Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

PennysIntoPounds

Your dinner sounds spot on. Though why did you have to mention salt and vinegar crisps *drools* 😂

Glad the thongs are acceptable, chat about them or anything else as much as you like, if people don't like a diary's contents they are free to move on 😊
Though I too didn't know if you meant knickers or flip-flops 😁

KajiKita

PennysIntoPounds said:

Your dinner sounds spot on. Though why did you have to mention salt and vinegar crisps *drools* 😂

Glad the thongs are acceptable, chat about them or anything else as much as you like, if people don't like a diary's contents they are free to move on 😊
Though I too didn't know if you meant knickers or flip-flops 😁

Told you we were going hard core on the mindful eating exercise!  Apparently she has ‘ruined’ Jaffa cakes, cheese and onion crisps, Doritos and various other foods for clients in the past! 😉

I have never called flip flops anything other than flip flops, I’ve never even heard of them being called thongs … No wonder I was lost! 😂

Everyone is awake early here. Bright and sunny again, first load in the machine, dishwasher emptied and Chloe burst out the door this morning and already come back in 🤷‍♀️ and is scampering about the house and killing her squeaky toy 😊❤️

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Aw glad Chloe is enjoying her life

I think 'thongs' for flip-flops is an Aussie/NZ thing, I know the term having worked in NHS where there are loads of Aussies and New Zealanders. Obviously much hilarity ensues every time they say it and someone hasn't heard it before!

Brie

PennysIntoPounds said:

Your dinner sounds spot on. Though why did you have to mention salt and vinegar crisps *drools* 😂

Glad the thongs are acceptable, chat about them or anything else as much as you like, if people don't like a diary's contents they are free to move on 😊
Though I too didn't know if you meant knickers or flip-flops 😁

or, in my case, whether it meant a leather strap to attach to a walking stick.  

KajiKita

Enjoying all the flipping and flopping in here … 😉

I’m in a strange, somewhat liminal space today. Since starting the food mindfulness counselling I have been consciously trying to make more time for me, for fun, for self care. The two main results seem to be an arising of great gobs of anxiety and guilt about things past (from all eras of my life) and secondly more joy and ease, which is a strange combination. 🤷‍♀️😉😊 I realised yesterday that it is not even a year yet since I left the horrible job (end of last September) and it’s perhaps not surprising that my head is not straight yet. I am thinking that the self care etc. has allowed the knots in my psyche to start unravelling and that’s what all the ‘gobs’ are - for me I see them as being like belches of gas from a badly digested meal - not pleasant to experience but don’t linger long. 

I have been reading quite a few books about permaculture lately, which has led me to a book called Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s beautiful and is really speaking to me in its exploration of how an understanding of and respect for science and honouring the innate truth of traditional native beliefs can be held at the same time. There was a piece this morning about pouring out the first bit of the coffee pot with appropriate words as a thank you to the land and the water by her father when the family was out camping. She asked if this was an old tradition and was told that no it wasn’t - it started as a means to clear the ground from the spout - she found this prosaic and the memory lost its magic for her. Some weeks later, her father, having thought some more, told her that over time it became a thing to do - she reconnected with the memory and the intention behind the action. Then I read:

”I remember the words of Bill Tall Bull, a Cheyenne elder. As a young person, I spoke to him with a heavy heart, lamenting that I had no native language with which to speak to the plants and the places that I love. “They love to hear the old language,” he said “it’s true.” “But,” he said, with fingers on his lips, “you don’t have to speak it here.” “ If you speak it here,” he said, patting his chest, “they will hear you.” 

This ^^ literally made me cry just now … Just beautiful. ❤️

KK

ladybird1106

I’ve read the same book and often go back to it when I need reconnecting to a slower  and more conscious life. 

Love 🐞

KajiKita

ladybird1106 said:

I’ve read the same book and often go back to it when I need reconnecting to a slower  and more conscious life. 

Love 🐞

I’ve never come across it before, but it keeps being recommended by permaculture writers so I thought I would have a look. I can see why it is a re-read book for you 😊❤️

KK

rachmac3

I loved that book! I rarely re-read a book but I really think that's one I'll go back to. It was lovely to listen to on audiobook before bed, when I was just finishing uni and trying to get my mental and physical health back on track. I loved her book on moss too, but braiding sweetgrass is something special!

KajiKita

rachmac3 said:

I loved that book! I rarely re-read a book but I really think that's one I'll go back to. It was lovely to listen to on audiobook before bed, when I was just finishing uni and trying to get my mental and physical health back on track. I loved her book on moss too, but braiding sweetgrass is something special!

Love that other people also ‘get’ this book 😊❤️

Busy day today.
- Watered greenhouse and some remote parts of the garden that are really starting to gasp now  
- Wrangled Mr KK’s washing on and off the line, all neatly folded and he took upstairs 👏😊
- Cleaned dining room windowsill. Titivated the houseplants that live there. 
- Cleared, organised, cleaned etc etc the desk in the office. There is MUCH more to do in there but it does feel good to have made a start. 

- Financial updates done, paid CC, no OP possible this month after pay day due to house, clothing and cat spends but still have 6+ months of EF 😊 (That seemed impossible when I first started here 😊), latest YNAB sheet set up for June

Feeling quietly satisfied. It’s quite amazing how uplifting all the cleaning and clearing around the house that I have been doing is. I’m finding it much easier to do atm - like I have the metal bandwidth for it again. 

KK

beanielou

6 months EF is amazing. 🤩