A journey into changing who you are, so you can find true peace with your life
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Podophobia
Saturday, was manicure and pedicure day, something I treat myself with once a month, but not for
the normal reason, people go and have this done, you see I am guilty I have ....................... wait for it Podophobia.
I have to confess, I have a phobia about feet......... I hate feet, as far as I am concerned they are the ugliest part of anyone's body...... the only saving grace is that they can be hidden in shoes. No one will tell you this, but that is why shoes are so beautiful because it is the only way to hide the ugly ten toed "things" that lurk below.
Have you ever looked at feet.............. I mean REALLY looked at peoples feet........... toes......... with corns, and knobbles and bumps, of irregular lengths ....... heels................. cracked with crators so deep that it puts the Grand Canyon to shame............. Nails........... with last months garden soil still embedded on the sides........... fat and bulbous........... long and skinny.......... in my worst nightmare the thing that scares me the most is feet............. and bats............ and .........
I have always had a thing about feet, it was not until my females parts were torn from my body, which resulted in hot flushes that I gave in and started wearing open shoes, it was either melt or show off my toes........ . and I am afraid, to my horror and continued embarrassment the toes won.
If you want me to go crazy, put your feet on me......... I am getting the "hibbies" just writing about feet.
Even my childrens feet even when they were tiny, I had to wash them with a cloth because I could not bear to touch them.....
Now because I cannot touch feet, which can be really difficult when you have two attached to the end of your legs, I have had to go and have a pedicure every month, and after months of doing this, I still lie there like a board, while Yvette is trying with all her skills to make it a pleasant experience................. not in this life time.................
Now this sign is one that I want to have made and put up in all public places........... I could really live in a world where everyone has to check there feet in at the door..........
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thank you
I have never done this on a blog before so this is a first, I would like to thank all my amazing blogger friends for the amazing support and love I have felt, after my last blog............ you cannot begin to know what it did to lift my spirit, knowing that you were holding me up in prayer.......
This is for Yaya, Maggie, Ratz, Cheryl, Pennie............. you guys are the best blogger buddies ever and I am blessed by the fact that I have you all as friends
My cupboards are all cleaned, my clothes are colour coded, my message for Sunday is done, my holiday club lessons are all typed, nothing like hard work to take your mind of things.............. but more than that I had an amazing evening with my Heavenly Father last night, had a good cry, without the help of any onions ............. and realised that God loves me, and sends his angels ( all you guys) to lift me up when sometimes the road gets a little rocky........
This is for Yaya, Maggie, Ratz, Cheryl, Pennie............. you guys are the best blogger buddies ever and I am blessed by the fact that I have you all as friends
My cupboards are all cleaned, my clothes are colour coded, my message for Sunday is done, my holiday club lessons are all typed, nothing like hard work to take your mind of things.............. but more than that I had an amazing evening with my Heavenly Father last night, had a good cry, without the help of any onions ............. and realised that God loves me, and sends his angels ( all you guys) to lift me up when sometimes the road gets a little rocky........
Monday, May 24, 2010
Dark Clouds...
Have you ever got up in the morning, and just had a deep feeling of sadness, you are not sure what it is, you are not sure why you have it, you know you have so much to be thankful for, so much more than so many, and yet that ache is there.......................... it is like you want to spend the whole day peeling onions...............really good strong onions............ so no one can see the tears are real........
For my birthday I had received a gift voucher for a coffee shop, so although my birthday was in December, yesterday was the first time I had some time to use it. So off we went for lunch, the place was called Legato............ a beautiful place where the owners live on the top floor and the coffee shop is on the bottom floor, a peaceful place with nooks and crannies all over, so you didn't know what was around the next corner.................... I suppose just like my life right now, full of hope and also full of uncertainty................
The music was "semi' classical if there is such a thing, nice background music................. the only problem was the strange feeling I had when I walked inside, have you ever walked into a place and the hairs on the back of your neck just stand on edge.......... this has happened to me twice, once when I went into the kitchen of the General Jan Smuts museum in Irene and yesterday when I walked into the Legato Coffee Shop ..................
