Starting Your Day

Imagine starting your day experiencing either one of these scenarios… I hope they put a smile on your face, they definitely made me smile.

Thank You

I wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who send healing thoughts to Isis. After 3 overnight stays at the animal hospital she finally began to eat on her own.

Once she started to eat we took her home and a week later she is SO much better. She’s been running around silly with her brother, Osiris. She’s still a bit sniffly but definitely on the road to recovery.

Requesting Healing Please

My sweet, gorgeous furry girl, Isis has a severe bout of cat flu.  We thought she was getting better but overnight she seems to have gotten worse.  I’ve been giving her Reiki but feel that I need to ask for more assistance in the healing department.

I would be very, very appreciative if you could send her some healing.  Here is the gorgeous girl.

Thank you in Advance.

Bootcamp

After kickstarting the year a little low on energy I changed doctors and discovered that I have an underactive thyroid, which was picked up in tests back in 2006 but my then doctor didn’t pick it up or felt that it wasn’t something to be concerned about.  I have also found out that my Vitamin B12 levels were being tested incorrectly and that not only was I extremely low in Vitamin B12, I had very low levels of Vitamin D and Iodine.  To top it off, I have Candidia throughout my body – which I never knew could effect the whole body.

Instead of trying to continue to live my life the way I have, I’ve taken a big step backwards and rested when I’ve felt like it, worked when I’ve had the energy and just nurtured myself.  I’ve spent time with my gratitude diary, re-evaluated the foods I eat and enjoyed getting back into reading for pleasure.

I am starting to feel better and a lot of my previous symptoms – which I won’t go into – have gone.  My energy levels are starting to rise and I feel like I want to step back out into the world.

I have also felt like I wanted to S-H-A-K-E things up and to do so I’ve joined Bootcamp which is just 5 minutes from home.  It’s only 2 nights a week for 55 minutes and my first session was tonight.  I L-O-V-E-D it!!!  Even though bootcamp was challenging, I really enjoyed the variety and doing exercise outside.

Attending these sessions will allow me to connect with women in my community – most of my work is in town and most of the women around the area are mothers, so making friends has been a little difficult.  I know, I could have hung out at the playgrounds or crashed mother’s group, but truthfully, it’s not my thing.

Now I would love to reconnect with people online so I look forward to getting back into my blogging.

If you stop by, please say HI… and if I visit you, I’ll be sure in saying HI too.

See you around in cyberspace!

Photo Challenge – Day 29

Here are some more of my collections.

This elephant has a buddy and we got them from a
ceramic shop in a country village in Vietnam.

This is Pachatata and Pachamama (Perivian god and goddess).  We bought
these while we were travelling around South America in May last year.

Photo Challenge – Day 28

I’ve struggled keeping up to date with my blog… I haven’t had a problem taking photos but just posting has been a bit of a challenge due to being out, computer/internet problems and working.

On Wednesday, 28th Hong Kong was still celebrating Chinese New Year.  Each year the shopping centre holds a Chinese Lion Dance to bless each of the shops at the centre, and then they come around the complex to bless all the homes.  When I could hear the drums, I ran down stairs to capture them coming around the centre.  Here are some of the photos I snapped at the end of their performance around the complex.  They were all looking at bit tired.

Photo Challenge – Day 27

After yesterday’s effort, I thought I’d take some photos of
some of the things we’ve collected on our travels.

This Queen and King I found at a garage sale when I first moved to Melbourne.

This umbrella I bought in Thailand while on our honeymoon.

I bought this fellow in a street market in Shanghai.

Photo Challenge – Day 26

KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!

Happy Chinese New Year.  Wishing you good health and prosperity for the Year of the Ox.

Today Nick and I decided that we’d get out and about for the first day of the new Chinese new year.  Last night I made sure I charged the camera battery as I was hoping to get lots of interesting photos to share with you BUT I totally forgot to put the battery back in the camera SO no interesting photos to show you.

Instead, I can offer you a photo of my husband, who is slowly adapting to having two very active kittens.  He’s not use to having animals compared to me who grew up with at least 1 dog and 1 cat in our household.

When Nick and I met, Missy was already in my life and not long after, Pirate came along but we didn’t really live together until I moved to Hong Kong 4 years ago.  During that time he’s had to get use to 2 older, furry cats who liked to rumble of an evening, but they were never as crazy as Isis and Osiris.  Missy was upstair, staying clear of the kittens.  They look cute and innocent here but 10 mins earlier they were terrorising the household. LOL!

Photo Challenge – Day 25

I thought I’d do a quick walk around our complex and
take some photos… here’s what I found.

These were all in pots ready for planting.

This lone chair overlooks the large grassed area where everyone plays soccer
and during Summer they use it as a cricket pitch.

This is one of the outdoor areas and I found someone that was reading.  I was actually planning on taking a photo of the candle holder on the tall pot but felt a bit funny about interrupting this person to get up close to take a snap.

Photo Challenge – Day 24

I know we’re suppose to show off photos outside of the home but I couldn’t resist sharing with you this… a cake in a cup.  A friend of mine sent me the recipe for “The Most Dangerous Cake in the World” and I was a little bored so I thought I’d give it a go and take photos of each step.  I didn’t have all the same ingredients, mine are in brackets. 

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons flour (or organic unbleached flour)
• 4 tablespoons sugar (or brown sugar)
• 2 tablespoons cocoa (or drinking chocolate)
• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoons milk (or soy milk)
• 3 tablespoons oil (or canola oil)
• 3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
• a small splash of vanilla extract
• 1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.

 

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!

Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

 

EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous). And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

It did taste good.  If you try it out, please tell me how you go.