Thursday I finally had my Ayurveda health consultation. It was interesting but the result mean a big change has to be done especially in the food department.
My body was compared with a fire. It needs logs to burn, wind to start but if you either put to much logs or wind it will shut down. I apparently have too much wind, heck I’m blowing full storm.
I’m a Vata person but I have to honest. When I read the description of that kind of person I definitive can’t see myself. Slender? What a joke!!
Find out more here:
http://www.ayurbalance.com/explore_vata.htm
This one is better and fits better on me:
http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/ayv-vata-characterisitics.htm
So what will happen? I have got a few yoga practices that I need to do everyday, I need to do Yoga Nidra at least 3 times a week and I need to meditate every day. I can do that!
The hardest part will be in the food department. I’m not suppose to eat anything that have been frozen, been warmed in the micro or is cold. Cheese and bananas are in the past. Sugar too.
I need to eat a hot meal at lunch time and rest 10 min. Lunch is the most important meal for me, not dinner as today. I have been in contact with my boss and instead of having to put 30 min extra on each day (I seem to never be ready to go home at 16.30) I’ll take 1½ hours lunch instead. I’m not it’s going to work but I’ll give it a try. Even a couple days per week will be a success right now. I can drink 2 cups of my beloved black tea after that herbal tea is prefered. " Tea" hot water during the day
I’m going to get everything in writing from Mattias which is a good thing for beside the things I have mentioned I can’t remember anything. Well, one more thing I do remember and that is how blank my mind went when he asked me what I did cook. I’m going to get some recipes too which is excellent as I’ll be doing food that I have never tried before.
So here I go!! A new life awaits around the corner!
Saturday, 28 February 2009
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Tired
I am just so extremely tired both physical and mentally right now. Today just walking for 10 minutes made me wonder if I would make it home during Stella’s and my morning walk. I did, in fact I managed to walk for 2½ hours on pure stubbiness and for Stella’s wellbeing.
The hardest part to accept is that when I’m this tired I don’t get anything done at home, heck I really don’t get anything done unless I absolutely have to (Stella’s wellbeing and work being the two major ones). I just sit.
Another huge problem is that my mind races around in different directions and doesn’t stay for very long in any of them. Often it returns to things that have happened in the past and that I can’t change. Things that in fact can have had a positive effect later but perhaps could have been handled a bit better. Nothing can stop it. Yoga can but only for the moment I’m doing it and that is because I have to concentrate so hard to get everything right. My dreams are really weird right now. I keep waking up which means I don’t get enough sleep which certainly doesn’t help the situation.
I don’t get much sewing done, I can’t concentrate to read books and since yesterday my walks are getting disturbed too.
I try really hard to think of positive things but right now not even that works. I try to think of the blessings I have in my life, doesn’t work.
I have now put a lot of hope that Thursday’s Ayurvera session with Mattias will start the walk up hill again.
And the thought of Stella, well, she is definitive the one that keeps me hanging on to the rope.
The hardest part to accept is that when I’m this tired I don’t get anything done at home, heck I really don’t get anything done unless I absolutely have to (Stella’s wellbeing and work being the two major ones). I just sit.
Another huge problem is that my mind races around in different directions and doesn’t stay for very long in any of them. Often it returns to things that have happened in the past and that I can’t change. Things that in fact can have had a positive effect later but perhaps could have been handled a bit better. Nothing can stop it. Yoga can but only for the moment I’m doing it and that is because I have to concentrate so hard to get everything right. My dreams are really weird right now. I keep waking up which means I don’t get enough sleep which certainly doesn’t help the situation.
I don’t get much sewing done, I can’t concentrate to read books and since yesterday my walks are getting disturbed too.
I try really hard to think of positive things but right now not even that works. I try to think of the blessings I have in my life, doesn’t work.
I have now put a lot of hope that Thursday’s Ayurvera session with Mattias will start the walk up hill again.
And the thought of Stella, well, she is definitive the one that keeps me hanging on to the rope.
25 Beautiful homes
Now and then I buy a British magazine called “25 beautiful homes”. I just love looking at these wonderful places even if they are way out off my reach when it comes to money. Most of the time they make it sound as the homeowner has an ordinary job but when you start to read and study the things they have - well they are not. Or perhaps I should say no one I know would be able to afford those houses and interior.
