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NOT getting things done

In all fairness, the week leading up to today was filled with lots of “doing.” In addition to the usual rehearsals and emails and meetings, we had a music team retreat, plus another day of recording. So I was understandably tired today.

In fact, once I got home from Sunday service, I was DONE. As in kaput, fried, and just plain exhausted. With no desire to do anything, even though I had created a longish list of tasks that I (rather foolishly) thought I would tackle this afternoon — HA!

So, now you can see why this meme spoke to me today.

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Too tired to be inspired

But the good news is we’re home and well on our way to adjusting to the new time zone.

I think I’ll be pretty normal by tomorrow.

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Bellinzona kitty

Today was a really good and eventful day. But I’m so tired that all I can do is share this cute kitty with you all.

Good night!

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Kriya: high point of the week

It was already a big week (with music to prepare and classes to attend every day), but towards the end I added two trips to town for dental appointments and errands; helped prepare the music office for carpet cleaning; and had to track down missing expense info for our upcoming tax appointment.

And, of course, tonight was Kriya!

I was so tired that I almost stayed home. But I’m glad I went because it’s always deeply inspiring and motivating.

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Intense weekend: Day 1

Today we left early to drive to Sacramento, then spent four hours in an important family meeting. Afterwards we drove back home with a little time to spare before getting ready for tonight’s astral ascension ceremony.

The eclipse happened while we were on the road, but we were headed in the wrong direction and couldn’t see it at all (not that we had made any preparations for looking at the sun!).

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Running on fumes

It’s been a while since I’ve been quite this tired…depleted, really.

In fact, by the end of Sunday service I felt like I was running on fumes!

But the nine days in a row of absolutely amazing inspiration makes it all worth it.

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Home again

It’s been a long day — packing up in Pacific Grove, driving to Sacramento to pick up the rest of our stuff, then finally back to Ananda Village.

Overjoyed to be home, but pretty tired when all is said and done.

Beautiful “welcome home” flowers and card
More beautiful flowers
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Collection finished

Google image of an apheresis machine (I didn’t think to take a photo of mine)

If you’re like me, you probably never heard the term “apheresis” before, so a definition might be a good idea:
“Apheresis is the process of withdrawing blood, filtering something out of the blood, and then putting the filtered blood back into the body, using a cell-separating machine.” 

In my case, the goal of apheresis was “collecting adequate numbers of peripheral blood stem cells for transplantation,” which I’m glad to report was successful.

A minimum of 3 million stem cells are required for the bone marrow transplant. It took two days, but they were able to “harvest” a total of 3.8 million from me.

I’m feeling a little tired and somewhat drained. Strange in a way, since all I did was sit there while the machine did the work. But it’s not that surprising really, considering the entire volume of my blood was removed and returned to my body four times on each of the two days.

Modern medicine really is quite amazing.

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Day 1 accomplished

Well, the actual injection (which I received in the “Infusion Center”) was pretty much a piece of cake. It barely stung for a moment going in and there’s no residual pain in my arm at all.

The hardest thing was that the appointment was at 8:00am, which meant leaving our house at 7:15 (or close to that, anyway!).

After registering downstairs, doing paperwork in the Infusion Center, waiting for the dosage to be mixed and delivered, learning about how it all works, receiving the injections, and — finally — waiting fifteen minutes to make sure I didn’t have any adverse reactions, I was definitely tired. But I’m not sure how much of that was the medicine and how much lack of sleep!

We also picked up my oral prescriptions, over-the-counter meds, and arranged for a “specialty” prescription that has to be delivered by mail. Quite a process!

I also managed to finally get ALL my appointments entered into a shared Google calendar so me and my two main helper-angels can see what’s coming up. And I think that’s quite enough for one day.

Good night!

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What I did today

Yesterday we moved much of the music office. We mostly focused on desks and making sure computers were set up and working, but other furniture and boxes had to be moved as well.

Of course, there was the usual messy debris left over, plus one last pile of items to be sorted (home, office, trash).

Which is what I did today! Now the old music office is looking quite empty (except for a few odd bits of furniture awaiting a new home) and really clean, while I’m feeling very tired!