Me...to the world!

Goodbye Forty!

Tomorrow I will be fifty years old.  Not sure how, but I seem to have missed entire swathes of my life - not paying attention I suppose.  The thing is, I am still waiting to feel "grown up".  I am still trying to work out what to do WHEN I "grow up".  Guess I had better just get on with it...

Crap

I feel like crap.  I am sick of feeling like crap.  I am SO sick of feeling like crap that I am going to go and have needles stuck in me followed by taking unknown quantities of unknown herbs.  And I don't even care if this practitioner of alternative healing dances around me ringing bells and waving feathers....as long as the end result is that I STOP FEELING LIKE CRAP!!!!

Having an opinion!

Finally going to have a little rant.  I happen to be a firm supporter of gay marriage.  I am heartily of the opinion that two grown adults of any gender should, if the desire is sincere, be allowed to formally, legally & publicly commit to their relationship.  I have yet to hear any argument that gives sufficient logical reason why homosexual relationships should not be included in the Marriage Act. 

Marriage has, for quite a long time, been a secular institution.  I was married in my front yard without benefit (!) of a church or religious representative.  In fact no deities of any type were invoked, beseeched or bothered on our behalf.  Yet, to all and sundry, we are married. No one has a problem with it.  However  I cop a fair bit of flack for daring to espouse an inclusive position from religious types that I tend to be related to.  Telling me that homosexual marriage should not happen "because it is wrong"  or "against the laws of God" is just not going to cut it.    My marriage has nothing to do with gods or religion.  Why should any marriage - unless the participants choose to have their union certified by a religion they espouse.  That is when religion should have a say in who gets certified.  For the rest of us...bugger off and mind your own business.

Easter...wtf!

How the hell did that happen?!  It was just Xmas!  I think my brain has dribbled out my ears and my connection to the world is becoming more & more tenuous. Bah!

I have had a fairly crap week healthwise.  Guess the exercise of last weekend was a bit much...or something.  It seems impossible to find the happy balance between too little & too much.  It doesn't help, when trying to implement new habits, to suddenly be barely able to rise from bed - let alone do anything productive.  I would love to be able to figure out a system that works.  For ANY bit of my life!

Did have a lovely visit from my Dad. He is just back from a cruise to NZ.  Seemed to have a good time. Note - he drove to see me as I was not up to driving to see him.  The man is just shy of 80! Go you guy!  Mind you, we can't seem to have a visit without a disagreement.  Usually about politics.  It is a bit difficult at times.  At least he doesn't get to send me to my room when I challenge him - unlike my entire childhood/adolescence!

Sunday walking....

Quite a nice day today, here on the Sunny Coast. Finally got to go for a decent walk along the beach front at Caloundra.  Really pushed it but surprised myself how far I got...and how quickly.  Maybe a good sign. 

We finally got around to replacing our dodgy home phones today.  That will save a lot of ear ache from loud beeping to indicate low battery after 2 minutes - and hopefully a speaker that Dad will be able to a) operate and b) hear.

Then on to a non-health food lunch (hands up who is surprised?) of a beautiful burger eaten on the banks of the Maroochy river. Oh, chips too of course! I did drink water instead of the regulation coke so I guess that is something...isn't it? And we went for another walk after.  More of a leisurely stroll but still moving. All in order to live long & prosper - no, strong - oh all of those things! 

Still not looking at news much.  Think I will give my brain (and blood pressure) a bit of a leave pass.  Opinions will arise, as required, in future.

Dinner & Conversation

Well what a great time I had last night!  I think I may have broken our friends though.....

Well maybe just the hubby (that doesn't look right) who stayed up being talked at until the wee small hours. Mrs is far too sensible a woman to fall for that one and retired at a more user friendly hour.  Broke my own hubby too. He kept falling asleep on the cat. He also managed to put himself down for a nap about five minutes after visitors dragged their tired bones out the door this morning.  Apparently a four hour nap was just the go! Such a sook :)

It was just so lovely to have full blown, convoluted, in depth conversation for HOURS! Thank you friends!

Busy, Busy...etc

Well I have been a busy little camper! I have been having fun making lots of experimental food to hopefully not poison good friends with. So far in the last two days I have made hummus, tzatziki, basil pesto, baba ganoush, grissini, pumpkin & pinenut salad, mushrooms with thyme, lamb kofta, chicken skewers and Guinness brownies. Still to go - raspberry coulis, assorted salads & antipasto /cheese platters to prepare.  For four people. Anyone know a small third world country that needs feeding?  I know the Guinness brownie dessert doesn't really go with the rest but, hey, John likes it!  Hope I can manage to stay awake for the actual dinner....

This food stuff is good for keeping the mind busy.  I'm afraid I have stopped reading/watching the news and am just scanning blogs I normal devour.  I am having a case of *no idea what the world is coming to* itis.  Our election here in Queensland seemed more like a predator feeding frenzy than a considered democratic process.  How the utter destruction of one side makes for stable considered parliamentary process is beyond me.  Did we learn nothing from the LNP/National walloping which saw them barely able to function in Opposition. Our new government spent many, many years in the wilderness as an Opposition without a clue. The steady revolving door of leadership, coupled with a seeming inability to engage with issues, kept them from being an alternative government.  Somehow appointing a strange little micromanager from outside of the parliamentary party as leader seems to have the populous forgiving the obvious ineptitude of the sitting members.  One Newman to rule them all, apparently.

And don't let me get started on the USA electoral debacle.  Watching the Republican primaries just makes me wish a little that I didn't read so much science fiction.  Hysterical flashes of "The Handmaids Tale" & "Little Brother" alternating with "Revolt in 2100".  And that is just the political scene.........

I don't sleep well......

Got lost.....

Don't seem to have been here for a VERY long time.  Not sure how that happened.  It feels like I lost a whole couple of years without trying.  Perils of being a dedicated home-body. I am back on the trail of my life.  I read a lot of what other people think about the world in general - why shouldn't I do the same?  So look out.  From now on I will be in full blown opinionated mode.