Books.

I finished two books yesterday.  I love finishing books.  I always feel so accomplished; not to mention it means I get to start another one.  The two books were Ford County Stories by John Grisham and Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson.

The John Grisham book was really good.  I'm normally not a big fan of the type of stories John Grisham writes, but this was great.  It's a collection of short stories, which made it really fast-paced and easy to read.    All of the stories are about small town Mississippi, and as much as I hate to admit it, they often hit close to home.  The setting was familiar and the types of people were like people I know or have met.  I highly recommend it.

Catalyst is a young adult book.  It didn't start out so great, but once I got into the meat of it, it was really good.  It turned out to be quite a touching story.  It's about a pastor's daughter who is a senior in high school whose dream is to get into a certain college; it's all she thinks about.  Then her neighbor--and meanest girl in school--has to move in with her because her house burns down.  The main character learns that life is about more than her selfish dreams.  Like I said, touching.

Life is hard.

This week it's been hard to get out of bed in the mornings and even harder to stay away from it the rest of the day.  I'm making it, though.  I pray that each day will be a little better than the last.  I'm getting better at being honest with myself and honest with those around me.  I've started telling people how I really feel rather than what I think they want to hear.  It's been good--sort of liberating, in a sense.  I'm allowing other people to help me carry my burden.  I thought I was protecting people by not letting them know how bad things were; I was saving them some worry.  I now know that was silly of me.  In my attempt to shelter those I loved, I was really shutting them out.  The Lord created us to live in community; He created us to need other people.  It's taken me a long time to learn that, but I am learning.  And I'm thankful for all of the people who are helping me carry my burden.  You are truly a blessing.

A new blog.

So I started a new blog.  In my search for new headache treatments and whatnot, I have come across several blogs people have written solely about their headaches.  They've been so helpful to me, I decided I should start a similar blog so that my experiences can hopefully be of help to someone else.  This blog was a little too personal to open to the public, so I started an entirely new one.  I'll still post on this one about non-headache things, but here's a link to the new one in case you're curious:

http://whenlifesaheadache.blogspot.com/