Yesterday when I did a very quick tour to the cloth shop to get new long johns I popped in to the new agency I get my cross-stitch mags at. No new cross-stitching mags had come but my eye caught the title “25 underbara hem” alias a Swedish version of the British one. I got it hoping to find 25 Swedish homes but boy did I get disappointed. I know we are not a large country but surly should we have homes to fill a magazine? Instead there are exclusive, jepp even more exclusive than in the British version, homes around the world. Homes in London. Paris, New York, Marrakech, Barcelona, Amsterdam and from countries like Bali, Uruguay and Turkey. And to top this lot more adds than the British version. Needless to say I rather pay the 10 kr more, get 74 pages less and get what I want than what I got yesterday. I guess this just proves that the original is always (well nearly) the best.
Yesterday when I did a very quick tour to the cloth shop to get new long johns I popped in to the new agency I get my cross-stitch mags at. No new cross-stitching mags had come but my eye caught the title “25 underbara hem” alias a Swedish version of the British one. I got it hoping to find 25 Swedish homes but boy did I get disappointed. I know we are not a large country but surly should we have homes to fill a magazine? Instead there are exclusive, jepp even more exclusive than in the British version, homes around the world. Homes in London. Paris, New York, Marrakech, Barcelona, Amsterdam and from countries like Bali, Uruguay and Turkey. And to top this lot more adds than the British version. Needless to say I rather pay the 10 kr more, get 74 pages less and get what I want than what I got yesterday. I guess this just proves that the original is always (well nearly) the best.
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Ok, done it again!!
Why is it that I can start things I probably will regret later? So what have I done this time?
Yesterday I noticed on my company’s intranet that they had a small notice about a step competition. I asked my boss if she knew anything about it but she didn’t. However if I were interested it was Ok to join. Any way, me being me, I continued today to look for information and so I did. It turned out to be a nationwide team competition. Together the team would have to walk between Stockholm and Prague (figural speaking). So what did I do? Well I send out a messaged to my co-workers wondering if they would want to join. And when I had one more name besides mine I sent a messaged to one of the healthcare centres we have here in Gävle challenging them. My boss was going to tell her staff at the other health care centre. Now since you are allowed to change time into steps in things like bike riding, gym I now have 4 names on my list and I do know at least one more. On Monday when everyone is back at work I’ll have all the names that will join.
Now I work with a group of very competitive people so I don’t know which part is going to be worst: the world wide competition, the one between the three units or the one between us? Competition among us? Believe me there will be one. We OT’s are the ones that don’t have so much competitive spirit but if I have to, beware don’t count this unfit fat OT out.
Think I have to prepare Stella that between the 11 mars and 30 May she will be walking and walking and even more walking? And no shortcuts will be allowed!
Yesterday I noticed on my company’s intranet that they had a small notice about a step competition. I asked my boss if she knew anything about it but she didn’t. However if I were interested it was Ok to join. Any way, me being me, I continued today to look for information and so I did. It turned out to be a nationwide team competition. Together the team would have to walk between Stockholm and Prague (figural speaking). So what did I do? Well I send out a messaged to my co-workers wondering if they would want to join. And when I had one more name besides mine I sent a messaged to one of the healthcare centres we have here in Gävle challenging them. My boss was going to tell her staff at the other health care centre. Now since you are allowed to change time into steps in things like bike riding, gym I now have 4 names on my list and I do know at least one more. On Monday when everyone is back at work I’ll have all the names that will join.
Now I work with a group of very competitive people so I don’t know which part is going to be worst: the world wide competition, the one between the three units or the one between us? Competition among us? Believe me there will be one. We OT’s are the ones that don’t have so much competitive spirit but if I have to, beware don’t count this unfit fat OT out.
Think I have to prepare Stella that between the 11 mars and 30 May she will be walking and walking and even more walking? And no shortcuts will be allowed!
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Books on my desk
I have spent some money on new books for my collection on the Victorian era and the Wild West. New and new – I often buy the books from other sellers than Amazon etc. Anyway the books I have got so far have made me muse a little.
Full-Colour Victorian Fashions: I gather this is the Hourt Couture that was during 1870 – 1893. Lovely pictures that full of details. There is lace, frills, bows and layers after layers of cloth. Some are really nice, some not. However how practical was these dresses to wear? How much dirt didn’t the train pull in? I guess this is why “ordinary” people never wore them?
