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Hate Being Sick
Jun. 15th, 2007 06:40 pm
I've still got food poisoning, but at least it's on its way out. In light of the fact that I am still running for the bathroom, I've decided to wait til next week to go to the bellydancing class. Right now, my belly does not want to make too many sudden moves of any kind, let alone dance. I took a long hot bath this morning, filled with lavender bubblebath & I did feel much better afterwards.
The honeybees are dying - colony collapse disorder. I started thinking about it, and it's been a long time since I've seen a wild bee. In fact, it's been a long time since I've seen any bees. When I first came out here, way back in '88, I used to see a lot of bees & it confused me because as far as I was concerned, bees don't belong in the desert. My mother-in-law had bees and still has hummingbirds, too. It wasn't til I took that environmental science class last semester that it made sense - Nevada produces a lot of alfalfa, & bees love alfalfa. Even though there aren't any alfalfa farms close to Vegas, we do have an orchard nearby. Of course, once I figured out that it is perfectly natural for bees to be in Las Vegas... well, I haven't seen any for quite a few years.
We've had a lot of little spiders in the house (and popping up on my desk at work), which is a good sign because more spiders means fewer scorpions. Rob used to be so scared of any spiders, regardless of size, but now even he lets them live. I'm slowly recovering from the knee-jerk "Kill it! Kill it!" reaction. Had one on my closet wall the other night - let it alone. Had one on the bottom of the living room door blinds - let it alone, too. If they fall into the shower with me, they're fair game for the drain, though, because I don't want them running up my leg in the shower when I'm all naked. Most big hairy ones still must die. Especially if they're brown & hairy because hobo spiders are harder to identify than brown recluses & just as dangerous. I'm willing to let the hairy black ones with the white racing stripes live if I can't reach them without some effort. All shiny black spiders must die.
Rob went to get dinner around 5pm & when he came back one of our neighbor's sprinklers were on. There was water flooding the gutter, and a LVVWD (Las Vegas Valley Water District) truck was sitting in front of their place, complete with a LVVWD employee writing out a ticket. Ouch.
Been reading the Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism again. I didn't realize that I never finished it. Looked up zafus & zabutons online. Amazon has a set of 3 cushions for about $90 which is far more than I can spend right now, but they do look so comfy. Part of my problem with meditation is that because of my back & knees, it's hard to find a comfortable sitting position that I can stay in for any length of time. If I lay down, I fall asleep almost immediately. I'm thinking the zafu might be the answer - instead of sitting in a flat-assed lotus position, it would put my hips above my knees & then my knees would just be folded in front of me. A site called Carolina Mornings has a crescent-shaped zafu that looks like it might be good for just a chair cushion... use it here, take it to work...
The honeybees are dying - colony collapse disorder. I started thinking about it, and it's been a long time since I've seen a wild bee. In fact, it's been a long time since I've seen any bees. When I first came out here, way back in '88, I used to see a lot of bees & it confused me because as far as I was concerned, bees don't belong in the desert. My mother-in-law had bees and still has hummingbirds, too. It wasn't til I took that environmental science class last semester that it made sense - Nevada produces a lot of alfalfa, & bees love alfalfa. Even though there aren't any alfalfa farms close to Vegas, we do have an orchard nearby. Of course, once I figured out that it is perfectly natural for bees to be in Las Vegas... well, I haven't seen any for quite a few years.
We've had a lot of little spiders in the house (and popping up on my desk at work), which is a good sign because more spiders means fewer scorpions. Rob used to be so scared of any spiders, regardless of size, but now even he lets them live. I'm slowly recovering from the knee-jerk "Kill it! Kill it!" reaction. Had one on my closet wall the other night - let it alone. Had one on the bottom of the living room door blinds - let it alone, too. If they fall into the shower with me, they're fair game for the drain, though, because I don't want them running up my leg in the shower when I'm all naked. Most big hairy ones still must die. Especially if they're brown & hairy because hobo spiders are harder to identify than brown recluses & just as dangerous. I'm willing to let the hairy black ones with the white racing stripes live if I can't reach them without some effort. All shiny black spiders must die.
Rob went to get dinner around 5pm & when he came back one of our neighbor's sprinklers were on. There was water flooding the gutter, and a LVVWD (Las Vegas Valley Water District) truck was sitting in front of their place, complete with a LVVWD employee writing out a ticket. Ouch.
Been reading the Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism again. I didn't realize that I never finished it. Looked up zafus & zabutons online. Amazon has a set of 3 cushions for about $90 which is far more than I can spend right now, but they do look so comfy. Part of my problem with meditation is that because of my back & knees, it's hard to find a comfortable sitting position that I can stay in for any length of time. If I lay down, I fall asleep almost immediately. I'm thinking the zafu might be the answer - instead of sitting in a flat-assed lotus position, it would put my hips above my knees & then my knees would just be folded in front of me. A site called Carolina Mornings has a crescent-shaped zafu that looks like it might be good for just a chair cushion... use it here, take it to work...
