Getting My Shit Together Monday

Week Four - I am posting this in the last hours of Monday, which will be your first indication that I am far from having my shit together today. I've decided, though, that Getting My Shit Together involves ridding my kooky-loo thought processes of the shoulds as much as it involves organization, commitment and other kinds of self-care. 

Since we are on our fourth (yes, fourth) round of sickness in our family (with no breaks, mind you...pity me), I gave myself two goals: Fight back against those germs (persistent little suckers) and give myself a break.

Fighting back against the germs involved good, old-fashioned diluted bleach, my entire bathroom -  wall to antiseptic wall -  and every other obsessively-touched surface in our apartment (watch it) - doorknobs, phones, remotes, light switches. My break began with a big dose of vitamin C, lots of warm tea and a rejuvenating family dinner with friends.

That is it. Gloriously, that is all that I attempted and accomplished above and beyond the everyday Elmo and email of most Mondays.

And you know what? Even though the sinus pressure is still miserable, even though we are going through Kleenex like crazy and even though I had a good cry begging the gods and the germs to let us be well, I've done a little something and I do feel a little bit better.

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