Communication

I’m not the best communicator. I know this because many times I post something here and from the comments, I figure out right away that my words weren’t exactly what my head was thinking. Sometimes it’s one person who totally gets something different from what I’m trying to say but often, it’s way more than one person and then . . I know that I just didn’t communicate my thoughts effectively.

Years ago I had migraines and I figured out they were triggered by stress and I tried really hard to control stress and . . I’m not a doctor so please don’t take this as medical advice but sometimes in a stressful situation, I’d stop and take two Bayer aspirin and that seemed to stop the headaches. Whether it really helped or whether it was just in my head (literally and figuratively!), it worked for me. I haven’t had a migraine in years.

It isn’t a migraine but Thursday morning I woke up with the worst headache I’ve had in quite a while. Yesterday I took some sinus meds which made it almost go away. This morning I woke up with it really hurting. I told Vince . . I’m going to fix a piece of toast, take some aspirins and go back to bed. I fixed the toast, took some aspirins, and while sitting and waiting the 10 minutes between putting the first drops and being able to put the second drops in Rita’s eyes, I realized the headache was going away. I was doing something on the computer and Vince and I had this conversation:

Vince: Do you want some cereal.
Me: (it took a second to answer — I was thinking) No.
Vince: What took you so long to answer? Were you thinking about having cereal?
Me: A little bit.

Then, he sits down with two bowls.

Vince: Come eat.
Me: I don’t want any cereal right now.
Vince: Why did you tell me you wanted a little bit?
Me: I didn’t say I wanted a little bit of cereal. I said I was thinking a little bit!

Then, I took a shower, washed my hair and put on makeup. Vince came in from outside.

Vince: Are you feeling better?
Me: Yes! Very much better.
Vince: Where do you want to go?
Me: I don’t want to go anywhere!
Vince: Yes, you do. You have on makeup! You only put on makeup when you want to go somewhere.
Me: No! I have on a holey T-shirt. I’m not planning to go anywhere!
Vince: Do you want to go get Chinese for lunch?

Oh, my goodness. I do not like the Chinese restaurant here. I think I’ll go wash the makeup off just to be sure I don’t have to leave the house!