Slowly Does It

I found this today and I use magnesium oil with frankincense on my belly every night. It stops cramping, eases internal pain and inflammation as well as helping me fall asleep and stay asleep.

I thought I might try this recipe because I also have this exact magnesium oil in my collection.

Magnesium Body Balm (author unknown)

I finally got around to making this magnesium body balm. It's a mix of coconut oil, cacao butter, magnesium oil and a few drops of lavender oil.  D asked me why I smelled like chocolate, so if you want to cut back on the cacao butter you could use Shea butter or a mix of the two! I don't eat much chocolate any more so I'm loving the smell! 

So why add the magnesium oil?

As we all would know, our soil is deficient in many important minerals which means are food is lacking and cooking and processing also further depletes it's mineral content. Dr Carolyn Dean, author of Magnesium Miracle estimates that 90% of the population is deficient in magnesium! Not only are most of us deficient but foods like sugar, coffee, alcohol and grains all pull magnesium from the body. 

Because magnesium is needed for the function of every cell in the body, the implications of a deficiency can be wide and varied and form a list a mile long! 

Some of the most common benefits of magnesium are:

• enhances sleep 

• prevents headaches/migraines

• improves digestion

• calms the nervous system

• assists with anxiety and depression

• alleviates muscle cramping/spasms

• decreases high blood pressure 

• reduces menstrual cramping 

and the list goes on...

When I began supplementing with magnesium over 18 months ago I noticed immediate improvements in sleep, digestion and overall calmness. I love it so much I won't go a night without it! 

Do you use magnesium? What improvements have you noticed? 

Recipe for Magnesium Body Balm

1/2 cup coconut oil

1/2 cup cacao butter (or mix of Shea butter)

1/3 cup magnesium oil

a few drops of your favourite essential oil

1. Melt down the cacao butter and coconut oil

2. Allow to cool and almost set again

3. Add butterfly to thermo and whip until combined well

4. Keep on speed 4 and slowly add magnesium oil and essential oil until all incorporated.

5. Store in a glass jar in the fridge or if cooler weather, leave out. 

I had another day in my bedroom today. My gut issues again so I needed to rest up.

I reluctantly got out of bed to make dinner. A creamy, cheesy, garlic chicken, mushroom and bacon pasta served with a salad. It took 30 minutes and was quite tasty.

I’m not sure if I’ll attend meditation tomorrow. I’ll see what my body thinks in the morning.

Nite all.

Easy Breezy

He raised them. He trained them. He watched them dissolve and rebuild inside a chrysalis. Then he watched them remember.

Jo Nagai trained swallowtail caterpillars to associate lavender scent with a mild electric shock. After complete metamorphosis 70 percent of butterflies still avoided the scent. Presented at the 2024 International Congress of Entomology his results also suggested the learned response was passed to offspring indicating possible transgenerational memory inheritance.

Shared for informational purposes only.

Source: International Congress of Entomology / Radiolab / Dr Martha Weiss Georgetown University (2024)

How cool is that!?!

I’ve had a pleasant Sunday.

I only missed one game in the tipping comp so I’m happy with my progress.

It’s been a weird day with the weather. Crazy heavy scudding showers that last about three minutes followed by sunshine.

Harley got to play. I tended my garden and picked some beans. I cooked a big batch of spaghetti bolognese which fed AH and BGWLBH tonight and I froze enough for three more nights.

I had a laksa with prawns and fresh beans from the garden, which I ate an hour before the others.

Now it’s almost midnight so it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Mid Weekend

I’m happy to have correctly tipped all three NRL games tonight and have only missed one game for the weekend.

Go me!

My tummy issues have given me a hard time today, so I’ve spent the majority of the day in bed.

I woke at 7.30am, rose at 10am, took Harley out to play for 30 minutes between rain showers, tended my garden, crumbed some whiting fillets and cooked them - took a phone call from Rebel Mardi and let my fish go cold - had a wonderful hour long conversation with her because we had SO MUCH to catch up on, sat down to eat my cold fish then returned to bed.

I watched some ‘Friends’ and then it was all football from 4pm until now.

It’s ’fend for yourself’ night so I didn’t need to cook.

