Pennyroyal tea

The theme for this blog entry was supposed to be tea, but I got distracted with Nirvana's song "sit and drink penny royal tea....." (end of musical interlude)

OK, so the entry is actually about tea. And coffee. Well, beverages in general. And sugar. I am now fully used to drinking tea, coffee and generally most things without sugar. I now think of having my tea without the sugary goodness (bleeurg) that generally lurks at the bottom of nearly every teacup (if you don't stir, of course). I actually look forward to the taste of my tea without sugar. How amazing is that, since only a few blog-posts ago (I can't remember the date), all I could think about was my nice cup of strong tea with one-and-three-quarters-teaspoons of sugar?? I didn't manage to cut out sugar from my whole diet - I would keep forgetting about it when I ate a brownie or a biscuit. And of course, I can't resist chocolate, although I tend to have a low giving-up threshold now ( 4 blocks is my maximum now).

The whole idea of giving up sugar was based on the idea that my post-nasal drip would potentially go away if I cut out the sugar. Well, it didn't, and I have found out that I have a bad reaction to grass (not the smoking kind), and sawdust dust, and these are some of the things I will be working with (once I get my project off the ground). AARG!

If the clothes fit, wear them?

I have a bit of a dilemma. In the economic recession, do you buy the expensive clothes that fit and potentially last a long time, or do you buy cheap clothes that generally dont fit, and tend not to last very long? All this comes after yet another trip to the shops to buy a pair of jeans... Nothing fitted except a rather expensive pair of Levi's... And I'm not sure if I can justify the cost of the jeans!

Well, somehow I am going to have to find some jeans (I live in my current ones), if I dont want to start going to varsity in increasingly ragged ones!

Getting there

Yes. Its official. I am getting used to the no-sugar thing, even though I still have moments of "I want seriously strong tea with a drop of milk and one-and-three-quarters of a teaspoon of sugar". I managed to refuse the temptation of a chocolate the night before last. Im getting there!

Now, all I have to deal with is writing and finishing my introduction (and ulitmately my proposal) and get some mice before Friday. Thats all. Besides a few minor things, like getting a soundbite, and other small issues, like having to travel 80km's to get my mice. Thats all. Nothing much. Its a little wierd - it actually is a huge amount to do, but somehow, in my head, it is do-able. So, I just going to work as-hard-as-I-can, get it all done before Friday (so that I dont have to pay a fine for not meeting my aims). I know this probably sounds a little disjointed, but, who cares - its my blog! Now: work-time!

semi-bad day, ctd

Im so tired! I want a cup of tea! And a large slice of chocolate cake! Im my proposal have only been furthered by four lines so far :( I want my bed, and for my headache to go away. Its a pity that I said that I would meet someone for coffee tonight! Sad sad times!

Sugar failure

Sigh. Last night, the temptation of chocolate was just too much for me. I caved in and had a Lindt hazelnut ball thing. My family is wicked in that regard - they are very persistant at offering me chocolate!

Day 2 without sugar

I want a cup of tea!!!
A nice strong cup with a dash of milk and one-and-three-quarters teaspoons of sugar. Preferably with a piece of shortbread or a rusk. That's what I am craving soooo badly right now.

Up till now, it has been relatively easy to leave out refined sugar from my diet, although I discovered to my horror yesterday that the yoghurt that I thought was perfectly innocuous actually was sweetened... I also made muffins last night to take to varsity with me, and they had a bit of sugar in them. But now, I'm really really craving some sugar, and I would also really like to go and sleep (although this could be due to the fact that I have been at my desk by 7am for the past two days)...

Apart from the lack of sugary goodness (Charlie, lets go to candy mountain, Charlie!), I finally managed to sit down and work on my proposal. I wrote two sentences today. Despite the fact that it is only two sentences, it's more than I have written for the past week and a half or so, so take it as good progress! I do have a new deadline for it though - the end of next week... ARG!

A word on hairdressers...

This afternoon, I went to get a haircut. It has been a good six months since my last one, so I really did need it. I had decided to try my dad and brother's hairdresser, because my usual one is getting extremely pricey. So I tried and I tried and I tried again to get hold of this lady, but to no avail. Then randomly, a few days after I had given up on the whole idea, she returned my call!

As a result, I had my haircut. So I arrived (she runs her business from her home). Wow. I mean, really wow. I got out of my car, and was just blown away... She talked, asked me a few questions to which I had monosyllabic answers to...
Then she talked
and talked
andtalkedandtalkedandtalked.

I'm exhausted.

But the thing that irritates my just slightly about hairdressers is that they always want to blow dry my hair after they have finished (I hardly do it, so that's a big change for me). But not only do the hairdressers dry it, but they want to style it! And in my humble opinion, never in the past 5 years or so that it has been happening (apart from the time when my hair was not blow dried, and subsequently looked really cool) has my hair looked nice afterwards. I'm not entirely sure what they want to achieve, but the result is a rather dated look, which ages me by 15-20 years... Not exactly the impact you want to achieve... So tonight, I'm promptly going to undo all the hairdresser's hard work!