To Meditate or Not?

I did not attend meditation this morning.

While I was feeling much improved from the last couple of days, I felt like I needed an extra day of quiet solitude to properly heal.

It was 10am when I reluctantly left my bed. I took Harley to play for 20 minutes, tended my garden for ten minutes, prepped apricot chicken in the slow cooker, made my breakfast and watched a movie called “Angry Angel” on Foxtel. It was a light, easy to watch, made for TV movie. I quite liked it.

At 3.20pm I withdrew to my bedroom for an hour.

All that was required for dinner was to boil some rice to have with the chicken.

We played YouTube trivia before all retiring to bed at 7.30pm. It’s my favourite time of the day 🥰

BGWLBH and I are heading off to the bay in the morning so it’s sleep time for me.

Nite all.

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.