Sleeping was tough because of menstrual cramps.  Yay – let’s add that on to the situation.  Noisy neighbors woke me up too early again.  You think of Sedona a nice quiet peaceful place, but there always seems to be some loud machine noise like everyone is doing major renovations to their home or yard work every day.  There are helicopters and small airplanes.  Someone was jack-hammering for 8 hours today.  I’m getting cranky and everything is annoying.

My major excursion of the morning was to go downstairs to get my weight and some ice water.  I spent some time chatting with Brooke who is in the room across from mine.  She is sweet and fun to talk with.  I took two naps during the day.  I’m still nauseous most of the time.

I went down for yoga (and ice water) in the afternoon.  I didn’t do yoga.  I just laid on the mat and watched the trees and birds and airplanes.  It was nice to hear the music and feel the breeze.  At one point I rolled on my side and saw this pretty red snake booking it along the wall next to me.  He was on a mission.  He got to the stairs and reached up real tall, but couldn’t top the stair so he started to go around, then came back determined to try again.  He reached up real tall and then a little taller and finally found the top of the stair – very determined guy.  He did the same with the next stair and then off to a garden area.  Last I saw he went behind a tree.  That was the highlight of my day.  I looked it up later.  A couple of people said he was red racer, but I think he was a king snake.

The doctor brought me a hot water bottle for my cramps.  At first I put it against my belly and immediately felt horrible.  I thought I might throw up.  So I wonder, is all this nausea I’ve been dealing with coming from my guts or my pelvis?  Am I actually working on issues of disgust and didn’t know it?  I put the hot water bottle on my back and that felt nice and helped the cramps.

The picture below is not the actual snake I saw, but one I found on line that looks similar.  And then………the……stairs……..scarier than a snake.

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