Comments on: Head-shrinking and other tales http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:10:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rachie http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4474 Rachie Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:58:38 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4474 Birdy - thank you. That is also one of my favourite films, so I will think of it when posting the ugly! Barry - thanks for the suggestion, and your concern. It's amazing to me that all these people that I've never met are concerned for me too. The interwebnet is a wonderful thing. Lou - big me up, alright! Thanks hon, I miss you too. You're a star. XX Aileen - I did it this morning, to take that singing Shine. I danced around the kitchen in my knickers singing into a banana. Damn these drugs are good. Martin - Glad you're still here! i'm sure it will be mundane, but there will be pubs, and gigs and theatre, and stuff, and things. But no huge sky, no frangipani blossoms, no sitting out on jasmine smelling evenings with friends. I will miss it terribly. Birdy - thank you. That is also one of my favourite films, so I will think of it when posting the ugly!

Barry - thanks for the suggestion, and your concern. It’s amazing to me that all these people that I’ve never met are concerned for me too. The interwebnet is a wonderful thing.

Lou - big me up, alright! Thanks hon, I miss you too. You’re a star. XX

Aileen - I did it this morning, to take that singing Shine. I danced around the kitchen in my knickers singing into a banana. Damn these drugs are good.

Martin - Glad you’re still here! i’m sure it will be mundane, but there will be pubs, and gigs and theatre, and stuff, and things. But no huge sky, no frangipani blossoms, no sitting out on jasmine smelling evenings with friends. I will miss it terribly.

]]> By: Martin http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4458 Martin Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:39:57 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4458 Oops - a little pissed - I meant diary not dairy Oops - a little pissed - I meant diary not dairy

]]> By: Martin http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4457 Martin Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:39:03 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4457 Hi Rach I am still reading your blog regularly and enjoying it lots. I think you just about have a publishable dairy now. I don't know what it feels like to be feeling so low, but I do know that there seems to be a link between being alive and experiencing ups and downs. It is really important to try to capture both creatively. I guarantee life will be much more mundane when you get back. Thinking of you Martin Hi Rach

I am still reading your blog regularly and enjoying it lots. I think you just about have a publishable dairy now. I don’t know what it feels like to be feeling so low, but I do know that there seems to be a link between being alive and experiencing ups and downs. It is really important to try to capture both creatively. I guarantee life will be much more mundane when you get back.

Thinking of you

Martin

]]> By: Aileen http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4450 Aileen Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:20:19 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4450 We miss you too Rach. We often wonder what it would be like if we had stayed on in Namibia, and I have to say that the boredom and cabin fever is something I don't think we could have coped with for much longer. It is something that never crossed our minds when preparing for VSO, but we are so used to having such a range of options/activities/people in our lives that to have them all missing is damn tough. Another very nice therapy is Indian Head massage. I also recommend putting on cheesy (no pun intended) music and dancing and singing at the top of your voice. Take Care Sweety Aileen We miss you too Rach. We often wonder what it would be like if we had stayed on in Namibia, and I have to say that the boredom and cabin fever is something I don’t think we could have coped with for much longer. It is something that never crossed our minds when preparing for VSO, but we are so used to having such a range of options/activities/people in our lives that to have them all missing is damn tough.

Another very nice therapy is Indian Head massage. I also recommend putting on cheesy (no pun intended) music and dancing and singing at the top of your voice.

Take Care Sweety
Aileen

]]> By: Looby Lou http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4387 Looby Lou Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:14:10 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4387 Rachie, I have been hearing all about your fab cooking this weekend off your ex (nightmare) house mate who came to stay for the weekend. I wonder if you could put your cullinary skills to use with cheese slices and moldy gherkins? I had to ring Mel the other day because I was so worried about you. We love you and don't like you being sad! Hugs, Lou PS. To all those of you who follow Rachies blog and who haven't met her - she is ace, a fab friend, intelligent, with a great sense of humour, and I miss her tonnes! Rachie,

I have been hearing all about your fab cooking this weekend off your ex (nightmare) house mate who came to stay for the weekend. I wonder if you could put your cullinary skills to use with cheese slices and moldy gherkins? I had to ring Mel the other day because I was so worried about you. We love you and don’t like you being sad!

Hugs,

Lou

PS. To all those of you who follow Rachies blog and who haven’t met her - she is ace, a fab friend, intelligent, with a great sense of humour, and I miss her tonnes!

