I have had the stomach flu and have lately only been making things that are too disgusting to share with anyone other than the toilet bowl. enough said? But I am now well and heading into a new week.
On friday we studied Plusqueamperfect (sp?) and Praeteritum (i spelled it right) and i wasn't there so now i get to play catch up with yet another version of the same verbs I barely know in an unrecognizable form. The Praeteritum form is used when telling a story about something that is past and definitely finished. Like in a story book. Like what most of us do in our minds all day even thought it is finished.
I however, was too weak to do anything but sleep for two whole days and then I had to trick myself to stay in bed for another whole day by reading the first three books of Harry Potter in a row.
Now I am back to cooking, if not quite up to eating everything I was before. However, I have noticed in the last weeks that when I am too busy to make things with my hands- cooking, spinning, painting, whatever, then I usually end up cranky, irritable, easily hooked, tired, and miserable. Making things with my hands keeps me balanced and literally in touch with the world around me rather than caught up in the many thoughts in Praeteritum swimming around my head. That is, I don't believe them as much and I don't, as a wonderful visiting teacher at the Zen Center once said, I don't go looking for big juicy hooks to bite. So there.
Today, to make up for all of this, I made green chile stew (I have dried green chiles from New Mexico) finally took the dried mint and tarragon off of their stems and stored them in clean jars, organized all of my loose teas and labelled them, wrote this blog post, and I plan on spinning later on after I finish my homework on...Praeteritum.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Hmmm, how did it get to be the end of October already? Or anyway after the middle. I am in my third week of school, German level 5. We have a had such a flurry of activity in the last month that I have jetlag. Now, finally, we are two days in to a normal schedule. I even have time to change the sheets on the bed and nic is going to vacuum later! This morning we stayed in bed until 11am, after waking up at 8:30. delicious.
Last week was an amazingly full one, we found and were bought for our wedding present by Mama and Papa, A CAR! She is sooooo pretty. She is a Opel Corsa, three years old, 19.000 kilometers, cd player, working heat and a/c, standard transmission, two doors, sweet little sexy thing. Star silver is her color, so we're calling her stella. Isn't she pretty?
Then I got my working papers and my permission to stay for three years (after which i can apply for permanent residence). Oh and german health care. I also am maybe getting a job cooking at a cafe on Sundays, once I get up the nerve to actually call the woman and speak to her in German. Which I am terribly shy and nervous about of course, it being my first job in a new country and the first one I have had ti find for myself in, oh, 8 or 9 years.
So, I will be more available to be writing again and posting rather more than as of late. The weather is getting cooler and cooler and is actually cold at night. It is fall, the sky is gray and rainy today. It may snow. And yet there is a life being born here for us to live. I am so curious to see what will happen next and how long it will take me to feel comfortable speaking German and feeling like I am a whole person here...it is getting better- married, car, possible job, starting massage again in january, going to school....but there is still a feeling of being mostly two dimensional in the world. Making things with my hands always helps that and being busy like I have been doesn't give me the time to slow down and make things...i have to call my spinning teacher and practice the treadle on my spinning wheel, "until I can do it in my sleep", she says.
Last week was an amazingly full one, we found and were bought for our wedding present by Mama and Papa, A CAR! She is sooooo pretty. She is a Opel Corsa, three years old, 19.000 kilometers, cd player, working heat and a/c, standard transmission, two doors, sweet little sexy thing. Star silver is her color, so we're calling her stella. Isn't she pretty?
Then I got my working papers and my permission to stay for three years (after which i can apply for permanent residence). Oh and german health care. I also am maybe getting a job cooking at a cafe on Sundays, once I get up the nerve to actually call the woman and speak to her in German. Which I am terribly shy and nervous about of course, it being my first job in a new country and the first one I have had ti find for myself in, oh, 8 or 9 years.
So, I will be more available to be writing again and posting rather more than as of late. The weather is getting cooler and cooler and is actually cold at night. It is fall, the sky is gray and rainy today. It may snow. And yet there is a life being born here for us to live. I am so curious to see what will happen next and how long it will take me to feel comfortable speaking German and feeling like I am a whole person here...it is getting better- married, car, possible job, starting massage again in january, going to school....but there is still a feeling of being mostly two dimensional in the world. Making things with my hands always helps that and being busy like I have been doesn't give me the time to slow down and make things...i have to call my spinning teacher and practice the treadle on my spinning wheel, "until I can do it in my sleep", she says.
