I’m coming to the end of final layout on the June Horizons. I’ve never cut it this close before, and I got slammed with last minute ads. About 10pm last night I got to a place where I know I can finish on time. It means working 10-14 hours today, but it will be an easy and fun part of the job. All day, I go back and forth between my desktop and laptop computers, and some of my programs show up differently on each one. Whether it’s the difference between Windows XP and Windows Vista, the capacity of the computer itself, or some internal settings I am unaware of, I view different screens with different options. Continue reading
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Karmic Repercussion and The Games People Play
Remember the old question: If someone offered you a million dollars to push a button which would kill someone else, and no one would know you did it, would you do it?Would you still do it if you knew by doing so, that would add your name to the list of those willing to play that game, which means you might be the next one to be destroyed by someone else upon their decision to choose the million dollars. What games are you signed up for? Do any of these sound familiar?
The Game of Lying
Your entry into this game is by telling small fibs, exaggerating, distorting and/or censoring, and telling outright lies to anyone for any reason. Once you’ve joined this game, you can expect to attract fibs, lies, exaggerations, distortion and censorship at any time, from any one. Continue reading
Friday morning
Friday, May 15, 2009. Final layout is almost done on the June Horizons Magazine. Wow, I am late finishing it this month. I woke up this morning at 3:30 am, did my meditation and now, just 2 hours later, I am going to go back to bed for a few hours. After my little tummy bug bout on Monday, I’ve skipped my evening yoga this week to conserve my energy. That sounds funny as I type it – skip my yoga to conserve energy?? I do some stretches here and there all throughout the day, but I’m not doing anything inverted or taxing. I know that simple yoga stretches can really work your muscles, and I’m all for daily yoga. It keeps my muscles long and limber, and keeps me sane. So it’s essential for me to do some form of it off and on throughout the day, to keep the energy lines open inside my body.
I started back yesterday eating every few hours and am now fully hydrated and feel fairly fueled. Yesterday for lunch I made an onion, carrot and celery soup, sauteing the vegetables to a caramel before adding fresh basil, rosemary and tomato from the garden. Then I added some vegetable broth and a few butter peas; forty minutes later it was delicious. When I am feeling low energy, an intense veggie and greens soup fixes me right up. I drank the broth on and off throughout the day, and had some watermelon and a slice of Ezekiel toast with tomato. I’m glad now that I made enough soup to have some for today as well.
Now, for me, time to go back to bed for a couple of hours and then get up to finish the mag. I’ve got just 186 emails left to go, only about 30 of them are ads for the June magazine. The rest are just awaiting response or action after I get my job to the printer. I usually run about 100 emails a day behind, but I get through them pretty quickly.
Life is good!
A lazy day today
Thursday, May 14, 2009. I woke up this morning feeling rested and revived after my little tummy bug or whatever it was earlier this week. So now I just have to get right to work finishing the June Horizons so I can get it to the printer on time. Since I have to give that project my first fruits this morning, I will just here include my Facebook posts for the past couple of days. Continue reading
My 8 new policies for eating healthy
Wednesday, May 13, 2009. I feel back to normal today. I went to the bank and post office first thing yesterday while I had energy, then worked for about 5 hours on the June magazine. Then I basically napped and lolled around the rest of the day while I took last minute ad deadline phone calls. I ate very lightly: some soup, a Lean Cuisine turkey and vegetables meal for supper, a boiled potato with some broccoli for dinner. So I am now kind of late working on the June Horizons but I think I can do it in time. It always works out for me somehow. When I know something has to be done on time, I always muster the where with all to do it. I am going to implement some new and improved policies for eating. I already, for the most part, eat the right foods. I still have a habit, though, of overeating rice, bread and pasta. My new policies include: Continue reading
Getting to know how my body works
I woke up yesterday morning about 4:00am and began a 12 hour session of tummy upset. No fun! Especially when I have exactly 5 days to get the magazine to the printer. I’d spent most of Sunday afternoon sleeping, which I seldom do – sleep the day away. I am not a recreational sleeper, so for me to spend extra time sleeping, I must need it. I felt fine Sunday, and after I woke up, I cooked some chicken with rice and ate it about 5pm. When I woke up at 4:00am Monday feeling really icky, my first thought was I might be overdoing it by eating chicken several times a week as I’ve been doing. Then later yesterday it occurred to me to take my temperature, and it was 100.8. (Right now it’s 98.2.) So maybe it was a tummy bug moving through my system, instead of me eating something that disagreed with me.
