Kelly Azuma

I woke up this morning at 8:27am. That is the second day I have woken naturally at that time. I was very rested though. If there is one thing that I like about energy work is that it makes me sleep very well! No more insomnia for me. :)

I had a reading booked and so I immediately got into that and sent it off, later received an email from the person thanking me, so that was nice. I love all the wonderful feedback I’m getting. :0)

I had my drawing class today and it was pretty hot outside but I really felt like stretching my legs with some exercise so I decided to go. I got there to find that two other girls, artists in fact in their own right, had joined the class. They started from the beginning while I got to draw a landscape today. There was a choice of either lillies, hydrangeas, or a sunflower, and I chose a sunflower because of the colour combination of the bright yellow flower and the bright blue sky behind it. I am not usually a fan of sunflowers because I am allergic to them, but it was really nice to draw it.

I haven’t finished yet, I still have to do some detail on the actual flower petals, but today’s work turned out to be rather impressionist! Even the two artist ladies complemented me and told me how great it looked so I’m thrilled :)

Impressionist Sunflower

After that was over I went to the local shopping centre to do some me therapy, aka retail therapy. Actually it wasn’t so much things I wanted but things I needed.

Firstly, sunglasses. Yasu took me to look at some last week because he’s buying them for me for Christmas. They are much needed because when I walk up to the community centre I’m walking into the sun and I end up squinting and it’s not good for my eyes. I had my eye on a pair last week but today when I went the girl explained that even though they were designer (Guess), they don’t have any protection for your eyes.

I ended up getting a pair of Oakley ‘Ravishing’, because they are really good quality, UV protection of Plutonite® lens material that filters out 100% of UVA / UVB / UVC & harmful blue light up to 400nm,  dark bronze lenses. I really like the brown lenses. Also, the frame is brown but glittery, it’s sooo pretty and right up my alley! So abit expensive, but much more worth it, and I know that I’m looking after my eyes, I would much rather do that than wear designer glasses with no protection.

See the glitter in the frame? You can't really see it until the light shines on it, understated and stylish :)

After that I went to the local spooky shop and the two books I really needed were right on the shelf when I walked in. I’ve been getting alot of symbols and signs when I do readings recently and some of them came up over the weekend, even my teacher didn’t know what they mean. This dictionary has anything and everything you could ever want for symbols and signs, it’s really great.

I also got a book on Australian Animal totems, because animals keep showing up in every reading I do, and although I have an animal totem book, it has mostly American animals (based around Native American spirit worship). The book I got is based around Australian animals which is good because this morning in a reading I got an Emu! And I had no clue…I had to go by what Ostrich means but luckily it’s pretty much the same meaning. :)

Afterwards I skipped into the supermarket and bought some fresh fruit; kiwi fruit, oranges, pears, banana’s, and apples. Also bought some prunes, and some caramel corn on a whim.

Then I went to Dome and treated myself to a Citron Presse. Was very refreshing and delicious especially as today was really hot!

I’m planning on cooking some aussie beef and salad again tonight and I’ve got a chocolate swiss roll for dessert later :)

• 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!!