This week has been, well not the best. We all have weeks like that sometimes so it is nothing earth shattering, but I have not been on top of my blogging game. I did come across this beautiful quote however, which really works wonders if you literally practice it! Do the SMILE bit!
I will have to qualify that slightly. Don't breathe in too deeply if you have a dead rat in a tiny crawl space under your bath, and this week the temperatures have been over 30C all week! I kept on wondering how long it would take for this thing to fully decompose? What makes it worse is I have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. I could already smell it on Sunday. The rest of the family only started to notice it last night. This morning I poured an entire can of Jeyes fluid into the small hole. It helped immediately, but I wonder if the relief will last? (I am at work now).
Monday began with a visit to the doctor. My youngest son has a viral chest infection, so no antibiotics will help to speed his healing. He is on cortisone, inhalers and cough mixture and still remains sick. He has been off school since last week Thursday and I am thinking of keeping him home until next term. I have also been suffering from a lingering cold and sore throat (like 90% of our town at the moment).
I had already dedicated this week to sorting out a few administrative tasks, especially as the cash accepting ATM swallowed a cash deposit without crediting my account on Friday. After the doctor's visit on Monday I had to spend an hour an a half waiting in the bank to to report the matter. Fortunately I took a novel with. I used the opportunity to see to a few other issues with my account as well. I was also supposed to visit the new bank I am slowly busy moving over to, but have not had the energy.
This is the second to last week of the due date for handing in my application for the renewal of my Secondhand Dealers Licence, which I have to do every 5 years. I can never remember exactly what documents are needed (and the requirements regularly change) so often I have to make repeated trips to the police station, where the renewal application needs to be handed in.
I reluctantly tackled this task yesterday. The office I need to visit is at the back of the police station, which is shaped like a rectangle. And it is filthy. The paint is flaking and there are no cleaners. The stairs are a travesty. The ground floor is just basically corridors. The first floor at the back seems largely abandoned. And smells horrendous. I think people have been relieving themselves there. The office I needed is on the second floor, which looks marginally better, but also smells of urine. There are no elevators, just stairs, not much fun if you are feeling sick. I was told to go have my finger prints taken at Room 117. Nobody was there, I returned upstairs where I was informed someone definitely was there. Downstairs again, and after knocking loudly, seriously, no-one was there!!! Upstairs again. It turned out I needed Room 117 in the front building. I also had to get my documents certified, which required yet another trip. At last the whole performance was over. But all that stair climbing made me feel extremely sick, with my lingering cold.
I did have one piece of really good news this week though, a major courier company moved into town! Our town is no longer classed as an outlying area, which means I can offer my online clients much better postage options! I am so excited about that!!! Basically this is all I have energy for! I am going to spend the afternoon at home resting. (And peeping at my husband's auction finds!)
@onetree
That's a lovely picture of healing crystals and stones with very practical quote by Thich Nhat Hanh. He did come to my country long time ago and I had the opportunity to learn mediation with Thich Nhat Hanh, I also did visit his retreat centre later on.
Your ordeal at the official locations seemed quite a drag on anyone' s energy! You have the stamina to pass through all the testings of the week!
I do hope your son will get better soon! You'll both need a lot of rest and vitamin C!
I am also going through a funny week! The other night the temperature shot up to 34 degree Celsius! Very odd! Very difficult to sleep with the heavy air. My nose is also extremely sensitive and so are my ears! I am more instinctive just like a wild animal sometimes! I could sense things.
The energy should improve a bit next week, the autumn solstice jus past by. The planetary energy will settle down soon. But we are not out of the woods yet! I do expect something drastic in October! So, practice our mindfulness and breathing ahead of time.
Since I consider you a long lost friend from another life time, may I do so?! I would like to recommend that you have some cash at hand just in case of economic upheavals and a break in the electronic banking system. I am afraid there'll be a false flag on cyber security/ attack as a preface to 'bail in ' for failing banks in the near future. I just hope the final show down better the super powers will not be too drastic. Hope for the best.
Take care.
Cheers.
Thank you for your kind words and I would be extremely honoured to be friends! Fortunately my son and I are both much better. You are so fortunate to have had the experience of learning from Thich Nhat Hanh!!!
It was 36C here on Friday! And today is also very hot. I do have the strongest sense of something huge impending and your advice is very good. I have an instinctive aversion to electronic transactions. There is nothing I can do about it with my online sales, but I keep the shop cash only. (Much to the frustration of my customers.) I have no money to keep aside, but fortunately by owning a second hand shop I have many handy items to trade!
I desperately hope the crash will eventually be followed by a more spiritual age.
Namaste, G
Thank you very much for being my friend @onetree! I think I should be the one feeling very specially honoured to be accepted as your friend. I have always found it very difficult to make good friends in my country in the past; even my own families and relatives found me very odd! This may be because I spent a long time studying abroad and had been among very matured people and met extra-ordinary people. That' s very lucky for me, but it meant that I could not share the traditional Chinese value system of the past. My grandparents were from China so the overall culture in my family has been more Chinese than Thai. Any way, I decided to keep the good bits and try to comply rather unsuccessfully! So, most of my friends are either from overseas or had been studying abroad.
I have been hoping that the crash will not be in full swing this year. I'd rather people have at least a New Year celebration before the bad news. Something might become unhinged this October, God forbid! It's too soon!
People will have to wake up and change spiritually to cope with new uncertainty and upheavals of all kinds. I have been very concerned with my families' members who continue to believe in fake reality.
I have been slowly building my small retreat or self-sufficiency garden/house during the past five years. This is a place where I shall be teaching meditation to friends and some people. Probably, there will be healing mediation sessions, I also have a small area for walking meditation. It's my dream of having a small retreat center for friends and families to come to rest and reflect on their life and problems, in a quiet and natural surrounding! I actually build it for myself first then I have to share this with others too.
But, that's all in the future. Most people are still busy making a living in cities. Meanwhile I have to grow like a big tree with strength and branches to give cool shade for all the visiting birds in the future.
That will be my contribution to the world, I hope.
Best wishes.
Namaste, K
Your dream is my dream for the world. I would so love to be able to slow down, but I am unable to do so due to the demands of making a living for my family. One day though! I am delighted to have met you here.
Hey :o)
I'm back for a while again.. hoping to get a few interesting posts up by week's end .
I hope your son will feel better soon!
Lots of love to you
Hey @mysticlilly16 so nice to see you back. Take it easy! 💚💚
I could smell your experience through your description with help from flash backs to my own escapades with rodents and hideous neglected government buildings.
I had a power socket in my bedroom as a kid. I couldn't use it. Every time I tried it would stink. We had a terrible rat problem at one time. One of them must have died in the wall cavity. I think I baked it if I used the power point. 😷😖🙊
Oh I can understand all to well! We've had a couple die in the roof before too. The smell feels like a physical assault!
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What a slog!
Definitely!
@onetree got you a $1.4 @minnowbooster upgoat, nice! (Image: pixabay.com)
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