Hurricane season starts tomorrow! Again! Sheeeeet! F@#&!

Shabbos

Been having a very peaceful, non-eventful Saturday, although I have this nagging feeling as though I should be doing something, anything from the list of to do things that I have not been able to do. I was very sick, that incursion of Saharan Dust week before last because it carries with it bacteria and viruses it gave me bronchitis so the neumologist wanted to hospitalize me, I didn't want to, so after some close observation he decided that it could be managed at home if I followed strict orders of staying put and not doing a single thing, which I didn't have energy to anyway. So although I finally feel a little better, I'm still not 100%. I have so many things to do. But it is Saturday and I really want to go back to observing it.

Oh man, anyway my daughters car was finally fixed, sort of. Sort of because the anti lock part supposedly has a sensor which did not come with the part and the mechanic doesn't know where to find it or something like that. You would think that he would know, but the lack of English speaking skills severely holds people back here, if you don't know what it's called in English how are you going to look for it? We're searching for the sensor but since I've been sick and all, and they all work it's been slow going. Anyway the car runs and brakes just fine but the interior lights go on because of that missing sensor, but other than that it runs normal and the car is in good shape body wise and all. So she's leaving it here in case of an emergency that one of their cars fails so we have that one and don't have to rent one as she did before.

Tomorrow is Mothers Day so all mothers can have their special day where their children and family can gift them and thank them officially. But really every day is Mothers Day,  we feel the love every day in everything we do for our families and in asking for and seeing the blessings of Yahweh bestowed upon them, us. 

So happy Shabbos, and may the Lord bestow His love and kindness upon us today and forever.

Flashbacks...

Lord that volcano erupting in Kilauea is giving me serious PTSD. Man! That lava coming in right through the street reminds me of the river coming right into the street here,  as well as people who had to flee because the entire neighborhood was flooded! The fishing village where I used to live was totally flooded, the fishermen had to ferry the people to safety in their rowboats! They have had to flee there in Hawaii and run for their lives also, oh man what a drag, really upsetting.

Wishes, dreams, spells and encantations...

I'm making an appeal to the The Three Kings or AKA The Three Wise Men. Firstly that my asthma eases up, that the doctors can find something that will control the flare ups, which because of mild incursions of Saharan Dust this week have made me asthmatic. I was on a pump called QVar, it's a cortisone and cortisone is wonderful at bringing down inflammation anywhere in the body including the respiratory tract. 

So, I was using my pump twice daily as per doctors instructions and it was keeping me pretty much controlled, not all the way but it helped a lot, I was pleased.  Then I noticed that my fingernails were releasing from the nail bed! Whoooaaa! After that  I noticed that I was now growing a beard! Whoooaaa! It was fuzzy type hair but quite visible from certain angles and the fuzzy hair was getting longer and fuzzy!!! Whoooaaaa thar Betsy!!!

My granddaughter noticed it first, she said abuela you have like a...beard growing!!!! and together we looked and sure enough yes indeedy, I was now turning into a fuqin circus attraction! The bearded Puerto Rican lady!!! No bueno at all!

Then I casually rubbed my arm against the wall, no big deal, happens all the time, but hell, my freakin skin came off!!! and the blood flowed, yes it did, and the stinging! My skin had become super thin like overnight! Shit! Okay, so the QVar while it was letting me breathe better was not so good in other areas of my body...So I stopped it. The beard left as suddenly as it had come, my nails are growing back, albeit slowly as nails are wont to do, but my skin has remained slightly thinner, so I bruise easily and if I accidentally rub up against anything rough or sharpish my skin will break. Anyway c'est la vie.

So I'm making a request to the Kings, Wise Men, I need healthy, strong lungs, and I need a couple other things, it's a secret...

I prayed to God, to St. Jude which is the saint of miracles, petitioned the Orishas, particularly Ogun, which I was told once by a Babalu was my guardian Orisha. did the Tarot cards, worked my crystals. and now I've set it up before the Kings, my plea. I've made a sort of altar to them all. with my crystals, and jewelry, some fake, some real. I put out a ruby ring which supposedly belonged to my great grandmother, that same Babalu told me I didn't have to wear it, but to keep it in a sacred place and revere it, and I do that. "Ensalsala" were his exact words.

I sat among the crystals my diamond ring, a small sapphire ring, the ruby ring and a semi-precious stone ring and heart pendant. In the boxes I have semiprecious earrings, yellow topaz, blue topaz, chalcedony, peridot, druzy. I have some fake fashion rings in there too! added a candy. The funny thing is, I love stones in jewelry, but I hardly ever wear it, I have topaz pendants, tanzanite pendants, I wear them sometimes when I go out.

Anyway that's my altar, lets see if it works... ;)