Another Week Bites the Dust

What was supposed to be a quiet day at home baking, turned into a day in the bay … again 🫤

Adoring Husband was picked up by a mate and they drove to Maryborough hospital to visit a sick mate. Actually I’m not sure if it was Maryborough or Hervey Bay, but hopefully, by the sounds of it, the mate is improving slightly and they are feeling hopeful.

BGWLBH has had orders come in for her painted rocks so she needed to visit Bunnings to load up on her rock stocks.

She invited me along and I needed some new pots for my excess tomato plants, so I accepted her offer.

Needless to say, no baking got done and we had a very early, very easy dinner of sourdough with avocado, goats cheese, cranberry jelly, green sprouts and turkey breast. Always delicious.

I had a terrible nights sleep and was awake until 4.30am and slept until 8.30am. By the time we arrived home from the bay, I was feeling very weary and dozed a little on the couch during the afternoon.

I’ve watched the footy this evening and so far have two from two correct tips. A nice start to the weekend.

My gut issues have been much better today.

Now I need to sleep.

Nite all.

Home Alone

I enjoyed 3 hours of solitude today while BGWLBH worked and Adoring Husband played golf.

It was bliss.

I ate the last of my home made sausage rolls for brunch.

I watched the newest episode of Jet lag The Game and then searched for recipes on YouTube.

I made bacon wrapped stuffed chicken breasts with roast pumpkin and spinach salad and fresh green beans from the garden.

Excellent reviews and placed on the ‘favourites’ list.

It seems that the NSW women defeated QLD in the women’s State of Origin. Bugger.

I napped on the couch this afternoon so I’m late for sleeping tonight.

My second parcel finally arrived for Hazie’s birthday and she was excited to receive her new doll, who she promptly named Hazie Junior! 

Now it’s time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

Shoulda Stayed Home

I was feeling much better this morning … until I wasn’t 🫤

BGWLBH and I drove into the bay.

We had morning beverages at the Jam Jar Cafe. Mine was a green juice. BGWLBH had a jumbo coffee.

She went for her nail appointment and I walked half a kilometre to the newsagent to refresh my lotto tickets. That was when I started to feel less than great, but I found a seat for ten minutes and I was good to go.

I browsed through BigW and purchased a couple of bras and a couple of t-shirts.

I checked out the new stock in the lady’s boutique, but nothing took my fancy.

I did some grocery shopping and needed to sit three times! So I walked over to the RSL Club and found comfy seats to have a cup of tea. I felt better after that.

We left there and found our way to Farmgate to get some fresh fruit and veg, the bakery for sourdough and Woollies for what I couldn’t get in Coles.

It was 2pm when we arrived home and once again I needed to sit while Adoring Husband unpacked the groceries.

I made fried rice with the leftover boiled rice from the night before and I shredded the leftover chicken and heated it up in the apricot sauce.

We played some trivia and now I’m in bed feeling quite weary.

Nite all.

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.

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.

The Big 66

More food for thought …

★ The Next Lockdown Is Voluntary

The next lockdowns aren't going to be forced on you. Nobody's going to mandate anything. You're just going to stay home because you can't afford to leave, and that's exactly how they want it.

Here's what's happening. Over 60 countries are already blending ethanol into their gasoline, and starting May 1st, the escalation begins. The official story is clean and rehearsed ⊷ energy security, greenhouse gas reduction, rural development. They've labeled it green policy. They'll sell it as saving the planet and supporting farmers, and most people are going to swallow it whole because the pitch sounds responsible and they have zero idea what's about to happen to their engine and their bank account.

The justification is global. So is the damage.

Your tank costs a fortune to fill, and ethanol-laced fuel burns so fast : 3x faster > you'll be back at the pump before you've gotten anywhere worth going. Fuel efficiency drops, fill-up costs climb, and you're getting hit on both ends every single time you drive. That's not a side effect. That's the point.

Anyone driving an older vehicle without flex-fuel capacity is on a countdown clock. Your catalytic converter, your fuel injectors, your engine ⊷ within a month you're looking at serious mechanical damage. People figure this out the hard way, then panic and rush for ethanol neutralizers and fuel additives. Those products leave the shelves in days the same way toilet paper did in 2020, because people in a panic are completely predictable every single time.

So the math is simple. Pay through the nose to fill your tank and destroy your vehicle doing it, or just don't drive. Most people choose option two. That's the voluntary lockdown. No mandate. No enforcement. The price stops them cold.

COVID gave them 18 months of lockdowns through fear. This one delivers the same result through your wallet.

And because this is global, you can't point at one government or one policy. They've rolled this out across 60-plus nations and wrapped it in climate language so that anyone who pushes back looks like they hate clean air and farmers. That's a deliberate construction. Push back and you're the bad guy. It's set up so that no serious opposition can form without being socially destroyed first.

If this sounds like a conspiracy theory to you, good luck with that. Conspiracy theory is a label invented to kill an investigation before it starts. It has nothing to do with whether something is true or false. It is a social weapon whose only job is to make the person asking the question look stupid enough that they shut up. The question never gets answered ⊷ it just becomes too socially expensive to keep asking. Every major truth in history was called a conspiracy theory before it was called a fact.

People are going to stay home, stop spending, and live on whatever's cheapest ⊷ and the whole thing gets blamed on carbon emissions.

🛑 Get ahead of it now, before the panic makes that impossible.

❕❕ If this information triggered you, GOOD! You should be triggered. Wake up and smell the deceit! ❕❕

Your Rebel With A Cause ★ Stella Young 

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Today was bedroom day for me. 

I was feeling pretty miserable for most of it. I don’t know why. Hopefully that miserable feeling will pass by tomorrow.

I watched some Mayim Bialik (neuroscientist, author, actor) on YouTube. One interview with Sam Knight who wrote the book “The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold” which mostly follows the studies and research of a doctor in the 60s who documented premonitions by people worldwide. It was intriguing and interesting.

The second show was an interview with Lee Harris, a channeller, spiritual teacher, intuitive and author discussing humanity expanding our consciousness. Also intriguing and interesting.

I napped for about 90 minutes and dragged myself out of bed to make tacos for dinner.

It was the easiest because there was leftover taco mince in the freezer so I just reheated that, chopped up some lettuce and tomato, poured grated cheese into a bowl, hot sauce and sour cream, chucked the taco shells in the oven for 5 minutes and whammo, all done. I think it took about 20 minutes.

We played trivia before all heading to bed at 7.30pm.

I think I can sleep again now. 

Nite all.