A few years back, I realised I suffered from pretty serious self-sabotage. To some degree, and in differing areas, all of us do ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was helping an Aikido noob learn how to roll (ukemi, it's called). Regular, gymnastics style rolls are pretty easy (put your head straight down and push your feet over), but in Aikido we tend to hit the ground pretty hard, so there's a specifically designed method for doing this that absorbs all the impact and protects your neck and ( Read more... )

Here's a DELICIOUS smoothie I made today. Before the smoothification process:


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I've been having a lot of recursive dreams lately ( Read more... )

The other day, it was mid-summers day.

So, we went ( ice skating )

I left home almost 20 years ago. I never thought I'd see something like this:


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So, as you've probably heard. The FDA has announced that food (meat,dairy, etc) from cloned animals & their offspring is safe for human consumptionHow did they do this? By examining the nutritional quality of the food produced by these animals ( Read more... )

So, as mentioned, I recently changed my diet a little. However, I soon realised a couple of things:

1. I don't like cooking
2. I really don't like tofu.

Looking at "easy, honest!" tofu cooking instructions just about drove me nuts.. soak it? squeeze it out? This is not simple food. Plus, you know, by default tofu is kinda disgusting.. unless ( Read more... )

It's been a couple of years since I last did this, so I thought I'd do it again. Over January, I'm abstaining from caffeine & alcohol (& movies, but that's another story). I'll see how I feel at the end of it, and if I like it, I may well continue with either or both. I'm not particularly fanatical about this sort of thing (why get healthy by ( Read more... )

I've written about healing relationships before, but have fine tuned and super charged the process a bit, so thought I'd share it.

It works like this:

stage one
1. Ground yourself (not critical, but helpful ( Read more... )