My dinner was a Connoisseur Pistachio Gelato ice cream …

It was delicious!

Now I need to sleep.

Nite all.

Like Yesterday

It doesn’t feel like we’ve been together for 23 years. 

I moved from Griffith to Sydney in April of 2005 to live with Adoring Husband, but that really feels like just a few years ago.

We were married in the Lions Park at Burrum Heads in 2010 and so we celebrated 16 yrs of marriage today.

We drove into the bay and out to the marina where we had reservations at Truly Asia for lunch. We both ordered steamed duck and mushrooms (because that was our number one choice at our favourite restaurant in Sydney) but it didn’t live up to the Sydney dish. The duck AND the mushrooms were tough. Still edible and the flavours were delicious, but I wouldn’t choose it again.

There were leftovers … my duck dish and plain fried rice plus AH’s special fried rice, so we ordered a takeaway Nahm Jim Chicken which was enough for us to have for dinner tonight.

After lunch, we walked across to the Boat Club, and when I swiped my card, because it was my birthday, I received a free drink, which I gave to AH so that he could sit and watch me play the pokies for 30 minutes. 

We ran a couple of errands before returning home, including buying Harley a new toy, which he loved!

BGWLBH worked today so I made her my famous turkey breast, avocado, cranberry jelly, goats cheese and sprouts on toasted sourdough for dinner. We had leftover trifle for dessert.

AH and I retired to our beds at 7pm! 

I am pretty darned tired and feel that I will sleep soundly tonight.

It has been a really nice day.

Nite all.

Let’s Celebrate

Allegedly haha

THE EQUIPMENT BROUGHT TO THE MOON IN 1971 Apollo 15 (the first moon landing that brought the land rover)

The fuel for the capsule and the rover. Plus 12 days of food. Plus 12 days of water. Plus a massive parachute. Plus a landing capsule, which had to be reinforced enough to withstand re-entry into earth's atmosphere. Plus tools. Plus 12 days of oxygen for 3 people. Plus 3 astronauts and they say 15 different space suits. (I just found that out now...wow 15 different suits) Plus camera gear. Plus regular clothing. Plus 12 days of human waste. Plus 3 layers of engineered redundancy electronics, which means you needed 2 back up systems for every survival-based system being used, just in case the first two systems failed. Plus the rover, which was the size of a car. Plus the American flag and flagpole. Plus rock samples. 

In Apollo 11 (the first moon landing) a Freemasonic silk bag and handwritten deputation was brought by Buzz Aldrin, to place "the moon" under Freemasonic jurisdiction. But I'm sure that last part has nothing to do with anything questionable about any of the "moon landings".. 

When you're insane and the person next to you is equally insane, you just think that you're both completely normal. Sane people know why I included that last sentence.

On the 24th April, Adoring Husband and I will have been married for 16 years (we’ve been together for 23 yrs).

We are going out for lunch to Truly Asian on the marina, which should be nice. 

Today, for my birthday, BGWLBH and I went into the bay. The RSL Club enjoyed our company for a couple of hours. I did some grocery shopping and got a green juice.

AH cooked a chicken curry for dinner, which saved me from cooking. I had a prawn and noodle laksa soup for a late lunch so I didn’t eat dinner.

The cake that AH made me was a little dry, so I chopped up most of it and made a trifle using port wine jelly, tinned peaches and pears, custard, cream and crunchy coconut swirls on top. It’s a HUGE trifle and AH doesn’t like trifle! This means that it’s all for BGWLBH and I. Yummy!

We played trivia tonight.

My gifts were two tops, two bracelets, a bag charm, two journals and a solar powered hummingbird for the garden.

My favourite aunty Jackie phoned me early this morning and we chatted for about 45 minutes. Bubbles phoned while we were on our way into the bay and she was supposed to call back this afternoon but didn’t. 

There was a video from my little sister of her singing happy birthday (very poorly lol), a text from my niece, a text from my brother, a text from my Aunty Fay and from my friend Heather.

A text from Vegan Chickie, but none from Number One son, which is unusual and I’m a bit worried about him, but hoping he is preoccupied with a friend.

Lots of Facebook messages which were lovely.

So I will sleep soundly and prepare for another day of celebrations tomorrow.

It’s all.