Fairies

Photo by Janet Dancer

To follow up from yesterday’s post. I appreciate the feedback I got in my comments and in particular I like the idea of a once a week post as opposed to posting every day. I don’t plan to make any changes right away, but I’m going to think about not being so damn consistent. I think I’m worried I’m going to jinx it or break the spell if I miss a day of blogging. Irrational and I hate being irrational. I like plans and lists and maps. I like to know where I’m going and I like being in control. I like having a logical reason for everything that I do so I can explain (justify/defend/rationalize) my behavior when called upon to do so. So I’m going to try to loosen my grip. Go a little more with the flow. Do it because I want to or because I feel like it without being able to explain it or without having a good reason for it. I’m not overly fond of this concept but I’m going to try to “follow spirit” a little more. Listen to the universe, my inner guide, the fairies. Give my left brain a little vacation in the Bahamas.

Got my fridge back into the kitchen yesterday. Took down a bunch of pictures, photos, and other assorted wall hangings yesterday. We’re also pulling nails from the walls and filling the holes with spackle in preparation for more painting. After numerous phone calls I finally found a designer for the septic who has to travel from Centralia, over 50 miles away. They won’t be out this way until Aug 3rd, but the plans should be ready by August 17th, and considering everyone else was too busy to take me on as a client that’s just going to have to be good enough. Then the plans get approved by the county and after that we get the septic service out here again to give us an estimate on the cost of the new system.

Last night I was sorting through my son’s old baby photos & school photos. Moving them from the nearly 30 year old baby book where the sticky photo pages had yellowed to a new album. I put a set of duplicate school photos in an envelope to mail to the kid and tossed all the remaining duplicates along with various bad photos and photos of people and places I no longer remember or care about. On the agenda for today is more of the same. We sorted through all of the manuals from the manual drawer. Tossed the ones from appliances we no longer own and made a stack for the manuals of items I’m selling and for manuals to leave for the new owner of the house for the fridge, stove, garage door opener and such. I’ve boxed up the books I decided to keep. I really think I’m going to be able to get everything I want to keep from a lifetime of accumulate junk into two small boxes, one large suitcase, and one small cosmetic type suitcase. That’s not counting the blendtec blender or my CPAP machine. I’ve got more photos to go into the album today. More papers to sort through.

It’s been raining lightly here for days and it’s kind of dreary. I’m hoping we get a break this morning so I don’t have to pick greens in the rain…but I will do it in the rain if I have to. The patio boxes are only 5 steps from the front door so it’s not that hard. Then I’m going to blend them up into smoothies, do the dishes, screw around on the internet until Mary gets home from her part time job and we decide what project we want to tackle next. Until tomorrow I’ll leave you with the following.

Yesterday’s 3 quart Green Smoothie Recipe:

290 grams Earthbound Farms Mixed Baby Greens [Organic baby lettuces (red & green romaine, red & green oak leaf, lollo rosa, tango), organic red & green chard, organic mizuna, organic arugula, organic frisée, organic radicchio.]
118 grams Raw Onion
32 grams Raw Garlic
27 grams Fresh Lemon Juice
865 grams Frozen Mango
15 grams Organic Whole Flax Seeds
48 ounces filtered tap water

I had an additional 48+ ounces of water & herb tea. No other food, beverages, supplements, or medications.

Nutritional Breakdown utilizing Nutridiary:
Calories: 792 calories
Fiber: 29 grams
Fat: 8 grams, % of total calories
Carbohydrates: 191 grams, 84% of total calories
Protein: 17 grams, 8% of total calories

Elimination: 1 BM, normal
Menses: Most recent: 7/4/07, Prior 6/3/07, Prior: 5/3/07, Prior: 4/5/07, Prior: 03/10/07, Prior: 2/11/07

Exercise for yesterday:
10 minutes neck stretches

Statistics:
Height: 5 foot, 11 inches. (180 centimeters)
Weight loss since March 1 2007: 105.4 pounds (47.809 kilograms)
Weight today: 422.8 pounds (191.78 kilograms)
Weight yesterday: 423.2 pounds (191.96 kilograms)
Weight March 5th 2007: 515.6 pounds (233.87 kilograms)
Weight March 1st 2007: 528.2 pounds. (239.59 kilograms)