1. Health kick
It's official. I think sugar is vile, evil and dangerous. I'm taking my children off it as much as possible, and have nearly eliminated it from my life (apart from the odd piece of chocolate). I have become convinced of the ultimate goodness of organic food and home cooking and nut butters. Numbers in ingredient lists are to be avoided at all costs. Everyone (bar the dog) in my house is now taking Omega3 and Omega6 oils. My favourite section of the supermarket is the health food aisle, and my favourite shops in the local town are the two organic wholefoods markets. Don't worry - if you come to visit, I'll still serve something edible.
2. Tsunami puzzles
Have you seen these things? They are logic puzzles where you fill in some squares and keep others blank in order to make pictures. Kind of like Sudoku but more fun because it's not numbers. I'm addicted.
3. My new grinding kitchen machine thingy
It's a juicer/sausage maker/grinder/pulser/ all in one. I bought it for the sausages but they've been a dismal failure. However, the frozen fruit sorbet that it whizzes up is pretty spectacular - and delicious.
If my brother is reading this (and you know who you are...) yes I still enjoy my obsessions of yesteryear. It's just that I don't have time for everything. Someday I'll get back into home-made paper, cross-stitching, quilting, photo-albums, cloth nappy designs, sewing clothes, making cushions, folk art and painting, Alexander Technique, swimming laps, furniture restoration, vegetable gardening (although that's about to hit a resurgence) and interior design. I read a book last year that said I wasn't lazy or uncommitted for switching around, I just had a particular kind of brain. I want to believe it.
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For sure don't leave out the Alexander Technique - it's a truly amazing process! The website at http://alexandertechnique.com has loads of info.
I went through a sudoku phase last year - hmmm have to try this tsunami thing
I went through a sudoku phase last year - hmmm have to try this tsunami thing
They're a bit hard to find. Sometimes called pixel puzzles too I think.
Ah sister, your brother here, the one who (quite gratifyingly) knows who he is.
Enjoy your health kick. It sounds like you are taking up where Nanna left off.
Challenge: Define 'organic' and say why it is a good thing.
If numbers are bad, why omega3 and 6?
Lastly, what sort of brain do you have? we do like it you know.
PS watch out for the dog, he may feel left out if y'all are popping yellow capsules.
Dear brother (I mean that)
Glad you know who you are.
I do miss Nanna. Keep wanting to ring up and get her no sugar fruit cake recipe and tell her I finally 'get it'.
Organic: grown as far as possible without pesticides. Why is it good? I don't want to ingest more chemicals than necessary.
Numbers are bad... but Omega3 and Omega6 is good. Just accept it. Can't you live with paradoxes?
I have the brain of a 'scanner' I'm told, according to the book I read last year. "What to do when you want to do everything." Some would call it irresponsible and flighty....
The dog already feels left out. It happened a long time ago. But he copes by stealing all the food we leave around the house.
So that's why we're friends - we're both scanners! :)
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