I just did my first tongue scrape. It was actually pretty amazing, just like Frankie said it would be. If you don't know what tongue scraping is, it's a form of ayurvedic care, wherein you use a spoon (or they actually have "professional" tongue scraping devices now) to scrape all the toxins your body released the night before, off of your tongue. Otherwise, when you take your first drink of the day, you're just swallowing them back into you; or, if you brush your tongue before tongue scraping, you're massaging them back in. Gross, right? You can read some more about tongue scraping here, if you're so inclined. I'm digging it.
We also made vision boards with which to focus on, mostly for the Venus Sadhana, but also for the future year/future us. I'll probably post a photo of mine later. It's really mainly about love, and forgiveness, and finding yourself, and holding yourself and all of that love and all of that forgiveness in even the smallest spaces, and moving forward as a more integrated, healthier person. There's keys for my husband and I, an arrow and a connection for my girls and I, flowers and plants and gates (I need some succulents, y'all), and words of inspiration and wisdom from people who have really moved me on my long strange trip towards the best me I can be. Frankie brought some sort of lemon muffins and made us hibiscus tea and we all dove in with scissors and tearing and glue sticks and random requests (a horse? a sunset? flowers?) which someone suddenly had right in their hands to give to the seeker.
There's something about being in a room full of women fanning the flames of creativity that just fills me up with light.
In other news, Rosemary, my budget bootcamp leader, is great. I'm probably biased, because she has a lot of the same financial spending triggers that I do, but that also makes her advice super-relatable. I was already doing some of what she suggested, and the other advice and encouragement is great, but it's really the confessions of what she had to overcome herself, in regards to triggered spending habits, that really has made all the difference. I signed up with her after working with a financial adviser and a program to aggressively rehabilitate my credit, and it was like adding the 3rd key was the charm. I'm trying not to get ahead of myself, but it looks like my finances are actually going to be meeting goals 2-3 months in advance, which is super exciting. Not really surprising, per se, because I knew I had it in me. Still super exciting, especially considering how certain people close to me didn't believe I could do it or was going to do it. So there.
I've been walking close to two miles every day during the first 30 minutes of my lunch break at work. I just listen in one ear to whatever audiobook I'm on at the moment, and I walk down the tree-lined downtown streets, marveling and oohing over the beautiful old houses, and having a moment of silence for those houses that people have let lapse into decay and rot and neglect. I would save them all if I could. I have an affinity for old houses, especially those that need a loving hand to redeem them. One day, when I have the money (and I will), I'll rescue the ones that I can, one by one. I also love the overgrown yards, where the trees hug the banisters of the porch, and the balcony edges peek over decorated roof edging. I just love all of the old downtown housing areas. New housing will never have the soul that they do.
I finally borrowed Pronoia from my friend, and am excited to delve into it. "Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things." - Which reminds me, I should share some of my Venus chart readings here for the fun of it. (It's in the 1st house with Mercury.)
We're coming up on my last week of this term in school and I'm proud to say I have lifted my grades to where I shall have a B in both classes, which is amazing considering halfway in I was failing one of them due to the chaos in my life. Still moving forward and not looking back. Things are going to be great.
Won't you come with me?
We also made vision boards with which to focus on, mostly for the Venus Sadhana, but also for the future year/future us. I'll probably post a photo of mine later. It's really mainly about love, and forgiveness, and finding yourself, and holding yourself and all of that love and all of that forgiveness in even the smallest spaces, and moving forward as a more integrated, healthier person. There's keys for my husband and I, an arrow and a connection for my girls and I, flowers and plants and gates (I need some succulents, y'all), and words of inspiration and wisdom from people who have really moved me on my long strange trip towards the best me I can be. Frankie brought some sort of lemon muffins and made us hibiscus tea and we all dove in with scissors and tearing and glue sticks and random requests (a horse? a sunset? flowers?) which someone suddenly had right in their hands to give to the seeker.
There's something about being in a room full of women fanning the flames of creativity that just fills me up with light.
In other news, Rosemary, my budget bootcamp leader, is great. I'm probably biased, because she has a lot of the same financial spending triggers that I do, but that also makes her advice super-relatable. I was already doing some of what she suggested, and the other advice and encouragement is great, but it's really the confessions of what she had to overcome herself, in regards to triggered spending habits, that really has made all the difference. I signed up with her after working with a financial adviser and a program to aggressively rehabilitate my credit, and it was like adding the 3rd key was the charm. I'm trying not to get ahead of myself, but it looks like my finances are actually going to be meeting goals 2-3 months in advance, which is super exciting. Not really surprising, per se, because I knew I had it in me. Still super exciting, especially considering how certain people close to me didn't believe I could do it or was going to do it. So there.
I've been walking close to two miles every day during the first 30 minutes of my lunch break at work. I just listen in one ear to whatever audiobook I'm on at the moment, and I walk down the tree-lined downtown streets, marveling and oohing over the beautiful old houses, and having a moment of silence for those houses that people have let lapse into decay and rot and neglect. I would save them all if I could. I have an affinity for old houses, especially those that need a loving hand to redeem them. One day, when I have the money (and I will), I'll rescue the ones that I can, one by one. I also love the overgrown yards, where the trees hug the banisters of the porch, and the balcony edges peek over decorated roof edging. I just love all of the old downtown housing areas. New housing will never have the soul that they do.
I finally borrowed Pronoia from my friend, and am excited to delve into it. "Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things." - Which reminds me, I should share some of my Venus chart readings here for the fun of it. (It's in the 1st house with Mercury.)
We're coming up on my last week of this term in school and I'm proud to say I have lifted my grades to where I shall have a B in both classes, which is amazing considering halfway in I was failing one of them due to the chaos in my life. Still moving forward and not looking back. Things are going to be great.
Won't you come with me?
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