Monday Meanderings

This is what it looks like when you stand under the center of the Bean and look up. (Picture courtesy of my brother.) Told you I was fascinated.

• Have you ever had the universe reach out to take care of you? I have. In fact, it's happened twice today.
• The first instance happened this AM. Just as I pushed publish on a blog post - one which I probably would have regretted later - Blogger went out. The post disappeared into the ether, and I was hit by an immediate sense of, "Thank God."
• The second happened this afternoon. I came home from a day of outings to find that an acquaintance of mine had reached out to me via facebook because of a dream she'd had. (I've been known to do the same thing, so I think this is perfectly normal.) I opted for honesty, told her what was going on....and it turns out she may just be the person I need most to discuss the problem with as she has it herself. It was too big of a coincidence to be merely a coincidence.
• So what's all the angst about, you might be wondering.
• The day we left for Chicago I got a phone call from my doctor. Remember those blood tests from a few weeks ago? the ones I took because my recovery has been so awful? I honestly thought they were a waste of time and money....but it turns out that my thyroid is under performing and my TSH levels finally turned up abnormal in a test. I say finally because my family - and at least one doctor - have suspected a problem for years.
• I'm not going to go into really any more detail about it now. Suffice it to say that while I should be happy to have an answer for a commonish problem that's easy to fix once you find the correct meds and dosage I find myself intensely angry.
• There will be a post on anger later this week. Why? because at 36 I think it's really important to allow one's self to fully experience and feel whatever emotions one may be having - without judgement.
• Moving on.
• The Green Woman and I are in a bit of a mood. It's a rather unusual mood for the two of us. We are in the mood to clean, organize, purge and simplify our household.
• You may remember that this started with the closet a couple of weeks ago. Last week found me down in the basement, getting seriously to work on our storage area. I feel a need to strike while my sense of personal attachment to stuff is gone. Who knows, it may come back...and I need to get as much done before that happens.
• The older I get, the less attached I am to stuff anyway!
• The Green Woman feels that once we get rid of this junk than my creativity will expand. She keeps lecturing me on her theories about why this is so. I keep ignoring her so that I can work.
• I'm hoping that I can get through the entire house in a couple of weeks.
• We'll see.
• Interestingly enough, in between bouts of cleaning I find myself sitting down to intense periods of knitting.
• Also interesting - I seem to have knitting ADD, and it's never the same project twice.
• In fact, I have 10 projects on the needles right now, which is really odd for me.
• Even stranger...it's not bothering me.
• The Green Woman is snickering in the other room.
• As part of the cleanout, I will be taking over a corner of the basement for my own studio space. It's not ideal - but it's the best I'm going to get in this house. Hopefully it will alleviate all of the personal space issues I've had for the last four years.
• In other craft news - I'm definitely in a bead sort of mood. AND, I just found out that there's a bead store coming to town! It'll never be my primary craft, but I'm hoping to take a class or two so that I'll know enough to be able to do what I want to do.
• Also, the embroidery stuff has come out of hiding lately. I'm considering a couple of projects....although what I really need to do is practice for a while.
• The Green Woman thinks it's foolish to waste time on practice.
• Boy, she's loud today.

And on that note, I think perhaps I'd better go get dinner started! The kids start swim lessons tonight, so they'll need to eat early!

Have a great week everyone!