Recovery

Saturday was a mighty big day.

Firstly, due to the tennis, I only managed 3 hours of sleep on Friday night, so my energy level was pretty low when we left for the markets at 6.45am Saturday morning.

It started out a bit chilly, but it turned into a glorious morning with blue skies and sunshine. There were lots of new stalls and all the regulars as well.

The chat was all about the change over from the old market organisers to the new Progress Association organisers. According to every stall holder that we chatted with, this is a good move and the markets will probably grow even bigger from here on.

I purchased a cute little bracelet with stars ($15), some pineapple/mango jam, tomato relish, roasted capsicum, a huge rainbow coloured striped rug to throw over the outdoor lounge under the Bali hut, a Christmas gift, a lead light hanging mobile for under the Bali hut, magnesium oil infused with frankincense (4 bottles) and a bunch of health products - some that I can name and some that must remain unnamed!

It only took us 90 minutes to do the rounds but BGWLBH had to do a run to the car to dump our purchases so that we could start again at the halfway mark!

We left the markets at 8.30am and we arrived at where we thought the Gem and Crystal Expo was being held, only to discover that it was NOT being held there!

Luckily, as we were leaving the house that morning, Adoring Husband suggested that I take the leaflet with the details printed on it. I had scoffed at him telling him that we knew exactly where it was … but I was wrong! We were mistaken, so it was LUCKY that we had the leaflet.

There was a lot take in from raw, natural rocks, crystals and gems, to cut and polished rocks, crystals and gems, to beautiful jewellery creations with all types of gems, semi precious gems and crystals set in gold, silver, stainless steel and other settings.

I saw a massive clear crystal ball that I would have LOVED, but I didn’t even look at the price because I know how much my smaller crystal balls cost and I imagine the price would have been somewhere between $2000 - $3000, if not more.

I purchased a very pale blue kyanite pendant, a Navajo silver and turquoise eagle feather pendant and a Christmas gift for BGWLBH which I’ve already packed away. She purchased a piece of jewellery for me for Christmas as well.

It was 11am when we left there, by which time, I was exhausted, still trying to operate on 3 hours sleep!

We found somewhere that served late breakfast and I ordered a fresh pineapple/orange juice which hit the spot perfectly, giving me a little pep in my step.

We found a supermarket for some afternoon junk food before heading home.

I don’t even remember what time we arrived home, but I made myself a big crab and prawn salad with fresh tomatoes from the garden, avocado, spring onions, lettuce and lime juice, salt and white pepper and dragged myself to bed to scoff it down and fall into a food coma.

I slept for 90 minutes, but remained in bed for the rest of the afternoon and evening.

I watched tennis until 10.30pm and then fell back to sleep until 7am today!

Today has been recovery day.

I rose at 9.30am, played with Harley, made breakfast of sour dough toast with fresh garden tomatoes, watched two movies with Adoring Husband then returned to bed mid afternoon for another short nap.

Sunday night is spaghetti night, so nice and easy.

I’m back in bed now waiting to watch some more tennis. Djokovic plays tonight, so it might be a late night.

Nite all.

Let’s Try Again

They convinced you that sun, salt and fat will kill you.  Then they got rich selling you the cure!  Between 1976 and 2026, obesity rates tripled while you followed the rules.

Here are 7 lies that created an epidemic:

1. Fat makes you fat! Every cell in your body is wrapped in fat.  Your brain is mostly fat. Your hormones are built from fat.  Yet they told you that fat is making you sick and convinced you to swap it for low-fat foods loaded with sugar.  When fat intake fell, obesity and diabetes exploded.  The real danger was never fat; it was a goldmine.  They stripped away natures fuel, replaced it with cheap carbs from corn and soy and created ADDICTION.  

2. Red meat causes cancer!  They lumped grass-fed steak in with hot dogs and deli slices, then told you it would shave years off your life.  Humans thrived on meat for THOUSANDS of years.  Long before obesity, diabetes and heart disease, we ate meat DAILY.  The real danger was never meat; it was the processed junk that replaced it.  Demonizing meat wasn’t about protecting your health; it was about creating a population hooked on cheap grains.  

3. Sunlight causes cancer!  Sunlight boosts immunity, balances hormones and lifts mood, strengthens bones, and extends life.  Zero cost.  Zero side effects.   You would take it every day.  No pill exists for it.  They told you to fear it and lather on sunscreen.  Sunscreen is packed with hormone disruptors, and toxic chemicals that block Vitamin D production.  It is not about your health; it is about profit. 

4. Breakfast is the most important meal!  For most of human history, breakfast did not exist.  People rose with the sun, worked, hunted, and ate when food was available, often not until midday or evening.  Then you were convinced that skipped cereal would wreck your health.  The real danger is not skipping breakfast; it was nonstop eating.  Cereal companies needed to turn cheap grains into gold, so they told you to start every day with sugar in a box!!

