Stress Management?

 

This has been one of the most insane times of my life.I have been going hard for the last 3 weeks! Constant study,worry and stress.I have eaten a million Executive B vitamins,a coupla bottles of rescue remedy and am now done.I do have this rather amazing bald spot on my head to show for the fact that I have not coped well with these exams.Woke up on tuesday with it.It just happened over night.......I cant believe it.It was a rude wake up call.Sarah,slow down,take it easy ,your going too fast,be good to yourself,a pass is enough.........I now have 3 months off from college to grow back my hair and work on how to cope better with exams.For now though I just wanna rest.My head hurts and I am so so tired! Lets hope all this hard work paid off.Results in 2 weeks..... 

Calling all tongues..........

Okay ! here we go! My first bit of real practical bit of diagnosis in my journey to becoming a Traditional Chinese Doctor..........I need to see some tongues.
Its a big part of diagnosis in TCM and really very indicative of what is going on in terms of disharmony in the body.
So here is my suggestion.All those of you who read my blog ,send along a picture of your tongue......Dont be shy ........I need to see as many tongues as possible to gain experience of how to read them.If you know my email send it there,if not then drop me a line with yours and I will send you my address.
You never know I might come up with some interesting findings!
Please help by contributing to my tongue library!!!!!!
All you need to do is stick your tongue out as far as it will go and take a snap! Dont brush it or gargle before or drink anything if possible! The more natural the better.........Say first thing in the morning!
I know its a wierd ask but it would be very very very helpful! I would be so happy to hear from you and your tongue!
Thank you!
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Passing on the love........

One of my favourite feelings apart from the post sex cacophony of sound is when you get some new sounds to listen to.
Yo know how it goes.....yu are having a chat with a friend and it comes up in the conversation............"have you heard blah blah blah?" or "oh my god I brought this fabulous C,D you must listen to".Sometimes it kiinda just happens .You just hear a tune on the radio and think ...mmmmmmmmm........or you hear it at a friends place or a restaurant or a bar or god knows how many number of social venues you can dream up.........well,I got my little "tip" Like this...............

First things first

1.Get up
2. Go to bank
3. Walk to record shop
4.Find attendant
5.Ask for zero 7 - the garden
6. Go home and listen.....................................................!
7.Send email to me saying "wonderful"...
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8.Jose Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Yeah.............so I took he advice,as advice is from very reliable source .
Zero & as always damn fine BUT Jose Gonzalez.....where have I been not to have heard this man and his beautiful guitar that immediately had me welling with tears in my eyes????????
Thats all I need to say,check it out! Albums are, Veneer,Remain and a special mention for the song Heartbeat.

The Life and times of Vivaldi.

So I am back to hospitality again! Its a simple way to make money between studying.Sometimes I like it and sometimes I dont! Sometimes I wanna scream out to the customers who look down on you like a piece of shit on your shoe and other time I wanna hug the customers that just make your day with a laugh, a joke, or even sometimes a compliment.There seems to be little understanding of general human kind that anyine you come into contact with....... ANYONE.........and I cant overstate this enough.......IS A VALUABLE HUMAN BEING.You may not like them and you may not want to hang out with them but they are still valuable and precious to someone somewhere.So my day starts 3 days a week at 8am. I have a coffee to get me going beofre I start and away I go.Serving coffee and breakfasts for 4 hours until we make the shift to restaurant mode and serve lunch. The restaurant is below the Sofitel hotel and several large companies (Goldman Sachs, Telstra,Nab etc) so there is a certain "kind" of clientele.The men on the whole are great,keen for a chat and a giggle.The women on the whole couldnt give a damn and seem to want to play out their powertrips in the coffee shop too......PURLEEEEEEASE! Give me a break!
So I just do my thing and do what I am supposed to do,and I get paid at the end of every week! Nice!You would think...........
It then comes to these two women I work with ...........now I have nothing against Italian women I really dont ......but they are shocking.........evryone is accountable for everything,bitterness foams from their mouths,you can sense that one false move and youre standing in line waiting for a bullet to your head because you ordered a Long Black instead of a short black.Youre waiting to be electrocuted because you forgot to add 40 cents to the bill beacause they had soy milk and not regular and well quite frankly I am waiting to have my head lopped off,well just because I am me...........
I have been working on this conflict for some time now.Trying to figure out the best way to make them happy.I realised that there is not a thing I can do to make that happen,in thier world my small mistakes and even my existence is just a BIG mistake.You see they stick together and if either of them fuck up they erase the evidence,no accountability, no guilt trips, and no more said.........
I know I should leave,the situation seems strangely reminicent of other experiences in my life, other jobs, other relationships, other scenarios where you know its best to just walk away but it all seems so convinient and yet I still tell myself i can make it work if I just try harder at it, when will I learn..............

