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Aaaand my totally random thoughts/whines/etc. for the day. The moment (You know it's gonna continue!)

I picked up a Kobo (electronic reader) in NZ and am reading Proof of Heaven. Gorgeous book, I love the geekitude/spiritude all in one and it's really helping with my sense of loss and feeling lost right now. It's about a neurosurgeon who contracted a very rare brain infection--while his brain completely shut down he had a near-death experience. Well, technically, a death experience.

I'm one of those atheists to whom God appeared personally and changed my mind. (HAHAHA just after I shared about psychotic episodes. Excellent.) That doesn't mean I don't struggle with faith. I'm pretty sure if you don't struggle with it, it's not faith; it's blind faith.

A minor-ish thing I'm struggling with right now (although it's like Chinese water torture) is that since before IMNZ ... anyway, Jim came, I caught his flu (10 days off training means it probably wasn't a cold). During the NZ trip (and until very recently), my sister had a terrible cold and chest cough--next to her on airplanes, 4-5 hour drive in a closed car to Taupo, sharing rooms and beds--etc. It just really wore on me having to constantly wash and sanitize my hands, make sure I didn't touch anything she touched, wore face masks so I wouldn't touch my nose/mouth or get spray particles, etc.

Just as she was getting better (couple weeks after my dad's funeral) my mom now has it. And she touches everything, all the time, including food (we are the WORST family for sticking our hands in everything, literally and figuratively). And it's just wearing on me to keep this level of vigilance up.

Can't afford to get sick. Don't want to get sick. Have spent the better part of the last three years now recovering and it sucks. Okay, thanks, I guess I'll stick with the vigilance then.

Artemis - 2013-04-18 9:35 AM In true Manatee spirit, I signed up for a 10k yesterday.  I realized this morning that I will be racing 4 weeks in a row. 

Me too! Sorta. I have the Metric Cenury on May 4 (not technically a race), a sprint the 12th, an Oly the 19th and a 10k the 27th. This weekend DH and I are doing a bicycle winery tour. Def not a race

Funny when Macca does his podcast he says oh here's a question from Joanne Baxas our Stalker.

 My BIL was killed in a horrible farm accident in September and last night I found out that his son has been admitted to hospital after having a nervous breakdown, he is 30 years old. I don't know what to do to help.