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Updateyness and Power
Jul. 1st, 2021 07:43 pmI did it. over 96 ounces yesterday. I haven't taken in that much water in a long time, but with concerted effort I managed to reach the goal. I'm about 2/3 of the way there today, and I'll make it. I'm going to try to keep it up so I can see both what it does to my weight and also what it does to my blood and urine metrics.
Which brings me to my next topic. I listen to a lot of old time radio from the thirties to the fifties, so I learn a lot of details from that time period. And though I don't think much of their health and nutrition practices I found a word I like so much better than dieting, losing weight and its variants, skinnying down or slimming down, and just about everything else I've heard for this practice -- they'd say they were reducing. It sums up the goal without getting into problematic words like lose. Fast forward to 2002-2003, a group of very smart people on The Other Site put together a program that worked extremely well for me. It's self-administrated, oriented to individual goals, and works for folks who are going at a health target from either direction. It's a wellness program, not just a weight one, and it's got an earth centered focus for one component of the program. I want to do it again. For it work I need other willing participants, because there's some accountability elements to it too. (It's sort of Weight Watchers inspired for part of it, so it involves weekly weigh-ins too) If I can find at least 4 people interested I'll figure out how to create a group here and set things up, with the key documents available through a Dropbox link. So send folks who might be interested my way.
I'm trying to decide if I want to include my OSR gaming stuff on this journal or start another one. I've got a lot of stuff to post, and I've got two concerns. First, I don't want to fuzz out the focus so much that this journal covers too many areas of my interests. Second, it's possible that could take the journal over because I've already been the publisher of a first edition AD&D fanzine, so I've got a lot of stuff waiting in the wings. I'll be thinking on this a lot more.
And on to power songs. Last night I was doing some energy and visualization work for a wonderful dear friend who needs it, so I went to YouTube to play my primary power song. ("On The Wheel" by Curve) I managed to find a wonderful album by them, Cuckoo. I'll be buying it the next time I'm on Amazon or my factotum goes there on my behalf. But today one of my FB friends, Denise Keeping, posted this link to another wonderful power song. I'm going to try and post these here from time to time because I want to get back to having more music, both mine and others, in my life. Listen and enjoy, and I hope this one inspires you at least a little bit. Because I believe every single person on my friends list here is magic, each one of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6FBpTnxFM
Nyyki (she/her/hers/Miss)
P.S. I'm adding the title to my pronouns list because there are options, and I think it's good to let someone know what I prefer. Why Miss? Because i want it crystal clear that I'm flying solo and proud of the fact. And if I post anything involving my degree I'll add my soup after my name too. SCA stuff will get my registered name and chosen title. Just so everything's clear.
Which brings me to my next topic. I listen to a lot of old time radio from the thirties to the fifties, so I learn a lot of details from that time period. And though I don't think much of their health and nutrition practices I found a word I like so much better than dieting, losing weight and its variants, skinnying down or slimming down, and just about everything else I've heard for this practice -- they'd say they were reducing. It sums up the goal without getting into problematic words like lose. Fast forward to 2002-2003, a group of very smart people on The Other Site put together a program that worked extremely well for me. It's self-administrated, oriented to individual goals, and works for folks who are going at a health target from either direction. It's a wellness program, not just a weight one, and it's got an earth centered focus for one component of the program. I want to do it again. For it work I need other willing participants, because there's some accountability elements to it too. (It's sort of Weight Watchers inspired for part of it, so it involves weekly weigh-ins too) If I can find at least 4 people interested I'll figure out how to create a group here and set things up, with the key documents available through a Dropbox link. So send folks who might be interested my way.
I'm trying to decide if I want to include my OSR gaming stuff on this journal or start another one. I've got a lot of stuff to post, and I've got two concerns. First, I don't want to fuzz out the focus so much that this journal covers too many areas of my interests. Second, it's possible that could take the journal over because I've already been the publisher of a first edition AD&D fanzine, so I've got a lot of stuff waiting in the wings. I'll be thinking on this a lot more.
And on to power songs. Last night I was doing some energy and visualization work for a wonderful dear friend who needs it, so I went to YouTube to play my primary power song. ("On The Wheel" by Curve) I managed to find a wonderful album by them, Cuckoo. I'll be buying it the next time I'm on Amazon or my factotum goes there on my behalf. But today one of my FB friends, Denise Keeping, posted this link to another wonderful power song. I'm going to try and post these here from time to time because I want to get back to having more music, both mine and others, in my life. Listen and enjoy, and I hope this one inspires you at least a little bit. Because I believe every single person on my friends list here is magic, each one of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6FBpTnxFM
Nyyki (she/her/hers/Miss)
P.S. I'm adding the title to my pronouns list because there are options, and I think it's good to let someone know what I prefer. Why Miss? Because i want it crystal clear that I'm flying solo and proud of the fact. And if I post anything involving my degree I'll add my soup after my name too. SCA stuff will get my registered name and chosen title. Just so everything's clear.
