My stitches are out.

I just love it. Well, I do not like to look at it, but I like the "freedom" of movement. So it is very nice.
I got them out after school. And school was nice, because I do like mondays. Tomorrow I will see the Hobbit: Thorin Oakenshield. Well, he is covered in beard, but other than that, I like the actor.

Yesterday I watched a bit of Moonlighting I hadn't watched that in ages. But it was rather late. So I did not watch it until the end. It was  after midnight. But when I went to school, I saw, that we had a full moon. So I was - in hindsight - not surprised, that I did not  get tired. I can never sleep with the full moon on. And I do have sleeping mask. Also, I only know about the full moon afterwards. I am not anticipating it.

I am still fighting to get back into a good rhythym,  but I will. Determination.

Still got my sneeze and want something warm to drink now. So, this is it for now... Good night... But first the dulcet tones of Sophia Loren.. zoo be zoo be zoo....

Lazy weekends

and vacations: one just has to love them. It is wonderful. I slept in and I read then had a very late lunch of fish and rice and some veggies. So it was sort of ayurvedic.
Due to my still bandaged hand I did not do any gashana lately, but I will do it again, when the stitches are removed on Monday. On Sunday I will go to Yoga again. I missed that. It is fun and relaxing, so I will go again. Hooray.

I will also get my apple in a little while and be more regular. Like being in bed by 9.00 pm tonight and up by 6.00 pm. This way I can do some learning and I won't suffer all that much, when I go back to school on monday. Other than that: WEEKEND!!

I am currently listen to yesterdays: Friday Night is Music Night. It is opera night and they started with Wagner. That only proved to me, I really don't go for his music. Too pompous for my liking. I might not go on with listening and switch to TV. Though I do not think, that that will be much of a winner.

Recently, a very old aquaintance (knew him about 20 years ago) contacted me. That was weird. To begin with, I really had to think who he might be. Then, wether I liked him back then. And after that, wether he really had been at my house. But he was at my parents house. That is a relieve really. I don't like to many people to know where I live. They might come to visit me and for me, that is an invasion. I don't like it. My home is my castle. Nobody needs to come here. In exchange I don't visit others and prefer to meet them somewhere else. Family excepted. :-)

At any rate. I am sitting in my castle, doing some more writing and enjoy my lazy day. In a little while I won't watch TV, but learn a good deal. Better for my concience, better for my nightly sleep. So, bye-bye....

It is snowing - help others keep warm!

or rather: it has been snowing last night and so everything is mostly white again. I love it. Though I do quite see, that not everybody does.
If you drive a train or bus or fly a plane or helicoptre or work on a ship or anything close to that or just similar: it might not be all that wonderful.

Far worse: if you don't have a home and cannot get a place in a shelter, this snow is rather hell, than heaven. So if someone approaches you today for cash and you have it: give or give something hot to drink, if you don't give money on principle. A hot or at least warm drink is maybe even better.
If you have a pair of gloves to many or a blanket, that is still warm, but that you are not so very fond of any more: give them away.
That is, what I intend to do. I'll carry at least my spare gloves and a scarf around. It is not much. But it might help a bit. Whatever helps is better, than doing nothing.

For myself: I am certainly a child of luxury. And I do not mean that in money. Although I do have quite enough money for myself to spend.
What I mean is: I have a roof over my head. By far enough food (and fat on my body). I have enough clothes, and warmth, a loving family and all the friends I need in the world.
Also I can read and speak at least two languages fluently. O.k., one is german and I should be able to be fluent in that. You would be surprised, how many people did not have the advantage of learning their own mother-tongue fluently or at least remotely correct, in spite of hearing nothing but that language. Amazing. Reminds me of Professor Higgins. The english sentence is: "Why can't the english teach their children how to speak?" In german it is similar: Kann denn die Kinder keiner lehren, wie man spricht?"
My problem is more, to set a comma correctly. There are very clear rules in the german language, but somehow I never grasped them. Another luxury: I get buy anyhow, because the grammar is correct and the rest as well.

At any rate: if we all just give away one hot drink, sum of money or something else that migh help to warm up, that is not much, but it is a help and so: let us all get started. We can all find something to give away.

