Is My Cape Fluttering

As always, after an entertaining foray into the land of the lung fest, it takes a couple days to get back on track. As opposed my quick return to being an insomniac... [I think I have a membership card and a secret decoder ring here somewhere!] As I check back in with family, friends and co-workers, I'm always a little surprised on what I missed out on!

My friend M, at work told me in the first meeting on Tuesday that she kept watching me because although "I'm used to you being so freakin' pale, it's the first time I've seen you with no color to your lips. I thought you were either going to turn blue or fall out of the chair!" How odd... I felt like I was coping well at that point...

From the blog front, I'm trying to make my way back to visiting everyone. I keep getting distracted by a)the huge pile of dishes in the sink and b) all the dust bunnies drifting across the kitchen floor. How did that happen in just a few days? Anyway... I stopped by the Respiratory Therapy Cave and morphed to Rick's blog where I learned about the seven benefits of asthma. So far, I rate myself four out of seven... I have developed perspective, vulnerability, empathy and sharing. I have yet to develop religiosity, intelligence or cleanliness. I really have my doubts about ever developing the cleanliness, but my asthma doesn't have a problem with dust mites or that attitude might change! And the intelligence thing... there are times when I still feel no more intelligent about my asthma than I did 6 years ago. And just for the record, I used to celebrate in kind of a wacko way, my anniversary of becoming an asthmatic, but now I feel blase' about it. It was however six years ago in February of 2003. *confetti* Time flies!

And now... I really want to be non asthmatic for a while! I'm totally burnt out on this winter thing... and this breathing thing... and the bad air crap! It snowed again this morning. It's almost March for goodness sake. I've got a serious yen to run or hike or bike or something. Especially biking... I stare at my bike every morning when I go out to get in my car. I dream of an exotic new bike helmet... I want to throw my camera over my shoulder and take off into the mountains... I've been drooling over a new lens for the last month! I swing back and forth between "I must have it" and "It's awfully expensive, I should wait". The thing is, the used ones on eBay are almost the same price as the new ones at one of the online stores. I've got it in a shopping cart online, I just can't press the "buy it now" button. How pathetic!

Enough Blathering! Have a wonderful day! Dream of spring! And Sandals!

Asthmagirl out!