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Here is a copy of an email I sent to all the members of the "cleanse club" aka the support group we homeschool moms formed to do various food cleansing/purging this week:
Just wanted to check in and say that I'm sending support to everyone since I haven't been the most communicative. Cleanse seems to be going pretty well---today the irritability seems to have passed.Most of my mental energy in the past day has been going towards dealing with an annoying issue---seems (the boy) has worked the last nerves of his RE teachers at church, so much so, that I need to come to class with him. Yet, nobody has communicated this ongoing problem to us all fall. It's a PITA to midwife people out of dysfunctional communication patterns and an inability to set boundaries. (Granted, I know the child is a graduate level course in boundary setting all wrapped up in one, but I try to be approachable about it.)
On a more germane note, my cleanse talked about doing cleanses 4x/year---at the change of seasons. Shall we make this a seasonal event?
Thanks for letting me vent
Spent some time on the phone last night with Mama Dee reminding me that a high IQ and an age appropriate emotional/social quotient is not a disorder. Then spent some more time with Donna this AM letting her express righteous indignation over this inability our society has at letting kids have childlike behavior---in all its forms, as well as venting over the mishandling of the situation. It's always nice to have some sympathetic listening and support. :smile: Thanks folks!
The [cleanse](http://www.zand.com/product_category.asp_Q_pcid_E_37) itself is going well. No 1 is more frequent due to the extra H2O I'm drinking. No 2 is regular, just right, if you get my drift. There's more of it, due to the fiber I'm taking. I've been eating vegetarian (ovo, but low lacto) and avoiding refined sugar. Best of all, the savant has been doing most of the cooking since he was a veg before we met. He takes such good care of me. (but I need a kissy face smiley, dear.) All in all, it's okay, this cleanse thing.
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Laundry update: Have been trying to warn everyone to rescue their inverted clothes from the laundry basket of iniquity. Am hoping to stop issuing reminders in two weeks. So far, the savant has been the worst offender, with the girl running a close second. How is it that the boy can be so cooperative over laundry and so adamant about other things?
In a related note, the savant has issued his own rule: HE WILL ONLY CLEAN DISHES THAT HAVE MADE IT TO THE SINK. I have to plead guilty to that offense from time to time. I get up from dinner while the kids are still eating, get started on something else and totally forget about removing my plate. Darned to heck, I am.
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Been taking a personality inventory, [the Enneagram](http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/) for some team building we're doing at the office. I have to admit that I have a prejudice against it since I've done so much work with the Myers Briggs. But the Enneagram asks you to answer questions based on your behavior before you were 25. How can I really remember what I was like back then, esp. based through the filter of who I've become today? So it should be no surprise to you when I say that I tested strongly and equally in 4 different types. And I wasn't the only one. The test is schizo, I say. However, the professional we're working with swears that we're only one type and that we can go over it later.
But that brings up an issue that I've been thinking about for awhile---even voiced it to Scooter while he was here. We swore in sophomore French class to never grow up after we read [Le Petit Prince.](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780156013987&itm=1) Well, I have. Having the kids did it, I think. I have to be grown up so they can be kids. I find that I am more grounded, more practical and wrapped up in the day to day, less idealistic. Or maybe that's just life, a function of growing older and living. But the Myers-Briggs deals with that by explaining one develops one 'shadow' more as one grows older---makes so much more sense to me than that blasted Enneagram.
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Graduate level my A$$
punkybutt is a Ph.D. level course on boundary setting...and I believe I aced it!!!! LMAO...I love that boy.
Dr. Dee
Mama Dee, PhD
Congrats
Good job on the cleansing! It does help but its hard to get thru the first few days! Are you craving sugar? I've recently put refined sugar back into my diet. In those moments of weakness while giving it up, I'd eat organic brown rice(plain) and organic rice cakes. Not the most tasty treats but it sure did help with the sweet tooth. I'm sure I learned that from the book Sugar Blues. Have you read it? Not a nail biting thriller but it helped open my eyes to the business of Sugar. Keep up the good work, I promise not to drop by any cookies or treats but I'll be praying all "goes" (out) well!
Is G still interested in weaving? We were given a small wooden loom and was wondering if you'd like to use it for awhile...Maggie is not at the place yet but she may be down the road?
sugar
I don't seem to be craving it so much, but I am still using honey in my tea and oatmeal. In the past, the honey wouldn't be enough, but it seems to be controlling the jones for sugar now. Part of that may be because I'm using colloidal silver (in addition to the cleanse) to kill off the yeast in my system. The woman who used to own Beechwold Natural Foods is one of our homeschool moms and swears by it---says it steathily kills the yeast so they don't send out more severe cravings or toxins as they're dying off.
