Can You Hear Me Now?

I haven’t made an entry in a few days and I just feel like it’s time, even though I’m not inspired at the moment to write about anything in particular. So I’m just going to ramble about whatever pops into my head and call it an entry. The Mind Dump (well,not really, I will form sentences. A true mind dump does not think or filter anything!).

I set my timer to tape The Tonight Show last night because Duran Duran were on. (Us former Duranies are pleased as punch that the original 5 have reunited and recorded a new CD and everything. Wheeeeeeeee! John Taylor is still a babe). Unfortunately, the online TV listings I looked at told me the show was on at 12:30 so I set my timer from 12:30 to 1:30. Well the show doesn’t actually start until close to 12:40 because Sex and the City precedes it, and DD must have been on at the very end of the show, because my tape cut out before they were even on On a positive note, I did get to see the interview with Ewen McGregor, my favourite hot (and brilliant) actor next to Johnny Depp. Purrrrrrr

These are the same online TV listings that told me Desperate Housewives was on at 8:00 last Sunday and not 7:00, therefore I missed it. I guess I have learned my lesson not to trust that site (they’re not worthy of a mention or a link).

Yesterday, sometime between leaving home and arriving at my client’s, the underwire in my bra popped out at the end that falls near my underarm, and proceeded to spend the rest of the day STABBING THE HELL out of me. That wasn’t fun. I had never had that happen before, and my complaints to any woman (or man I felt comfortable enough saying “my bra” in front of) within complaining distance were met with “oh, I HATE when that happens!” (the men, not so much). No one put the bright idea in my head of what I could actually do about it, which I found out was possible later when I got home and ripped the bugger off… that it was easy enough to slip the wire back in place and I could have even put tape over the miniscule hole for God’s sake (Red Green would have been proud). That would have lasted a few hours and I wouldn’t have been REPEATEDLY STABBED all day. So now you know, should that ever happen to you at work.

Have I mentioned this is my third day in a row of juicing vegetables and drinking a good 12 oz. of fresh vegetable juice?? I expect to be radiating with good health any minute now.

Speaking of food, I bought the most delicious yogurt I have ever had in my life recently!! It is soooooo good! It’s Yoplait Source Fruit at the Bottom. I bought the peach/blueberry combo and holy moley it is good stuff!

I have been taking the supplement Melatonin lately to help me sleep (a hormone our bodies naturally produce and levels rise when the sun goes down… some of us just need more!). It works great. You can buy it at the health food store. It used to be banned in Canada; I had read about it and heard about it on a lot of the MS related email lists I belong to, by Americans who highly recommended it and could buy it down there easily. Within the past year Canada decided to legalize it again and now we can get it too. The woman who owns the health food store near me told me it was banned years ago after a doctor went on record stating “Melatonin is a cure for cancer”. I’m not so sure I believe that, but it’s so typical… as soon as a possible cure for cancer or any disease presents itself, it is banned or dissed by the medical community at large. What would the Cancer Societies (MS Societies, CF Societies, MD Societies, Diabetes Associations, etc. etc.) and clinics DO if there was a cure????? Not to mention the pharmaceutical companies. BAH don’t get me started. Anyway, I thought that was rather interesting. I’m taking it to help me sleep, but hey, if I can prevent cancer at the same time, all the power to me.

A friend of mine in Toronto is in the process of doing a long distance Tarot card reading for me. I received the bulk of it the other day, but because he still had a few questions and wanted me to elaborate on a couple things a bit more, I say it’s still “in progress”. He’s a very busy man and isn’t charging me for this, so he only offered to answer one question for me. ONE. I, of course, added a second one “just in case you have time”, but now that I see how in depth it is and how much he has to type I don’t expect that second question to be addressed (darn!) The one I did choose as my most important was about my health and what I most need to know about that. The reading is quite interesting and he managed to hit on lots of things that are going on around me right now with respect to my family, some decisions I have to make, my finances (how it relates to my health), etc. Even a positive experience I had with someone while I was in Toronto. Bottom line, however, is that the key to my health lies in my mind. My belief in myself has to be something I really turn inward and not just project outward. “Stability is possible but it will take resources, mostly from the mind”. I have been reading up on Vipassana Meditation a bit since my friend Jerome speaks so highly of it and how it changed his life. I believe strongly in the body/mind connection and think this could be one way to achieve that inner peace that will lead to better physical health. I like this paragraph I found:

“Vipassana meditation aims at the highest spiritual goals of total liberation and full enlightenment. Its purpose is never simply to cure physical disease. However, as a by-product of mental purification, many psychosomatic diseases are eradicated. In fact, Vipassana eliminates the three causes of all unhappiness: craving, aversion and ignorance. With continued practice, the meditation releases the tensions developed in everyday life, opening the knots tied by the old habit of reacting in an unbalanced way to pleasant and unpleasant situations. ”

I was just looking at the 10 day course information… pretty intense. The morning wake-up bell is 4:00 a.m. (Can you say… second thoughts?? Heh) and there is no supper break. “Tea break” at 5:00 p.m. Something tells me they probably don’t serve their tea with scones and cucumber sandwiches…

That’s all. Where is Emma when I need a line to end with???