I was up at 6 and walked Elsa. I did my routine doing the dishes from last night while doing my oil rinse. Then I drank my two cups of water, got dressed for Bikram, and left.
After class, two women who were new students came up and told me what an inspiration I was. They were airline hostesses who were passing through. One had a bad hip problem, which would cause her leg to buckle. I have had that experience, but my leg has gotten stronger as I have made my alignment changes and targeted weak muscles. I can now trust that leg. The last time I had even the slightest buckling was as I walked in to do the hula at Mike's funeral, but I wasn't bothered while I danced. My leg does feel weaker after I have worked it hard during the yoga class, but it recovers quickly and is stronger in the long run.
I went to Long's after class because I was out of Hersey's Milk Chocolate bars with whole almonds. They had a sale, buy 2 get one free, but only had king-sized. They were out of the regular size. Okay, I'll take it.
The bank is in the same shopping area as Longs. I finally was able to deposit those two checks of Mike's. Because we have a joint account there, and I haven't informed them of Mike's death yet, they accepted the checks with my forged signature without blinking an eye. What the bank doesn't know won't go hurt them. While there, I asked them if they had a Xerox service. Yes, for $2.50 per page. I said, "Thank you." The clerk giggled, and I left. Really, $2.50 a page?.
I went to Safeway to buy bread and butter for the next day when Zola was coming over for lunch. I bought two apples while I was there. After I had paid, I noticed they had a sale on the regular-sized Hersey's Chocolate bars as I was walking out. I decided I needed to come back the next day. I had forgotten to bring in the Dr. Scholl's inserts I found in a drawer to try and return them there. Here's a good excuse to come back tomorrow and get some of those Hersey bars. I still had to Xerox the notarized document for Kaiser's Release of Information Department so I could get the total for Mike's prescriptions for 2018 for tax purposes. I made an estimate of $200 for the medical claims section of the taxes, but I need the document to back this up. At Office Max, there were two people on the Xerox machines, and I had to wait. I actually like to wait. I find it peaceful. One person had a lot of professional Xeroxing to do. On the other machine was someone who had no idea what they were doing. I thought it was going to be a while and relaxed.
The one doing the professional Xeroxing was finished first. I wound up needing help. Which button did I have to press first? The one with the professional job was sorting his work, and he helped me.
Today I had to wash both Yvette's and my Bikram clothes. She was in class this morning. She had to go to work right away. I offered to take her stuff home and take clean it with mine.
I called the Wellness Forum in Columbus to order more brewer's yeast. When I lived there, my Bikram studio was located within the Forum offices. It was they, Pam Popper, who got me started on having a Juice Plus smoothie each morning with almond milk, a tablespoon of green tea, a tablespoon of ground flax seeds, and a tablespoon of their particular brewer's yeast, as distinguished from nutritional brewer's yeast. I have them mail it to Dorothy in New Jersey instead of me because sending it to Dorothy costs $5 with UPS, who then forwards it to me for $14. While sending it to me directly costs $50. It's one of the disadvantages of living in Hawaii. Amazon Prime is worth every cent.
I cleared the dishwasher from the dried dishes from last night and washed the next batch, stopping again once the dishwasher/drying rack was loaded. I worked on the blog and sent one out, and then cleared the dishwasher/drying rack from the clean dishes and did another batch.
I did more work on the blog and took a nap. I woke up in time for my 2 o'clock healing appointment. Out of nowhere, I am getting paying clients for tutoring and healing. I am enjoying both. I'm not up for going back to tutoring at the school. I'm still adjusting to my new life and find it exhausting.
I thought of a way of describing the verbal protocol of my healing. I do marriage counseling between the conscious and the nonconscious mind, or even the mind and the body. It was Mark's comments saying that yoga is a marriage between the mind and the body, where it is "mind over matter." Where's the mutual respect? Mutual respect doesn't mean blindly following any suggestions of either partner. Right now, the clients I am working with suffer from PTSD and panic attacks. I know that there has been some success with the PSTD case. He has experienced staying calm in a situation that typically would have triggered him. I am thrilled for both of us. It is a wonderful feeling to know that I have skills that can help people.
After the session, I cleared the dishwasher/drying rack of the clean dishes and did another batch. Then I sat down to play FreeCell and do some more work on the blog.
I called the Kaiser department of Release of Information Department to get their address and mailed the form to get the full list of Mike's prescription expenses for 2018.
While I took Elsa for her walk, I spoke to Judy Glickstein. She is feeling somewhat better but not 100 %. Her oncologist said to come up for her chemo appointment tomorrow, and he would determine then if she is good enough to receive it.
When I got back from the walk, I did more work on the blog and played FreeCell. Dinner was salad, and a couple of those super delicious stuffed cabbages Judy made using her mother in laws recipe. I was prepared to fight someone to get most of those- they are that good.
I watched Collection on Amazon Prime and cataloged books. I thought it was going to take me a year to complete all these books. It will only take me a couple of months at the most. It's going much faster than I expected. I know what I'm doing now and have a rhythm.
I walked Elsa. Tonight I was wearing shorts. When I got back, sat down with my computer and played free cell and wrote on the blog. I washed my face, brushed my teeth, went to bed, and then said, "Goodnight, Elsa. Goodnight, Mike."
