Merry Christine

It doesn’t matter where you live, in a house or a cardboard box, every time you open your eyes, there is opportunity for adventure. Heard something like that on a cartoon this week.

I am finally caught up!!! Now if I can just stay focused I will stay that way. I AM a crystalholic. I have absolutely no control over my obsession with crystals. They completely take me over. You see, it’s not the suits, or making the suits that keep me motivated. It is the crystal. If I am not making suits, I am setting crystal in mortar, on walls, statues, I just can’t stop. I AM AN ADDICT.

Okay now that I have that off my chest……………..Last year, on my old blog page, I was open about my distress over intense hand pain. I was going for accupuncture twice a week, trying to avoid the inevitable, surgery. I would wake up in the middle of the night literally wanting to cut my hands off the pain was so intense. I was constantly applogizing to my clients, for I was dragging my ass on my work, shaking my hands out every five minutes. I would drive my car with my hands spread open. I used hooks on my wrists to pump iron. It was a complete nightmare. My buddy, Toney started hankering on me to take in more essential oils. Continually preaching on me to get off the carbs and start taking in the good fats. I protested for a while, but finally figured what have I got to loose?

I started out using flax oil. Then I looked into other EFA’s and learned about hemp oil. I have a weird way of testing oils. I put EVERY oil in the fridge. Even olive oil will get a little solid in the fridge. Flax gets thick, but not solid in any way. The hemp oil stays runny like water. First understand it has NO THC in it, so don’t get weird on me. It IS green and has a green flavor, so I use it in my greens all the time. It has been a year and I cannot remember the last time my hands hurt on me. Oh……….that’s a lie. Christmas season, and over this 4th of July week, I got slight numbness in my left hand. Guess why? I junked out on sugar, simple starch, not enough greens and NO hemp oil. When you are eating crap, who the hell even THINKS of eating something good for you? At least until you feel suicidal and can’t wake up in the morning.

Now Toney has turned me on to this Shark oil from a company called Seabiotics, www.seabiotics.com . The Alkyl Transfactor, and the Sealyte, energized structured sea minerals, is what I get. The Alkyl Transfactor is shark liver oil. There is a video you can watch. Then the Sealyte is GREAT for putting in your water ESPECIALLY for working out. Pure, no crap in it like the sports drinks you spend a ton on.

So I am not getting anything out of promoting it. I am just saying, well, that stuff does not get solid in the fridge either…………………….ja know? So between that and the hemp oil, I have become invincible!

Uh, well, at least I can get a grip…………oh gawd!

Anyway, as much as I am here alone, working day after day, I have a zillion squillion things go on in my head. Once I sit down to BLAWG……..ugh! ………………….My mind usually goes BL…………………..

Okay so my update on the TV strike……………..I lasted 2 1/2 days. The weather was so cold and rainy here I just HAD to watch the news to find out if we were going to get any decent weather. Then from there I would go from music to more news. Then back to my “Chiller” chanel (scary movies). So I did not last a week, that’s for sure but it did make me realize I can survive without it. I forgot how good it is to just have music on. I will listen to anything from hardcore rap to classical. That is how I change my moods. In fact I listen to classical when I hit the freeway, which is not that often, but the drivers scare the crap out of me, so I zen out with the classical music.

Okay, I am going to slightly speak my peace about this whole National judging thing for figure and the constant attack on my one piece suits. Are they REALLY that bad?? I just don’t know what to do as far as changing them. The request’s seem to be so slight that it seems rediculous. Are they REALLY noticing such minor details. And one girl told me that MY suit was not “bling” enough………..huh?

Anyway, I am playing with it. I myself am making some slight changes on the suits but if the judges still aren’t liking it, then, well, maybe I should get back to my interior design. ………….??

That being said I need, for once, to mention a couple of girls I work with. Bea, I think you are a beautiful person and you come on that stage so picture perfect. And Jennifer, for wearing my suits for the first time (one piece being a gift from her husband) you sure put that on the stage first class. I have had the most wonderful experience this year with the girls I am working with this year. I have fallen behind and I am forever trying to catch up, but even with that, everyone is so understanding and the love they send back to me makes it all worth the artistic stress……………..

I have this girl I made suits for back in, I think 03 for the first time. She was a pudgy red head with an attitude. Attitude toward working out I think, not personal thing. So anyway she is ordering suits from me for October this year. She is the first picture on my one piece page right now. When she emailed me for suits this time and sent the pictures I just about fell on the floor! She is so damned lean and absolutely stunning! She reminded me of one day back in 03 when she came over here to pick up her suits and I chewed her out for being so pudgy, chewing her out for eating too much oatmeal and I made her do cardio here and boy, she was NOT happy. I totally forgot about that. To see her now and how beautiful she is from her learned discipline, I am dying to see her on stage this year, let alone how fun it is going to be to make her suits. Her name is Stephanie. She has inspired me to get off my ass and do some cardio!

As I sit here and type I am falling behind on work again, so alas, I must close this babble and get back to work…………………………….BUT I must leave something good at the end, so the other day listening to music on the satelite an song from India Arie, I think that is how her name is spelled was singing a song that said this;

“There’s hope………It don’t cost a thing to smile…………………You don’t have to pay to laugh…………….You better thank God for that!”

I had to stop working and write that down………………………………………….Have a good one!