This Was Thursday

I have great news about several of my children. One daughter, Kim, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.. That's only two steps from General. I've never written much about my children because I was concerned they may not be pleased about me doing so. I know Richard doesn't mind, but I was not sure our grown children would be happy if I said a lot about them.

Then another daughter, the beautiful, multitalented Athena, joined Myspace. I was completely thrilled with that. She left me a URL for another place where she Journals, or Blogs (who knows the correct term?) I read every year and page she wrote since 2003 when she started... Just finished. I was like meeting her on a whole new level... and it was wonderful! When she started, it was to be a private journal, but somehow her best friend found out, and the rest is history, so they say.

Athena's space is http://myspace.com/cybrgrl and she is currently in my "top eight" at http://myspace.com/ionaruth That may not always be the case because I change my "top eight" often... not because I as fickle and change my feelings, but because I don't want to play the popularity game... That way no one is shown preference and everyone will be on the list at least part of the time UNLESS they have something on their space I would rather not quick link my visitors to.

But back to my family. Kim has managed a family and a very high powered military career as has her sister Tami. They are both officers. I have two other military daughters, just as wonderful, who are not officers but are also raising families and managing demanding military careers. Wonderwomen all!

I will talk more about my family after I receive a nod of approval or perhaps not...

I didn't post an entry yesterday. The day had been too full for me and there was no brain power nor indeed physical energy left by the time I got home from "Group."

Morning is a hard ime for me. I have a "morning list" to be sure I do all the AM necessities of my person and home, like brushing of teeth, etc. but on some mornings I don't use it. This was one of them and things didn't run smoothly... not until I got to Margaret's home where the Women of Grace were meeing for our monthly birthday celebration. No one had a birthday, but we celebrated anyway with a luscious lunch Margaret fixed. I left early to get to Group on time... but was still late.

Group: Once a month I meet with one of my doctors and a few other brain injured persons. We discuss our several successes and brainstorm ways to cope and strategies to help us function better. I have to work at keeping my focus on what is being said. That's true of every conversation for me, but more intently so here because I so desperately need what I get here. The same is true of my visits to my two head injury doctors. Our normal meeting is one hour and I am wiped out for the rest of the day. Yesterday, some of us stayed on after the doctor left. We discussed a mutual problem and possible solutions for some time.

I had to rest in my car before driving home. Again, that is not uncommon after a visit to the store or a doctor's appointment, church, Bible study or any other venue where I struggle to keep track of conversation, story line, tasks, etc. What you do on autopilot, I have to think about and concentrate to do. Thinking so much makes me physically as well as mentally tired. So, last night I basically did nothing. I tried to read Athena's journals but could not focus and track a line of words or a development of thought... I was out of it.