5. The war on cholesterol!  Half the people who die of heart attacks have normal cholesterol.  Those with higher cholesterol often live longer, especially as they age. Yet you were told this vital molecule is a ticking time bomb.  The real danger was never cholesterol, it was INFLAMMATION.  Cholesterol is the raw material for your hormones, brain function, and cell repair.  Instead of addressing diet and lifestyle, they put millions on drugs that deplete it!!  Created a billion-dollar market for lifelong customers

6. Fluoride protects your teeth!  This is a marketing spin!  A way to dump industrial waste without paying to filter it out.  Linked to thyroid disruption, lowering IQ, and bone damage at high doses!

7. Salt raises Blood pressure!  They told you that salt will destroy your heart and convinced you to eliminate it from your diet.  Meanwhile, populations eating high-salt diets for centuries had low hypertension rates.  Then processed food and sugar entered the picture!  Everything changed.  The real danger was NEVER SALT; it was mineral deficiency.  While you feared salt, they pushed sugar, seed oils, and processed junk, the actual drivers of heart disease.  The salt scare was not protection, it was misdirection.  

You are not sick; you are nutrient deficient!  Yet chronic fatigue, brain fog, and depression are almost never treated with nutrition, the deficiency gets labeled as disease and symptoms become a life sentence.  There is no profit in magnesium, sunlight, or clean food, they misdiagnose symptoms your body is trying to solve with what it never received, you are not broke, you are depleted.

When we know better we do better ✨

I declined BGWLBH’s offer to accompany her into the Bay today.

Instead, I played with Harley and then decided to go for a ride. My ride ended at the house where The Gypsy is house sitting. I brought take away coffee and she provided a platter. We played pool! It has been many years since I played but it felt so easy and I made some great shots. Turns out, it’s just like riding a bike!

It was fun.

I left Adoring Husband in charge of a chicken in the oven, which he managed to handle without issue.

BGWLBH arrived home before me and, as requested, bought two bags of crab meat from the fisheries shop. Yum!

I reheated some of last night’s soup for her and made myself a crab sandwich with fresh sourdough from the specialist bakery (that she also provided).

I’m now waiting for the football to start.

I’m actually feeling a bit weary and I need to be up and about early to attend the Howard markets AND the Gem and Crystal Expo in the Bay. I may be asleep very soon.

Nite all.

No Colliding

On June 29th The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva is undergoing a scheduled four year shutdown to install upgrades. ⚡️🤍

Energetically this will be a positive pause for many as the collider is considered a Portal opener to chaotic forces. 

Portal Closings: It is considered a temporary powering down and viewed as an energetic closing of these gateways, that possibly shouldn’t be opened in the first place or experimented with, allowing the earth. humanity and species to rest and heal from energetic interferences. 

This is good news 🤍⚡️

This four years will be offering the planet, the collective and the individual a much needed period to integrate recent shifts, upgrades, awaken consciousness, and ground more  in the present.

The schedule to restart in June 2030 gives us 4 years of Bliss Fields: 

Then During the 4 year shutdown, the entire length of the particle accelerator is being upgraded to perform up to 10 times faster than at present…… 

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Located in a 17-mile (27-km) underground ring at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, it accelerates hadrons (like protons) to nearly the speed of light and smashes them together to study the fundamental building blocks of the universe.

Let us enjoy the 4 yr break 😎

Wednesday was entirely spent in bed - because I can.

I took Beef Goulash out of the freezer and served it with stir fried vegetables and boiled potatoes.

I watched tennis until about 11pm and fell asleep during the Sinner match (he won).

I woke at 6am and turned on the tennis to be pleasantly surprised! Djokovic was playing his final set against Tsitsipas  and won in three sets.

BGWLBH and I drove into the Bay early because she had a nail appointment. While she did that, I bought some make up at BigW, browsed the ladies boutique, visited the new Asian grocery store and drank a Green Day juice from the Jam Jar.

After her nail appointment, we drove to Nanas Pantry and the newsagent, had morning tea at the RSL, did grocery shopping at Coles, grabbed some meat from the butcher, drove to Eli Waters for fruit and veg, some sour dough bread from the bakery and some fresh seafood.

By the time we arrived home, we were positively exhausted!

BUT … I unpacked all of the groceries and then made a big batch of chicken, vegetable and noodle soup with sourdough toast for dinner.

It was a Herculean effort on my behalf! I went straight to my welcoming bed immediately after dinner and now I’m ready for sleep.

Nite all.

Voluntary Kitchen Duties

It was a dull, grey, rainy day.

Not heavy rain, just light steady, annoying rain that did not let up until late this afternoon.

Since I couldn’t go out on my trike, I decided to spend the day in the kitchen.

I made:

• Fish and vegetable pasties
• Hungarian Goulash
• Creamed vegetable soup
• Wiener Schnitzels x 12
• Banana bread
• 6 x Wagyu steaks

Our butcher had a snap sale on Wagyu beef for just 24 hours, so we bought 3kgs. I asked them to thinly slice some of it so that I could crumb it. I made goulash with 1kg and Adoring husband sliced the remaining chunk into good sized steaks for the barbecue.

I only took pics of the fish and vegetable pasties…

It was a solid 5 hours in the kitchen and I’m feeling pretty weary, but not counting the banana bread or the pasties, I made 24 meals with the beef, which equates to $3.62 per meal. Good budgeting!

