Tattoo of Awesomeness

So Kim is terminal. She has between 2 weeks and a couple months left. One of the things she wanted to do was get a tattoo and she and Mel had been discussing it for a while and when they told me I decided I wanted one too. Mel was a bit thingie about me getting one as well, but explained that it was more from a selfish perspective rather than anything against me.

I wanted it because I didn't really know Kim before she got sick and I'm not as close to her as Mel is. I was scared of forgetting her which is completely illogical but it was there and it was a way for me to be close to her, even in 20 years time.

On Saturday we went and got Mel's done, because Kim needed a doctor's cert to get her's done and by the time they'd done Mel's we needed to leave so that Mel could go to a hen's night. Sunday we all went back and Kim and I got ours done.

It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, its a little red now but all in all it looks great. Kinda weird getting used to the idea of 'me with a tattoo'

Goals of 2008

At the beginning of the year I put down a list of goals for the year. Sad to say I haven't really done any of them.

1. Finish a cross stitch - This one will still be done by the end of the year as its a present for my mum. Its just it wasn't the cross stitch I had in mind when I said I'd finish one.

2. Write an astrology paper on Neptune/Uranus/Pluto - Had to pick one for my astrology class, wanted to do all 3. Have just done Pluto to day.

3. Read Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park - Have not managed any of these. I tried but couldn't get into them. I did try though.

4. Write 3 short stories - none to date

5. Get a new computer - did this one! Yay!

6. Eliminated Credit Card Debt - definately not managed this one. I'm about $6k in now, partly cause of the wedding etc.

7. Lost 10kgs - Nope, I'm about the same as I was in March, going up a little and back down again.

Now I feel as though I've done nothing this year so maybe I should create a list of what I've done just so I don't freak out...

1. Gotten Married
2. Got a House
3. Got 2 kitties
4. Coping with Kim being sick
5. Quit WoW
6. Watched
1. Stargate Atlantis
2. Supernatural
3. Lost
4. Heroes
5. Fringe
6. Gossip Girl
7. Some of McLeod's Daughters
8. Sanctuary
9. Grey's Anatomy
7. Started running again
8. Worked lots

Doesn't seem like much still...

Craft Projects

So its come to my attention that I haven't actually completed a craft project since before I went to Singapore in 2004. I have 5 craft projects on the go at the moment and I really shouldn't start a new one until these are done.

1. Original Quilt (Created back in like 2002 - 2003, the top is all together, just have to do the backing quilting and binding)
2. 21st Quilt (My 21st was in April 2004 and all the blocks are still blocks. I really should combine them)
3. Enchantress Cross-stitch (Working on this one for AAAAAAAAGES)
4. Mum's Christmas present (Needless to say this needs to be done by Christmas. But its about 1/2 done at the moment so another couple days of sewing should finish it)
5. Cross stitch given to me by K (Haven't started it yet, was focusing on the Enchantress one)
   

I really need to get back into the habit of sewing while watching TV and given that we're watching at least one episode of supernatural a night at the moment thats a good 40 minutes of sewing time.

The quilts will be a little harder as they require sewing machines or me figuring out how to quilt (or machine quilt as the case may be).

Garden

Well our grass is kinda growing a lot and as we don't have a whippersnipper to cut it yet theres not that much we can do about it. Kinda amused at how quick its growing though considering it is supposed to be a drought!

Theres a rose bush in the back garden but I have no idea what kind of rose it is so I took a picture of it. Maybe Mum can tell me.

I planted tomatoes! Now to watch them grow. The ones in this pot supposedly grow up and need the additional support.

While the ones in this pot are supposed to trail along the ground.

Random Universal Messenger Guy

Last Thursday, after visiting Kim in the hospital I jumped on the tram to head home. The tram driver saw me running for the tram which was nice of him, and then when I got onto the tram, a random guy gave me his seat. He ended up sitting next to me. He was the Random Universal Messenger Guy. We started talking and he was in really happy mood, which he explained was great because this was the first time he'd felt so good in about 5 months after breaking up with his girlfriend.

So we get onto the topic of Kim being in hospital and crystal healing. By the end of the trip he'd told me the names of 3 stones and the store of where to go to get them. Turquoise to draw out the cancer, Onyx for fighting infections and Blue Howlite for fighting nightmares. And the store was just off Swan St in Richmond.

Then that night I had a fairly major meltdown, with about half an hour of crying and I think it was me just releasing a lot of the emotions and stress that had been building up inside me. I felt pretty comatose afterwards. Friday I felt fairly battered and bruised by the whole thing.

However, I figure it was the Universe's way of putting out a huge arrow and slapping me up side the head.

I went to the store on Sunday and while the store was your usual new age fair, and the woman who ran the store wasn't that awe inspiring, I still got the stones and they felt good. They're now with Kim in the hospital.

Ketosystem - Day 1

So my naturopath recommended that I go on this Ketosystem diet to kick-start my digestive system and hopefully weight loss as well. It seems very similar to the South Beach diet but this time its supported by a herbal tonic, a multivitamin, some cerillium husks and fish oil. It also requires me to pee on a stick to see what my fat burning level is. The diet involves next to no carbs (though as many veggies as I want that aren't potato) no sugar (not even fruit juice) and a hell of a lot of protein.

As I had already bought all the food for the week and planned the menus I'm going to be half starting it this week. Substituting my usual toast with nutella for an egg omlette this morning etc. Though I had already pre-made all the lunches for this week with a pasta base so thats out. Oh well, it'll give me time to get used to it, to start taking all the herbs and tablets and to get into the swing of it slowly.

I had my herb tonic this morning, it tastes disgusting so I was glad I was using up the fruit juice to get rid of the taste. No idea how I"m going to get rid of it from now on though as the juice is gone and I'm not buying more. I'm getting the rest of the products today, another $100 worth of stuff. *sigh* why is it so expensive?

Also need to bump up the exercise apparently, so while doing the C25K program is good, thats only 3 days a week, I need to be doing stuff 6 days, even if its just a walk rather than a run. Which is possibly a good thing but with Kim in the hospital for at least another 3 weeks I'm kinda wondering when I'm going to get time. Her solution was to go for a walk at lunch but most lunches I'm ultra busy anyway so *shrug*

Trying not to take this as a 'punishment' and trying to tell myself that I'm 'blessing my body' this way. But its hard, at least for now.

Ostara

Last night we celebrated the spring equinox, or at least I tried to. With everything going on at the moment it was too much to be there, even after Jacq's fantastic Reiki attempts. We ended up waiting for 2 hours for one of the girls who was organising the bulk of it, and by the time she got there I was just a bit too raw to cope with everyone, even though their intentions were the very best.

I don't know how the night ended up, I hope it went well for them.