Holiday Past

It's Saturday, and the holiday week is almost over. The kids are back, and I'm facing the typical, penny-pinching January. It's been a great week off. I removed my kitchen cabinets (again), rewired and rocked three walls, installed the cabinets with new counter tops and new light fixtures, and new paint and extras (thanks to Sandie Runyon) in the kitchen and bathroom.

It really looks good. I can say this not because of the craftsmanship, but because anything was an improvement. You see, for the past six months or so, we've been without all our counter tops, operating with one bare bulb hanging form the ceiling, exposed plumbing and electrical in the walls, etc. It does save on groceries when the kids don't want to go in the kitchen, but I don't recommend the strategy.

The week was good inspite the messy house, the kids being gone, failing to supply constant power to the fridge, and battling my first case of pink-eye (There's a story in and of itself).

I noticed my eye was real red, so I asked my medical-sauve friend, Oleta, "What's up with my eye?" She immediately diagnosed it as Pink-eye. So I got online to see what kind of home remedies I could find. The results were encouraging and yet...equally disturbing: sleeping with wet tea bags on your eyes, rinse eyes with peroxide, rubbing alcohol, breast milk, or even seminal fluid. Most reported substantial progress overnight. It seemed like this would be a simple challenge. Granted, the only one I tried was the tea bags, but there was no real benefit. After a day or two, I found myself at the pharmacy purchasing antibiotics.

Anyway, My eyes are much better and the house looks good...to us, and if I may add a spiritual insight to all this, I have this chronological Bible I like to read. It gives suggested readings for each day of the year, and while the rest of Christendom is looking to the Gospels for the Christmas story, this week, the chronological Bible simply sees it as the end of the year, and therefore, the suggested reading is in Revelation, about the end times. Today, I read about the woman who gives birth and how the elders around the throne tell God that the time has come to begin His reign on earth (Rev. 12&13). What a cool parallel to the Christmas season!