the 'rents are coming into town this week and i've been procrastinating for the past 2 months to start cleaning my place and getting it in shape to have my mom, dad, gma and aunt stay with me. over the past couple of years i've been slowly letting my downstairs rooms... especially my bedroom... get filled up with "stuff" and the more it piled on the less i wanted to deal with it. i slowly stopped letting anyone go downstairs when i have friends over.
since my parents are going to be staying in my room while they're here it was inevitable that i finally start the cleaning process. you'd think that tackling a project this big would be best done in small manageable chunks, but since i'm a professional procrastinator, my tactic was just to do a deep dive and don't come out until it's all done. and so i spent 7 hours and got it done this past sunday. yes, that's SEVEN HOURS of pretty much non-stop cleaning/purging/recycling!!! and that's JUST my bedroom, nothing else.
however, i do love my almost perfectly clean room now and am glad i had the "motivation" to get it done. BUT it will not make me like cleaning any more than before. the reason i absolutely hate cleaning is b/c it always leads to a ton of sneezing and blowing of my nose. in fact, i usually get sick after a do a round of cleaning b/c my sinuses never really recover from it (yes, i've even tried the neti pot and wearing face masks while cleaning). now, most people would think well if you just clean more often then you wouldn't have to do massive clean-ups or maybe it won't be so dusty in places, but i seriously think i'm just allergic to the activity of cleaning. i vacuum my upstairs pretty frequently and yet every time i pull our the vacuum and start going, my nose starts running and i start sneezing.
ok my whine session is done now, just one more day of cleaning to go!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
food poisoning & meeting jesus
yes, you read that title right...."food poisoning" AND "meeting jesus". what do those 2 things have in common? well let me tell you!
this week, i had my very first and hopefully last experience with food poisoning. i went to a nice dine around seattle meal on monday night, had some crab cakes and ate way too much and went to bed early. then at 2am i woke up, not really knowing why, and i couldn't go back to sleep. by 4am i was feeling even worse, still couldn't go to sleep and finally threw up. after that i think i threw up almost once every hour for the next 6 hrs. it was horrible!
see i'm not the type of person that gets sick like that... in fact i've often thought i must have a super iron stomach b/c i never throw up. but that tuesday, it was like having the flu plus the added "bleh" factor of puking. i had literally no energy, i could barely walk upstairs to try to get more water or something to settle my stomach. a friend was nice enough to come over to deliver me some "safe" foods to eat and i could barely talk/hang out with her before wanting to just lie down and go to sleep. never again do i want to experience that!
now where is the "meeting jesus" part of this story? well, it's kinda funny because throwing up like i did this week will always remind of me of when i first met Jesus. see when i first started my journey into figuring out what i believed about God, Jesus and everything it was around my birthday, and that year i drank a bit too much and ended up throwing up a lot the next day. which is why it reminded me of when i first met jesus... or at least when i began that journey.
it's also quite ironic that today is also Good Friday and as i sat in service and reflected on my life with Christ i was again reminded of that birthday many years ago where i threw up a bunch and was introduced to Him... the 2 things will always go hand in hand in my memory. it's truly amazing how much my life has changed since that day and i'm SO grateful for the life i have with Him. how AWESOME is our God and how AMAZING it is that He loves us so much that He laid down His life for us!
this week, i had my very first and hopefully last experience with food poisoning. i went to a nice dine around seattle meal on monday night, had some crab cakes and ate way too much and went to bed early. then at 2am i woke up, not really knowing why, and i couldn't go back to sleep. by 4am i was feeling even worse, still couldn't go to sleep and finally threw up. after that i think i threw up almost once every hour for the next 6 hrs. it was horrible!
see i'm not the type of person that gets sick like that... in fact i've often thought i must have a super iron stomach b/c i never throw up. but that tuesday, it was like having the flu plus the added "bleh" factor of puking. i had literally no energy, i could barely walk upstairs to try to get more water or something to settle my stomach. a friend was nice enough to come over to deliver me some "safe" foods to eat and i could barely talk/hang out with her before wanting to just lie down and go to sleep. never again do i want to experience that!
now where is the "meeting jesus" part of this story? well, it's kinda funny because throwing up like i did this week will always remind of me of when i first met Jesus. see when i first started my journey into figuring out what i believed about God, Jesus and everything it was around my birthday, and that year i drank a bit too much and ended up throwing up a lot the next day. which is why it reminded me of when i first met jesus... or at least when i began that journey.
it's also quite ironic that today is also Good Friday and as i sat in service and reflected on my life with Christ i was again reminded of that birthday many years ago where i threw up a bunch and was introduced to Him... the 2 things will always go hand in hand in my memory. it's truly amazing how much my life has changed since that day and i'm SO grateful for the life i have with Him. how AWESOME is our God and how AMAZING it is that He loves us so much that He laid down His life for us!
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Romans 5:8
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