Today was a day struggling with computer code once more. I cannot get my theme to work well for another site I’m playing around with, and even after fixing things by trial and error I am still frustrated as I can’t understand why they work. Particularly enerving is adding on my own HTML in the Word Press editor, switching to the visual editor to do some more editing for which I know no code, then going back to HTLM only to find the code I’d painstakingly inserted not there any more. WTF??
I was feeling ravenous all day today too, and ended up eating something without checking the ingredients until after the fact. It had artificial flavorings and colorings. I was in a bad mood this evening. Any relation to what I ate, I wonder?
My glands are still swollen. I’m feeling like a need a good sleep tonight.
Today I had:
green smoothie
date, frozen banana, cocoa powder “ice cream”
avocado and spices salad with tomatoes and greens
natto
red wine
dried natto (this is the stuff that had the crap in in)
walnuts
kiwis
Today I headed to Asakusa for a day of insane Golden Week crowds at Asakusa Senso Temple with a colleague and a former student. I hadn’t been there in years, and despite all the people, I really enjoyed it. Less crowded and more enjoyable was Asakusa’s Kappa town, famous for its array of stores selling kitchen appliances, sometimes recycled or hard to find items, at very reasonable prices. I picked up an apple corer, peeler, and slicer. I had looked for them elsewhere with no success, so was very pleased to find them with no difficulty.
After all the walking, however, my feet were very sore. After refreshments at Freshness Burger (well, not for me), we bid my old student farewell, but when I tried to walk again, my foot pain was quite severe. And therein lay the perfect excuse to back down and buy a pair of workman’s boots, better known to westerners as samuri booties. You know, the ones that divide your big toe from the rest of your toes. I threw in the 2000 yen to the grateful labour clothing specialty shop owner and felt great all the way home. Of course, Haruko (my colleague) and I were too famished to endure our empty stomaches until we got home, so we stopped at my favorite Thai restaurant in Omotesando,the Kafir Lime, where they will hold the fish sauce for you. I ordered two helpings of delicious raw papaya salad. Sure, the dressing was probably laden with salt and the like, but I have no regrets- It was absolutely superb!
I noticed today that although I don’t feel sick, the glands closest to my ears are a tad hard, and my skin is not as clear as it was a few days ago. I don’t think I have caught a cold or will get sick; rather, perhaps another detox bought is in play. I’ll try to eat even better over the next few days.
Today I ate:
green smoothie (mangos, kiwis, spinach, apples)
frozen papaya, mango, strawberry smoothie
papaya salad
raw carrots and cabbage
morning glory leaved and onions
red wine
fresh apple juice, MonaVie
After a lie in that was well-deserved, I awoke with far less muscle pain that I had anticipated, but did notice that I had caught a few more rays yesterday than I’d thought. Yasu drove me to the Yokohama Costco on the way home, and a good thing too, as most produce was considerably cheaper than in the Machida branch. We reasoned that this is likely because Yokohama is a port city and there are few transportation costs. I bought as much as I thought I could eat over the next few days without having to worry about stuff going bad. And YES, I got a new blender- a 700 Watt Hamilton Beach blender that was on sale. I still want one of those blenders that have more than twice the power, but they come at 6-7 times the price. I tested it on a smoothie and it worked just fine. Stuffed a few cashew nuts into my humus and my new blender didn’t seem to feel it. Very big and high-tech looking too. Very pleased.
Today I had:
bananas
goji berries, currents, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, almonds trail mix
mango, kiwi, and spinach smoothie
carrots, broccoli, daikon, and cucumbers dipped in miso humus
organic red wine
Professor Leslie Regan of the BBC investigates health claims in this 5-part series below. Food for thought indeed.
I am writing this 2 days after the fact. Haven’t had the time to write! On Saturday I went cycling with my super tomodachi, Yasunari, and we traveled from the east side of the Miura peninsula in Yokosuka to Enoshima, just past Kamakura, and back again. It was about 65 km total, which was no worries on my road bike, but poor old Yasu cycled that last 10-15 km standing up, as his ass was so soar. This is why we wear chamois pants and ooze a lot of cream all over out asses before cycling. Now he knows. In any case, it was a great raw day full of sunshine, exercise, and sites. Despite the faster bike, I admit I myself wasn’t conditioned for a full day’s ride. Thus after having a shower upon arrival back to Yasu’s place, we opted for a nap, but it turned into a long snooze- slept 2 hours! Muscles were not sore, but got a bit too much sun. As result (2 days later), I have a burn/sore on my nose at the moment. Must remember to take sunscreen on the road…. I tried to upload some beach and coastline shots I took with my cell phone, but I guess my file size was too big, as my attempts failed. I googled the area and found some other shots that depict the scenery we saw instead.
The Miura coastline, Zushi bay, Kamakura, and Enoshima were filled with water-sport lovers, though fewer surfers than I’d thought. I felt an acute longing to windsurf after admiring the skill of some of the windsurfers I saw. I used to own one, actually, and even took a week-long course when went to the Philippines a few moons ago.
Today I ate:
kiwis
bananas
MonaVie packs
store bought vegetable juice and grape juice
avocados, tomatos, spinach, olive oil, and brown rice vinegar
red wine
Many more people were in my photos than you can see here as it was Golden Week, and a beautiful day too!
I’ll definitely be cycling this route again in the near future, me thinks!
