So I'm feeling a little better right now, after what was a brutal week in many ways.  It started off with me extremely sick with a fever - it's been years something has hit me that hard; I couldn't even make it downstairs at all on Sunday with just enough energy to rush to the bathroom and crawl back into bed.  Anyway, come Wednesday I was back at work, a little shaky and tired but there none the less.  I had missed the first of my 3 exams, I had missed two hours of one-on-one practice for my oral exam, and I had so very much work that I had fully intented to be back at full speed ahead and wasn't.  I was able to do a tiny bit of work from home on Tuesday but not much, I knew if I tried I would have less energy the next day so I rested instead.  This worked fine because little guy, after coming home from school on Monday tired and upset, wound up going to bed feeling sick with a fever.  That would be the end of the school week for him, for Friday when he was finally feeling better was also a PD day.

Friday I had taken off, due to PD day and prior Jim commitments, and good thing too because this was a day a big storm hit.  Now had I been working I would have gone in and got there fine because the snow didn't start until around noon, but coming home would have been a slog.  But I wasn't so that was fine.  Instead I took the opportunity to get an oil change and have the car looked at for what was becoming an obviously loud exhaust system.  Worried this was going to cost a fortune, a call at noon reassured me that the work was done, it was a leaky gasket now nicely fixed and the car is considerably quieter.  For around $75 that was great.  I also had had a situation at work where I simply had to bear my soul on a disappointment and a dream, and in all it was a realization that my studies aren't really appreciated where I am (in the big sense, not the people I work with, they do appreciate me) and so yes, I need to look elsewhere eventually, and maybe that's what I'm meant to do.  With that in mind I chose to spend some of Friday like I did on Tuesday, happily reading my university course immersed in the pleasure of learning for my own sake, no one else's.

Today we went to the Health, Mind and Spirit show in Renfrew and that was great, I'm glad we went.  I got an Angelic Reiki energy session and for $10 it was well worth the visit.  I feel much more calm now.  I won't go into what it was about except that I do have issues from things from past lives creeping into this one, and it was very interesting clearing negative and unnecessary karmic stuff.  One thing to remember that is really important for me, and this is in relation to spiritual things:  there are many roads to home (heaven) and all are valid, there is no one right way.  I liked that!

Oh, and I pulled a spirit totem and got Bear, which really did describe me right now.  Jim got the Unicorn, little guy, the Griffin.

Well, on to more exams and stuff.