Post surgery filling time

Am trying to figure out what to write that would be interesting, challenging.  Hard to think of something when it has only been 2 weeks 3 days after surgery. Was healing quite well until 2 days ago when complications happened.  Sitting on a couch, watching TV is what i am doing even though it is sunny and beautiful outside.

Well.....i can use the phone to call my birth country and try to dig up more genealogy info.  One of the most fulfilling thing to do is history and genealogy research.  Shows like 'Who do you think you are' or 'Faces of America'  as well as 'history detectives' give keys on how to go about digging when one is stuck.  But, each time i came to a wall/end of the line, i got lots of people to pray, or fasted and prayed myself and suddenly someone remembered something, or i came across a book, or various things happened to unblock me.  Am truly amazed at how far i got genealogy wise ....this for a country where many people don't even know who their great-grand parents or  grandparents were sometimes (because grandparents were dead before they were born etc.).   I made people look into their land deeds, court cases, go to cemeteries, talk to other relatives etc.   I myself phoned lots of churches, people who knew people, people who might know history information, relatives i never knew existed etc.  Protestant churches never asked me for money and were very helpful.  (sometimes Priests got very impatient if it was a Catholic church. Also for some reason only Catholic churches kept insisting i send money to their church...but was not interested in helping my research at all).    Some people really got interested in finding their own genealogy. I was able to pass on the desire for detecting/digging for family info.  It truly is fascinating to find out generational things that made your family unique....and why you are you. It is not just your decisions and your parents decisions that made you to be who you are. Many historic events and family events changed the direction of your family.  

I have spent about 11 years doing genealogy research. It looks like i could be doing lots more years of research.................getting microfilms through inter library loan from Salt Lake City repository (but it is in the cultural language from 1700's, 1800's that i cannot understand).  Then there is the National Archives that has info in Portuguese, Dutch, etc. from colonial days (that i would need translaters for). Then of course i could go to the Archives in the countries that used to be colonizers for my birth country.  That would require a lot of time and finances to travel, to hire researchers etc. that i don't have.  Maybe in the future i would be able to do this.Who knows!

Well....now to figuring out what food i can eat given today's dilemma....

I wrote a first post - an accolade to a writer  that had had the courage to work in media for about 65 years in South Asia (first woman newspaper editor in that country - after Independence from British) ....and had been forthright and open, even surprising people and challenging cultural status quo in little ways). But when i phoned her, she was livid angry about genealogy i had done, and put on the web. That is why i had met her/heard about her in the first place. It was not the reaction i expected when i phoned her long distance to say that i had written a delightful post about her.  I was so frightened, that i deleted it all. No problem solving, no hearing my side of the story......  never expected such.