I was doing just fine. I admit that I was overworked and that I wasn’t holding together all that well, but last Saturday we had polarity class and ever since having 3 hours of polarity work done on me every thing has been changing. It started out with less care for work, and I felt some back pain, the back pain spread through my whole back, some pain in my front side, less care for work, and last night the back pain got really bad and traveled up to my head causing a migraine. It started out as a normal headache, but within an hour I had a throbbing pain in my head that did not even allow me to think. It kept on progressing, and pretty soon I felt pain in my whole entire body coming from my head. I became nauseated, and my GI tract was playing wolf. I became quite restless and couldn’t stop moaning from the pain. Sleep wasn’t an option, I was in too much pain for that. Despite that I lay in bed with a puke bucket on hand. I kept putting down water in hopes of helping things move along. It wasn’t till about 5am that the pain toned down enough to fall asleep. I had suffered from crazy mad pain for 7 hours! I slept for an hour and my alarm clock went off. Needless to say I did not go to work, but instead called in and went back to sleep. I proceeded to sleep till 11am at with point I deemed my headache mellow enough to go about the day. So here I am. I have a massage tonight with Justin, I truly hope for good things to come from his work. I just feel so bad as I have not been sick, had a headache, or anything like that in over 5 years. I must really be taking poor care of myself right now. I think I need to quite my current job now and start taking care of myself before it kills me!

Spicy food is like aquarium gravel. It sure tastes good going in and makes for quite an adventure going out!

Do I get extra credit for using a kenning?
The weather these last couple of days has been very very nice. Today it got up to 60F, and tomorrow the mid 50’s is predicted. My mom is coming to visit me tomorrow, so we ought to have fun with the good weather.

Today it got warm, in the mid fifties (about 56F I think). I couldn’t stand staying at home with it being that nice outside, so I went out for a nice long bike ride. I had so much fun, and I feel so good right now. I now have the windows in my place side open and am sitting in the sunlight with a breeze in my face. In a couple of months I’m going to read this and think that I must have been crazy to ride bike in shorts, t-shirt, and sandals when it was only 56F out, but right now it feels so very warm.
On a different topic, my posture has been greatly improving. At the school, they really push proper posture, and it is really starting to sink in. At the same time, my back is very sore from having proper posture for the first time in my life.

Today I went to the bike shop on Williamson Street with the intent of buying a nice carrying thing for the back of my bike. I had the attach a basic mount on the back of the bike. I then purchased two baskets that attach on the sides of the mount and each can hold a whole bag of groceries as well as water proof coverings for each basket. I then went to Willy Street Co-op and put them to the test. I very much liked them. I was able to the my whole week’s worth of groceries in one trip. Note that from my house to this store is 6 miles one way On the way back I got caught in a downpour so I brought out the waterproof coverings and even though I got soaked to the bone, everything I had in those containers was perfectly dry upon my arrival at home. I spent a little bit more than I intended ($150), but this is something that I’ve been wanting to get for a long time and it is going to be very very very handy living in the big city (yeah, I know, Madison isn’t a big city, but it is to me). Maybe I’ll take a picture of it tomorrow and post it on here.

Did you know that you can tell the method of growth by the PLU sticker found on produce in the grocery store. It is very simple.

• 4 digits means that the produce was conventionally grown.
• 5 digits beginning with an 8 means that it is genetically modified.
• 5 digits beginning with a 9 means that it is organic.

Stay away from the 5 digit ones beginning with an 8! I hope this helps you out.

As of late (during the last week or so) I’ve been enjoying green juice for many of my meals. I never initially look forward to it and desire many other things before that, but I go ahead with it anyway. When it comes time to drinking it, I love what I have made and often can’t seem to get enough of it. My basic recipe goes something like this:

• ginger
• burdok
• carrot
• kale
• spinach
• parsley
• wheat grass
• apple
• dandylion
• celery
• lime

It is a long list and many would frown upon such a juice, but I find it to be an excellant way to get my greens in. As far as juicing goes, I’ve tried it in my champion (electric) juicer and it tastes terrible. On the other hand when I use my Z-Star Manual Juices by Tribest the flavor is much much better. The manual juicer takes longer to setup, juice, and cleanup, but is well worth the effort.