Monday, October 11, 2010
masseurin
Which is the title I am hoping to have some time by the beginning of the new year. Hand made bodywork! I studied massage at the New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts, which I highly recommend, in 1999-2000, graduating with a 1200 hour Massage Therapy degree. They'll be sending along a new copy of my transcript and now I just have to figure out what to do with it so it is recognizable over here (aside from translating it). The Health Bureau will have ideas, of course, when I call them this morning. I am just hoping that they will not be expensive ideas.
My plan, as of now, is that next week I will get my working papers and permission to stay (because we are married!). Then, get things organized to work as a "masseurin" starting by the beginning of next year. Meanwhile, learn anatomy in GERMAN, and practice on people so I can remember what I am doing with massage. Continue my Ortho-Bionomy practice sessions and get certified by the Society in the States. Open a practice as a Massage Therapist and Ortho-Bionomist while I take courses in Plant Medicine (starting next spring?), which I have wanted to do since I was a child picking flowers for potions in my mother's garden. Enter a 16 month study program (next march?) for the Healing Practitioner training (I have to learn how to give injections, apparently.) Sit for the exam in October 2012 (interesting) and be certified as a Heilprakitkerin here in Germany utilizing Ortho Bionomy, Massage Therapy, Energy Medicine, and Plant Medicine, and whatever else I pick up along the way.
Keep in mind the joke, "what makes God laugh? Plans." I keep saying to nic lately, "I wonder what the universe has in store for us?" Because I feel totally, foolishly, happily clueless as to what the next step is in terms of anything, not even the bodywork, though there is a sketch of a plan to aim towards. Will it happen that way? Never. Will it be better than I had thought and perfectly right in its unfolding? Of course.
Meanwhile, if you live in my area, I hope to be giving massage and bodywork practice sessions starting in November, once I figure out a place to actually work out of. I am thinking here at home in one of the rooms upstairs because my parents brought over my massage table in September (thank you). I am happy to have the conversation with you that I have with lots of people. You: "what is Ortho-Bionomy, I have never heard of it before...." Me: "Most people haven't, it is a form of bodywork that engages the self healing and self corrective reflexes of the body, moving towards comfort and ease and engaging in relationship- between the client and practitioner, the client and themselves, the practitioner, client, and universal energies. Take a look at the website if you want (see link above), and actually, it is just better if I show you." So give me a call so I can show you. For a limited time only, free!
My plan, as of now, is that next week I will get my working papers and permission to stay (because we are married!). Then, get things organized to work as a "masseurin" starting by the beginning of next year. Meanwhile, learn anatomy in GERMAN, and practice on people so I can remember what I am doing with massage. Continue my Ortho-Bionomy practice sessions and get certified by the Society in the States. Open a practice as a Massage Therapist and Ortho-Bionomist while I take courses in Plant Medicine (starting next spring?), which I have wanted to do since I was a child picking flowers for potions in my mother's garden. Enter a 16 month study program (next march?) for the Healing Practitioner training (I have to learn how to give injections, apparently.) Sit for the exam in October 2012 (interesting) and be certified as a Heilprakitkerin here in Germany utilizing Ortho Bionomy, Massage Therapy, Energy Medicine, and Plant Medicine, and whatever else I pick up along the way.
Keep in mind the joke, "what makes God laugh? Plans." I keep saying to nic lately, "I wonder what the universe has in store for us?" Because I feel totally, foolishly, happily clueless as to what the next step is in terms of anything, not even the bodywork, though there is a sketch of a plan to aim towards. Will it happen that way? Never. Will it be better than I had thought and perfectly right in its unfolding? Of course.
Meanwhile, if you live in my area, I hope to be giving massage and bodywork practice sessions starting in November, once I figure out a place to actually work out of. I am thinking here at home in one of the rooms upstairs because my parents brought over my massage table in September (thank you). I am happy to have the conversation with you that I have with lots of people. You: "what is Ortho-Bionomy, I have never heard of it before...." Me: "Most people haven't, it is a form of bodywork that engages the self healing and self corrective reflexes of the body, moving towards comfort and ease and engaging in relationship- between the client and practitioner, the client and themselves, the practitioner, client, and universal energies. Take a look at the website if you want (see link above), and actually, it is just better if I show you." So give me a call so I can show you. For a limited time only, free!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
too long
Oh my gosh, it has been too too long since I have posted. Even the three or four posts I am usually working on have faded into oblivion. Life will have her way with us all and always. So, the big news is, we're married! and I am nothing but grateful. Turning to nic every little while, as my grandmother used to say, and saying, "married" then we point to our rings. i am working on some new posts, like about the cake we have been eating like crazy. And the people I am meeting who spin and dye and felt and everything with wool. And my new beautiful basket and my little corner for wool working. And the update on the last month and the view into the next one. But now i have to go do my homework for German class, so here is a picture.
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