Kelly Azuma

I’m officially off my anti-depressants Woohoo! That isn’t to say my head isn’t woo-woo, it still is! Every show on TV makes me cry. I’ve been watching some documentary on nhk tonight about disabled kids doing paralympics and I started bawling my eyes out, and then I watched The Secret Millionaire on tv and started crying. The withdrawal symptoms have changed. No more headaches, just woo-woo head (basically dizzy and tired), and lots of crying. Though it’s all good. I’m there, I just got to wait for my body to catch up and realise we don’t need that silly old medicine anymore

I met up with an old friend, Jo,  today. She called me the day before because she had a dream about me and Yasu at baseball. Funny. So she got the guilts and gave me a call because we hadn’t caught up since I came back from Japan.

We had lunch at Macca’s with her two boys. I had a double cheeseburger and fries and a choco sundae mmm

We had a great catch-up over burgers until the youngest boy decided to strip off his shorts and undies and streak through the restaurant without pants! Then he peed everywhere, tripped and fell over his undies that were around his ankles and laid down on the floor and wailed. Ahh kids. So that was that, and we piled them back in the car and I was dropped off on the way home.

I got home to find my inbox full of paypal money, 3 people had paid for readings! During the time I was out I had two other women call me for reiki healings as well! So I set about doing the readings…then we had dinner. I heated up some roast chicken and rice for Yasu and I had roast chicken on a roll, and we watched the Japanese ice-skating on tv. Was pretty good but some of those guys costumes look so feminine! I don’t think an Aussie would be caught dead wearing one.

Anyways, after dinner I did another reading for a friend, and then another couple of friends asked me if they could come through for a reading next week, so I’m kind of booked.

Yasu also decided to jump on the bandwagon tonight and asked me for a reading. He found out what synchronicity means tonight when the same thing kept coming up even with two sets of cards… he’s got a panther and a wolf as totem animals.

Tomorrow I’ve got a workshop with my teacher, and then after that we are going to Jo’s house for a sausage sizzle. Looking forward to doing some spooky stuff tomorrow and learning some new things. Jo also wants a reading in exchange for a manicure (she’s recently become a qualified nail technician), so looking forward to getting pampered too!

After 7 years of being married and 7 years of pleading with the in-laws to come over to my fine land, they finally sent me a letter today to tell me they are planning on coming over to Perth to stay with us! Yay.

I think the recent visit was what had the greatest effect, in that we all connected in a very big way and now they realise they really miss us. They even wrote in the letter that they had been having people around for bbq’s and they realised something was missing…. but what? Then they realised that Kelly and Yasu were not there!

It’s nice to be thought of in that way, and we are also missing them. Yesterday was MIL’s birthday but we were both in no condition for talking so Yasu called tonight and spoke to his mum who confirmed they were planning on coming over, but because they have never been outside of Japan they are really nervous about the whole thing. (That is what stopped them before coming before now).

We have decided to go over to Japan and stay with them for a couple of weeks, and then they will come back with us and stay for 3 or 4 weeks. When asked where she wanted to go, my MIL said “the supermarket”. haha! She has never seen a foreign supermarket before and being a housewife, that is her first port of call. I’m pretty much the same as in when I go to Japan, I love perusing the aisles and looking at all the different products available. I can’t wait to show mum and dad around all the shops!!

I’ve got a whole menu to plan as well, mum and dad really want to eat my roast pork so I plan to make that a couple of times while they are here too. We have a lot of planning to do, I’m so excited

In other news, I had a major windfall of $10k after entering a competition, so I’m pleased to say that I will be able to pay for our central heating and cooling. Thankyou Abraham!! The guy is coming to our house tomorrow to have a look at our house and give us a quote. I’m hoping it won’t be any more than $8k. The rest of the money will be squirrelled away for when the rellies come over

I didn’t go to any of my classes today because I had a “hangover”, in a spiritual sense. I think I overworked myself yesterday and all the good food, readings and lots of sun and sunburn just wore me out! My head was woo-woo and I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I didn’t have the energy to go to yoga tonight so I gave it a miss too.

I made chahan for dinner with the remaining roast pork and it was delicious.

Roast Pork Chahan

I also am down to less than 10% of one anti-depressant, so looks like my Friday goal will be reached. The only withdrawal symptoms I’ve had is in the afternoon I’ve been getting headaches, but that I can deal with. If I was nauseas that would be hard, but thankfully none.