We were sitting eating in a little corner we had to eat inside because Kayla as usual had forgotten her jersey and the weather is really turning quite chilly, this morning was the first freeze of the winter......... we had just received our food, given thanks ........ and the next minute a clock fell of the wall........... just fell off the wall............... there was no one sitting near it there was no walking past it, no one bumped a table ............. nothing......... it just fell off the wall.
We were laughing and joking about it when the lamp on the table across the room started to flicker........... and that was me.............. I just had this really uncomfortable feeling............ that continued to stay with me the whole day......................
In the evening I was bringing in the washing and the wisteria pods which were at the top of the mulberry tree were breaking open from the cold, and all I could think of was my heart breaking open............ and the dark cloud of sadness is still just above my head...............
For my birthday I had received a gift voucher for a coffee shop, so although my birthday was in December, yesterday was the first time I had some time to use it. So off we went for lunch, the place was called Legato............ a beautiful place where the owners live on the top floor and the coffee shop is on the bottom floor, a peaceful place with nooks and crannies all over, so you didn't know what was around the next corner.................... I suppose just like my life right now, full of hope and also full of uncertainty................
The music was "semi' classical if there is such a thing, nice background music................. the only problem was the strange feeling I had when I walked inside, have you ever walked into a place and the hairs on the back of your neck just stand on edge.......... this has happened to me twice, once when I went into the kitchen of the General Jan Smuts museum in Irene and yesterday when I walked into the Legato Coffee Shop ..................
We were sitting eating in a little corner we had to eat inside because Kayla as usual had forgotten her jersey and the weather is really turning quite chilly, this morning was the first freeze of the winter......... we had just received our food, given thanks ........ and the next minute a clock fell of the wall........... just fell off the wall............... there was no one sitting near it there was no walking past it, no one bumped a table ............. nothing......... it just fell off the wall.
We were laughing and joking about it when the lamp on the table across the room started to flicker........... and that was me.............. I just had this really uncomfortable feeling............ that continued to stay with me the whole day......................
In the evening I was bringing in the washing and the wisteria pods which were at the top of the mulberry tree were breaking open from the cold, and all I could think of was my heart breaking open............ and the dark cloud of sadness is still just above my head...............
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Morning or Evening
You are given the gifts of the God's, you create you own reality according to your beliefs. Yours is the creative energy that makes you world. There are no limitations to the self, except those you believe in (Jane Roberts)
I have heard that you are either a morning person or an evening person, but I am blessed by the fact that for me that is not true I love to get up very early in the mornings and go to bed late in the evening...... I suppose you can say I truly have the best of both worlds.
I was at a birthday braai, on Saturday evening and I was sharing about how for the first time in living memory on Wednesday morning I had overslept, probably because of all the gyming and the training .............. this was quite a surprise for everyone knowing how disgustingly punctual I am, some of them are convinced that my job is to wake the birds every morning because I am such an earlier riser......... so someone asked what time I had over slept until......... and when I said 5.30 they were rolling on the floor....... they thought is was hysterical most of them don't even normally get up until after 6.00 am.................
It then got me wondering about how they can "waste" their time sleeping, , if they get up so late, I mean what is the point in sleeping your life away.........
I have always been an early riser like my dad........... his father owned a trucking company, and he would get up at 4.00am every day as a child to say goodbye to his dad, and for him it became a habit and he was always up early... as a child I used to like getting up early because then I would have him all to myself, and not have to, for this little while share him with my sisters, and I suppose for me it also became a habit...........
I love sitting outside in the chill of the mornings having my first cup of tea, watching the dawn break there is something so magical about this time in the morning, it is like the world takes its first breath as the sun comes up, thankful for another day........ thankful for the chance to try again...........
I never have to rush to get ready, I never yelled, screamed or shouted at the girls to get ready for school, there was never tears in the morning, they were never, late for school, for a party, for anything, this is my benefit for getting up so early, life is tranquil................
I decided a long time ago, that I did not want to get to heaven one day, and have not used every gift I was given, had not opened every present that He gave me, and helped every person that crossed my path that it was in my power to help...... I don't ever want to have regrets about what I could have done and didn't ............
Life is really just to short for regrets........ I will live every day to the fullest, fit as much as I can into it, do as much as I can, see as much as I can, meet as many people as I can, talk to as many people as I can......... so when it is my time I can say " I am ready"...............
