Where have I been?

OK Kim you have finally drawn me out from under this rock where I have been hiding ……and maybe it is a good thing that I have been in hiding…All my intended blogs would have been angry and in the form of whining and complaining! Starting from the incomprehensible, mind-boggling mess that was the Kenyan situation from early this year. All the blogs that I read and the emails that were being hurled around (some unsolicited spam at that!) were so disgusting and angering in terms of their tribal animosity and discrimination that I felt I might just have been one angry, sensible but feeble voice crying in the wilderness! I was overwhelmed! So I retreated, speechless but in prayer.

Then came school work, coupled with regular work and a million baby showers (I am still trying to figure out why April was laden with baby showers and birthdays- even calculating 9 months backwards still does not give me satisfactory answers) But I have been very fortunate to celebrate with my friends the birth of their newborns. It is a joy to see these first time parents so excited and grateful to God for the miracle and gift of a new life.

As for the school work, I am relearning to be a student and I am finding the hard way that procrastination is a very BAD thing! You always pay for it with stress, sleep-deprivation and unnecessary disquiet! But I do not think that it is going to change much for me since my best work is borne under pressure! Thankfully the Semester is over and I can breathe a while.

I have also been dealing with migraines – real ones – no cause for alarm as I have had these for a long time… The trigger(s) are unknown and there are no permanent solutions. The Doctor’s "educated guesses" makes me conclude that it is just another curse that some women have to deal with! Then there have been new friendships and the excitement thereof, and the phone bills that follow …(you know who you are!). I am truly blessed…

So right now I am battling with the dreaded seasonal allergies – I escaped last allergy season and I thought I was done for good, spoke highly of the vitamins that I was taking (though sporadically). I still think very highly of the supplements but somehow the crazy sneezing, itchy eyes and throat are back with a vengeance and now I am going back to prescriptions etc. There must be a way to beat this thing without stuffing oneself with drugs and pills. Anyway, I am back – back to the blogger’s world – WATCH THIS SPACE!!