I don’t know if I have it in me to stay awake for the tennis tonight. I made it to 2am this morning watching Sinner win in five sets. I’d like to watch Maya Joint play Serena Williams and De Minaur  vs Burruchaga tonight.

So I’m off to watch some tennis.

Nite all.

End of Financial Year

STRANGE ADVICE FROM A GRANDMOTHER THAT WILL HEAL YOU FASTER THAN THERAPY:

HEAL YOUR BODY 🌿

1. Stop drinking. Even "just socially." Alcohol is a trauma response in a bottle. What you're numbing deserves to be felt, not dissolved.

2. Move your body every single day. Not to look better. Because your nervous system is storing every emotion you refuse to process. Move to release, not to perform.

3. Sleep in complete darkness. Buy blackout curtains. Your brain heals most between 10 PM and 2 AM. Most people miss the entire window scrolling.

4. Eat one hot meal a day you cooked yourself. Not for health trends. Because preparing your own food is the oldest act of self-love humans have forgotten.

5. Go outside within 10 minutes of waking. Let sunlight hit your eyes before a screen does. This one habit resets your cortisol, mood, and energy without a single supplement.

6. Touch grass. Literally. Walk barefoot on earth for 10 minutes. It's how humans regulated their nervous system before concrete covered everything.

HEAL YOUR MIND 🧠

7. Stop explaining yourself to people who have already decided who you are. Spend your energy on people still curious about you.

8. Write the letter you'll never send. To the person who hurt you. To the version of you who didn't know better. Writing it is the release. Sending it is optional.

9. Learn the difference between a feeling and a fact. "I feel worthless" is a feeling, not your identity. Name it and it loses its power.

10. Spend 30 minutes in complete silence every day. Not meditation. Not journaling. Just sitting. Your thoughts will surface. Let them. You can't heal what you keep interrupting.

11. Stop googling your symptoms. Medical anxiety is a spiral disguised as responsibility. Call a doctor or don't. But stop feeding the worst-case machine.

12. Read one page of something wise every morning. Not Instagram quotes. An actual book. Your brain takes the shape of what you pour into it consistently.

HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIPS 🖤

13. Have one honest conversation you've been avoiding. The unexpressed truth is why you feel stuck. Say the thing. Gently. Clearly. Without editing yourself into silence.

14. Stop waiting for apologies that are never coming. Waiting for them is giving them continued power over your present.

15. Spend less time with people who consistently make you feel small after you leave. This isn't being difficult. This is protecting your emotional immune system.

16. Text someone you've been thinking about but haven't reached out to. That impulse exists for a reason. Act on it today.

17. Let yourself be helped. You've been so self-sufficient for so long that you've forgotten receiving is also an act of connection. Let people in. It makes you human, not weak.

18. Forgive someone. Not for them, but to free yourself from the weight of carrying the anger.

HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOURSELF 💫

19. Stop using the word "lazy" to describe yourself. Laziness is almost never the real issue. It's usually depletion, fear, or disconnection from meaning. Name what's actually happening.

20. Make one decision every day that your future self would be proud of. Just one. Small right decisions are how character is built.

21. Celebrate something small every single day. "I drank water today." "I went outside." Small wins compound into self-respect.

22. Stop abandoning yourself when things get hard. The version of you that quits during difficulty is a habit, not a personality. You can build a different response.

23. Write down three things you did right today before you sleep. Not gratitude. Acknowledgment. Your brain needs evidence that you're capable. Give it some.

24. Dress for the person you're becoming, not the one you're hiding from. Even if no one sees you today. Especially if no one sees you today.

25. Ask yourself once a week: "Am I becoming someone I respect?" If the answer is no, that's not failure. That's information.

26. Stop outsourcing your self-worth to other people's opinions.

27. Learn to apologize without making it about you.

28. Say I love you more. To people who deserve it. To yourself in the mirror even when it feels ridiculous.

29. Grieve what didn't work out. Give it a proper mourning. Then let it go.

30. Decide you deserve a good life. Not someday. Now.

I woke quite late (8.15am) and as usual, I rose late (10am) and took Harley straight out to play for about 30 minutes.

My trike was calling to me, so I made myself presentable and took to the streets. Bought myself a coffee and rode to the beach where I sat on a bench seat in the warm sun and watched the world go by …

As you can see, the tide was at its lowest.

When I’d had enough sitting and enough riding, I bought Adoring Husband some hot chips for lunch and as I headed home, I met an 81 year old lady by the name of Lucy. She was riding a red mobility cart and was taking one of her dogs for a walk. She was up for a chat so by the time I arrived home, the hot chips were not quite so hot!

AH was still appreciative.

For dinner tonight, I reheated some lamb and rice out of the freezer for AH. BGWLBH received beef sausages in onion gravy, with boiled potato and Asian salad.

I’ve been taking the USNEA that I purchased from the witches markets on Sunday. I can feel it easing my gut issues, but let me tell you, it tastes disgusting!!!

Ugh 😩 

I can’t wait for this woman to start her herbal classes so that I can learn how to create her concoctions.

Now I’m going to fall asleep to the sound of tennis. Yay! Wimbledon has begun!

Nite all.