You Tube

I love you tube. Hasnt our world changed so much that now we can just watch whatever we want whenever we want to. Relationships can be formed over distances that would have never been possible before. Cultures can be witnessed and explored from the comfort of our living rooms. I think its great. Its great that people are so free to express themselves and share thier lives with the world. Kinda like blogging I suppose.

Depo Provera

To all contraceptive using women out there, please please do not put this drug into your system. It is not safe. There have been insufficient clinical trials in humans to prove its safety and in animal trials it is associated with a 25% increase in cancer. The FDA has just released a warning that states long term use of this drug will cause decreased bone density.
Before now I had only heard good stories, or the occasional weight gain story about this drug. Please know that it is much more harmful than this. The drug itself is a synthetic steriod which depletes your natural store of progesterone. This causes a heap of imbalances such as anxiety, depression, over eating etc. The mechanism of contraception is that it prohibts a fertilised egg to latch on to the lining of the uterus. This sits very badly depending on your view of when life begins.
If you chose to take this drug please please please be informed. Its your body.

Some Memories

This is my biscuit making an extremly bad attempt to catch the fly above her head.


This is me just before I almost went to space


This was a silly photo session we had after being out at a messy house party. Looks like Andrew has a handbag. Actually, its not his, he just used it for the photo.

Martha Stewart

Have you ever seen the Martha Stewart show? I have. It boggles me. Is this what women are supposed to be like? The other day I was watching and I heard Martha describe a stencil. This stencil wasnt just any old stencil, this was a special Martha Stewart stencil and actually indespensible to a household. Isnt it a shame that how we learn the job of a housewife is from terrible shows like this. How many women in the world even have stencils? Well I'll make a stand and declare that not only do I not make table decorations, I dont know how to bake a cake and I dont host fancy dinner parties. I have one knife in my kitchen that is nearly blunt and I wouldn't know when to use a mallet. I dont use recipes and I wouldnt know where to get fancy cheese if I ever needed any.
I am making tea tonight. I was inspired by a tin a saurkraut I found at the shops yesterday so I made up a dish. I'll call it Alice's Special Noodle Chicken. Yum

Fitness

Its a strange thing. I used to think very differently about it. Like a commitment to struggle for the sake of health. The struggle was mostly pychological I think, although until now you would have never never seen me running down the street. Slowly and magically exercise has transformed itself in me. I'm not really sure how I got to this place. Perhaps just a constant gentle battle until I began to enjoy it. I never thought this would ever happen to me. I've tried it at the gym, I've tried it with walking and I've tried it with biking. Never have I had cravings for exercise.
2 weeks ago I decided to get back into the lanes after a long period of plodding along with the aqua joggers. At that stage I could do a half length of freestyle (thats 25m of the 50m pool) before I was gasping for air. Today I did every second length freestyle and arrived at the end with only a slight increase in resp rate. I have discovered that with just a tiny push one can do twice as much the next time. I was actually swimming along today thinking about what it would be like to compete in this way. Dont get me wrong, I'm a million miles away from that, but if one can advance so much in 2 weeks I ponder what level I could achieve by the end of the year.
It feels great by the way. Such a unique buzz. I wouldn't go back to my lazy ways any more, well I hope so anyway.