July 31 - Sunday

 

July has flown by.  It's been a very busy month and I'm exhausted because I feel like I rode every mile of the Tour de France with Lance!  That was absolutely the highlight of the month.  I taped the live coverage every morning and then watched the extended coverage at night after I got home, but during the commercials, I watched the tape from the morning.  What a great time.  I was so sad the day they rode into Paris.  But he did it!  Seven consecutive Tour wins, pretty cool.  Joel would have been impressed!

 

I spent some time up with my parents while they are going through some pretty serious health problems.  They finally got their new roof put on (it was destroyed in the hurricanes last year).  

 

The lab continues to take most of my time and I'm desperately in need of a break!  I'm planning some short get a ways to hold me over until I can take some quality time off over the holidays.  My grieving process was interrupted by the pressure to continue my research so there are still a lot of things waiting for me to deal with. 

 

The kitties crack me up constantly.  They are just little clowns.  Sometimes I soak my feet in ice water after a really long run to prevent injuries and the minute I put a tub of water down on the floor, all three jump in walk around with the water up to their knees and fish all the ice cubes out onto the tile floor.  This is great fun for them because of the mess they leave and the wet paw prints they track all over the house.

I would keep more up to date...but nothing is going on.  I'm stagnant in my grief, feeling about the same level of sadness for about the last 3 months or so.  I think it's going to be that way for a while or possibly forever...who's to know when a person officially becomes healed...I've heard so many say that where death of a spouse is concerned, there may not be complete "healing"...just improved "dealing".  At this point I would certainly agree with that, but with God, all things are possible. 

 

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