100 Day Raw Food Challenge
November 9- Daddy's Home
DADDY'S HOME! If I could show you on camera how excited we all are that Basil is back from his Father's weekend of complete debauchery, just go to YouTube and type in "fainting goats". We're so happy to have him home that occasionally one of us just falls over.
I was glad that he called me to let me know that he was on his way home because I could warn him that the kitchen reorganization had crept into the living room and dining room reorganization project, and that he shouldn't worry that I was trying to get onto that new A&E show "Hoarders".
You know how it is when you deep clean. You have to pull everything out before you can put it back together all nice and neatly. And while I was working on the kitchen, I kept thinking about how what I was doing was almost an exact parallel to my raw food journey. I've basically had to pull out everything in my life, my entire history and relationship with food, and reorganize it. And that's NOT an easy task. Especially if you have brain like mine that looks at every item in the room, even if it's clearly trash, and thinks, "Should I keep this? Should I throw it away? Keep? Throw Away? Keep? No, throw away!"
A lot of deep cleaning goes on during the process, but it always takes three times longer than you thought it would in the beginning. And you still hang onto things that you should have thrown away.
As you're examining your raw food lifestyle, examine the thoughts going on in your brain and compare them to reorganizing the kitchen. "Am I really going to never have pizza again? Oh, one slice won't hurt. I'll just save that frozen pizza dough in the freezer for company." Mmm. Hmm. You know what I'm talking about.
What kind of deep cleaning are you going through right now on your journey? Is there anything we as a group can do to help you work through your thoughts? Mine all revolve around gluten, which is the ONE THING I AM ALLERGIC TO! Silly, Bunny
Give a shout out to my wonderful husband, Basil, who apparently holds us all together, because every time he leaves, we fall over like fainting goats.
HOW IS YOUR DAY GOING?
Tags: cleaning, deep, fainting, goats, keep, relationship, reorganizing, throw
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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on -
The key to deep cleaning is to eventually put less back in better order and NOT over a period of years. I speak from experience. :S
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Permalink Reply by Nellie on -
love your thoughts. it's like your a spy looking into my brain!
Glad your hubby is home. I can't handle my life without my husband's support. YAY, BASIL!! (my shout out)
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Permalink Reply by Rachel V. on -
I totally know what you are talking about Bun, because you spoke right to my heart!!! My brain needs major reorganization! I will post over in the Empathy group, asking for support there with stuff!
Heyyyy Basil!! Woot woot.
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Permalink Reply by amysue on -
Hey Basil, welcome home! Thank you for supporting Bunny on her journey so she can support us and we can support our families...see how much influence you have??!
I'm deep cleansing the drama. Trying to live with less of it. It's really not necessary on the journey.
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Permalink Reply by Bunny Berry on -
Deep Cleaning the DRAMA has been one of the biggest parts of my journey. Because I'm a DRAMA eater. Oh, no, my brother got arrested again, where's the ice cream? Oh no, I have to pay $1200 in property taxes? Pass the stick of butter. :)
amysue said:Hey Basil, welcome home! Thank you for supporting Bunny on her journey so she can support us and we can support our families...see how much influence you have??!
I'm deep cleansing the drama. Trying to live with less of it. It's really not necessary on the journey.
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Permalink Reply by Debbie on -
I must say that you have a very good looking family Bunny! You included cute thang!
love ya
deb
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Permalink Reply by Debbie on
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If Butter would make my property tax go away I would eat a pound of it! :)
Bunny Berry said:Deep Cleaning the DRAMA has been one of the biggest parts of my journey. Because I'm a DRAMA eater. Oh, no, my brother got arrested again, where's the ice cream? Oh no, I have to pay $1200 in property taxes? Pass the stick of butter. :)
amysue said:Hey Basil, welcome home! Thank you for supporting Bunny on her journey so she can support us and we can support our families...see how much influence you have??!
I'm deep cleansing the drama. Trying to live with less of it. It's really not necessary on the journey.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on
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I love this post.
Mine all revolves around gluten too.. maybe just a few pretzels are oK? please? I think I could cure depression once and for all if I would get off the crap gluten, but I guess I"m not ready to clean depression out of my house yet??? WHat? why not?
thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Emily on -
Good luck with the reorganization!
I have it in my head that I SHOULD keep everything with the idea the at some point in the future I can re-purpose it or reuse it in some way. That would be great, except I live in a tiny apartment at the moment and I know I will be living in a completely different country in another year. Hoarding doesn´t make much sense now does it!
I am still hoarding craft supplies. I have like 5 yards of this hideous polyester fabric that I bought about 8 years ago and has seen life in 3 different countries. I haven´t even gone so far as to taking scissors to it. It is ridiculous. I think I need to set myself tasks- to say ok with this, I can make x,y, or z. If it isn´t begun in x amount of time, it is going to the recycling center.
You have such a lucky family that you adore each other so much! I can totally feel the love you have for Basil.
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