#69

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Thank you for getting me out of bed and almost completing the laundry. I have six loads to do and I am now on load 5. The entire house is filled with laundry and I spent the afternoon mending a duvet cover which perfectly demonstrated what a stitch in time save nine - or in my case 504. Possibly more. 

I have gone into purdah and am likely to remain here for the rest of the holiday. Tomorrow I will resume my schedule. Starting with running. I have missed my running. I will start with running tomorrow because I really need to run. And I will run a short distance for the next few weeks.

I am going to sleep early tonight, round about 9 and then wake early around 4 am. It looks like rain tomorrow, no matter. I will go running and then I will do house type things again. I will get the toilet washed tomorrow if it kills me. No one ever cleans the toilet apart from me. Then, once again I will start my schedule.

I have blogged 71 times since the start of the year. The desire to keep up blogging daily was destroyed by last week's inability to do anything apart from get to school and back. 

So I am going to start back at my research. It seems odd that I experienced this terrible crisis of being when I had begun to research into Ahriman and Christ. This afternoon, before I fell asleep for a short while it came to me, this vision I had of my life over the next twenty to thirty years. It starts now, especially keeping fit. If there is one thing I am absolutely sure about is I do not want to be a burden to anyone else. But more than that I want to play an active role in my community, whatever that community is. There is only one life to be lived - and everyday we live it - every single day.

I am going to continue folding some clothes and then doing some reading and writing. It feels good to arrive at a place of calm after that storm. Thank you the universe.

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