Closet Memories of Katrina
My closet is now cleaned out and organized. Wooooooooohoooooooo. Go me. I am so happy and relieved to not have that hanging over my head anymore. It took me 3 hours to get it done. I’ve got a couple bags of clothes to give away and the rest is now all arranged where I can see that I actually have clothes to wear.
Cleaning out my closet actually brought me to tears one time. As I was finishing up with my clothes I started in on my shoes. I literally sat down in the floor of the closet and started rearranging, throwing out, etc when I happened to look up and see a pair of mismatched shoes. My first thought was "why do I have a pair of mismatched shoes together?" and then I looked at them again. I said "omg, those are the shoes that I wore out of this house after Katrina came through." I immediately started crying. It brought up so many emotions that I thought were long gone or that I was "over". I will never throw those shoes out. I have no idea what happened to the mates of those shoes. At the time, I was just thankful that I had a left-one and a right-one to put on.
I do not know why I’ve been thinking about Katrina so much lately. I keep reliving that day. Actually, the month or so afterwards when I felt like I was in total shock, I keep reliving. Not fun thoughts. I’m a grown adult. I know that Katrina will never come back. I’m well aware that my family is alive and that even though we were very dumb and didn’t evacuate we made it out alive. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I’ll never do that again. This is one time that I can use the word "never" and mean it without any hesitation. Maybe it is because the hurricane season is fast approaching us. Maybe it is because I know that even though Katrina was bad that she really wasn’t the "big one". Here in New Orleans you are always hearing about the "big one". When the "big one" hits it is going to wipe New Orleans off the map, etc. Before Katrina I would have said "no, New Orleans will make it." Bwhahahaha. Not any more. Almost 2 years later and I’m still not sure that New Orleans is "making" it even now.
Okay, enough melancholy thoughts there. Today has been another very busy day. I’ve been up since 6am on a freaking Saturday morning. That ought to be a crime. lol. I’m just now stopping for the day and though I should be tired right now I feel very energized. Wired. I’m sure when my "crash" occurs that I will go out with a bang.
My husband asked me tonight if I had plans to go to church tomorrow. I said "yes, why ?" He replied " well, I put a lot of money in the plate last week so it would cover this week, too." Shakes my head ! Am I the only person who realizes that he "just hasn’t gotten the point of church" yet ? I’ll definitely be at Mass tomorrow. That’s my weekly session of sanity.
I hope you all have a nice Sunday.
