Stress Management

It has begun to consciously drawn on me, how stress can affect one's diet.  It was in the back of my mind, but hasn't really come to the surface until a week ago.  I had been 3 months into eating based on Mark Sisson's The Primal Blueprint, when I started to slip.  Gluten and refined sugar started to re-enter my diet.  Granted, I was choosing options that had the least amount of carbs in them (funny isn't?), but that's really not the point.  It has been little things so far: a packet of Little Debbie doughnut gems, a raised doughnut(or two), or a cream cheese croissant a day.  Not too bad considering I'm still losing weight. 

However, I'm going to quit this annoying little habit beginning to re-develope.  As of today, I'm cutting the grains and refined sugar out (again).  I've started making my own food again and bringing enough with me in case I need a snack etc.  All foods I've made today are primal (no grains, no refined sugar).  I'm re-setting my goals reguarding my eating habits.  Grains, sayonara!  Refined sugar, sayonara too!  Out of here.  Gone.

Another thing I need to work on is make sure I eat what I buy.  There are times where I'll buy something thinking I'm going to use it and then it just sits there in my frig, roiting away.  If I would just eat the damn thing, I'd waste so much less money.  And, I'd feel so much better if I just continued to eat primal foods.

Kinda of a bit off topic form the pervious entries, but you will all just have to deal with it.

Sayonara

Across a Nightingale Floor

At writer's group this week, we were discussing possible 5th Teusday writing challanges and one person suggested writing from an object's point of view, instead of a character's (usually a human or animal).  There were other suggestions, but I think I like this one the best.  I already have an idea for it!  Having learned about nightengale floors or uguisubari from reading Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor I have been researching them to use in my own novel The Hogoshiro Chronicles. There's a character named Dr. Takahashi who I think would be paranoid enough to have an uguisubari. 

Uguisubari will usually sing when walked on.  The nails rub against a clamp causing the floor to make chirping sounds.  Kinda cool, isn't?  No one would be able to kill you, if they couldn't get across your uguisubari without making it sing, thus altering you to their pressence.  This was the main reason the Japanese invented uguisubari in the first place; to protect their royals from assassination.

Now, would it not be cool to have a piece of flash finction about someone, say Dr. Takahashi strolling across his uguisubari, but from the floor's point of view?  Maybe it's just me, but I think so.  How would the floor feel about being walked on, if it had any feelings at all?  Guilty over protecting such a cruel man who happens to sell innocent kitsune on the black market or happy to serve it's master?  If someone figured out how to creep across undetected, would uguisubari notice, even if it said nothing?  Would it be able to differentiate the people by their tread?

I hope to answer these questions whether this challange gets chosen or not at some point.  I think it would be a fun challange and a way to force myself to make the landscape come alive.

Sayonara