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Singing with Heart? Yes, please!

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My new fave.

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. I just bought tickets to go see them next month!!! I'm so excited!

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A few things...

First, Earth Hour is coming up! Sign up and participate! I loved it last December; turning out all the lights and just hanging out with candles was really peaceful. It was perfect. My whole family is going to get together this year! Do it!

Second, I found this AMAZING link to find bluegrass jams in your area. I LOVE bluegrass so much it hurts and am excited now to know how to find local meeting places where people are playing. Check it out!

Third, I find out tomorrow about a job I interviewed for last week. Wish me luck!

Mulling

So.... as you can probably tell, I'm in love with all things orange right now. Living with citrus trees in the yard is bliss and quite inspiring. I've been wearing lots of orange and yellow and want to paint everything tangerine. I've been busy trying to find a job, deal with family issues, and tie up loose ends. I'd love to sit down and put up a really fabulous layout that perfectly embodies all things citrus, but I don't have the patience today.  I've been mulling over my quarterly goals and haven't set anything concrete yet... besides getting a job. I have some categories, but I still need to narrow them down to something specific. 

I can definitely say that I need more music in my life. Not music listening, music making. As in, I have a guitar, flute, piano and violin that are so ignored that their self esteem is beginning to suffer. Also, I rarely ever sing anymore unless I'm driving and that doesn't really count. Not that I'm all that great at any of them, but that's what I am trying to remedy. I was friends with a guy who told me once that he'd always really wanted to learn the guitar, but now he was too old to be any good at it so he wouldn't try. He was 19. I think you can learn anything at any age and become reasonably proficient. I'm only 28! I've got a lot of years ahead of me God willing! 

Which leads me to my next point...

I can also definitely say that I intend to take better care of my health. I'd like to live a long long time and that won't happen if I just do whatever I want to all the time. So I'll have to come up with a health goal for this quarter that I can reasonably stick to. None of this, I will never ever eat ice cream again, that's just setting myself up to fail. I'm not all about that. Deprivation never did anyone any good. I'll let you know when I decide what the goal will be for sure. Yes, I'm aware that we're halfway through January.

I also need to set a social goal. I'll admit that I've been a serious hermit for a long while now. It's not healthy for me. My nature is very open and friendly and I love people and all their quirks and LOVE meeting new people. So, meeting my social needs will happen in my near future.

I would like to set another goal around gardening. It's such a major stress reliever for me. I need to make plans around how often I will get down and dirty. Along with this, I have been trying to buy as much local produce as possible and so I think I'll set a goal around this as well. Local produce is better for the body (it isn't picked before it's ready and transported 1500 miles or more), the economy (buy local!), and the environment (not trucked via diesel 1500+ miles). How great is it that such a simple thing has so many good consequences? If you need to find your local farmer's markets, 

go to: www.localharvest.org

 

The results are in...

and ...

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFIDS).

Thanks (for nothing) Doc.

Same diagnosis that I got 6.5 years ago.

You're even less helpful than the Cleveland Clinic who told me not too party too hard and to have a nice life. (I couldn't commit to the not partying too hard but I do have a nice life, thanks.)

Same symptoms for the last 12 years.

I still don't accept it.

Where do I go from here?

I don't eat processed foods, I eat a TON of vegetation, my entire life and diet are hypoallergenic (if you haven't seen me in awhile it's probably because I'm allergic to you.), I take good supplements in "proper" amounts (hee hee, proper.), I exercise daily, I like my job, I usually like my family...

What more do you want from me?

A good music recommendation?

Check.

If you haven't met Duffy or Adele yet, you are seriously missing out. They're the sober answer to the tragedy that is Amy Winehouse. I have two Duffy ringtones.

Adele:


Duffy:



So great.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot. My new favorite song:

Estelle: