My Big Fat Orange Cat

In my twitter account, I have an animal communicator following my tweets. I started following her as she seemed interesting.  Georgia is getting on in years and I know that decisions will need to be made at some point.

I was thinking I could call this woman, but then I thought, why?  I can communicate with Georgia.  I used to sit out in the back porch at night and think about her when she was out wandering the neighborhood. I’d remind her that I’d be worried if I had to try and sleep before she came in. If she didn’t, I didn’t know that I’d be able to let her out again. I would picture her in my mind very strongly.  Then as I opened my eyes and would be standing up to go in, she was almost always (there was one time when she didn’t) jumping over the fence and giving me her little squeak of a mew.

I knew that I could ask her this.

She tells me she is content right now.  And I am happy. I told her how this was hard because I felt so badly for missing out on what was wrong with Simone. Georgia reminds me, “There was nothing wrong.  She was sick.”

And I press my case, “But she didn’t have to be sick.  Maybe we could have fixed it if we had known what it was. I should have talked to the vet more..pushed her case more…”

Georgia said quite simply, “But why do you think sick is wrong? It just is.”

I was so stunned I was knocked out of the meditation.  And it has been food for thought for sometime.  Why do we think that sickness is wrong?  Perhaps it just another way of living?

My husband and I are trying the alternate day diet. Essentially it’s alternative days of fasting. I had some reservations about this diet, and I still do. It’s definitely not for everyone and it wouldn’t be my preferred eating/weight loss method. But if I can get more veggies into Dennis then this is a good thing.

The first few fast days (500 calories alotted). I was starving. I couldn’t believe I’d ever be able to maintain this diet for any amount of time. I’ve been feeling real yang deficient, more so than usual for me. I decided to moxa my lower abdomen. Usually it’s cold. I think my husband is ready to move out I used so much moxa, over three quarters of stick between the low abdomen and the feet (all kidney and spleen points on the foot).

I don’t usually think of moxa for sleeping, but I slept better than I have in weeks. Additionally, I’m not so hungry. I have noticed that when I over work myself I tend to be hungrier, but the argument is that I’m putting out more energy and so that’s normal. However, I’ve always kind of thought it had as much to do with low blood sugar–you know getting involved in something and not eating so then I feel too hungry. This makes me think that I’ve put out more qi than what I should and so my body is doing everything it can by replacing it with food–any food and preferable as much food as possible.

Most patients who are overweight are spleen qi deficient with damp. Often there are liver issues as well (if you get beyond the spleen qi deficiency). I wonder how much of the over eating that got them to the problem of too much weight had to do with needing to replentish qi stores quickly. Because of the hunger they probably chose foods that didn’t have much qi to offer (quick and processed) and thus started a downward spiral.

Well my goals for the new year are to get excited and organized and start really WORKING at all these things I do at home rather than just playing as a hobby.

I have started a diet my husband likes for him and am trying to decide if it will work for me or not.  It’s called the Alternate Day Diet.  While I’m skeptical as it doesn’t seem all that healthy to me, I do like the idea of having several days a week where you don’t diet at all–but eat what you want.  While the first fast day was REALLY REALLY Hard the second was easier.  I’m also finding that for me, I can’t just do those shakes, as the author recommends but rather I have to eat something.  I have about 400 calories a day.  I can fit a lot of leafy greens into that and chicken broth. Woo Hoo.

I’ll see if I loose any of the huge amounts of weight I need to loose.

I’ve been updating some websites and making them look prettier and re vamping others. I’ve also gotten serious about my SEO stuff on Google and am checking out what that looks like.

I’ll be moving a couple of other sites around this year too.  That’s always such a pain.

Just in a congratulatory mode–I have renewed my license and sent in all the taxes already!  Well not the IRS stuff for the refund but my business taxes.  Now I can get the paperwork together to do the other stuff!  And I moved some investment accounts to TIAA-CREF which is my favorite investment firm and they’ve got some products I didn’t know about so I now have stuff moved there.