Today I woke up to face my computer and the accompanying, gloomy realization that this blog cannot, unless I reinstall from scratch or quickly up my way to basic coding skills, ever produce characters that are not in the Latin family. That means NO JAPANESE! Not that it was ever my intention to write in Japanese, but here and there it can be helpful. I’m very bummed about this, but how could I have known otherwise? A word to the wise for self-hosters out there: DO NOT use automatic installers for you databases, WordPress of otherwise, as they make a lot of nasty assumptions on how you will use things… Now I am in the process of manually installing another blog….
Anyhow, I am trying to stay with as much fruit as possible today. I cannot use my blender yet because, well, I no longer have one. Frozen bananas whacked the crap out of my old one, or I should say, my roommate’s. Wanted to save money for a VitaMix or a BlendTec, but I can’t wait! Will be off to Costco in a few days, me thinks.
Am not sure if I’ll make it to a computer in the next few days- I am going cycling along the coast of Kanagawa with my ex boyfriend. It’s perfect weather for it and I’m really looking forward to getting out!
Looks like this child is either fond of pigs as animal friends, fond of eating pork, or simply loves to lick pig snot. The current pig swine flu that’s sweeping across the globe is transmitted from human to human, but nonetheless I don’t think I can recommend the practice you see here. Pigs, by the way, have a DNA structural makeup quite similar to that of humans. I don’t eat any meat myself, but if there is one type that I will absolutely avoid unless my survival depends on it, then it is pork. Pigs are smart animals and I understand they even make good pets, but they are also disgusting creatures in that they will eat absolutely anything, such as other animal parts. And I hate to tell you if you don’t already know, but dead animals have found their way into pig feed before, at least in the US. Such practices are now banned, but I am not sure what farmers can be trusted… I think the whole meat industry as it is may in fact be related to the animal flues we have seen over the years. It’s pretty scary to think of the possibility of a pandemic.
Today I ate:
melon
MonaVie
mangos
raisens
avocado, tomato, and ruccola salad (gees, can’t get enough of this stuff)
Daikon slices
chestnuts
natto
I’m feeling fine- nothing out of the ordinary to report. I think I’m perhaps starting to take feeling so good for granted!
I spent almost the entire day today (yes, it’s Golden Week and I’m off!) reconfiguring this blog to a new domain name. I followed a whole bunch of Word Press instructions I happened upon on the Net, but I must have done something wrong because I lost ALL of the links I had painstakingly researched. Not to worry, or so I thought, as I have not yet erased the old database and domain. I had been using a free co.cc domain that I reconfigured to point to my new .com domain, but this pointer I set up went into action a little faster than I anticipated. In order to rebuild my links list from scratch, I have to consult the old domain, but that domain now points to the new one, so I can’t access it! I have to go to co.cc to put the pointer back to the old DNS, but I’ve forgotten what it was and can’t figure out how to find it on my hosting site… Gees, very much wish I’d studied programming in university. Not that it would necessarily help me, as so much has changed since my university days (I was using MOSAIC in grad. school. Ummm, my age must be showing there…), but at least I’d have a sound background…
Maybe I really should have studied computing, actually, as time just wisks away when I am at it and I can’t say it’s not interesting. Then again, the troubleshooting is soooo infuriating. I do not subside in a computer savvy community.
Today I had:
green smoothie (spinach, mango, frozen pineapple and papaya, honey
2 enormous salads (mixed greens, ruccola, avocado, olive oil, balsamic v., apple cider v., crushed walnuts)
frozen banana, honey, cocoa powder and remaining avocado mush (I broke the fricken’ blender on the frozen banana- ended up stabbing the ingredients to make mush and cursing the low watt blender I was using that failed the test. To make matters worse the blender was my roommate’s, so now I have to replace it as well as invest in a machine of my own that does at the stuff I want it to!)
organic red wine (oh yes.)
Way too much fat today in the full avocado, 2 teaspoons of oil, and the nuts I had, but what the hell- have to eat the avocados before they go off, and heck, what is salad w/o a “smidgkin” of oil? Still raw and healthy… I’ve some work to do to reach only 10% fat, though.
The BBC has some good stuff out these days. Yes, I do like to post video. I personally find that visual and auditory presentation is the most effective way to present information. Wish I could apply more of it to my EFL classes. My poor students have simply to listen to the droning of my own voice day in day out- they’d really benefit from some added visuals!
Supermarket Secrets (UK) 1
Supermarket Secrets (UK) 2
Supermarket Secrets (UK) 3
Supermarket Secrets (UK) 4
Supermarket Secrets (UK) 5
Seriously, I don’t understand how people can continue to trust the meat and poultry industry after seeing stuff like this. If they were all real farms in stead of factories, then who knows, maybe even I would still be a meat eater, but these days, who can you trust? And if you give a flying F%&$ about animal welfare, man, just stop turning a blind eye! When, in history, have you ever been able to really trust what any country’s government says regarding food? The US STILL has the food pyramid screwed up. It boggles the mind.
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Looks like this child is either fond of pigs as animal friends, fond of eating pork, or simply loves to lick pig snot. The current pig swine flu that’s sweeping across the globe is transmitted from human to human, but nonetheless I don’t think I can recommend the practice you see here. Pigs, by the way, have a DNA structural makeup quite similar to that of humans. I don’t eat any meat myself, but if there is one type that I will absolutely avoid unless my survival depends on it, then it is pork. Pigs are smart animals and I understand they even make good pets, but they are also disgusting creatures in that they will eat absolutely anything, such as other animal parts. And I hate to tell you if you don’t already know, but dead animals have found their way into pig feed before, at least in the US. Such practices are now banned, but I am not sure what farmers can be trusted… I think the whole meat industry as it is may in fact be related to the animal flues we have seen over the years. It’s pretty scary to think of the possibility of a pandemic.