Eclectic Haze

Tag: health

  • a not so scientific science experiment…

    with the changes that have happened at the salon, there has come a need to tighten things up a bit. I have been taking sprayology health and vitamin spray supplements for years and love them… I don’t do pills well. I am required to order them by the 6 pack and since I take 6 different kinds, that can run close to 500. of course that will last me 6 months but the initial order is still there. so I quit taking them, figuring since I have started trying to eat right things would equal out.

    oh hell no, according to my body and brain. I am sluggish, even though I have been doing my lemon water in the morning and drinking water all day. I am so so tired, all my muscles and joints ache, have no strength in my hands and the tremor in my left has increased.

    guess what, I am going to start again. this isn’t worth it and if I want to continue to work I have to. so if you come in and I look more wild eyed then usual, it’s not drugs it’s a vitamin load that’s making everything happy dance!

    have a great day…

    j

  • on getting old… or aging… or whatever…

    standing in the bathroom, bright lights all around, is one of the hardest things i do every day. but today was different. instead of examining things and pointing out all of the obvious signs that youth has fled and age is screaming onto center stage, i chose to seriously look, compare, enjoy and see all the things that are good. body is thicker but then i knew that would happen. look at your family photos and you will know. but guess what? i can still do a back bend during floor section and even come up out of it with grace… i am teaching belly dance to people who could be my kids… possibly grand kids! and do it for 2 straight hours… still can work 12 hours a day and the only thing that aches are my feet… and that’s mostly because i insist on wearing fashion shoes. no back problems, no health problems… hair is still thick and grows like a weed… yeah it’s grey but red fits so it’s gonna stay that way! eyesight is still bad at a distance but has actually gotten almost perfect close up… skin good, not many wrinkles… in other words i ain’t bad for an old broad!!! so this aging thing? i am good with it… if the young ones sneer i have only to think about what they are looking forward to and hope the whole process doesn’t push them off the cliff… life rocks no matter how old, what color or whatever…

  • the joys of getting wise… or old…

    two things have happened this week that, i have decided, are a direct result of joyous aging and loving life.

    i collect antique jewelry… you know the rhinestone, over the top stuff… i know it doesn’t seem to be my style, too girly, but it is so over the top it fits! anyway, i have been wearing the necklaces and big brooches but have never been able to wear the clip earrings… my ears are not only small but have no earlobes… if they were pointed they would be elf ears.

    so yesterday i got my glitz (bling being too crude a word) on and just for kicks, decided to try the earrings. imagine my surprise when they not only clipped on but stayed all day!!! the answer? i am getting older and like the rest of me, things are allowing gravity to grab hold and my non-existent earlobes have “sagged”! HAH! it couldn’t have been more perfect or happened at a more fabulous time! because i find the older you get the more leeway people give you so you get away with anything!!

    then this morning, while the car was warming up, i tried out my splitting maul a client was kind enough to have fixed… and it was fun and energizing and dang if it didn’t split the stuff i thought i was going to have to take a chain saw to! so what does that have to do with getting older? cause it was fun and made me feel great and when you are this age it’s the little (or heavy!) things that count.

    so find something to laugh about, have fun with and feel good about every day… pretty soon you will be so busy discovering wonderful things about your world you won’t have time to whine about your health or your life or the dozens of things that make your blood pressure sky rocket even though there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it! now breathe… that was a heck of a sentence!

    and that my friends, is what it means to be a pronoiac!!!