Journey Toward the Light... (and some updates and a SALE!)

Insert ethereal music here. Throw in some singing angels...

Side note: Do you know that the Bible NEVER mentions angels singing? They "say" and they "proclaim", but they do not "sing" - at least not in the Biblical reports.

Just thought you needed to know that.

Groovy is smiling now because some of you are digging out your Bibles in indignation as you imagine the chaos when next Christmas is heralded by "Hark, the Herald Angels Say".

Ok, so back to the light and the music. We bought a therapy light yesterday. I was trying to decide between buying from our local friendly medical supply store and buying online. We opted for local. But I'm wishing we hadn't. The online light had a lifetime guarantee and a promise of 10,000 lux at 24". This one is 10,000 lux at 12", meaning I have to be very close to the light for a therapy treatment.

The med supply store was clear that we can't bring it back if it doesn't help my SAD, but we can bring it back if it doesn't function properly. Well, one of the lights flickers and that's a no-no, so this one will be back to the store soon - I'm gonna get the online one.

All those boring details aside, I had my first treatment this morning. It was rather weird.

Several years ago I had a friend who was selling those Nikken therapy magnets. We dutifully tried them. Mulletman taped them on to relieve muscle tension. Scout tried them to help him recover from football injuries. I could never use them at all. Put a magnet on me for very long and my fillings start to get warm and I get a strong metallic taste in my mouth. This is true even if the magnet is on my ankle! You can imagine how I leapt out of the chair 5 minutes after they covered me with a magnetic blanket! Oy!

The even stranger thing is that I only have a couple of fillings. Hmmm...

And so, this morning I tried the light. It was slightly off centered to my right and folks, my whole right jaw feels warm and tingly. When I realized this was happening, I repositioned the light more to the center. Unfortunately, it was almost to the end of my treatment time, so I'm not sure it helped. Now I have a headache behind my right eye and across the right side of my scalp.

Perhaps 1/2 hour ws too long for a first session!

Tomorrow I'll try just 20 minutes and make sure the light is dead center. I know you are all hanging on the edge of your seats to see how this saga concludes, so I will keep you posted.

I just realized that it will be extremely difficult to use the light on Sunday morning. We have to be at the church at 7am to practice music. I usually get up at 5am and I'm running the whole time...Ain't no way I'm getting up at 4:30! Maybe I can eke out 20 minutes if I bathe the night before instead of showering Sunday morning.

Wow. If this post was any more exciting, you folks would need tranquilizers.

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I would be remiss if I did not insert a very happy cheer into this post:

GO MIKE HUCKABEE!!!! WHOO-HOO!!!!

In case I haven't told you before - I Like Mike!

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No hamsters yet. Mulletman is getting anxious now, so he's going to check the pet stores in Bangor. Surely SOMEONE has some cute little Chinese dwarfs.

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I feel tremendously petty for complaining about our paltry pelting of precipitation when the Sierra Nevada mountains are s'posed to get TEN FEET of snow over the next few days...Ten feet. I can't even fathom that much snow!

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GrammaJ is coming over today to do her laundry and hang out. Her birthday is tomorrow and we decided to celebrate with an overnighter. Tonight is homemade tacos and some sort of wonderful but yet to be decided on dessert. Tomorrow she and I will go out alone for lunch to have either seafood or Chinese. (Just for your info: We will not be eating Chinese hamsters.)

GrammaJ will be 69.

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I've decided that the only way to avoid have school every blueberry-picking day of our Maine summer (we ain't got no cotton, ya'll) we shall have school six days a week for the next few months. Fortunately, the girlies are so sheltered and naive that they don't know they're supposed to have Saturdays off.

Ignorance IS bliss!

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I need to unload three seasons of Little House on the Prairie dvds. The girlies got them for Christmas, but aren't interested. They'd rather have the books! (Can I hear an AMEN to that?!!)

The dvds were purchased for us from Amazon and it's a big butt pain to try to return them. They are all brand new. If you're interested, you can buy them from me for $35 per season (Seasons 1,2, and 3), shipping included. You could pay me on PayPal.

Any takers?