Lazy Izzie
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izmeinaThe Snooze Session is over. Izzie slinks back to work tomorrow for the first time since Tuesday 7th August. Just gobbled the last of all the nasty pills gotten from the doctor last Friday. Didn't seem to make much difference at all. But at least clarithromycin doesn't have the same nasty side effects as the utterly awful rulide. Or maybe it just has different ones and we did not notice. But its trademark name Kalixocin sound sort of ominous. Maybe it just makes you feel miserable and moany.
Was a lazy serpent and did not go to the public speaking group this morning. Chose snoozing over squeaking. Should have been out in the garden tossing around more bales of straw and planting seeds but instead slinked off to the library to return some books due back. Of course, was not able to leave empty handed. Came back with some stuff on feng shui (in search of the Dark Art of feng shui sabotage) and Caroline Myss's "Sacred Contracts"
Figured that part of the gloomy doomy moodiness of late - if it's not the grumpy pills, then maybe a sense of emptiness and a need to find some purpose to add a bit of sparkle and enthusiasm. Something to keep the serpent happy and busy instead of indugling in pointless pity parties. Lots of interesting things to do and books to read and weeds to plant but just no interest in doing any of it.
Maybe will need to simply come up with a list of good habits - things to be done each day - munch two oranges and three serves of vegies, walk down to the duck pond at 7am every morning - stuff like that to get back in the habit of self discipline and healthy living and all non negotiable activities
Funny how much easier it is to keep external deadlines than self imposed ones and to lose the distinction between the important and the merely urgent
The most annoying thing of all, got 101 reasons to be happy and grateful. Got enough time and money to do most every day things. Especially lucky with the Lair. These days with the mining boom and all that, the difference between the haves and the have nots has gotten much bigger. These days, to buy a Lair like the Izzie's is no longer possible for a single rich bitch let alone a mere house elf. Even middle class folks now need two incomes to get onto the bottom rung of the housing ladder. So really - even working 60 hours a week would not be enough these days. So the logical thing to do would be to spend those 25 hours saved doing useful and productive stuff
Ah well. There's always tomorrow.
Was a lazy serpent and did not go to the public speaking group this morning. Chose snoozing over squeaking. Should have been out in the garden tossing around more bales of straw and planting seeds but instead slinked off to the library to return some books due back. Of course, was not able to leave empty handed. Came back with some stuff on feng shui (in search of the Dark Art of feng shui sabotage) and Caroline Myss's "Sacred Contracts"
Figured that part of the gloomy doomy moodiness of late - if it's not the grumpy pills, then maybe a sense of emptiness and a need to find some purpose to add a bit of sparkle and enthusiasm. Something to keep the serpent happy and busy instead of indugling in pointless pity parties. Lots of interesting things to do and books to read and weeds to plant but just no interest in doing any of it.
Maybe will need to simply come up with a list of good habits - things to be done each day - munch two oranges and three serves of vegies, walk down to the duck pond at 7am every morning - stuff like that to get back in the habit of self discipline and healthy living and all non negotiable activities
Funny how much easier it is to keep external deadlines than self imposed ones and to lose the distinction between the important and the merely urgent
The most annoying thing of all, got 101 reasons to be happy and grateful. Got enough time and money to do most every day things. Especially lucky with the Lair. These days with the mining boom and all that, the difference between the haves and the have nots has gotten much bigger. These days, to buy a Lair like the Izzie's is no longer possible for a single rich bitch let alone a mere house elf. Even middle class folks now need two incomes to get onto the bottom rung of the housing ladder. So really - even working 60 hours a week would not be enough these days. So the logical thing to do would be to spend those 25 hours saved doing useful and productive stuff
Ah well. There's always tomorrow.
