Day 12: What makes me laugh more than anything else is…

What makes me laugh...lightness of being. When i feel comfy in myself,  I laugh - deep belly aching laughs. I laugh like a cartoon character when I laugh like that - teeeeeeeheeeeeeeee just like that.

Need to find someone / something that makes me laugh like that again.

Seems like a good challenge to set.

Someone who gets you can make you laugh like that. Let's find that someone.

Soon.

Day 11: 1 food and 1 drink for the rest of my life

Wooo, a hard one.

I am a foodie. Check out my food blog Paleo with your food - thats an order! and you will see how much I love cooking and eating!

So to choose 1 food and drink for the rest of my life is very hard indeed.

But I will give it a go.

1 food for the rest of my life....
Steak
Man, I love it - I can eat steak with a juicy fatty slab on the side every day. Its so filling, so nourishing, so tender in your mouth.
Absolutely enjoy it with a strong green pepper sauce and some roasted veggies - I am happy!

1 drink for the rest of my life...
Much easier - champagne! I love a good glass of french dry and can never get tired of the bubbles on my tongue.

Whew - I have expensive taste :)

Have a good evening - need a glass of bubbles now - can feel them tingling on my tongue already!

The best advice I ever received

It wasnt really my advice I received: its from a story that I heard from a friend. But it really resonated with me at the time and still does. A friend of mine told me the story of this lady she met from Scandanavia. She herself was on a gap year - taking some time for herself. And she was in Italy - harvesting grapes in the autumn. Late summer is a great time in Italy apparently - long days, not too hot - but still magickal.

They would wake up at 5am, harvest grapes all day and then after lunch stomp on them. They finished at 5, ate an early dinner in the yawning Italian sun and then collapsed into the bunk beds in the barn and slept like the dead, to do it all again the next day.

Anyway, she met this woman from Scandanavia - she must have been around 34 - 35 and she had been travelling around the world for the past 2 / 3 years - working in a place, earning enough money and then moving onto the next place. She spoke about the opportunity of a lifetime she received to have an audience with the Dalai Lama.

You were allowed to ask one question. Her question to the Dalai Lama was "what is the secret to a great life".

His answer to her was so simple, but in her context of living life freely - so meaningful.

His answer was "take more holidays"

Think its time to start planning my next one :)

Pinings

Ok, so I had to google that to make sure I understood what it meant - day 9 of the 31 day challenge I am participating in with http://writersbootcampza.wordpress.com  is to write about the word Pinings.

The good old broken heart. Whew - havent we all had one of those? Im always thoughtful of my past loves. There have been some really good ones... wow.

Ive dated a drummer, an artist, a contract killer, an aeronautical engineer and a digital nerd. Loved them all - loved the experience of being with them - loved the memories.

But they say you cant go back - and that is the absolute truth.

So my pining is not for the loves that I have lost - its for my future. What does it hold - who will capture my soul next and what adventures will we have together? Im so excited to find out what this journey holds in terms of my next love.

Its time to get started :)

A love letter to my pet hate

Dear rude person to waiters

Nothing grinds me more than people who are rude to waiters - or any other service staff for that matter. When I sit at a table with you and someone brings you a glass of water or your meal - and you dont acknowledge them, you go down in my esteem - badly.

Wait staff - service staff - they do things to make your life better, easier, faster - they do this for a wage, yes - but doesnt take much for you to thank them for their work. And when you dont, I dont like you.

Why is it as a society we have this idea of less than - that some people are less than - that some people are not worthy of our thanks. Everyone should be thanked - hell I even thanked a customer at Mugg and Bean the other day - he looked at me like I was crazy.

This is a place of love - and we should show it to everyone.

Hope this note hits home and changes just a little bit of behaviour.

Thank you,
Kat

Inspired by art

Earlier this year - the most brilliant of artists HR Giger (he designed the set of Alien and other such films) passed away. 

He had a gorgeous sculpture garden at his home. 

You can check out some of the sculptures here:

http://io9.com/behold-the-unearthly-delights-of-h-r-gigers-personal-s-1575774509

I have loved the Geiger paintings ever since I took art in matric and VIth form. Magickal pictures capturing some interesting engagements between the alien and the real. world. He really captures a haunting look in his photos and it makes them come alive. 

When I look at them, they stay with me into my dreams. 

If you want to see Giger come alive - check out the movie The Cell. Awesome use of his art there. 

doors and windows

When I was in Ireland, one of the coolest things I saw was the number of different doors there were in the streets - it was so awesome how people decorated the entrance to their lives and their families so beautifully. 

It made me think about my door - my gateway - my body - and how I treat that and put it together for people. Do I make it welcoming? Do I make myself open and warm and ready to welcome, or am I closed and dark and foreboding. 

I am in the process of transformation at the moment. I am banting - losing kilograms and centimeters and loving it. But it does change me - I am different without the pounds I had before. And its quite scary.

Usually when I go on a diet or an eating plan it goes real well until I start loosing and then I get terrified, I get nervous that I am losing my padding. I start getting noticed by the opposite sex and I feel the vulnerability of no padding.

And then I stop. I relayer all the weight back on and wake up one morning thinking - I really need to lose weight. And we start again. 

Except this time I am working on breaking through that - and actually getting myself over that hurdle. Its exciting - and terrifying at the same time.

29 pounds down. 

71 pounds to go. 

xxx