At the MCD yesterday I met a lady that told me about a guy that has come over from Queensland and is doing energy therapy here, and she told me that she had suffered chronic neck pain for 25 years since a car accident and no-one could help her get rid of the pain. She saw this guy and within the 2 hours treatment, 90% of the pain was gone, and another 5% later, so now she suffers nothing at all, an occasional twinge but that is it. Her friend who couldn’t fall pregnant went, and got pregnant immediately after, and people who had trouble losing weight, dropped the kilo’s afterwards.

It’s all about balancing the body’s energy and replacing the energy that was lost. As well it works on the premise that some people have parasites in their bodies and when not picked up and treated they cause the following symptoms:

• INABILITY TO GAIN OR LOSE WEIGHT

• CHRONIC CANDIDA

• YEAST INFECTIONS

• CHRONIC SINUS OR EAR INFECTIONS

• URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS

• ITCHY EARS OR NOSE

• ANAL ITCHING, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT

• DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS

• GAS AND BLOATING

• DIARRHEA

• MUCUSY STOOLS

• HEMORRHOIDS

• CONSTIPATION

• IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME

• GRINDING TEETH WHILE SLEEPING

• HEART PAIN

• NUMB HANDS

• PAIN IN THE NAVEL

• PAIN IN THE BACK,THIGHS OR SHOULDERS

• ARTHRITIC PAINS

• BURNING IN THE STOMACH

• BED WETTING

• DROOLING WHILE SLEEPING

• ANY MENSTRUAL COMPLAINT

• CYSTS AND FIBROIDS

• EATING MORE AND STILL BEING HUNGRY

• ALL SKIN PROBLEMS

• FORGETFULNESS

• DEPRESSION

• CHRONIC FATIGUE

• CHRONIC VIRAL SYNDROMES

• PROSTATE PROBLEMS AND SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION IN MEN

• WATER RETENTION (mostly from tapeworms)

• CRAWLING FEELING UNDER THE SKIN

• FLOATERS

• LIVER/GALLBLADDER TROUBLE

Included in his fee is medicine (drops) that you take to eradicate the parasites. Some people have parasites as well as blockages in their energy and some people just have blockages.

I called this morning and secured an appointment for next wednesday morning at 9am. I’m really looking forward to it!! I know something is out of balance in my body, and I can’t wait to hear what it is. By the way, the girl with the neck problem never told him what her problem was or why she was there, he picked it up first thing.

I will be the full bottle on it on Wednesday though so I will post about it then.

• I won another competition – free movie passes to see whatever movies I want.
• Yasu got a pay rise, making him the highest paid contractor at his company (yay).
• I caught a cold, but with reiki, managed to get over it by the end of the day.
• I’ve been a life-long nail biter, but since seeing Sarah and doing a lot of self loving, my nails just decided they would grow by themselves and I haven’t bitten them since. Yay for small miracles!
• I’m down to 25mg (one quarter) of an antidepressant pill. That is fast. Oh and little to no side effects means I can hope to be off them by the end of next week.
• I’ve got PMS 17 days after starting my period, so I’m hoping that means I’m going to get a normal period for the first time in my life? That would be sweet. I usually have a cycle that ranges between 50-70 days.
• I’m going shopping for my sunnies today…I’ve been looking online but for some reason I only like the ones that cost about $400/500? Yasu reckons I have expensive taste. It might be true. I can’t imagine spending that much on one pair of sunnies though…
• Our xmas plans have changed and we are now staying in Perth. How quickly things change! We worked out the logistics of driving to Adelaide, 2 days driving there and back, and only 3 days staying there total, which means more time in the car than in Adelaide. (Yasu has 7 days off over xmas). Then my sister emailed me to say they’re having xmas dinner at her house and we’re invited, so we’ll go there instead (if #@$%%# brother isn’t going that is!).
• Pumpkin salad has become a favourite in this house and last night Yasu requested I make it. I’ve got more pumpkin, going to make something pumpkin-y tonight as a tribute to Halloween. Though won’t be answering any doorbells tonight, I hope nobody rings. (aka I don’t have candy to give out/aka we’re too kechi to buy some for possible trick or treaters/aka it’s not our culture so why should we).
• Did I mention I’m going to be teaching Japanese at the community centre? I will have my own classes from next year! Woohoo!

I think that’s it for now. If you’re celebrating Halloween I hope you have a happy one!