As for cookies/treats, it felt a little deprivatory to see the kids eating their treats from St. Nicholas on Weds. (They put out their boots to get some little toys and candy the eve of 12/6---part of our way to learn about different cultures and spread the holidays out a little more.) But the good St. Nick put candy in my Birkenstock as well, and it's languishing on my bedside table, not really tempting me at all.
I think my big sugar craves come after consuming something with high fructose corn syrup. We've been making iced tea with sugar (or honey this week) to drink for caffeination for the past year, so when I do drink a soda, it's really telling how much it affects me.
And rice is nice. We've been doing a lot of Basmati this week, since Pat likes to cook Indian, which fits in pretty well with the vegan goal. He doesn't like the brown rice as well, but we'll have it occasionally.
Pat does the weaving thing, so I'll ask him if he'd like her to use it and let you know. He's been talking about some tabletop loom he has, but it sounds a little complex. Your loom may just be the right thing. Thanks! :)
yes
Kids made me grow up, just a little. But sometimes I wish I would grow up a little more, at least in certain areas, but I stubbornly refuse. I frustrate myself.
I might cleanse during Lent next year. Seems the appropriate time. There is no way I'm giving up my gingerbread men this time of year.
I can't remember what I scored on enneagram. But, yeah, I scored strongly in 3 or 4 categories, too. And over the years, I've borderlined in some of the Meyers-Briggs categories, too. The only one I haven't change on is introvert, which is the one that surprises everyone else. "You're an introvert?!" I have a facade that gets more difficult to put up the older and more reclusive I get.
Myers-Briggs
The way I learned to interpret MB results was less about introvert/extrovert and more about where you focus your perceptions and judgements. So you, as an INFP use Perception, as (iNtuition) as your dominant mean of interpreting data, but as an I, you use your Intuition on yourself. You use your Feelings, your secondary strength, to make sense of the world through your Judgements. If I were describing you according to type, I would say the world sees your emotions, but you get strong intuitions (seemingly from nowhere) about what's going on with you internally. This might make it hard to explain to other people about your inner processing and thoughts about selfcare and growth. Does that make any kind of sense?
It might not, because as an ENFP, I use my dominant Perceiving through iNtuition to make sense of the world around me and it's hard to explain what one intuits. I reserve my judgement (made through Feeling) for what's going on with me internally.
But since MB is so Jungian, supposedly as we move through life, we increase our ability to move along the spectrum, I to E, N to S, F to T, P to J and may move into our 'shadow' selves. That would an ESTJ for you and I'd be an ISTJ. You might start to make judgements about the world using your inTellect and use your Senses to perceive what's going on with you, esp. in a bodily way. I might start using my inTellect to Judge myself and my Senses to perceive the world around me.
Hope that was of some use. I could go on and on about this stuff---sat through a graduate level course in it and loved it. Since my dominant is intuition about the world around me, I'm sure I use the framework all the time without thinking about it. Gasp! I'm a pigeonholer !! :wink:
Is Easter before or after the equinox this year? Lent sound like a good cleansing time.
Funny you should mention that...
Our psychic link must be well attuned as usual. I've been dwelling a lot lately on how my life would have been different if I had kids. I have to admit that I was most responsible before the age of 20. I often take a look at my life and feel it's gone backwords with me being an old man in my younger years and more irradict with age. However, I do still strive to 'not grow up' and hold the values of the Little Prince as a principle force. It just gets harder to follow them in an adult world. Perhaps that's why I've been drawn to youth projects in my later life. Anyway, nice to have our mental bond still in force.
On another note and speaking of cleansing your diet (which we will agree I know nothing about and plan to die at 160 yrs never knowing anything about). I thought you might like to know about my discovery. I have awful linoleum type floor in my kitchen that is yellow and constantly gets filthy. I'm not the best at cleaning but I made a fantastic discovery the other day. When getting my usual morning fix of diet pepsi, the bottle had been shaken and fizzed all over the floor in a big puddle. Amazingly, when I went to wipe it up, it had cleaned my floor even better than ammonia does!!! And me without any ulcers!!
Too Funny
...and me without any ulcers!!!! WAY too funny scooter. i love and miss you bunches.
Mama Dee, PhD (hehehe)
ESFJ
This is me. I went to a get-together of all agency people in the 'we care' community today. A quarterly gathering of the agency people (quite boring unless you sit in the WAY back and misbehave. if my clients see how i behave at these gatherings they might think i'm on drugs!!!) Anyhoo, we took The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (along the lines of the MB) and I am an ESFJ to the HILT!!!!