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Am I too Old...
They say that age is relative.......... I am not sure to what but tonight I feel 100 years old, not only am I going to the gym 5 times a week because of the 5 week challenge I am taking part in, on top of this shock to the body....... I am also on training on a new computer system that we will be going on at work at the beginning of June.................... so I am exercising my mind. I am not sure at this point which is aching the most.........
My body because on Tuesday night we did squats,squats,squats, ........ one of the most unladylike exercises I have ever seen..... your boobs pop out the front of the little training tops, your butt is stuck out in the air like it is ready to pop, leaning forward causes your stomach to hang over your shorts......... I mean really.......... could someone not invent more lady like exercises............. Next week is midway in the challenge and then we are going to be weighed and measured......... and hopefully not shamed................... I cheated a little and weighed myself this morning and have lost over 2.5 kilograms so am feeling very proud of myself, not bad in 11 days.........
My brain because I have worked at the same company in different jobs for 22 years.... using the same computer system and now they want to change it................ my biggest problem is that I have been using the "enter" key for 22 years now they expect me overnight to start using the "tab" key , how logical is that ............ it must have been a man that designed the system. Every time I press enter my info is GONE and I have to start again............ I have to be able to help the 11 people in my department who report to me so have to really know the system......... who said it was fun to be a manger...................
I am exhausted at night and if I sit still too long I am fast asleep, so have to keep on going until all my chores are done, I have nodded off a few times and woke myself up snoring.......... I mean how many disgusting habits can one person have ...................
And all this aching has got me wondering am i just getting too old ................
My body because on Tuesday night we did squats,squats,squats, ........ one of the most unladylike exercises I have ever seen..... your boobs pop out the front of the little training tops, your butt is stuck out in the air like it is ready to pop, leaning forward causes your stomach to hang over your shorts......... I mean really.......... could someone not invent more lady like exercises............. Next week is midway in the challenge and then we are going to be weighed and measured......... and hopefully not shamed................... I cheated a little and weighed myself this morning and have lost over 2.5 kilograms so am feeling very proud of myself, not bad in 11 days.........
My brain because I have worked at the same company in different jobs for 22 years.... using the same computer system and now they want to change it................ my biggest problem is that I have been using the "enter" key for 22 years now they expect me overnight to start using the "tab" key , how logical is that ............ it must have been a man that designed the system. Every time I press enter my info is GONE and I have to start again............ I have to be able to help the 11 people in my department who report to me so have to really know the system......... who said it was fun to be a manger...................
I am exhausted at night and if I sit still too long I am fast asleep, so have to keep on going until all my chores are done, I have nodded off a few times and woke myself up snoring.......... I mean how many disgusting habits can one person have ...................
And all this aching has got me wondering am i just getting too old ................
Monday, May 10, 2010
Mothers Day
What can i say about my Mothers day, that I am blessed with two beautiful daughters and a really great son in law........ I was a little sad in the morning, my "home" child had slept over at a friend and I woke up "childless" so made my own tea.... was surprised a little while later when she arrived home for the four of us, two girls and too Mothers, to go on a Mother daughter breakfast.......... which she paid for, not sure where the money came from although I have the inkling that the tuck money she required for school all last week had a lot to do with it............ it was lovely I cannot believe that I actually had a health breakfast, it was torture I almost felt like fighting my friend for her eggs and bacon the smell was amazing...... but I could not afford to use too many points at breakfast otherwise I would have to starve all day......... talk about dedication....
I made lunch for the whole family........ can you believe it again so that I could stick with my diet, restaurant food just takes up to many of my points and it is too early to want to cheat and next week they are taking measurements and weighing us all again so don't want to embarrass myself.......
My eldest daughter again used her creative gifts to make me some stunning gifts, memo pad for the fridge, note book for my "inspirational moments" and my favourite some Mothers Day Coupons, little cards on which I can put tasks that I would like her to do for me.......... anything.......... I could really have fun with them............. revenge.......... I am thinking about all the nappies, all the sleepless nights.......... all the grey hairs............. no................ yes........................no..................
With all the events of the day, I missed church in the morning so we went to the evening service and I was thrilled when our minister asked me to do the evening service at the end of May....... I knew something was coming because I had completed a "message' the week before and had given it to my "bestest" friend to type....... God knows I cannot be rushed into these things....... so always sends me the message way in advance....... we serve an awesome God......