 

Almost back on track

At least as far as my cold is concerned. The hand is still a llibit of a bother. This is no omplaint though. I did this myself and I got off very lucky indeed. I am not even in any real pain, if I donb't overstrain the Finger. And that is hardly possible, considering the bandage.
Still: since I did not sleep much in the night, due to coughing and sneezing, I slept in. No Yoga, no gashana, no regular times. But I did a lot of meditating. And when I ate at all, I ate healthy. So I lost 3 kilos in as many days. That was quite a bit too fast for me. I got one back now.. But I do not want back more. I will keep up eating healthy and drinking a lot and I will work on getting back into a regular schedule. Starting tomorrow night, by going to bed early. It will work out, I am sure. Actually, I already found, that it is much easier, to keep to a regular eating schedule.
I am a Kappha Dosha and as such, I'd only need a small breakfast, if any. So, it does not hurt to skip it. In the evening, one should eat nothing or only a little. Since I did not eat before about 3 or even 4 pm, I am not hungry in the evenings. And I am such a lazy bum, that I don't even take the trouble to get food, when I feel a grumbling. It is easier to heat some water and drink something hot, sometimes with a little honey in it.

Sometimes, being lazy can actually help to diet. :-) Though it is not a regular and healthy way. One of my crutches is, to not buy sweet stuff, unless I think I really, really need it. And since I tend more to fatty and salty, I seldom do. Or only about once a month. That was different, only a little over a year ago, but I had time to watch myself and found, that boredom is another factor to buy sweets. So I just do interesting things, do not get bored and therefore have no need for sweets.
I also choose more carefully. I do like liquorice and winegums and Yell-O (Wackelpudding) and they do not have so extremely many calories. I am lucky enough to not being a choc-aholic.

Once my health is properly restored, I will go back to the studio and do some sport there. Most of the things I do can be done even with the hand bandaged, so that should not be much of a problem. Unless they don't let me for insurance reasons. But I think, if I just go on the treadmill, they won't have much of a problem. I can always hope. Right now, it would be to early, unless my speed was below snail. And that is rather boring. Especially for an hour. But the coughing would stop me sooner than later. So, not studio next week either, but if it ain't too cold, I could do some walking with the girls.

So, bored along enough and sick of searching the letters on the left side of the keyboard and going back to correct typos...

Have a happy weekend. And if - like me - you are living in a peaceful and economically stabile country, with no weather hazards: Be thankful for it and enjoy yourself!!

Healthy living can hurt

at least, if one is not careful.
So I got hurt, trying to cut out a salad-heart. My - very sharp - knife obviously does not hold with pure vegetarian food, so it decided to add some flesh. Unfortunately for me, the only flesh near was that of my left Hand. I am not a cannibal. And if I were, I would not start with my own flesh.
At any rate, I first went to my neighbour, who did some first-aid for my hand and my nerves and then called my dad, who drove me to my doctor. And she stitched it. Nice needlework, I can say.

This came rather on top of a very nasty cold and during school-time too, when I do not really want to miss anything. Well, it is only the second week, so I have hopes, that I can keep up with the rest of my class.
Today everything looks a little better than before. So today I can start on reading up one thing or another. I intend to do every exam only once this time around!

Due to my cut it is rather difficult to write on my computer, so this is another short post, just to prove, that I am still alive... Cheerio...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L217OCMNnuc

I hope, that you can open the link. It is a video of Sir Tom Jones singing 

"I'm Alive", therefore the foto. I did not want to post a negative foto..

Trying out my steam-machine

Well, once I got it at least. I will buy one tomorrow and I decided to try out new recipes with it. New to me, that is.

I will try Wan Tan and such things. Yesterday I made Brussels Sprouts over potatoes. Meaning: the potatoes cooked in the pot and the sprouts were in the sieve above that. I do have a very big pot with an integrated pot. But because it is very big and I am not and I don't want to cook a few veggies in a big pot, I decided to buy a steamer. I found one, that I like and I read about some recipes and so: I will be steaming.

The sprouts from yesterday were for today in school. No, they did not get cold, I have a special device to keep it warm. My only problem was to get it open. In the end I had to ask a colleague and he got it open.

It was very nice. I tried out Kurkuma-Powder on it. Hadn't ever used that before, but it was a good thing.

Next time I try a recipe with fish, I will try out lemongras. Never had that either. So it might be interesting. Well, it will be a new world, so that is quite o.k. with me.

Today we had Social Laws and Dutch in school. And that was a good day, apart from the fact, that I had two free hours in between. Since I didn't have anything much to learn yet, I could only read and revise my planner.
It was then to early for the sprouts, between 9.30 and 11.30 am.

After school I ordered a book for Ecological laws and then went home, almost straigth in my bed. I slept for about and hour and a half and then fought myself out of bed, since I won't be able to sleep, if I sleep before 10.00 pm. I tried. Apart from that: the neighbours above me not only have a problem with silence, they have guests tonight. Well, there is no use to try to sleep now.

