In the last 12 months, my life has been turned around completely. I resigned from my job working for government welfare, met Paul (my husband), lost a heap of weight and became a craft nut. These have all been great things, but to catch up until now, there have also been difficult things. The hardest thing I think has been my eyes being opened up to the good and evil of this world.
It's not all a bad thing. I have become aware of how to eat and how to live to be as close to natural, or, as God intended us to live, as I can. The hardest thing I'm facing is the inability to sell our house in the time we need it to in order to remain sane (or as sane as we are now)!
It has been a pleasant transition in that we have done some gardening and now have an ongoing supply of leafy greens (and a lot of seeds now due to many of my plants going to seed on account of inexperience in gardening). Cutting out all grains, legumes, refined sugar, hydrogenated oil and anything out of a box basically (except milk which is so hard to give up!!!) and replacing them with veggies from our garden and grass fed, humanely treated meat, has reversed my insulin resistance and allowed my reproductive system to function normally and both Paul and I to lose a tonne of weight. It's just since our marriage in June of this year, I have developed a hypersensitivity to certain sounds. Probably on account of our street turning to garbage with noisy neighbours and their dogs, but also I think the psychological aspect is the realisation we need to take the next step and get out of town! Quick!
So you get a snapshot of where I'm at. I wasn't sure of how to start a blog, but this is what I came up with.
We have many wonderful friends, and as they became aware of my inability to tolerate the dog next door and across the road barking constantly, and next door neighbours playing unacceptably loud music despite my many attempts to reason with them, Paul sent an email "cry for help" and his old church pastor phoned straight up and offered his house for the week while he took his family away. WELL. My life has instantly changed from anxious to calm and stable overnight. I won't get started on pharmaceutical companies, but I will say that the Dr tried to put me on an anti psychotic drug to help me sleep. I would think it reasonable to suggest that society is so messed up. I pay ridiculously high rates in order to live in my home yet council are not capable of ordering people to restrain their pets to keep the peace. The fact that I function normally in a quiet neighbourhood makes me feel that there is a serious injustice and that council legislation needs to change. I fear returning home and if we could just sell our house, we wouldn't have to.
I may be a little crazy, and I feel like an old lady complaining, but I guess what it boils down to is that city life is no longer for me and there is a need for shift soon, because no matter how much I complain, nothing will change where we are currently, so why waste the energy.
So where we are staying, we are also babysitting their beautiful border collie Chewy aka Chewbacca. He looks like a black and white Chewbacca too! What a blessing to have him around this week. I'd pretty much wiped my life of ever having a dog because of the relentless barking I've endured but he has softened my heart. I've taken him to the park two days now and he goes off lead and actually comes when you call him. He goes up to people but is unobtrusive and he just loves life. And it's gotten me outside for a dose of vitamin D too! Praise God for Chewy!
Well the walk in the park is over for today so off home to our respite house to tidy up and make it sparkle before cooking a lovely paleo dinner.
Oh, my three favourite websites are www.marksdailyapple.com , www.backtoedenfilm.com , www.ravelry.com and I'm always pinning and discovering things on pinterest. I think I might have a crack at pinning my first ever blog too!
Thanks for having a crack at reading, I'm sorry if it's been heavy but like I said, I was unsure how to start. I would like to add recipes and crafts to the mix along with any gardening tips I find helpful.
God Bless
Kelly
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