Usually Cape Town has very low humidity; it has crisp, hot days during the summer. It can get blistering hot, but generally the humidity is low. This week has felt so humid. Every day since Monday I had been convinced that it was going to rain, but the rain I could feel never arrived. We had a sputter here and there but nothing that did not dry up within minutes. Last night we had dark grey menacing clouds but they were just teasing us.
It has been hot and muggy!!
This week we had builders in to resolve the leak in the play room so that is now resolved. We just need to wait for the room to dry out and we can decorate it. We bought 2 little cubed storage units for toys this week which Norm is busy putting together today.
Norm popped to the shops on Wednesday as he decided he wanted to cook. He made chicken breasts wrapped in bacon, mashed potatoes and baby broccoli. It was delicious.
He also cooked on Friday evening. Again it was crazy hot and the fresh salad I made was gorgeous. Norm made a steak and baked potatoes for us. I love a baked potato and Norm can cook a gorgeous crusty outside, pink inside steak.
I am a lucky woman.
I have been training on a CRM enhancement solution called Clay. I have done so much previous work that aligns with this, I have done due diligence on external data suppliers, I have done ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) and this tool’s framework is FETE (Find, Enrich, Transform, and Export) so there is a lot of symmetry between those two flows. I hope I get assigned to a project using this tool, it seems very interesting.
I am often talking about Letting Things Go and not holding onto the things that cause you trauma. This week in my readings I saw the Lakota healers message of the day:
“The wound that’s held grows. The wound that’s released heals.”
This week I released a huge wound. I let it go in my morning prayers.
I have been doing a lot of deep thinking in my garden this week about holding onto energy and letting it go. I have also been thinking about energy and movement of energy. I was also thinking about the fine line between Narcissism and Neurodiversity. By that I mean that some behaviours can be perceived as Narcissistic when they are more likely due to the complex emotions of Neurodiversity. There are many theories, some are that people can have both narcissism and neurodiversity, some that you cannot have one if you have the other, some that everyone with either of them has a bit of each, and every other theory in between. Here is a link to a useful article. Here is another. For me, the determining factor is: what is the intent behind the behaviour? I.e., were there malicious intents behind the behaviour, or just general inquisitiveness / oddness?
I had an conversation this week and said something and even as I was saying it, I realised it sounded very narcissistic. From an Energy point of view, what I was saying is possible. I said ‘could I be a narcissist if I can see that a behaviour is narcissistic and I am self-aware enough to ask that question’? They laughed and confirmed that no I am not a narcissist, and no my energy had nothing to do with the situation we were discussing. The consecutive timing between multiple events does not mean they are related. Correlation does not imply causation. One thing about autism is that we notice the synchronicity of things and we spot patterns. It is just how our brain works. We also assume patterns which are not there.
For example, when Reuben was born, loads of swallows emerged and were bombing Lily and Josh’s house. They were going quite crazy! Then when I got home to Hout Bay, we had the same thing happen here! I had never noticed a swallow in Hout Bay before then.
Now some of my OG readers may remember that when Amelia was born, a bunny showed up at their house. Here is that blog. One day, no bunnies, then bunny makes nest and out pop many more bunnies. These bunnies thrived until the Animal Communication Network advised a genet that there was enough dinner for a week or more at their house and they all disappeared. Some deer probably gave the genet a tip in order to not have his baby eaten, sort of protection money. It’s a harsh world.
Therefore, it is not a big stretch to assume that the swallows were meant for Reuben. Especially after they ‘followed’ me home, I assumed there was some message meant just for me.
No. Even AI knows better.
Apparently there are flying insects which appear at sundown and the swallows are feasting on these bad boys. Another time my magical ideas were ruined by reality. But you get my example of how the neurodiverse may spot a pattern then leap to a random conclusion based on minimal facts?
I spend a lot of time sitting and thinking and sometimes these thoughts are unhealthy. I am glad I have people who ground me and confirm that some of my ideas are just thoughts banging around in my head and are not premonitions or memories of past lives or whatever loop I am trapped in.
I had a delivery of various solar lights for the garden. One of the lights that arrived had to be returned as it did not work. This one looks lovely at night and is so cute in the day time too.
There are 4 small ones which are ineffective on their own as they are faint so this weekend we are stringing them together and putting into one tree to see if that looks better. I love my lights.
I am off to the spa for a facial today. I have not been for my regular monthly treatments so I am looking forward to it.
I hope you have a great weekend and week ahead. Until next time, Kisses from the Kitten x0x0x0xx0
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