Rough First Day since Transition Week

Well, no blender yet, so I had to chew lots today. I accomplished what I wanted to for breakfast and lunch (mostly raw), but I knew that I would eat cooked for dinner. It was a lot harder than I thought. Mainly because my salad dressing was horrid and I did not have stevia to sweeten the tea. Pretty happy though. I know I had lots of snacks today because I have the "throw-up" issue. I also had a tablet (in halves) of glucose today to also prevent the issue. Went to Whole Foods and stocked up. Looking forward to tomorrow, which is really today (3:49 am). I just ate a granny smith apple, it was organic. Trying to go that route more. I know I am not supposed to mix fruit & vegetable, but had to for lunch to get tea & bitter salad down. Already notice that I need to drink lots of lots of more water. The cell food makes it very bitter, so I am drinking less cell food and more plain aqua.

Exercise: 20 minutes of yoga

Breakfast
Lemon & Water
Granola & Yogurt

Snack
Baby carrots

Lunch
Baby spinach & Mixed field greens
fenugreek tea (totally nasty)
1/2 tangerine
water

Snack
Curves granola bar

Dinner
small bowl of turkey chili with tortilla chips

Snack
Vegan chips

Poi Spinners

Listening: 30 Seconds to Mars

I can't wait for my poi spinners to arrive.

My New Obsession....Who would have thought?

Listening: Smooth Jazz - Chet Baker & George Benson

By chance, I discovered Gabriel Cousen's book: There is a Cure for Diabetes and now my new obsession is eating raw food. Cousens is a little too new age for me, but the man knows so much and he is able to present it simple and coherently.

There Is a Cure for Diabetes lays out a three-week plan for reversing the negative genetic expression of diabetes to a physiology of health and well-being. Dr. Cousens’s method, widely tested at his famous Tree of Life centers, is to reset the DNA through green juice fasting and a 100% organic, nutrient-dense, vegan, low-glycemic, low-insulin-scoring, and high-mineral diet of living foods in the first twenty-one days.

I am set to start this Monday, March 3. This week, I have been in transition and have already lost 8 lbs. and my FBS has dropped 100 points. AMAZING!

"Good-bye not good."
The Battle for Endor

Sorry, I had to add this one. Angus looks just like him.

Arañña Sutta - The Wilderness

Standing there the devata said:

Those living in the forest,
Peaceful and calm, of pure life,
Eating but one meal a day:
How is it they appear so radiant?

The Lord replied:

They sorrow not for what is past,
They have no longing for the future,
The present is sufficient for them:
Hence it is they appear so radiant.
By having longing for the future,
By sorrowing over what is past,
By this fools are withered up
As a cut down tender reed.

Serene....

Let's give anarchy a chance...

I want to vote for none of the above...

"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream." - John Lennon

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." - William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

I don't want to live my life this way -

Just take what is given, elbow out a niche, and consume until your body gives out. Then get machines to help, hire out the chores of life, and disolve slowly into history until not a trace remains but shapeless suffering.

Our New Son...

Name: Angus Wolfgang
Born: October 17, 2007

Likes: EATING, jumping, chewing on his chipmunk doll, ripping paper, peeing wherever he stops, baths, FOOD, chicken kebobs, eating his sissy's food, his older half-brother - Wade, speaking "growl-ese".

Dislikes: Cats that hiss at him, showers, being told no, outdoors by himself, not being able to jump on the bed, cuddling.

Nicknames: Tangus, Amos, Anus, Ewok, Doo-doo, Mommy's Boy

I like this...

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha

Aja Tat

Some of my recently discovered favorite philosophical quotes...

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. - Anaxagoras

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. - Sri Aurobindo

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. - Gaston Bachelard

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. - Nikolai Berdyaev

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. - Annie Besant

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. - Boethius

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Albert Camus

Is it just me?

I think John Lennon was a genius!

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. "

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh

"Who's the more foolish: The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

My Pics on Devianart.Com

Madalina Iordache-Levay

I happened upon this artist by accident on MySpace and now I am a big fan! Her art is about birth, death and all that is in between. The prints are very mythical. My favorite is Sunset over the ocean (2006)

End the War...enough said!

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace - Buddha

5 Personality

Results

My Results

Extraversion

Some people like lots of stimulation; they want people around them, activity and excitement, whilst others prefer to be able to focus on things in a calm and quiet environment. Most people prefer a blend of the two extremes and your answers suggest that you are quite comfortable in either situation. You can probably cope with things being a bit hectic or a bit quiet but, like most people, you may find extremes in either direction uncomfortable or annoying.

Confidence

Some people make decisions very easily and tend not to worry about them before or afterwards while, at the other extreme, some people are so careful and cautious that the decisions never get made! Taking a cautious approach can be a good thing (do you want to fly with a pilot that is so free from worry and concern that she never checks her controls and instruments and doesn't bother to communicate with air-traffic control?) and you seem to have described yourself as someone who does tend to be quite cautious and careful. This can be very important in detailed work or areas were mistakes can have a major cost although you may find yourself avoiding risks and many cautious people wish they were bolder.

Openness

While some people like experimenting with new things and ideas, others prefer traditional methods and taking a very practical approach to problems.

Your answers suggest that you may more interested in the creative, new and experimental aspects of situations than dealing with the routine practicalities. While your dreams and plans may not always be achievable, you are likely to be very open to new ideas and ways of doing things.

Agreeableness

Most people want to be able to get on with others but to some it is the most important thing in the world, whilst others are quite happy to upset someone else if it means that things get done.

Your answers suggest that you can be firm with people when you need to be but that getting on with others is still important to you. Like most people you would rather avoid conflict but are not prepared to put up with being treated badly by others.

Conscientiousness

Some people like everything to be well planned, tidy and organised, whilst others prefer to deal with things as they come up and appear to work in absolute chaos.

Your answers suggest that you don't like having things too structured or being tied down and you can cope quite well without having to have everything organised. This may make it hard to find things at times or for colleagues to know where you are or what you are doing, but you probably find coping with the unexpected (the things your colleagues didn't plan for!) easier than many.

This questionnaire can't tell you exactly what you are like; it doesn't go into enough detail and only helps you ask questions about the way you behave and make decisions in your occupation. Don't rely on it to tell you what your personality is like but use it to think about the different ways that people go about doing things. Read each description, ask yourself if it sounds like you (and it may not!)