Tomorrow I shall go to the market and try to buy seasonal veggies. That won't be very much, since there are not many in season now and no fruit at all. At least not, in Germany. Maybe I have to buy some things frozen. But I will make do with what I can get on the market.
Then to the library and into an asian shop, to get the Wan Tan Dow. And then to ALDI or somewhere else, to get dessert for Sunday. I am invited (or re-invited myself, after having said at first, that I didn't want to eat after twelve, due to my ayurvedic eating. But I have actually forgotten that. Well, I wanted to bring something at least.

Other than that I will start the day early tomorrow to get some work on my thesis in. Hopefully my neighbours above and below will still be asleep between 6.30 and 8.00 am. We shall see. Or rather hear.

We have another written exam for dutch, but the way he described it, we will all be able to do that well. Still, after having done some work on the thesis, I will look over my dutch-stuff.
The evening will be for the constitution and social laws and sunday evening for ecologie and my corruption thesis.

I had been listening to "La Mer" by Charles Trenet so I found this picture very fitting to my feelings, if not to the upper text.

Getting up early....

.. after having had a long spell of getting up very late is not so very easy.
Even with the resolution to get up early every now, due to the plans of living a more ayurvedic life.

Well, I was at least on time today and with time to spare as well, so that is o.k., but it was a run, I can tell you. Anyway: I fought with myself and finally agreed to get up at 6.20, instead of 5.00 am. Yes, that is a long time after, but I caught the Bus at 6.44 am. Fully dressed and brushed and made up, with my thermos filled and my bag packed correctly. So I was good.

Now I am at home and rested and tried out a feature of my windows office package, that I poopooed when I got it. But I think, it might come in handy after all:
One-Note.

You can make a file for absolutely everything you want to do.
Private, School, Finances, Meeting, Voyages, Wedding, Funeral, Divorce (or should the divorce come before the funeral?). Books, Orders, Renovations.

So I started on that and it really was easy. I made some notes, wrote down some links and ideas, tips for books to buy, that stuff. And I know where it all is. I only hope, that my computer won't brake down or we will be cut off from energy. Than I am in trouble.. Or would be, if I didn't have the habit of writing everything down by hand as well. Or most things... 

Now I will cook a little something, since I am getting hungry. I had breakfast, but no lunch. And I do not want to get out for lunch, as ist is raining. So sports might foll off the list as well. Or be reduced to some cycling... oy.

For now: FOOD!!!

The pleasures of sleeping in

I didn't really hope for the chance to sleep in this term. But today I could, due to one class not taking place. So I only had to go there for one meeting at 1.15 pm. That's nice. Then I went home at about 4.00 pm and at 7.00 pm I have the next appointment. Hopefully not so very long. But: I did get home quite a while before the next meeting and that is a nice thing.

This morning I got up at 9.30 am. Then I printed out material for the meeting in school and in between got ready in the bath, in the kitchen and so on. My old printer is not compatible with my new computer. So, I thought, "No big deal, I use the old computer." But it turned out, that my new monitor is not compatible with my old computer either. Still, I did not give up and just connected my old monitor with my old computer and thus was finally able to print.
Now, my printer is from 2005, just like my old computer. So it is not the fastest of models. PLUS: you have to feed in every sheet yourself. You can't put in a stack of paper, because it will only suck in the whole stack and still print only one page. Then it is slow, when you don't dare to leave it and fast, when you dare.
I sat there and waited for A page to be printed and it took about five Minutes. I filled in the next sheet, went into the kitchen to fill the kettle and it was finished in 5 SECONDS. So I had to interrupt the filling. Then I was daredevil like and rushed under the shower and out again and I was actually faster than my printer. It took five Minutes, I only three. I am quick in the morning or I wouldn't get off in time.

All in all, my trusty old printer did the work and let me get all the material and catch an earlier bus. So all was well, even though it didn't end then.

I went to school and now have a topic for my seminar-work: A comparison of corruption between women and men. Now, we all know corruption it seems to be everywhere, but the question is: are there any corrupt women? Yes, there are, but they are in a smaller number than the men.
 Or are they? Maybe, there are as many or more corrupt women as men, but they don't get the chance to work on it. Or maybe they are just so much better at hiding their corruptiveness. It is also possible, that the number of corrupt women known is so small only in relation to men in corruptible positions.
And it is a question of location then, as well. Because in some countries, there are many women in positions, where they have a chance to be corrupt, in others, there are none or very few. And those in may not be invited into corrupt schemes.

So, it is a wide field actually, the problem is more, to find written data about this. And I wanted to do the history of corruption. Stupid of me. This looks like much more fun. It can be done easily and I learn something completely new... Cheerio!!

