Currently

listening to Quentin Tarantino 's Jackie Brown soundtrack, making apricot jam and tomato chutney (if I said I was about to begin sewing the shirt I have laid out on the floor.. would that be a bit too much?)

Holding nothing

I have a glorious treasure that is no longer in my grasp
I treasure glimpses of it every day
Every moment is special time, fleeting
Special gorgeous unrealising gift
Gorgeous exquisite lovepain gratitude enfolding
Gratitude, now and present
Intense present slipping suddenly to a memory
Suddenly now a question; is this the last time?
Every day, grasp, accept, last..

Xmas light drive around hunt

So this evening I went with my sister na dbrother in law and nephew Rain ( the coolest boy on the planet) to drive about the place hunting for people'/s xmas lights.

i thought (and so did perry and dawn) that we were just gonna drive around and maybe peak in some windows at people's trees....
BUT there is liek a secret underground xmas lights circuit or something
IT WAS CRAZY
We couldn't believe it
it was like WONDERLANDS
we were like dancing in fairy lights next to sleighs with animated reindeer
and sitting in little xmas grottos with santa collectiosn and xmas terain sets and xmas sofas with xmas picture books and hiphop bunnies

AND (no word of a lie) THAT WAS JUST TWO PLACES















more photos clickie clickie

Sad

Feel like a bag of hurty pain. *sigh*
life eh!
It's somewhat eased off now.

Tomorrow I will get up, feed the cat, plant some beetroot, bake the xmas cake, wrap some xmas presents, talk to Todd, watch some shows and go to bed.

One day this life will be over and I'll have worked off some karma for something =)

Still no book.

Still haven't got that book I ordered.

Tonight I made first dinner and it looked great but sucked crap so I threw it out and made second dinner.

Second dinner looked like crap but it tasted good! (homemade basil pesto and angel hair pasta)

Elegant Truths aka I miss Carl...

Writer Nick Sagan, son of Carl Sagan, was impressed with "A Glorious Dawn", giving it a favorable review and stamp of approval. Sagan writes: "John Boswell over at Colorpulse Music is a mad genius, sampling both Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series into three minutes and thirty-four seconds of pure, concentrated awesomeness...Love it, love it, love it. Dad would have loved it, too." (from Wikipedia)

byebye Whatisbethdoingrightnow

About to delete the joke blog - some people taking it seriously rather than laughing about it.

But wanted to keep this one post *giggles*





















What is Beth doing?

a. Preparing her prayer mat to worship at the foot of Shine?
b. Picking up Jonesy munge?
c. Preparing a little picnic?
d. First aid on a wounded officeworker?

End of the Day

Kind of a conflicting, confronting day.
Got a run in with Jonesy so that is something! Oh and the nomination I submitted for Beth WON!
YAH!

Funny!

Made a new blog today while joking around with Beth at work MUWuahHAHAhahHA!

whatisbethdoingnow.blogspot.com

Will have to remember to take camera to work tomorrow!


Day after freerange chicken is goooooood - especially with lettuce, red onion and mint I grew... thai chicken salad YUM!

Oh.... and a self portrait!

Roast chicken...

Roast free range chicken for dinner.
One step closer to clearing out the non cleanse food in readiness for the Quantum Wellness cleanse.

There is dwelling to be done on the long term merits of veganism vs setting a good example/supporting the humane treatment of animals by buying and requesting humanely treated animals products.

Veganism does little to improve conditions for our fellow living beings.
The commercial power of choosing free range does.

Sony signed Hayley

Totally chuffed!
Although they would have been silly not to right now - she's gonna be doing good music anyway.

My Garden Rocks

Dinner tonight included three items grown myself and supported the leaning into the 21 day cleanse...
Thai Lamb salad.
NOTE: Did not grow my own lamb
NOTE2: Lamb exactly NOT one of things on cleanse list but does contribute towards cleaning out my freezer and fridge of things not on cleanse list before I start so they dont' go to waste (and not, that's not an excuse not to start it's is part of the be more consious and don't waste stuff philosophy that fits well with the 21 day cleanse ideals I'm sure!)


Tomorrow will be Dec and then I woudl have 21 days before xmas to do the cleanse... but, I still have a free range chicken in the fridge and haven't got the book in the mail yet.
I figure I will have cooked up the chicken by week's end thenthere's just freerange pork and fennel sausages (x2) and then I'd be set.
However.. do I want my first day of uncleanse to be XMAS DAY... LOL! I'd spend it throwing up no doubt or at the very least disappointing some poor exvited xmas day chef.