• I went to Yoga on Wednesday night and the teacher, Sui, told me I should give it a go anyway because when she was in a car accident and broke her wrist and had whiplash she still did yoga, and it actually made her better and strengthened her wrist and neck. So I did give it a go, and it actually wasn’t too bad. I didn’t push myself, only did as much as I could.
• Halfway through the yoga I was called into the AGM that was happening in the next room and stood for election onto the community centre committee, and won! I was sworn in that night and am now officially a member of the committee. Our next meeting is on 18^th November to decide on a few projects coming up and to set who will be doing what. I’ve already learned a whole heap of stuff, it’s really interesting.
• One of the women in my life skills course, I found out today,  is a clairvoyant and a healer. It also turned out she is going away and needed someone to stay at her beautiful house up in the hills for 4 days (weekend) while her and her husband go away. She has a mini-farm with sheep, dogs, a horse, goats, chooks, and cats and it overlooks the whole of Perth. Anyway, Yasu and I will be staying at her house over the weekend she is away, so it will be like a mini holiday of our own! Add to the fact I just love animals, so it really will be a pleasure.
• I have also been talking with a friend in Melbourne and we have made plans for me to go there in February to go to the Soundwave Music Festival together. Our favourite band, Faith No More, is playing after reuniting again, so it will be a blast. I will be staying for a few days so I can hang out with him and his wife and their two young sons who I am yet to meet! It’s been about 7 years since my last visit.
• As well as that, we are heading to Adelaide for Christmas, driving over, to stay with a high school friend of mine who just moved there with her partner, because of his work. So it’s all very exciting!
• Melbourne Cup Day is coming up on Tuesday and I’ve been invited to my Reiki Master’s house for a Cup Day party, all our ‘spooky’ friends will be there, so it will be a fun day!! Plus which one of us will be the better psychic and pick the winning horse??
• I’ve put in an early order for a good pair of sunglasses for xmas from Yasu… anyone have any ideas about good brands? I’m totally new to this… I’ve never owned a really good pair, but with the sun so bright now, and summer on the horizon, squinting is making the skin around my eyes go wrinkly so I really need to get some good ones, the darker the better.
• On the weight front, I’ve dropped another 3kg and 5cm from my waist. I’ve had some small-er clothes in my wardrobe for a while, and I can now fit into them, so yay. I haven’t really changed what I have been eating consciously, but I noticed once I started drinking 2.5 litres of water per day, and walking 3.2km per day, the craving for sweets has gone out the window. I also eat far less than I used to, it’s as if my body needs less, and I definitely can feel now when I’ve had enough.
• I bought a papa-san chair online, you know those round chairs on a frame you can sink right into? I bought one from someone else, but it was practically brand new, hardly ever used, beautiful black suede and so big and comfy. I have been meditating in it every day, and it’s sooo good. I mean I can get really comfy and the meditation is just so enhanced by that. And it was only $30 so a very good buy!
• Somehow I keep winning competitions. I won some energy saving lightbulbs last week, and this week I won a potato chips competition I entered online and received a big box of mixed potato chips from the company! I also entered another competition, and was one of 400 people worldwide to win a bunch of cool prizes which I was just notified about last night, so I’m waiting to receive them by courier!
• I felt it was time to come off the anti-depressants (Luvox) I have been on for the past 9 years. In the beginning I was taking 11 different pills in the morning and 11 pills at night. 8 of those were anti-depressants because at 22 I was suicidal after a personal incident. From there it all just snowballed and I ended up with all these pills after seeing a psychiatrist. Over the last few years I’ve taken myself off most of them, and have, for the last 2 years been on only 1 anti-depressant per day. That’s a big step down from 22 pills per day. Anyway, I felt that now is the time to come off totally, but with anti-depressants you can’t stop just like that because the withdrawal symptoms are hell. If even I missed one pill by forgetting to take it, the next day I would suffer hellish withdrawal symptoms until I took the pill and even then it would take half a day to work. The symptoms are feeling like you’re going to vomit, or actually vomiting, dizzyness, headaches, anger, extreme sleepiness, nausea etc. It’s just like with any other drug. So bit by bit I’ve been coming off. It means for me, cutting the pill by myself unless I want the rigmarole of buying a lesser dose pill, but instead I just cut off a bit, one pill for me is 100 miligrams, so cut the end off it becomes 80 mg, then abit more 70, etc, until now I’ve got it down to 50. I’m hoping within the next week or so I can get it down somewhere to 30. Hopefully by mid-november I can be off them altogether. It’s somewhat fast the way I’m doing it, usually it would be slower than this, but I’ve been giving myself reiki every day and it really helps with the symptoms, so I’m not feeling it as much. Also, when I get determined about something, nothing is going to make me stop, so the willpower that I need to get me through is strong, thankfully.

Phew!!