It could only happen to us........ when we came out of church our car was surrounded by policemen, and loads of police cars with flashing blue lights, turns out a drug dealer had run out of petrol, pushed his car behind mine, and gone off to buy some petrol, the police had received a tip off about the car, and so when it was noticed they "hid" behind a wall and when he came back with the petrol they nabbed him, and they were holding him up against my car............ we had to wait about half an hour before they would allow us to remove my car................
Never a dull moment in our household........... even Mothers day could not be an ordinary day.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Flats
When we were away we stayed in a block of flats, something we last did for a few months when we were first married while our house was being built, did not enjoy it then, it was like the neighbours were in the next room, and I remember my washing kept getting stolen and that was 30 years ago I am sure that tumble drying is now mandatory in blocks of flats............ as I looked across the road and at the blocks of flats opposite my imagination started to run riot as I sat and imagined what the people were like in that lived in the block of flats........ what they do........ what their lives are like...... what they are like.......
For me the first tell tale sign is their curtains............ no really............ you can tell so much from someone curtains................ now one thing is for sure that if you live in a flat you HAVE TO HAVE lace curtains because if the light is on, it really is like a massive 3D TV screen and unless you have a body like Mr and Mrs Universe......... your neighbours really do not want to see your rolls........ they do not want to see your stomach at your knees...... they do not want to see your boobs at your belly button......... they do not want to see your sun baked skin......... really ..........
If you really look you will see that all the curtaining is different, you have the windows where the curtains are drawn each day in the shape of a "Y" with a nice decoration holding them together, these are the Precise people they like things to look nice, they like order and precision in there lives they like everything in the right place..... everything orderly.
Then you have the curtains that don't quite fit windows..... these people obviously move from flat to flat never really settling down, the Nomads, they don't bother to get curtains that fit because they will probably move again in a couple of months anyway........ and probably in the middle of the night with out the knowledge of the landlord..... I remember once years ago we were going to the theater in Johannesburg...... when it was still safe..... and as we were about to cross the road a truck came past losing some pots and pans which still had food in them............... adds a new meaning to the saying eat and run................
Then you have the curtains that fit but are only holding on by one or two clips. this is obviously the single guys really just don't care about anything except party........ party........ party........ so are probably not home enough to care or notice their curtains sad state, the curtains plea to be rescued from their shame of not being pit up properly..................
Then we have the family curtains that are drawn neatly every morning to the side, that are drawn in the evenings as soon as it goes dark, curtains that are lined so no one can see inside no one can harm those inside ........... the family is protected by the circle of the curtains at all times it holds them together..... it gives them comfort, reliability, peace of mind.
Then you have the curtains that are never drawn....... that are never opened and one has to wonder at what is going on behind these curtains what are they hiding........ what dark secret are they trying to keep from the world that they cannot allow the light to come in and see there shame............ they could be vampires......... too much Twilight for me................ they could be............
Then you have the exhibitionist that never close their curtains......... that let it all just "hang out".... I think that somehow they believe that because they are on the 3rd, 4th, 5th floor that they are high enough that no one can see them.............. wrong..............
For me the saddest part of flat life is seeing the children........ standing at the window staring out at the sea........... wishing .............. wishing ........ wishing...........
For me the first tell tale sign is their curtains............ no really............ you can tell so much from someone curtains................ now one thing is for sure that if you live in a flat you HAVE TO HAVE lace curtains because if the light is on, it really is like a massive 3D TV screen and unless you have a body like Mr and Mrs Universe......... your neighbours really do not want to see your rolls........ they do not want to see your stomach at your knees...... they do not want to see your boobs at your belly button......... they do not want to see your sun baked skin......... really ..........
If you really look you will see that all the curtaining is different, you have the windows where the curtains are drawn each day in the shape of a "Y" with a nice decoration holding them together, these are the Precise people they like things to look nice, they like order and precision in there lives they like everything in the right place..... everything orderly.
