadow if it flickered the wrong way. I was seriously fed up with myself by the middle of the afternoon, and it didn't aid matters that I was awoken from the nap I was having (as an attempt to see if that would improve things) by someone who I very rarely get cross and snappy with. And I, um, got very short and snappy.
Luckily, that seemed to snap me out of it! I gave myself a severe scolding, reminding myself the world did not revolve around me, I was getting wound up about something that didn't really matter, had I forgotten how awful self-induced migraines were, (as a teenager, when seriously stressed out by something, I could bring on a migraine, but learnt other ways of dealing with my stress when I realised what I was doing. I've not had a migraine in the 25 years since this realisation) and did I really want to revert to those, which at the point of the nap, I was in serious danger of doing.
I will apologise for the snappiness tomorrow... but it may not have been noticed! (It's happened before, I think I've been really nasty, gone to apologise, and been told it hadn't been noticed.)
In other confessions...
I have spent too much time hitting a Penguin with a Flamingo, and causing said Penguin to crash into trees, (and Elephants, and occasionally Giraffes) bounce off Snakes, slithered over Elephants, and been thrown by Giraffes.
I have cleaned my room, but am afraid to tackle the Area Under The Bed, the Shelf Space Behind the Books and the Top Of The Wardrobe.
I have failed to write two letters which need writing, but will now have to wait.
I am about to be late for the one bit of non-Triduum Holy Week I'm taking part in!