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Hi everyone… So far, no news from the swimming pool… Or the gym… No almighty hooha, or stuff on the TV news or internet… So just maybe, towels on the floor was okay… Tomorrow we do a tip run, a trip to the local skip centre, to dispose of a load of junk. I can actually touch the handrails at these places now… After all, everything is dry.
I tried something new last night… To help me sleep, I got youtube up on the telly, and selected some relaxing stress relief music stuff. All was fine, until this morning, when it was still relaxing music, and I had a heck of a job getting out of bed! I needed reviving! Until lunchtime I was hopelessly lethargic! So, If we are gonna go off to sleep with this stuff, set a timer function on the TV, so that it goes off after perhaps an hour and a half, and you wake up in silence in the morning! Then, for goodness sake, select something that will get your heart up to some sort of pulse rate, enough to get us out of bed, and into the day!
So… Are my hands clean enough? I really don’t know, but, just like everyone else around me, our hands will all have the same whatever on them, natural oils, dried on sweat, The same stuff that has been naturally present on our skin, ever since we stopped crawling on the floor… Let’s defy the urge to wash or antibacterially cleanse our hands, so that we don’t clean quite so often… Start off small, and build up the length of time between cleansing. Yes, the amount of germs/bacteria present will increase, but so will our resistance to them increase, and by so doing, we are passing on that growing tolerance to being just reasonably clean, over to those around us also. I call that ‘Bontamination’, the good process of passing around good bacteria, and the not so good bacteria, so we can become more resistant to illnesses and mild infections. Okay, time to get into my not perfectly clean bed, to get some rest, so I have the strength to deal with whatever tomorrow brings… More later, God bless you for reading.
Wannabe