Yet again a small update..

I have been giving quite a lot of these lately; not real posts but more like a explanation to why there haven’t been any “real” posts lately. This is unfortunate of course, but I suppose it is the result of this week being a little outside the ordinary.

In other words, I’ve been busy. I have not been planing to introduce any of the persons that surround me daily, both of respect towards these peoples privacy and that I think it is a little off topic…After all, this is not a place where I come to vent, rather a place to focus my intentions and development.

That being said. I did have a visitor this week, and it has kind of brought me out of my daily rutine; meaning not as many diary “posts”, not getting to write down all of my dreams and not getting up at 5. I have done all of these activities, but not at the normal level. I have however had a new experience concerning cooking, being that there’s suddenly another person to think of when making dinner. It has resulted in some varieties that I haven’t tried before and that’s all really something I’m not used to.

Christmas is coming up, presents, decorations, social gatherings with and without alcohol and the traditional meaty Christmas cuisine. This will definitely be a holiday of temptation. I really don’t want to go back a step from where I’ve gotten to, so this means no meat. The most unfortunate thing is that I suspect that it won’t be accepted or taken lightly by the surrounding people. I have a feeling that many might feel as I’m taking a stab at them or their values, giving them a reason to go with the aggressive approach to respond to a accusation or intrusion that has never even been made.

A lot of this is out of my control, but as long as I keep up my end of the agreement I am certain that no sceptiscism will bring about any unbalance. These are not my doing and I can therefor not be held to any of the claims fabricated out of misunderstanding, stress, frustration and defensiveness.

I will try to make another post in a few days time. It’s important to me that I give an insight into the changes occurring. I will only ever write sincere posts, a promise made to everyone and something which I will make this something to look back on with pride.

A teeny-weeny Hello!

I just thought that I’d check in and do a little status report on the different things I’m doing.

Vegetarian

It’s going great! I’ve been a vegetarian for about a month, and I am just now starting to experiment a little more with different kinds of dishes and vegetables; this weeks favourite has been spinach! I never knew that there were so many different things you could make with spinach. I haven’t really been doing any over the edge gourme cooking, but I have been cooking. I seem to have a very bad habit of using way to much garlic though, today I actually felt it burn in my stomach a little while after I had eaten.  Looking forward to learning some new recipes to bring home and make for my family during the Christmas holidays.

Dreaming

I’m actually getting better at remembering my dreams. Last night I was even able to control one of them. I decided to do some downhill skiing,  after a while I lost control and ended up dreaming that I was in a commercial. It was quite weird how I went from going down a mountain and ended up right next to my house, which was frozen and looked like a icicle,  it thawed out and there suddenly was a jingle and a voice that went off right next to my ear!

I am still learning to remember my dreams though, so Lucid Dreaming is still a bit out of reach.

Time Management

It’s been going a little slower than I was hoping, but I have finally started writing on my actual essay. I figure I will finish the Philosophy one first, and then move on to do the politics essay. I might start writing more essays after I am done with these, I clearly need to practice if I’m ever going to get any better!

First Week Aniversery

As the title says, it’s a week since I started this blog. I must say, the first week has gone by at an alarming pace…it seems that I have been writing one post per day, this might be a activity level that I’ll get a problem maintaining. Mainly because I’m not experiencing that many changes from day to day.

The projects that I am currently working on are ones which will benefit me in the long run, so a week won’t give much time to feel and see the changes that occur. Often I won’t notice them until a couple of weeks have passed.

Here’s how I’m doing on the different undertakings:

Vegetarian Diet

I am now two days into my third week as a vegetarian, and I must say that I am finding new ways of enjoying the diet every one or two days. This weekend I had my first stir-fry with rice….and of course a dash or two of soy sauce. The previous week I ate a lot of raw vegetables and fruit. I haven’t really been doing any real cooking, so this will probably be a thing to focus on as the weeks go on.

There are some things I have never tasted, like sweet potato…so I think I’ll have to muster the courage to go out and buy some, and try to make some kind of meal out of it.

Caffeine

Not really something I will be writing any more about, this turned out to be a easy habit to drop…and not really something I miss. There are some times I really feel like having something warm to drink, so to be on the safe side I should probably buy some herbal tea.

Early Riser

Now this is turning out to be a hellish thing, I am still having trouble going to bed at the right time…and as a result I wake up as a Zombie…having to fight my way out of the grave! I am just about to go to bed as I write this and I am hoping that tonight will bring some progress on my Lucid Dream project…

If I have a dream worth mentioning it’ll end up here!

G’night!

When, Oh when will I learn!?

Today I had a platefull of vegetables with some salsa on the side, I think it’s the best meal i’ve had in months!

This surpasses everything I had thought about going vegetarian, in the last few days I’ve been noticing an increase in flavour from everything I eat. I find it very strange to feel my mouth watering when I think about cauliflowers, broccoli, carrots…ohh and all the different kinds of fruit…I set out to do a vegetarian diet, but it seems that I’m gradually slipping towards raw-food! (I’m like a wee child whenever I go shopping for F&V, “OH! What’s that? I never had that before, or that! I’ll have to try some of these”) Life’s simple pleasures!)

I’m finding this very amusing; having such a dramatic change in my desires for certain types of foods….it feels as if my taste buds are having different reactions to foods that used to taste the way they “should” taste, apparently the way they really taste was something outside my “width of perception”.

I’m feeling knackered, I’ve got to learn to get to bed when I get sleepy…I have a bad habit of judging the lateness of the hours based on my previous sleeping schedule…now that I’m getting up at 5.00 am, 1 o’clock is several hours past my bedtime…I’ll have to make sure to exhaust myself so that I collapse into bed at 9.00pm

Godnight world…