Feelin good

Hello Everyone,

Maybe, just maybe the tide is starting to turn. I have been working with a TCM Acupuncturist trained in China for 3 weeks. I went to him due to my continuing aches and pains since the broken fingers, the cold this winter, frustrations at work, life etc.

I told him that I knew in my heart that he could help me, however, he needed to tell me to come back until I was healthy. Not wait for me to leave for a month thinking that what he did for me didn't do any good. Well, after 3 weeks of once a week visits, I am starting to have some real changes happening. Friday back week I had taken 5 Panadeine 15 for one shift of work. I saw Dr. Lim on the following Saturday. that Monday I used only one for the shift and one to get to sleep. All week I only used a max of 2 per day.

Tuesday when I went to work I actually almost ran down the steps. Prior I had achingly stepped slowly from one to the next. I was amazed at the difference. I was even singing feeling really really lite and light.

Then late in the shift I allowed the radio controller for the Over Head Crane to slip from my fingers and go into the Hydrochloric Acid. Well, it floated. It died too. $3000 gone for the company. I was bereft.

Well, I didn't get fired. Wednesday though I was slower than on Tuesday. Thursday I felt powerful again. Friday is weird in that normally I leave home for work at about 12:45 and get home about 10:30 pm. Fridays I have to start at 11 and get off at 4:45. Then on Saturday I have to get up at 3:45 to get to work at 5 off at 11. So, to have any energy by Saturday noon is really something. I laid down for a nap and only slept for 30 minutes.

Then off to Fremantle to do some shopping and another appointment with Dr. Lim. Well, the Blood Pressure is up from 90/50 to 100/60 and like I said I am feeling pretty good. Oh, sure there are still plenty of aches and pains, but the energy is rising. Actually I am noticing old aches and pains that had been covered or masked by the more recent ones. I had a client coming over for a massage at 4 so had to hustle back to the car. Stopped in at the grocery and found my favorite Soy milk (Lush Chocolate) on sale for 1.99. bought 19 of them. And some new SAKATA rice crakers of whole meal without wheat still on sale (ends 4-11). quickly I head home.

As I am driving I am noticing that I feel really really great. That was when I started to wonder if the tide is finally turning on my life and my energy too.

And this is what else has been happening . . . I sent this to a friend and will repeat it here:

Well, the biggy right now is that I have figured out that I am an idealist. Probably sort of already knew that, just didn't admit to it. I believe that it is possible to set high standards of living my life and living in life and that others CAN do simple ethical, morally correct way of living and we can all work and live together happily. And be helping the environment at the same time. Here is an example.

At work we go through a lot of wire. Heavy wire big as pencil led in a wooden pencil. I mean we go through TONS of it per week. I don't mean tons as in just a lot. I mean tons as in 2-3 tons of steel wire every week. We have a special bin to place used wire, steel bands from loads and other steel tossed after a job. There are many wire bins around the property. Not many trash bins however. So, the lads though told weekly to not use the wire bins for trash have done so repeatedly to the point that the recycling company that used to pay us $90 / ton for wire has refused to take any more wire off of us due to the amount of trash that is in the bin.

Last weekend I spent 6 hours for an income of $198 to clean out the large storage bin used for wire. It was emptied this weekend to another recycler that will not pay us anything. This arvo I looked at the bin. It has been filled from all the small bins around the property. It is full I mean FULL of trash. Gloves, plastic shrink wrap, plastic strapping, cardboard boxes etc. What is wrong with these idiots?????

I could go on and on and on about the asinine behavior at work. WHY am I there? I wonder. OK OK I do have a few good reasons.

I am 2 weeks away from getting full time with a real company employment. I think that will give me immediate paid holidays, paid vacations, sick leave etc. Also, I have been accepted for a different position that will be clean, daytime, similar pay, nicer hours. 45 hours during the week with weekends and evenings free. It has been put off and put off and put off. Meanwhile I am continuing as the Pickler. I don't hate it. I am getting tired of it. And currently I am saving about $250 a week towards a goal of buying a camper van and living in it. Then I would have available over $500 a week toward the payments, upkeep, and creating more.

Do you remember my Moldavite? Lost it between forklift driving and taking this job. Remember the beautiful Labradorite? Lost it this week. Both of these stones cause major shifts in a persons life. Well life is settling down I must say.

SO, back to the now of writing this blog.

When I got home from the grocery I received a phone call from Patricia Hamilton owner/creator of Conscious Living Expo and Magazine. Whose show I will be at most of next week. http://woocomcampaigner.woocom.com.au/em/mail/view.php?id=387780462&k=bf7f319 Patricia advised me that she had shifted some space around at the show and gave me another booth so that now I have a 4 meter X 2 meter rather than the single that I was going to have this year.

Also, last evening my ex called wanting the phone number of the mechanic for her Camper van. Then she told me that after driving all the way around Australia and only 75 k from home the police pulled her over and inspected the van. Knocked it back as unsafe and she has to do major repairs to get in passed again all within two weeks. She is thinking it may have reached the end of its life. Hmmmmm I am thinking. If I could but it cheap from her, I could use the frig for the rig that I wish to create. And the stove and????? Then I started thinking that in reality I could fix it up perhaps and live in it this summer alone and save several thousand before winter hits again. So, I have sent off an email to her just in case of this possibility.

Therefore you now see the reason that I am wondering if the tide has turned. the thoughts came before Patricia called, so, we will see.

OH, and about 2 weeks ago while I was sleeping in one morning a lady called that I had taught SGH too 2 years ago requesing my address so that she could send me the balance of what she owed. YEHAH!!!! $265.

Best wishes to all

peace

gene

may you all be well and happy