day 5

Tomorrow I am 19!!!

Tomorrow I may end this detox… maybe… it all depends on if there is or isnt any cake on offer at dinner.

Today brought no bad symptoms… I felt great all day and added a new dish to my restaurant menu… chili non carne… it’s chili con carne but with no meat and extra veggies. As Carne means meat, the title is therefore appropriate to the dish. My younger sister even liked it which i didnt expect. I made her and my dad a traditional chili con carne because i didnt think they’d have a bar of my vegetarian dish but little did i know that she was game to try it and liked it. She told me to make a restaurant and have this as a feature dish –  Served on a potato jacket with corn chips around the side.

I think this blog is beginning to take a turn for the worse. It appears to only be speaking of food – but funnily enough it is doing exactly what i’m wanting it to do… share my thoughts. I find myself thinking about food when i’m not eating or cooking it. Not in a way that makes me want to eat it, but in a way which makes me want to google new recipe ideas and then experiment with my own ones. I think i need a hobby. Or i just need to go to melbourne everyday again to practise. that’s what i’m missing.. i have no drive to pick up my sax which saddens me because its brand new and beautiful.

Ok, so tomorrow’s plan – wake up and have birthday events early before mum and dad go to work. Then go back to bed for 2 hours. Be awake at 9. Do practise for 2 hours. Clean mess in room which i am bound to create. Go out for lunch with ccg people. Come home and do more practise.. minimum of 1 hour. soak reeds. Relax and then go out for tea with family.

Anyway, im off to bed

Signing off as an 18year old!

day 4

Today i woke up with a headache…. ewww and it was cold so that makes everything worse. I think i woke up sometime in the early morning say 7am and decided to turn on my electric blanket  because when i woke again at 9am, i was nice and toasty!

Currently wrapped in a blanket with 3 pairs of pajamas on and a dressing gown i think i may safely assume i am a wimp. I never have and most probably never will enjoy the icy colds of victoria and its days and weeks like this that make me feel nostalgic for the 18 degree winters of Port Macquarie.

I have also realised something else today… if all else fails, owning a restaurant would be cool.. infact being a chef that owns a restaurant would be more awesome. I like to cook. When I cook, things tend to turn out right. When I cook without recipes, things turn out alright. I’d even go as far as saying they’re better than when I use a recipe. What can I say, it must be my creative finesse which allows me to create good food without the help of a book.

For example, my broccoli soup today. All the recipes said to use cream and milk which i am not allowed to have this week so i threw them away and solved this problem myself. So what did i have? broccoli, cauliflower, 1 carrot, loads of potatos and vegie stock. Sounds reasonable. The carrot was used as nourishment for cooking and not in the soup itself but everythign else i threw into a pot and boiled until it was mashable. Then out came the  potato masher then the blender and voila! we have soup. And it was good.

The point of all that was to say that if this music thing doesnt work out the way i hope it will, I can always just open a restaurant which can host an array of gigs for my muso friends… Who wants to be the first performers?

Detox is going well too… I dont crave sugar or meat or diet coke, but i would LOVE a cheese and chive scone from bakers delight. Its my staple when working in werribee and i missed my fix this week

until tomorrow

day 3

la la la

not tired, full of healthy food and feeling fine. Although i could use an energy boost or some milk.

Today’s food desire = ice-cream with hot chocolate fudge – OMG MACCAS SUNDAE!!! mmmm

i don’t know what to say about today… had teaching in werribee and my students played in a concert for thir parents. We had plates and plates of yummy biscuits and slices and cakes and donuts and cordial in cups and it was fabulous… or so i was told. The chocolate chip cookies nearly had me but i’m proud to say i didnt eat any.

Wow this is getting so boring and i still havnt hit half way yet. Funny thing is that i’ve actually gained weight since starting this detox. I don’t know how actually… its kind of odd. I’m going to cook soup tomorrow – we have cauliflower and broccoli and pumpkin.. i’m sure thatd make for some interesting flavours.. oh and potato. I think i may just have some fun with this tomorrow…..

day 2

hmm… i thought you were meant to feel hungry and dodgy whilst doing this detox thing… i guess it is only day 2 but with all the fruit, vegies, tea and nuts available to me i just keep eating them!!!

pfft who cares about diet coke when you can have green tea!!! And LOTS of it!!! and fruit… I love watermelon and grapes and apples… and CARROTS!!! It’s like i’ve just discovered a whole new way of life! Called healthy foods!!!

The only downside so far has been a headache around lunchtime. And eating too much at dinner… I cooked veggie soup for lunch which was fabulous! and then sweet and sour vegies (with chicken for the others) for dinner… i could really get used to this life!

So day 2 has definately been easy and i’m feeling happily full of good food.

Also bought a dinenrware set for the new apartment today!!! YAY!

detox day 1

Since january this year I have developed a sort of dependance on diet coke. Well not just diet coke, anything of the coke or pepsi vaieties; diet coke, coke zero, coke, pepsi max, pepsi etc…

This is and has been concerning me for about a month particularly after declaring a day about 2 weeks ago “diet-coke free” during which i had a nanny nap at 1 in the afternoon. Being a person who tends to be able to last a day or more without sleep I began to realise the effect the consumption of said drinks have had on my health. So much so, that I believe I have a case of addiction.

In order to curb this addiction I have decided to partake in a detox. I have been researching various diets and am going on an all fruit, vegies and natural products detox. This means no dairy besides natural yoghurt, no meats, no confectionary, soft drinks or anything processed. With fingers crossed, my dependance on softdrink will be over by the end of the program…. 7 +days depending on how i’m feeling.

Today is day one and its feeling good. I love fruit so have been snacking on it as told i am allowed to. No strange side-effects yet but oddly enough i havn’t had a craving for diet coke and its 9:00pm. Chocolate on the otherhand….. Not only were they giving us free chocolate at my Seussical the Musical rehersal, when i got home, Dad whipped out a block of cadbury dairy milk and ate a whole line in front of me. Grrrrrr…… luckily the family isnt home tomorrow or i’m sure i’d be convinced into returning to my confectionary-consuming ways.

Bear with me for this week. I am blogging as an experiment just to see how my moods and attitudes change whilst on this detox. I hear some crazy stuff can happen so i guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Until next time

NB to self: buy jasmine green tea… yummy AND good for you

It’s HERE!!

The exciting news is finally here!

my brand spanking new selmer reference 54 kookaburra collector’s edition alto saxophone (say that 10 times fast i dare you). All i can say is that my life is pretty much complete. For those of you who havn’t had a chance to try one out, i recommend it highly, even if you are (unfortunately) not a sax player. it’s pure magic… In my lesson with Michael today we were both just in awe of it… so much so that he asked me if he may hold it.

Stay tuned for some photos soon…

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watch this space for more

exciting news…..