Another book that I just glanced through (I am reading “The marriage bureau for rich people” and have to finish that first) is “What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew. It’s an interesting way of presenting the social stuff every one needed to know by using the litterateur written during the time. The glossary at the end covers much everything you ever wondered about when it comes to England during this time. It clearly shows that the rules of life show in what is written even if that wasn’t the purpose. It makes me wonder what the people of 2100 will think about us when they read the books written today. What on earth will they think of all us who writes fan fictions?
I have got two more books that fascinate me, mostly for all the old photos that are in them. One is bout the San Joaquin Valley, the southern parts but I guess it doesn’t differ that much from north. The other one is an illustrated directory of the old west. I have to admit I haven’t looked at these a lot yet but I will. Hopefully these will give me some inspiration to start writing, these books and the once I bought in London. Hmmm, I think I’m not totally honest here. I am inspired already I just need to find the energy. "Looking for inspiration" is just another bad excuse for not sitting down and gets the words down.
Full-Colour Victorian Fashions: I gather this is the Hourt Couture that was during 1870 – 1893. Lovely pictures that full of details. There is lace, frills, bows and layers after layers of cloth. Some are really nice, some not. However how practical was these dresses to wear? How much dirt didn’t the train pull in? I guess this is why “ordinary” people never wore them?
Another book that I just glanced through (I am reading “The marriage bureau for rich people” and have to finish that first) is “What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew. It’s an interesting way of presenting the social stuff every one needed to know by using the litterateur written during the time. The glossary at the end covers much everything you ever wondered about when it comes to England during this time. It clearly shows that the rules of life show in what is written even if that wasn’t the purpose. It makes me wonder what the people of 2100 will think about us when they read the books written today. What on earth will they think of all us who writes fan fictions?
I have got two more books that fascinate me, mostly for all the old photos that are in them. One is bout the San Joaquin Valley, the southern parts but I guess it doesn’t differ that much from north. The other one is an illustrated directory of the old west. I have to admit I haven’t looked at these a lot yet but I will. Hopefully these will give me some inspiration to start writing, these books and the once I bought in London. Hmmm, I think I’m not totally honest here. I am inspired already I just need to find the energy. "Looking for inspiration" is just another bad excuse for not sitting down and gets the words down.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Black plastic bags
It’s strange how ones fantasy can get started and how something can trigger a childhood memory or feeling.
Sunday I went to IKEA and got me dome lovely new bed sheets and towels. I decided that old ones where history and were going to be tossed at once when I got home. Now that didn’t happen since I came and found out that a certain four legged lady had been busy with the laptop.
Today I quickly ran in to the grocery store next to work and got some large black plastic bags all in the intention that tonight it’s going to be done. However I’m having a small problem. Ever since I first started to watch criminal stories on the telly I seem to connect black plastic bags with corpses. I just can’t get that imagine out of my head so now I’m looking at my bag and all the old towels and I just know that when they all are in the bag it’s going to look as a body.
Sunday I went to IKEA and got me dome lovely new bed sheets and towels. I decided that old ones where history and were going to be tossed at once when I got home. Now that didn’t happen since I came and found out that a certain four legged lady had been busy with the laptop.
Today I quickly ran in to the grocery store next to work and got some large black plastic bags all in the intention that tonight it’s going to be done. However I’m having a small problem. Ever since I first started to watch criminal stories on the telly I seem to connect black plastic bags with corpses. I just can’t get that imagine out of my head so now I’m looking at my bag and all the old towels and I just know that when they all are in the bag it’s going to look as a body.
Friday, 6 February 2009
Snow again
While walking home today I started to muse about something my hairdresser and I talked about yesterday. She had been home in UK during the past weekend and couldn’t get back to Sweden due to the bad weather. Apparently 4 cm of snow had created a lot of trouble. The busses didn’t run because they couldn’t get out of the garage, 6 million people didn’t go to work etc. 6 million is almost the Swedish population (I think we have entered 9th). Today we have gotten more than 4 cm and more is said to be on the way. Does everything stop – nope but things have been slowed down in some places. I was at the railway station getting tickets and there where some trains that didn’t run some where very late etc but every one was expected to arrive at their destination at sometime today. However this train situation isn’t exceptional for this kind of weather, believe me. Stella and I arrived over 3 hours late last summer. So what did I muse about – snow shovels, winter outfits, winter tyres, just how to handle the situation and that it wasn’t icy anymore!
But mostly that I would soon be home for dinner, a walk with Stella and then my warm cosy blanket, thick socks and a hot cup of tea!
But mostly that I would soon be home for dinner, a walk with Stella and then my warm cosy blanket, thick socks and a hot cup of tea!
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