Whatever it was, it was a good reminder that I have been getting a little lax in my eating habits. I ate Chinese food a couple of times last week, which is no big deal except that restaurant food contains hidden fats, and fats are what my body reacts adversely to. The past couple of years I have made it a point to have only one substantial meal each day, and 2 lighter meals: salads, soups, and my body likes that routine. But the past week, after eating (vegetarian) Chinese food for lunch, I would then cook some chicken and rice for dinner. That makes for a day of heavy eating for me. And I did it a few days in a row. So when I woke up and was sick, I figured that was what it was due to. It was a good reminder to get back on track, and what happens when I stray. Continue reading
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Monday May 11, 2009. Ugh. have been in bed since 4am feeing mega-icky. Very humbling when others have to do for you. Am finally getting some Emergence’ cranberry in me and feeling like I can walk to the window to look out. Almost time to go back to bed!
I remember Momma; If you could see where I have gone
Happy Mother’s Day. Today is my mom’s birthday. The photo to the right is mommy and her mom in 1953. Andrea was also my mother’s name. She later shortened it to Anne and that is what everyone called her. Everyone except family. There, she was still Andrea and I was always called a nickname. When I got to first grade, the teacher had a hard time getting me to answer to Andrea since I’d never been called that. I always thought Andrea was such a great name for a dark, exotic beauty like my mom. I always felt like the beige one around her. Mom was 5’3″ tall, olive skinned with green eyes and lots of dark, wavy hair. She wore it halfway down her back all the time I was growing up. I envied her hair, since mine was whiteblonde, thin and stick straight. I grew up in a Latino neighborhood and went to public schools where blonde and fair was the exception rather than the rule. I remember grown men calling out from cars or worksites when I was a teenager “ay rubio!” which means “hey blondie”. I was a typical teenager, wanting to fit in with everyone else, and I envied the dark haired, brown skinned look. People always seemed surprised we were mother and daughter. My mom always seemed like some exotic queen out of a fairy tale, and I adored her completely. Continue reading
Update: Think and Grow Rich script from last month fulfilled
Saturday May 9, 2009. On 3-26-09, I wrote at Organizing My Finances, Script From Think and Grow Rich my script for how much income I wanted to bring in the next month. When I write these scripts, I use a dollar figure that is increasingly more than I typically make. I just did a tally of the income for that period and sent my brother a copy of the report showing the total. When I ran it, at first I thought that made me just $188.29 short of my goal and I was excited to be so close. Then I realized I did not add in the $500 I get for a rental unit I own, which goes into a different account. So my total for that time period was $311.71 over what I had requested and planned for. Once again, the process worked like a charm. Continue reading
In the garden under the full moon; footsteps, night sounds
Friday, May 8, 2009. I wrote this heading toward sundown yesterday. It was a really good day. I got an early start and got lots of work done. I took the greatest call from a a subscriber – she was surprised I picked up the phone at 7:00am. She ordered subscriptions for each of her 12 grand daughters. The early bird does get the worm! I’d transplanted several small loquat trees yesterday, and so I watered them each in early this morning, and watered the turk’s cap and arbicola along the north fenceline. I’d pruned the mulberry tree last month and stuck the cuttings in the ground along the north fence, and I could see many of them have taken root.
Ginger in bloom
Everything is really beginning to grow rapidly with the sunny, warm days and a daily watering. I’m especially giving a deep watering to the tall crepe myrtle and the young oaks that are coming up outside my west office window. I’d like to make a nice, shady walk for the Florida Power and Light meter reader for those hot, summer days. I’ve been underwatering my ginger on purpose, since it can tend to take over. It does have some beautiful blooms on it right now, as you can see here to the right. That one is about as big as my head and is at eye level. Continue reading