Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Day 4 was the best day since I have been back from my trip. I think I am mostly recovered from the food poisoning and the three hour nap the day before along with an early sleep helped with the tiredness. So, it seems I am adjusting. My head still gets hazy moments, mostly in the afternoons, so am hoping that is just a phase or I guess I will get used to…

  • This morning I woke up at 4:30 and could never really go back to sleep until I finally had to get up around 5:30 for work. Clearly, I am still stressing out about things as that is the general reason why I end up awake or can’t sleep through the nights. However, either because of the lack of sleep or being hormonal and/or the cipralex, I was in a daze most of the…

  • Well, another day has passed and I feel okay still. My stomach is still not quite right from the food poisoning and a friend of mine has suggested that I may also have a common bacteria in my stomach. So, I am going to make an appointment to see a doctor about it. As for the meds, I think all is good for now. I have two more days at 5mg and then…

  • So…I decided that with my dark thoughts before my trip that it might not be a bad idea to give the antidepressants another try given that my stressors are generally external and stem from people, from whom I cannot totally isolate myself. Whilst in Turkey, I got my hands on more Cipralex as it is much cheaper there and I did not need a prescription. Also, my therapist is off for a couple…

  • Back to the grind. Trying to get my new schedule settled and to also re-evaluate my priorities each day. More to say. More to tell. But…am working on uploading the pics from the trip and then will update with

  • Today was the last of our tour-type activities. We had the same start as yesterday including the bus ride over the sea and back again to first visit the Spice Bazaar, which was quite interesting and colorful to see. There wasn’t just spices there,but souvenir items, scarves, jewelry, etc. [shashin type=”photo” id=”7506,7507,7508″ size=”small” columns=”max” order=”user” position=”center”] After that, we got on a boat for our half-day Bosphorus cruise, which means about 1.5 hours…

  • Upon arriving at our hotel yesterday, we had thought that someone from the tour would have contacted us to confirm a pick-up time for this morning; however, we just went off of what our itinerary said. It was very trusting of us and of the tour company to assume we would pay attention to it. 😉 So, it was nice to be free to sleep in a bit, but I was still awake…

  • We had a very early rise again (5am) to be ready to leave on a ferry across the Marmara sea to Gallipoli. Gallipoli is famous from the war for the Australian and New Zealand forces coming to the aid of the British in an attempt to control the waterways and ultimately Istanbul. It was a rather brutal fighting ground where many, including Turks, lost their lives.There is an Australian film about this, I…

  • So, I had started to post on my days in Turkey, but then I decided to postpone them until I can put up pictures, otherwise, it isn’t as good to just read about it. Besides that, I need to have an abbreviated version of my pics since there are going to hundreds of photos to get through and most will be bored by them all without some explanation or shortened version of my…

  • Our last big archaeological tour stops were rather disappointing…. We headed first to Pergamum, which is one of the seven churches in Revelations, but there was not much of that aspect at the site. Mostly, it was a lot of rocks and ruins showing where buildings might have been. The most restored were the columns and theatre, but even that was not all that impressive. [shashin type=”photo” id=”7377,7376,7371,7370,6947,6946″ size=”small” columns=”max” order=”user” position=”center”] From…

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