Showing posts with label herbal teas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label herbal teas. Show all posts

Monday, February 01, 2010

Sunshine and Electricity.













Had other nights good sleep, the sleepy tea + THC works well together, makes me feel extremely relaxed.

After drinking the tea and inhaling a few vapour bags I could hardly keep my eyes open, while Richie put Vaseline on my lips.

Richie always checks the position of my body and corrects my posture, last night I did not notice a thing, as I was practically asleep at this point.

The next thing that I was conscious of was noticing that I was awake again this morning, and feeling all the pain again.

Luckily all is well with my catheter today, yesterday here was a hint of an emergency about it as we both realised that I must have at least a liter and a half in my bladder.

So glad today was by contrast a slow start to the day, I very bravely did my arm exercises even though I wanted to avoid them.

The weather has not been quiet, first the sky was grey and cloudy then the clouds went and the sun came out

We had about an hour of gorgeous sunshine and then quite dramatically the clouds were back and a huge downpour of snow happened.

It was a heavy downpour of snow, nearly a whiteout. It was over after 5 minutes, then the cloud had gone after another minute the sky got very dark and there was more snow, this time smaller flakes.

Then there was the sound of thunder and the sound of the first Monday in the month, city alarm.


Quite a show all together, there were a few more snow showers before the clouds moved on and now the brilliant sunshine is back.

Gorgeous sunshine but you can tell it is very cold, not cold enough for any of the snow to stay.

Mathilda my physiotherapist will be here soon, so I will hear all about the weather from her, hope it has not got too slippery out there.

I can smell that Richie is making bubble and squeak as our lunch time banquet, yummy, it was good yesterday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_and_squeak


Plus the ice cream was also very good, banana and coconut with small pieces of walnut and date.

The walnut pieces are excellent and the addition of the date pasta made it even creamier and nice.

Hope everyone has a good start to the week today.

Oh dear the sun has been covered by new snow clouds, it looks like it will snow again.

Just to make sure we are not too relaxed the power has gone off.
And my mattress alarm has gone off too; it does not seem to be the fuses as Richie immediately checked them.

Seems to be a general power cut.

Hope all is well soon as I feel additional pressure from the mattress being static, all is well again the electric is back on phew what a relief.

Sunshine outside and electricity inside
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Happy days!

Friday, November 20, 2009

That's Life.













Slept well last night, nice for a change, hope soon to be able to drift off to sleep without any problems.

As soon as I woke this morning everything hurt like hell and I started crying softly, despite trying to keep quiet Richie heard me and came over to kiss me and hold my hand.

Poor Spike and Marleen came rushing in as soon as Richie opened the door to the front room.

Spike squeaking dramatically, they too had heard me crying and were right by my bed.

They are very sweet little dogs and seem to be very concerned about me which is very sweet.

Will be getting a friend to get me some essential oils, that Rain sent me the names of recently, to help me sleep.

They are: bergamot, lavender, mandarin, chamomile, marjoram & spikenard

I will also be getting the essential oils that Rain found that are good for muscle spasms.

Calming Blend for Muscle Spasms

Massage Oil: 5 drops Marjoram
3 drops Rosemary
2 drops Lavender
2 drops Orange

Mix the essential oils together and add to 1 ounce of sweet almond oil, looking forward to trying this soon.

I think that I will start to drink herbal teas again, like valerian and chamomile, they used to work very well and add some THC and sleep was guaranteed.

Today started really well, blue skies and sunshine and then some mackerel clouds drifted in.

This is usually a sign the weather will be changing and it did, just quicker than we both thought.

Within about 30 minutes the cloud cover was extremely thick and it got dark and started to rain.

It has not stopped all day, which has not pleased the dogs at all; Marleen stopped looking out of the window as soon as the rain started.

She is quite a grand sight sniffing her disapproval and leaving none of us in any doubt that we have all fucked the weather up.

It is of course all our fault, shame she was so happy and playful while it looked like a nice day.

And then we made it rain!

Amazing characters our dogs, guess they all are, glad we got them, it has been good to get to know and appreciate them.

I admire the optimism of dogs think we can learn a lesson from dogs and that is living in the moment.

Which they do so very well.