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Date: 2007-08-17 04:33 pm (UTC)We has a truly fabulous antidote discovered by chance (like the best things in life), and we is willing to share if:
1) you promise to actually read it start to end without skipping any part, or rolling your eyes, or judging the actually extremely helpful contents by its corny-sounding cover,
2) you tell me if it does help you indeed ;)
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Date: 2007-08-19 02:38 am (UTC)Did peek at your book list many moons ago and peaked at the reviews of The Little Blue Book (http://www.amazon.de/Lein%C3%B6l-macht-gl%C3%BCcklich-blaue-Ern%C3%A4hrungswunder/dp/3981091507/ref=wl_it_dp/028-3512469-3683759?ie=UTF8&coliid=I28CMQCFBHLHRR&colid=GXCO6B8CWC33)
Funny how every day old fashioned foods like linseed or cod liver oil go out of fashion and get sneered at but then some scientist discovers important ingredients such as omega 3 oils or anti oxidants and so they reappear as pills or food additives with the corresponding vastly inflated price tags
(In Oz, they are claiming a connection between increased so called ADHD and lack of omega 3 in the form of fish oils or linseed oils - or in fact any real oils in the mainstream diet and since then 'omega 3 enriched' appears in all sorts of unlikely places - nasty margarine, bread, yogurt and even potato wedges! Makes far more sense to go straight to the source - much healthier and infinitely cheaper)
Got our paws on a bottle of cold pressed linseed oil more than a month ago and usually gobble it daily with plain old fashioned non sweetened yogurt.
It does not seem to have made much difference to the serpent's moods but is certainly full of so many brain friendly ingredients that it's remained on the menu along with the whole seeds themselves. Especially advisable for snakies who don't eat tasty fisheses
Curious to know what your experiences are. Oh and do you like wasabi? The evillest green substance ever invented. Wasabi macadamia nuts are particularly devilish
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Date: 2007-08-19 07:36 am (UTC)Can I send them to you through Amazon.au?
I love wasabi! But I´ve only tasted it with sushi, not with macadamia nuts - you guys sure are gourmet adventurous fellows! o.O
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Date: 2007-08-22 03:31 pm (UTC)The Iz slinks by for the occasional visit to the US site to snatch stuff that is not available in Oz (like those tarot cards which is particularly pathetic considering that the 'author' actually lives in Dursleyville) But - due of course to the shipping costs and the lousy exchange rate - it really is a decadent luxury
Yesss. Aussies are most adventurous with our munchies. Not sure what the image of Oz is over there but Mediterranean and South East Asian cuisine is very mainstream here and there's all sorts of strange hybrids of the two.
We have lots of tasty Italian style breads but the thing Izzie misses most are the European mountain cheeses and all those delicious German and Austrian varieties of bread. (Most imported European cheese here is that stinky and runny French or Danish stuff or Dutch plastic. There's lots of delicious Dutch cheese - as Iz discovered when in Amsterdam but the buggers keep all the good ones to themselves and send us the rubbish)
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Date: 2007-08-23 06:38 am (UTC)Och aye, the cheeses!! Especially the raw milk ones, tee hee. In less than a month will be the Harvest Fair at the Hofburg square - lots, and lots, and lots of organic small-farmer cheeses and moonshine and smoked goodies to pick from *g*
The Procrastinating Serpent
Date: 2007-08-23 02:09 pm (UTC)And yesss - scary how the time goes by and how little the Izzie has to show for it. That's one advantage of the 101 list - a bunch of goal posts to aim for so that even if only half gets done, is still a lot more than would have been the case without it
In the last few weeks, beginning to suspect that eating more fruit and vegies might help as well as continuing our yogurt and linseed oil habit.
But the main thing is to find some sort of artistic or creative endeavour and to persist with it instead of just flitting like a flutterby from one thing to another. It's not good to neglect the Inner Serpent
*Drools with the greenest shade of envy over your harvest fair.* The farmers market in Winterthur that Izzie visited with Rinaku was simply wonderful. Especially astonished to see canola oil in its pure state compared to the pale (probably gm) abomination available over here (but we have found a supplier of the organic stuff here - made in Dwarflands of course)
Re: The Procrastinating Serpent
Date: 2007-08-27 06:50 am (UTC)I love your 101 list - mine´s way shorter but very very high-aiming (for a dunmb bat ;) ) and the book that fell in my lap and will soon land in yours gives priceless pointers to get going after all of them.
What is canola oil, precioussss? *goes googling* OOOOOh - very rare here, and certainly interesting!