day 13: high!

oh yeah, baby! we're buzzing!

i finally got the energy surge. yippeeee! it happened this afternoon, just as i was thinking i needed more juice, i was getting hungry, i suddenly felt the need to run, skip and jump, to sing and dance and be bounteous and lovely to all who crossed my path. what a great feeling. as i hadn't eaten (or rather, drunk) for several hours i knew it wasn't a fruity sugar spike. i also don't necessarily like the rest of the world when i get a sugar rush ;)

so maybe now things will get a little easier, as i have to say i've been struggling to stay afloat.

today i consumed:

cucumber-parsnip-carrot-bell pepper-cabbage-celery-lemon juice

kiwi-grape-cucumber-pear-spinach-mint juice (this was very nice, though a little sweet with the grapes)

msm, maca, zeolite, nature's living superfood, honey and hemp oil

i didn't skinbrush or rebound or do an enema. i did, however, manage to go to the loo unassisted, as it were, which was a novelty.

various herbal teas

and now... i've been tagged!

lovely, supportive penni, from real juice daily, tagged me with a current meme. so i have to tell you 5 things you may not know about me. i saw the 'tag' this morning before i left for work and thought about it on the train. thing is, i don't keep secrets so it's hard to come up with the interesting stuff you really want to know. i mean, if it's not embarrassing or proof of my mental instability then it's no fun, right? so... i have managed to come up with five things most of you who have come to know me via the raw food community probably don't know, but certainly friends and family do. is that a fair compromise?

numero uno: i lived in the basque country in northern spain for ten years. i went out to spend a year or two teaching english and learning spanish, only to find i couldn't quite tear myself away... i came back to be closer to home after my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer (she's fine now, don't panic)

deux: when i was very young, probably four or five, i was watching my dad, a keen angler back then, prepping his bait and there was a plastic bag of maggots. i stuck my hand in the bag and i loved the feeling of the warm wriggling. nowadays thinking about that makes me feel totally sick. 

drei: i have a tattoo on my shoulder. i did it when i was at university. i saw a design in a tattoo parlour in the town where my parents lived. i loved it and knew it was the right design for me. i saved up some money and went to have it done, only to chicken out that time. i tried to go back and couldn't for one reason or another. i ended up going back to london for the new academic year without the tattoo. so i decided i would take the concept to a tattooist in london. i went to a well known tattoo artist in soho (which back then was a seedy red-light district, not the vibrant scene it is now) and after a double vodka in the nearest pub, sat down and suffered the intense pain. the original design was of the crescent moon, with stars around it and a cloud passing in front of it. what i ended up with looks more like a lightning bolt through the moon. one day i'll have it retouched...

hiru: (that's basque) i'm divorced and remarried. while i was in spain i married the dashing barman of my favourite bar. it turned out to be a big mistake. it's complicated and i won't go into detail, but i had to leave. it was slowly crushing the life out of me. i was so miserable. i don't regret it though, or i wouldn't have trodden the path that brought me here, where i am now via the fabulous community of geeks at everything2.com and into the arms of my wonderful, gorgeous, romantic, funny, and incredibly supportive best friend who is now my YummyHubby.

cinque: i've had two poems published. well, kind of. both as creative writing competitions for school magazines. one when i was aged four, i think, and the other aged 17. both of them make me cringe these days ;)

and now i have to pass it on. who to pick on... i have to say that some of those i'd choose have already been tagged. so just two tagees (ok, so i made that up) from me.

shea - lovely blog, i find it uplifting and inspiring (though i'm sure she would be confused by that) and it really gets me thinking (more on that in a later post)

nicci - who i met through a karen knowler raw support group a year ago and we've been supporting each other ever since