The big heat.........the no rain

well this is all a little new to me.I am surrounded by talk of what we will do this summer in terms of water.........I say .......drink it,swim in it,take long long cold showers in it,wash my clothes with it,clean with it,make soup with it,water my plants with it,but it seems I may be limited as to my options and it not something I have really given alot of thought to.Water shortage talk is rife,Melbourne has had half the amount of water it needs to fully support its population.Farmers are selling land,crops are going to pot,people are looking a little worried........I feel a little ambivalent about it,its not that I dont care it just is so foreign to me.Sure I have camped for 10 days in a row and have had to take water from rivers and only wash where water was considered crock free......but that was different that was a controlled shortage,a fun adventure.
Talking to my uncle today he is considering getting a hose pipe from the bath in the kids bathroom out to the lawn to water the garden........and by that I mean the dirty bath water ,my question when asking how long the hose pipe was, which incidently was about 50 meters was also who was in charge of sucking at the other end? Will it come to family showers,or showers lasting no more than 2 minutes?? Will we have to buy bottled water to drink ? will we have a limit on our meter??
These are all things I am investigating .......while doing so someone at work was telling me that at some point some time ago there was a gas shortage and people were not allowed to cook with it or use it for heating water,and anyone found using too much had thier metres taken away...........My My........
So I will just have to see how this pans out.Its spring here right now and we had the hottest day in october for 99 years.A whopping 34 degrees.I love it ,I love the feel of the sun and the warmth and the freedom but when faced witht he very real threat of drought......I kid you not! Fromnt page news today......I dont feel so warm and fuzzy about these lovely hot days.

Wow!~

I just realised that its been 3 weeks since my last blog~! where did the time go????
Well actually I know where the time has gone! I lost myself in books and exams! Its quite amazing how you can just lose time!
Take today for example..........I sat down in my chair at 9am.....I had a little lunch at 1pm, a few smoke breaks a shower ,alot of study and its now 5pm.Where did the time go?? I felt like I just got up! To tell you the truth tommorow is planning to be a fine day and I wanna get out to it! So I have crammed a whole heap of stuff in today and wacked up the pressure! Post exam is kind of the time to do it because you have stepped up a notch or two and are really motivated,hmmmmmmmmmm, motivated is the wrong word ,you are more into the groove of intense study! I have just completed 6 exams! Am waiting on results for some but already have 2 high distinctions for the ones I got back! I do hope you dont think I am being a bore or a big head, but I really like to share my success! I have had issues in the past with my own abilities and actually opinions of others and my intellectual abilities so I guess I am trying to prove something to myself and those that doubted me! Hey you .........you know who you are! Fancy going head to head on the details of replication of DNA........?????
I do have some posts coming up ! I just need to catch my breath and sort myself out!

Stands to reason.......

J-ster tagged me with a question.........

WHICH BLOG DID YOU LAST READ?

Perhaps my brain is to lateral right now , but wouldnt it stand to reason that it was hers??

If I was going to think a little out of the box I would say something really interesting like "philosophies of the wandering man" or "The diaries of a Sadu"
Unfortunately my internet viewing is somewhat liited and I can only offer you up a web page..........does that count? Click on the link!
distraction

Look Look! Liver 3!

 
Its a very nerve racking experience to needle yourself for the first time,but if I wanna do this acupuncture thang I sure as hell have to get the hang of it! The first time I needled myself it just kinda hung there all floppy and sad looking.I didnt have the courage to give it a good tap in.
The second time was a little better , and now ,well now I am a god damn pro.......although I think I hit a nerve today and that made me jump a bit!
These points are called liver 3 and are excellent points for subduing excess and nourishing deficiency.Great for headaches,insomnia,calming and period problems!
Me likey!
I havent gone as far as manipulating the needle as of yet,To do this you twist the needle in a little deeper.I really dont have the courage or knowledge for tha yet.I am just in the curious stage at the moment where a little knowledge seems to go a long way into motivating this kind of insane behaviour! But it works .it really works! I can feel the qi moving and I definately feel different after I have needled myself! Look ! Here I am blogging! I havent done tha in ages! 

The place I know best.....

 
This is my most familiar place ..........I love it! Its cosy and conducive to study.I have everything I need around me ..........Benji often tries to sabotage my work by sprawling himself along the top of the desk so there is absolutely no chance of getting to my work! I am slowly training him to sit on my lap but he is such a lush that it gets too cramped for him down there!
My aunt constantly berates me that I have the blinds drawn but how can you focus on study when its fabulously sunny outside and why would you open them if its grey rainy and dull??? 

Can you believe its that time again..............

 
So here I sit again,with bum superglued to chair.....which incidently is a new one following severe back problems and having to resort to lying down on hard floorboards for a day or two........I thank the lord for my osteopath also,she did a great job of making my back look something other than chair shaped!

Anyways here I am again! 3 exams looming this week and 3 more in the following weeks.Its not qite as full on as last semester and I havent worked out wether that is because I have adjusted tot he terminology and reached a brain activity level that is now switched on to studying,OR wether it is that I have just chilled out a bit and cant be bothered quite so much.........Exams will tell.....
Had to purchase some of these Bush flower remedies which are fabulous for helping with concentration when studying.Called Cognis. Its the Australian version of Bach Flower Remedies .......which I always found very effective.
So folks sorry for dropping out on you there for a while, I just need to do this and then I will be a bit more present in everyones life! Thanks for hanging on in there!