Then you have the curtains that don't quite fit windows..... these people obviously move from flat to flat never really settling down, the Nomads, they don't bother to get curtains that fit because they will probably move again in a couple of months anyway........ and probably in the middle of the night with out the knowledge of the landlord..... I remember once years ago we were going to the theater in Johannesburg...... when it was still safe..... and as we were about to cross the road a truck came past losing some pots and pans which still had food in them............... adds a new meaning to the saying eat and run................
Then you have the curtains that fit but are only holding on by one or two clips. this is obviously the single guys really just don't care about anything except party........ party........ party........ so are probably not home enough to care or notice their curtains sad state, the curtains plea to be rescued from their shame of not being pit up properly..................
Then we have the family curtains that are drawn neatly every morning to the side, that are drawn in the evenings as soon as it goes dark, curtains that are lined so no one can see inside no one can harm those inside ........... the family is protected by the circle of the curtains at all times it holds them together..... it gives them comfort, reliability, peace of mind.
Then you have the curtains that are never drawn....... that are never opened and one has to wonder at what is going on behind these curtains what are they hiding........ what dark secret are they trying to keep from the world that they cannot allow the light to come in and see there shame............ they could be vampires......... too much Twilight for me................ they could be............
Then you have the exhibitionist that never close their curtains......... that let it all just "hang out".... I think that somehow they believe that because they are on the 3rd, 4th, 5th floor that they are high enough that no one can see them.............. wrong..............
For me the saddest part of flat life is seeing the children........ standing at the window staring out at the sea........... wishing .............. wishing ........ wishing...........
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Windy Windy Gym
Well I have been back at the gym for over a month now and starting to get a little fitter, and lost a little weight so am quite happy with the progress..... but quite happy is not something I do well I want WOW..... so because I don't do anything in half measures my eldest daughter and I decided to take part in a 5 week challenge, for 5 weeks, you have to gym 5 days a week, for a half an hour and you have to have a balanced diet, which has been drawn up by a dietician . We went on Friday to be weighed and measured............... and we were motivated and ready.
No problem it started on Monday and we really get loads and loads to eat, you are never hungry but it is mainly vegetables which I love......... however the "after effects" leave a lot to be desired.
Should you be driving behind a white Nissen Bakkie on the highway and suddenly both windows go down and heads appear out of the side of the car ........... well that is us.......... preventing death by gassing...........
Monday we did a normal 45 minute circuit, bikes, rowing which I love and the cross trainer which I hate...... Tuesday we did a 45 minute spinning class, and the instructor very " kindly" made it a hill class........ a 35 kilometer hill class.......... a 35 KILOMETER HILL CLASS we must be insane, at some point during the class my daughter asked me whose idea this madness was anyway. Wednesday was a Curve Zone class...... and well that is where the "oops" occurred. I had been relieving the pressure all the way home, so thought i would be okay, I was fine through the whole class until I got to the sit ups............. and what can I say the pressure was to much and like a volcano........... there I blew............ luckily the music was really, really loud, so the fact that it was outside the accepted allowance for noise levels was disguised................... however ........................ all I can say is thank goodness my daughter was on the machine behind me............... although the look she gave me was not pretty.............
And she has sworn if it happens again...... she will stand in the middle of the gym and tell everyone of my transgressions......... To night was Curve Zone again, and she was watching me like a hawk........ luckily the volcano was under control this evening ... so I am now looking for an anti wind pill..................
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Private and Confidential
It is not often I remember my dreams but last night I had a dream, I had a dream about an open gate, and this morning I woke up with a lightness, which I haven't felt in a long while, when I looked up the meaning of the dream, it means being set free, free to find yourself, free to discover who you are........................................I Had a dream.............
I know a few people are wondering when I will find the words, to write about the changes that have been happening in my life............... I don't think I ever will it is really too painful, and not for all ......... but my special friends to know about, ........... I don't think I want to discuss it or think about it ever again, from the beginning I put it in God's hands and gave him full control, so I am not going to take it back, however, listening to this old song yesterday made me realise that even if I did have the inclination to write something I could never say it better than the lyrics to this old song................
So many words we didn't say,Where did we go?
Two people lost in a storm
Where did we go?
We lost what we both had found
You know we let each other down
We played the games that people play
We made our mistakes along the way
Sometimes I know deep in my heart
You needed me
Because I needed you so desperately
We were too blind to see
But then most of all
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