Roxilla

Owning it!

I am now beyond poor, lord knows how I will manage to eat this next week or so until payday, but the good news is that I have a fab new haircut. Far more important than food, and besides, on this diet I hardly need much anyway!

This week has been quite strange, but mostly rather good. My intentions for Kelp revival tonight have been thwarted by family obligations sadly, but next Friday is the end of the month and will have money again (and maybe if I’m really lucky, a new dress) so guess one more week of this recharge and whatnot can’t kill me. I’m looking forward to taking my hair out, and with my back feeling stronger and better every day (although damn thing still gives me issues when I least expect it), and my heath and zen levels also on the up, really feeling quite peachy.

Some other reasons to smile about today…

* I am loving, absolutely adoring my new hair-do. It’s short and shiny and back to its natural colour, can’t stop touching it! Much as I try and grow my hair, long hair just isn’t my thing – I get bored so easily, and a choppy bob always makes me feel so much lighter and cooler… hard to explain. Also, the back of the cut makes my spine tat look hot.

* Peppermint Rooibos is quite possibly the best invention ever. Refreshing, delicious, soothing and turns out peppermint has all these super powers too, from nausea to colic, anxiety and tummy issues. I guess this makes it good for hangovers – no more need for awful Coke Zero!

* I got some lavender essential oil the other day. I use it on my pillow at night, and wouldn’t you know it, I sleep like a log. On Wednesday night I was asleep almost the minute my head hit the pillow, my last thoughts were a pleasant waft of fragrance and the next thing my alarm was going off. Thursday night wasn’t bad too, hoping to see how it goes.

I was working quite a lot on Thursday and sneaking bits of Sleepless in Seattle in between, still have one or two things to wrap up this afternoon when I get home from work. After a good week of eating properly and no junk, I am having urges for avo toast… but that is not quite as bad as pizza or junk I guess, so perhaps it’s ok to indulge. I haven’t had a cheat day yet this week after all, and avo is good.

P.S. I read an interesting post on Thought Leader yesterday about women and food issues… some valid points, but my argument is that diets and calories aren’t always a bad thing. Do you think that we should eat whatever we want (in moderation of course) or do you think that it’s not such a bad thing to be careful about what you eat? ie. are shakes and protein bars really all that bad, and is it the slimmer people who advocate the ‘do what you want’ angle or what? Thoughts please!