My Mantra/Thought From The Day: I Am Durga, The Invincible

Today was interesting.  I thought for a good part of the day that I need more arms/hands to do a lot of tasks at the same time during my work day but also because my spiritual heroine is Durga, so I kept imagining I was as strong and fearless as her.  Several times through the day I tried to manifest aspects of the Devi so I could vanquish my nerves, pain, and fear and come through the meetings and work tasks - victorious.  So definitely today's Mantra was "I am Durga, the Invincible".

I walked in to work to several positive "reviews" of my hair and even later in the day some joking statements from my boss.  I then immediately had several documents to process and handle waiting in my inbox, so I grabbed them and worked on that while trying to coordinate several other activities for the day.  I had +Zest Tea Blue Lady Black tea to start my day, thankfully it kicked in and I woke up and was able to process my work without too many yawns.

David and I had lunch in the breakroom, thankfully I had some delicious green tea from +The Republic of Tea and an +EVOL Foods Fire Grilled Steak Bowl.  If you've been reading this blog for a bit you will know that my favorite quick green tea is the Republic of Tea Double Green Tea, so pair that with a delicious bowl of steak, cilantro, black beans, YUM!  A great and tasty lunch.  The best part is, of course, being able to spend my lunches with my wonderful husband.  Sadly, I had to cut lunch short since I had a meeting at 1pm.  The good part is that I was so excited for this meeting, it is a good opportunity to help shape the future processes and processing at work and I want to do my best to help.

During the meeting I was nervous about speaking out of turn but after a while I started sharing my opinion and trying to point out issues with the current processes and how we can make fixes.  I didn't have tea with me...and because I started to get anxious during the meeting with policy and management involved, I bit and chewed through the skin on my right thumb.  OW!  I think I am going to bring my travel mug with me tomorrow so I have some tea to calm me down.

When the day was done today I got home and worked to finish and send all of the plot responses for Alliance LARP Gettysburg.  I wanted to make sure the responses, even notices of "beware stuff is coming your way during the event" went out before the event this weekend.  I will probably NOT want to channel Durga for this weekend, since I want my PC's to live through the weekend (HAHA).  But honestly, looking back at it I think the Universe was very kind to help me get through the day today, to help me be articulate and clear when necessary, and to allow me to calm down with a good cup of green tea after the meeting too.  Starting my day off with a zing of caffeine from the Zest Tea, Blue Lady Black, definitely helped and as from previous posts - I am a huge fan.

I am pretty sure Durga would be a seriously deadly lady (even more than she is already) with some Zest Tea to help her focus and be awake.  Oh wow...that is a scary thought.

Well with that, hope you all have a great night!  Sleep well and sweet dreams!  Blessings!

I Dyed My Hair COOL Colors!! (Also, Fibro Does Not Like The Process)

Sunny happy Sunday!
Today was very relaxed.  We went to Wegman's to get me lunches for the week and then to Sally's Beauty Supply for hair dye.

I love Wegman's!  It is wonderful but the NEED to get Good Belly products so I can keep on my reboot plan.  I still have a carton, so I am hoping I can find more later this week.

(Anyway, back to the story of the day) I have wanted to get my hair colored to fun cool colors like purple and blue for a while but the cost is prohibitive.  Thanks to friends on FB I was directed to Sally's for options and I was very pleased with what I found.  THANK YOU JEN!

We got home and I made myself a cup of tea.  I made a large cup of my personal blend Sturgeon Moon from +Adagio Teas.  I love the cool and fruity taste of rose hips and pina colada - so is the perfect cup.  I keep having the thought that I might have to buy more of my blends since I think I am drinking those faster than others (who would have guessed I liked the tasty tea blends I put together with mostly my favorite flavors? hehe).

Anyway, so it takes forever to bleach my hair and my scalp HATED me during the whole process.  I wasn't having a reaction but my head sure hates that feeling.  Thankfully the +Splat Hair Design kit works quickly or I would have been unable to get through it.  My hair has a red tone to it, so there is always a bit of copper color left over when I make my hair blonde and I didn't have the patience to try for white platinum hair.  I am pretty sure my scalp is thankful.  So I applied the Color Brilliance Brights violet and cyan dyes after I had let my scalp rest a bit.  There is no peroxide or any other painful chemical in the color dye and it went in well.  It is a semi permanent color cream.  I AM SO HAPPY with the end result and am excited to do this more often (the color not the bleaching).

Anyway, the whole process took some time and my body decided to protest in several ways, my right arm went completely numb at one point and then half way through trying to clean the bleaching stuff out of my hair it woke back up and decided to twitch like I was being pricked with very large needles and thin blades.  Thankfully I am getting way too used to this random crap so I kept going as I could.  I am so happy with the color.

I LOVE THIS CUP!!!
(its on my Amazon Wishlist)

I made myself two cups of tea as a celebration as I sat down with David after it all was done.  Tasty tasty Balmy Fruit Salad blend from +Adagio Teas (another of my personal blends) and Blush & Bashful from +Tea Hugger.  YUM!!!  David laughed because I was carrying to full mugs of tea but he told me that he is so happy to see me smiling and happy (and he thinks I'M CUTE! *definitely say that with Rudolph's voice*).  So I sat down with my two tea mugs, my newly dyed hair, and snuggled down while I watched "Game the Movie" (aka David playing a video game) and put in my two cents every once in a while when decisions were being made.  David even changed Iron Bull's armor to be my favorite color of purple for me. YAY!

Now I am exhausted and hurting but very happy.  I had a #GoodBelly day (day 4)!  I have awesome colored hair!  I have an amazing husband who is wonderful and I love beyond explanation! and I had tasty fruity teas that made me happy.  Fibro symptoms were at a normal level for the last few months but didn't stop me from doing what I wanted.  So awesome Sunday and I hope this means my week will go well.

LOVE and HUGS!