Anticipation

Remember when you were little and it was the night before Christmas and you were too excited to sleep?

Well...tonight is my "night before Christmas"! Tomorrow morning we sign the papers and our house becomes ours! 10:00am is the magical time. I cannot wait.

My excitment has grown all day...each passing minute I get more and more excited. I know because as today wore on I kept chattering more and more about completly unimportant things. I reminded myself of my students!

I cannot convey how very happy I am that this is the last night in this apartment. I am almost done with apartment life! I moved into my first apartment with Carole when I was 20 years old...now I am 28...almost 29 and I finally get to move into a place where I am free to paint the walls and not worry about nail holes! If you could see me now you would see me doing a happy dance!

This morning was the last time I would have a short drive to work...at least for the rest of this school year! :) I don't care...I will have a house! Nathan and I can't stop talking about all the things we want to do.

On another note...today was a very important day for another reason. It started out as many of my days do. I woke up with a nagging pain behind my right eye...warning sign...a migraine is about to hit full force and it is too late. I took some advil anyway and took my shower as normal...still there was pain and it was increasing slightly...but not as quickly as normal...and a faint hope glimmered.

I got ready for the day...I was nervous. The advil didn't seem to be kicking in and I worried what my day would bring. I really REALLY didn't have time for a migraine today. So off I went...scared about that pain in my head.

But as my day went on I realized, around lunch time, that my headache was completely gone! I was amazed! I wanted to shout from the top of the highest mound of dirt in Texas (as we don't really have mountains in the Dallas area...). I couldn't believe it...

What was once a sign of impending doom turned out to be nothing...absolutely NOTHING! This hasn't ever happened...EVER. I was nearly skipping with joy when I entered the chiropracter's office this afternoon. I couldn't wait to tell him the good news...in less than two weeks it seems as though my treatment was successful. Not to say that my completely straight neck is back to it normal 20 degree curve or anything...but still success! If today was a sample of my future headaches...just a short-lived (yet still a little painful) irritating blip on my day...I can live with that!!! I now have complete hope that my mirgaines can be completely cured. Some of you may be skeptical...but you don't know that warning pain like I do...and today I fully expected a complete day-ending migraine...and yet nothing!

So...there is another of my anticipations...the idea of a headache free life! What a wonderful possibility!

I suppose I should head to bed...although I am quite sure that I am too excited to sleep anytime soon. But tomorrow will be a busy and happy day and I want to be fully awake and ready! But I am sure tonight will be like so many Christmas Eve nights...waiting...staring at the ceiling...wondering what presents you will get....and so giddy with excitment you can hardly lay still. The one difference is that I know what my present is! And I am still giddy with excitement!!!