An Exciting Adventure Inside My Nose

Hi everyone! It's taken me so long to write because my life got seriously cluttered recently--but it's a good clutter thank Jesus. I've been working and making $ (much needed) and *gasp* I actually like working. J is awesome and so is my co-worker R. We had a baby shower for R the other night and it came as a big surprise to her. She really deserved it--she works really hard and is patient every step of the way. People like that are just precious.
One thing that's been on my mind too is expanding the work I do with prisoners to working more locally and at the county jail doing Catholic ministry. Usually I've only focused on death row, but I don't think I should limit myself to this. There's a group going from our parish into the county jail here and then there's also a whole Catholic org. that goes into jails and prisons all over the country. It was funny because the director of the org. put me in contact with this guy who wrote me back saying, "Don't I know you from the death row work...?" It's a small world when you're working with prisoners because let's face it, it's hard to have sympathy for some of these people....
Again I don't want to spread myself too thin. I have a habit of "building castles in the sky" as St. Josemaria Escriva would put it: imagining great works and creating a lot of ideas, but never seeing them fulfilled. In other words, like I told an Orthodox priest at my grandmother's house, "I'm all talk" sometimes. (I was complaining to him about Catholics/Orthodox not getting martyred in the Arabic world enough for the sake of evangelization; then I promptly signed myself up for the cause. Just as everyone began trying to talk me out of it, I realized what a coward I really am--all talk, no action.) Ah well, so it goes. I just can't manage to shake the hypocrisy out of me these days.
Speaking of hypocrisy, this Katrina is driving me nuts. Like Ems, a native Louisianan, told me the other day, "I don't know what's worse--the hurricane or the way the gov't has dealt with it!" She's right. LG could tell you the worst of it--he listened to 60 hours of New Orleans radio last week and claims things are MUCH worse than the main media is reporting. Oh boy. I just can't imagine why the US is able to respond in a jiff to other nations in distress, but not AL, MS, LA. It boggles the mind.
OK. Now about my nose. I thought I was cured of my cold but suddenly my nose became more blocked up than ever and it's driving me up a wall! Almost literally. I can't use those nose sprays forever, and tonight it was so blocked up I had to do jumping jacks to clear them out enough to even get the spray in! Disgusting, I know. Y'all REALLY wanted to read about this. But I absolutely hate not being able to breathe and this is practically the worst case of this I've ever had. Any suggestions? Home formulas? Recommended medicines? I'll bet I needed antibiotics after all. I blame this all on my brother up North....WAH!
I had a nice day though. Lunch with two of my favorite people, chores that made me feel productive, and I capped it all off with a great episode of Night Court. Could a girl ask for anything more? Oh yeah, I should have been working on my courses...Fsst!