Must dwell more on this, although not long to dwell.
I have a thought today that perhaps 21 days will turn into 365 days of doing something radically different that i coudl blog about every day.
Ok, one thing to dwell on at a time.

Note to self: John Campbell will be doign a bit on the meaning of "free range" this week. He's great (and I am not just saying that coz he twittered me the other night)!

Josh Madden, Edward Scissorhands, The Crow and Heath Ledger's Joker

So, lately, (and I think I can hold Aussie Idol and Rove accountable) I have found myself drawn to the Madden Lads. I don't listen to Good Charlotte (although I know who they are) and don't have any Good Charlotte music (although the song they played accoustic on Aussie Idol I do like so maybe I will check some out). I have, however, been following Joel's (and Benji's and Nicole's for that matter) tweets.

For some reason in my Madden following I found this blog and for some reason I thought it was Joel's... (which leads me to an embarassing twitter gaff that I just realise I have just made by tweeting to Joel to ask him something about the post I am about to refer to in this entry... *blushes with embarassment* - Josh is actually Benji and Joel's brother...at least now I know why in my head I keep calling Joel, Josh... thank god I don't know these people!!)

Putting aside my embarassment for a few mins, this entry got me to thinking about two things.
Firstly - my pie blog post that I made way back last year sometime which is probably a reblog from an eariler blog entry ( I think because of the research and the linking and such) and
Secondly - I wonder if there is a link from the stuff he found links to and to Heath Ledger's Joker - coz Brandon Leee in the Crow reminds me a lot of Heath's version of The Joker (which is the embarassing thing I just asked JOEL in twitter when I THOUGHT I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time when he twittered that he would answer the first 10 twitter questions *sighs in more embarassment*).

Ok, back to my embarassment now. *blushes* Man, I hope Joel does actually ignore what I tweeted to him and I don't get "lucky" like I did when John Campbell tweeted me back the other day.
*slinks away to do mantras of self forgiveness*

Two fings

Got up early to crank up the PC. Starting the recovery scan on the broken external drive from a few months ago... don't know why I didn't think to do this sooner instead of sending it down to my IT buddy who wasn't able to fix this one.
He has previously dehoused seemingly dead drives for me and rehomed them in a desktop pc and they are fine and dandy... this one however is a laptop size external so no joy.. until now!
Scan is working!
Time elapsed: 32 mins Processing block: 1444800 of 4882818 Remaining time: 1:18:43 ....
Next issue will be finding space to recover the files too... very little on the PC hence the need for externals!

Had opportunity to get a terrabyte external recently but NONO - bugger putting ALL my preciousness on one drive and loosing the lot in one foul swoop...bad enough loosing 5 seasons of Top Gear all in one hit, can't imagine the depths of depression I would delve into if all my QI and BBC docos went as well!
*shudders*

In other news - I have some 21 day cleanse updates.
I have a rewards card for a big NZ book store chain and they emailed me telling me I would get 20% off if I ordered books from their website.. so off I surfed. Found the Quantum Wellness main book for 23$ (which is the book the physical store told me they don't have in the country and that it wouldn't arrive here until after xmas...) and thought.. ooO and I get 20% off!
Except I don't coz I screwed up the order in my excitedness and totally missed the spot where one would intelligently enter their rewards card number.

No response to pathetic followup email asking if some kind soul could please remedy my err.

OK.. sitting on floor watching process typing on laptop not helping - only inducing cramp AND pins and needles in left foot!

Still over an hour remaining.

Wind and the Night Stakes

You know how I said it was windy... well, it still is.

Last night I was outside in the dark and wind with my head torch staking up my sunflowers and tomatoes which weren't gonna stand another night of the weird gusty strong wind of never before...

21 day cleanse

never dieted before in my life...

But wanted to let you all know, in my casual leaning in to a more healthy food instake that aligns better with my spiritual outlook, I am going to soon embark on a version of Kathy Freston's 21 day cleanse and blog about it (just for a bit of accountability).

Was gonna do this soon but as my brother pointed out, when i invited him to join me virtually and make it a joint quest of sorts... the timing is not so flash with xmas approaching... LOL!

Stay tuned!

it's windy

very windy.


EDIT: Please note: This post is not food related...

QI

I am jolly chuffed to have addicted Todd to QI.

*pleased with self*

More things to remember when sewing

2. Don't hold the pins in your mouth.

I can't even begin to explain to you the injury I did to the inside of my nostril...

A Change

I believe I am becoming weary of not enough people being aware of how much I rock...