I’ve said before that people seem to forget that the end goal is simply to be happy and live a ‘comfortable’ life. It is up to each individual what they deem to be ‘comfortable’. I love house renovation shows and am currently watching Married to Real Estate and recently the beautiful Egypt said ‘You can’t put a value on quality of life’ and that really summed it up. Then I was watching another show where the woman said something about ‘you cannot underestimate how important your quality of life is’, which I assume she means the same thing? It is up to each person to specify what it is that makes their life comfortable.
I really felt this on Wednesday, it was a public holiday in SA so I had a paid day off, my morning spent lying in bed snuggling the pups and drinking coffee brought to me in bed by my husband. What is better? To me it is not about how much money I have or earn, as long as I can pay my bills, have food on my table and a roof over my head. It is not about what car I drive or anything else which is ‘appearance to others based’, it is just about being happy.
Norm has been busy with my Ancestry as I mentioned in my last post. Unfortunately I jumped ahead and made some assumptions which we later discovered to be incorrect. Here is the post Norman made.
“I tracked her Norwood lineage back to Gentleman Richard Norwood (1573-1631) whose son William “The Immigrant” Norwood (1623-1703) travelled from Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, England to Surry County, Virginia, then British Colonial America.”
“Richard Norwood was married to Lady Elizabeth Stewart of Murray which suggested a Scottish ancestry. Initially, I got quite excited when literally hundreds of hints on Ancestry suggested that Lady Elizabeth’s father Sir Nicholas Stewart a former British Member of Parliament was the son of Lady Jean Elizabeth Stewart (1533-1588) the illegitimate daughter of King James V and Elizabeth Buthoune (Beaton).
Having done a deep dive on Scottish history, I think this is now unlikely as Lady Jean Elizabeth Stewart was unhappily married to Archibald Campbell (1533-1573) the 5th Earl of Argyll and there is no record of her having a child.
There are a further two theories regarding Sir Nicholas Stewarts father one being a William Stewart and the other a Symeon Stewart.
Symeon Stewart (1496-1568) is looking to be a stronger lineage and would take Lisa back to Sir Alexander “The Fierce” Stewart (1210 – 1282) and beyond to King Robert II of Scotland courtesy of Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce.”
You know what is hilarious? My first mother in law used to lord it over me that I was just a hillbilly American and her son could trace his lineage all the way back to Robert the Bruce. And now so can I! Pretty ironic to me. Also the fact that Norm is scots but my history ends up there?
I wonder if the past life where I remember Norm and I being married was one of these ancestors? I knew I was someone in the peerage from the way I lived then in my regression. All things are possible.
Anyway, I have now found out about multiple murders within my family lineage, with family members on both the victim as well as the assailant side of the equation. I am still asking forgiveness from my ancestors for what happened to them and for what was done by them to others each morning when I pray.
I have had sushi twice this week. I had sushi for dinner last Saturday night.
I also had it on Wednesday night after my pedicure as it was too late to sort out any dinner when we finished.
I put a ham in the slow cooker for lunches this week. I would fry a bit of it then once browned just add a scrambled egg on top of it and then roll it like an omelette. Quick and easy and high in protein.
Our shopping arrived on Monday and that night I cooked chicken sausages with roasted sweet potatoes and fried baby cabbage.
On Tuesday I did pork chops with steamed cauliflower and oven roasted brussel sprouts and beetroot. It was all really tasty.
Thursday I roasted a pork fillet and in the last 20 minutes of cooking I chucked in some squash I cut in half and they roasted in the juices of the pork. I made a salad of figs, goats cheese, cucumber, and walnuts.
On Friday my friend Tam came for dinner. Norm cooked a half of a fillet of beef, some halloumi. I made a big salad for the table. It was yummy. Tam and I sat outside talking nonsense for ages.
I have been successful in no binging this week and 99% keeping to my anti-inflammatory list but I have had a little mini chocolate each night. I go for my next check up next week so will see how my health is.
This morning Tam collected me at 9am for Soul Circle. It was pouring with rain. It was held at Ishta in Hout Bay, a venue I had never been to before. It is a large piece of land with a tent erected on it for events. This is a pic of some random dude at the venue in a pic I stole from the internet, just for you.
There were some amazing huge crystals!
Today’s topic was Triggers. My animism teacher used to call them ‘Keys’ because they are the key to unlock whatever trauma you have not cleared which is causing your reactions to things. Triggers are almost all childhood related. We went around the room and talked about the topic and what came up for us. One thing which came up for me (which has so many times) is my childhood memory of our armed invasion when I was 5 years old. My family’s reactions to me telling them of my premonitions and that I knew exactly what was going to happen because it came to me in my dreams. They told me it was not possible, they did not believe me. Now that I am able to forgive them each morning this will be part of that forgiveness, telling my beloved Grandmother that I know why she told me to keep quiet, that it was for my protection. I can tell her I forgive her, she was always doing her best.
Usually, we are all just doing our best, whatever our best is at that point in time. We have to be able to hold compassion for the people or the situations which are at the root of our triggers and be able to forgive ourselves for not believing in ourselves or not loving ourselves because of this pre-conditioning.
After the Soul Circle a few of us went over to Tam’s to hang out for a bit and chat. Tam built a big fire and as usual we discussed a billion disparate topics.
I am now home, Norm is doing a webinar and then I may persuade him to take me for dinner. Or I may just have a nap. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and week ahead. Until next time, Kisses from the Kitten xoxoxxoxo
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