Positive Thinking for 2013

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:wave: Hi everybody

Being positive happens a bit at a time and can be a simple thing, like sorting a cupboard, making a cake, seeing the washing blow in the wind. It is silly to say that every day is a positive day, otherwise we wouldn`t appreciate the positive moments

My turn to do some kitchen sorting, well de-stashing really. Honestly I just cannot believe how I got sucked into storing so much stuff and it hit me again yesterday, when I needed a bit of space in my very crowded wardrobe. I removed 3 bags of the tonne of pasta that I store in there and I am kicking myself as right now I need storage for the lovely garments I am making. Hence the kitchen de-stashing in a round about way.

We are wholefood eaters and that warrants a lot of seeds, nuts, grains, pulses etc as well as the likes of carob, cocoa, lacuma, maca and all the assorted dried fruits. I have a normal fridge and also a fitted small fridge, so that little one on 10 degrees is swallowing up loads of wholefoods, neatly stacked in lock and lock boxes. My main thought today is that I am no longer going to get 2 kg of buckwheat groats and the likes but I am going to spend a bit more and just get 500g at a time. I have a cupboard full of tins and bits anyway, so that will take care of the shtf scenario. I am 65 and we all survived the cuba crisis and the recessions, power cuts, shortages etc in the 70s and that was on far less of a store cupboard. My positivity is still very strong but feng shui can sometimes slip a bit, so I need to re-arrange stuff from time to time. Yesterday it was my tights/socks drawer and all tights bar 2 new packs of supporting tights, went out as I never wear full tights anyway. I now have a drawer neatly divided into sections

Tomorrow it will be the drawers in which I keep all my feet, bodycare and hand care stuff etc. I am hoping to free a big bedroom drawer to take the lovely hand knitted garments

Ds has completed on his new house and has so much work to do so I have `lent` him money, only he does not yet know that it will be a gift as I want to see him resume the savings habit first. When I see that he has repaid enough, then I will resend it to him for a new roof

I am just taking a breather with the stove on as I need hot water, to wash up all the lock and locks that I free`d up. Then I will neatly pack away, looking at the empty space I have created and not feeling anything for the stuff I threw out. Spinning this afternoon as I am making yarn for chain mail for our grandson for his birthday and dh is making a sword, ahh the simple pleasures

edit: beware the kilner jar bomb!! I heard a loud click and turned away from the sink to see that a large kilner jar of brined plums was fizzing away, now at room temperature and previously cold, the inner disc had lifted as much as it could, I threw a towel on top and could not for the life of me release the pressure, so legged it with jar into the garden, covering it now with 2 tea towels. Dh managed to twist the lid off and the fizziness fizzed all over theplace. lol, the upside was that it was working re fermentation but I have learnt not to mix fruit and fermentation in a sealed jar. Naturally the 3 remaining quiet jars of green beans have gone into the cold again. This made me smile