Tough luck

Today I had the redoubtable honour to pick the post of course-speaker. A bad pick for me, but it could have been worse. One of my Course could have picked it and she really only takes care, that she has an advantage.

I don't do that. But I am not really sure, wether I am the right one for the job. Ah well. Now the deed is done and at least I do not have to take care of the timetables. That is a relief. Or do I mean relieve? Well, I am just happy, that I didn't get that...

So, it is now 3.33 pm and I will geht myself ready for sports now and on the way get in some washing. Then afterwards, because I don't really have anything to learn, I will get my printer working. And then I will do some more cleaning in my flat, which is an ongoing job in everyones life, I guess.

What did I learn today? How to build a group with my e-mail-provider, in which I can write all people concerned in and thus prevent writing down every adress every time I send an e-Mail about something concerning the course.
Oh and I learned that the Big Mac McMenue doesn't agree with me anymore. Well, that is really a good thing. So I like it.

Since I want to get some sport in, I will knock this off now...

And yet another day

on which I got a lot of sleep. From 3.00 pm to 7.30 pm. But I obviously needed it. Unfortunately I am not tired now, so I will be tired tomorrow.
But, since I am awake, I can do some writing here.

Apart from some times, when I went to bed late and slept late, I did get on well. Did my Gashana and Yoga and Meditation, didn't overeat, did some sport as well. I also reduced salty, sour and sweet and upped herb, bitter and sharp. So, that works better.

In all, I am starting to find my rhythym and it is a rhythym, that gives me more time. I do use that to sleep mostly and to read a little, but I figure, that it is needed.

Since school started again today, I can at least not sleep in every day, so that is a plus. It was nice today, the only subject was ecological laws and the change about Engergy. It is going to get more interesting, as the prof really knows what he is talking about. And he is witty.
Also he told us, that we won't have a written exam on his subject. I love that a lot. We have a talk instead. So that is one down on the list..

My sport is generally going well. I was on Saturday and will go tomorrow and Thursday as well on Sunday (for Yoga). And I even lost two pounds. That is nice as well. This will be the result from taking care of what I eat and getting more movement in. So I love it. Since I have gained far too much weight over the years, I can use the loss.

Since I am finally getting sleepy again:
Tada... :-)

Before the day is over

and there is not much of it left, let me do a little post at least.
What did I do for my dosha today? I skipped breakfast, did a
Gashana and ate something sharp, herb, bitter, sweet, sour and salty.

What didn't I do? I didn't do Yoga or Meditation and didn't go to sport.
Neither did I get up early. Tough. Believe me.

When I came home, a little time ago, my big brother had called me two times. He did not think to call me on my mobile phone, because I told him I seldom take it with me. Tough. Well, I wrote him an SMS. So he knows, that he can reach me at about 7.00 am tomorrow morning. I shall have to get up early. There are a couple of things still to be done.

When I got home, I got my washing up. Tomorrow I have to go the bank as well and clear something up. Well, there is a lot to be done, believe you me.

Good night for now!

Second Day of the Year

What did I do? Well, as planned I was in bed by 10.00 pm, lights out and ready to sleep. Unfortunately I didn't get to sleep until 2.00 am. Tough.
So I got up at 10.00 am. But then at least I followed the ayurvedic routine for the Kapha Dosha. I did not eat lunch as I only had my breakfast at about 11.00 am, but I shall have lunch in a little while.

After getting ready I went into town and bought an new monitor. Now I can use it for my PC-stuff and to watch TV. Great. I am so happy. Not.
I only got a TV-receiver, because in Germany I now have to pay a fee for TV, wether I watch it or not. But I didn't have a TV since 2007 and I did not miss it at all. While checking out the programs I found what I knew already. Nothing that interests me. O.k., so this was the lunchtime-program, I won't be watching that during the week, but I do not see, that it will be getting much better in the evening or afternoon.

I used to love watching TV. I knew the complete program, but after a while it got boring and repetitive. So I have this TV now and what do I use it for? Trooping the colours, Last Night of the proms, Sissi, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Maybe the news, but I do not know yet.

At any rate: I am really starting now. I did my Yoga-stretches and my meditation, my Gashana as well. And I didn't have Cappuccino, but Tea for breakfast. So the start was good.
Now - or soon at least - I will have my lunch. At 6.00 pm I have an apointment in the fitness-studio to change my program and from 7.00 to 8.00 pm I will do Bodyshape. That's about my day. Before and inbetween all that I will simply enjoy the freedom.

And now I will eat. :-)