]]> By: Barry http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4378 Barry Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:07:06 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4378 It is one of the weird yet cool things about the internet that we find ourselves concerned for people we have never met and who we are not likely to meet, much as we might think of that being a good thing. I found myself worrying about the medication you're on last night, wondering if your mood is indeed medical or if it is situational/environmental. You've written in the past of the frustrations of your work, and more recently of your lonely state and of a state of boredom - states I am more than familiar with myself. If it is these external factors which are leading to you feeling down, I'd just suggest a lot of caution in medicating. Over the years, I've considered medication, but the basic decision I have reached is that my only way out is a combination of changing those circumstances which can be changed and trying to accept, find positive ways of dealing with those circumstances which cannot: for example, I think I will be perpetually lonely, so look for activities I can enjoy which will ease the burden. I know there will be stuff you're not saying here, so I only make that suggestion. It is one of the weird yet cool things about the internet that we find ourselves concerned for people we have never met and who we are not likely to meet, much as we might think of that being a good thing. I found myself worrying about the medication you’re on last night, wondering if your mood is indeed medical or if it is situational/environmental. You’ve written in the past of the frustrations of your work, and more recently of your lonely state and of a state of boredom - states I am more than familiar with myself. If it is these external factors which are leading to you feeling down, I’d just suggest a lot of caution in medicating. Over the years, I’ve considered medication, but the basic decision I have reached is that my only way out is a combination of changing those circumstances which can be changed and trying to accept, find positive ways of dealing with those circumstances which cannot: for example, I think I will be perpetually lonely, so look for activities I can enjoy which will ease the burden. I know there will be stuff you’re not saying here, so I only make that suggestion.

]]> By: birdy http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4331 birdy Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:42:33 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4331 thinking of you - and its your blog, you can write what you like! Good bad and ugly. thinking of you - and its your blog, you can write what you like! Good bad and ugly.

]]> By: La Cubana Gringa http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4301 La Cubana Gringa Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:17:03 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4301 Windhoek, Namib Desert (including Sossusvlei/Deadvlei), and Etosha...all by rental car. Yes, LOVED it. And yes...BEAUTIFUL!! Windhoek, Namib Desert (including Sossusvlei/Deadvlei), and Etosha…all by rental car. Yes, LOVED it. And yes…BEAUTIFUL!!

]]> By: Rachie http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4269 Rachie Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:40:00 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4269 Mel, that's why I love you! You always say exactly the right thing. Jay - I have to confess, I did have a little smirk about it at the time. LCG - small world indeed! Where did you go in Namibia? Did you like it? Isn't it beautiful? Bill - it does help, definitely. Thanks. Jennifer, as delicious as the pies here are, I would say they are probably quite low in terms of nutrition. They tend to be mostly pastry. Yum. Clare - no never had Shiatsu. I think there is a place here where you can get it. It sounds lovely - I will check it out. And as for the supermarket, I could handl milk, but Heat? You'll be pleased to hear, though, that this week's edition hasn't caught up to Britney's head shaving incident yet, and is more concerned with Anna Nicole Smith. You've not missed much, although I know that's not much consolation! Mel, that’s why I love you! You always say exactly the right thing.

Jay - I have to confess, I did have a little smirk about it at the time.

LCG - small world indeed! Where did you go in Namibia? Did you like it? Isn’t it beautiful?

Bill - it does help, definitely. Thanks.

Jennifer, as delicious as the pies here are, I would say they are probably quite low in terms of nutrition. They tend to be mostly pastry. Yum.

Clare - no never had Shiatsu. I think there is a place here where you can get it. It sounds lovely - I will check it out. And as for the supermarket, I could handl milk, but Heat? You’ll be pleased to hear, though, that this week’s edition hasn’t caught up to Britney’s head shaving incident yet, and is more concerned with Anna Nicole Smith. You’ve not missed much, although I know that’s not much consolation!

]]> By: Clare http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4263 Clare Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:33:06 +0000 http://www.livingfordisco.com/2007/02/22/head-shrinking-and-other-tales/#comment-4263 I too, thought the cheese idea very funny, so you're still making others laugh if it's any consolation?? Re: Pie Abstinence. Hmmm, if you've genuinely got a problem digesting wheat, maybe, but I find a good pie brightens up the day so I'm not convinced. Interesting about the belly ring advice. Have you ever had Shiatsu? Not Shiatsu massage, but Shiatsu therapy. It's great. I had a therapist who was obsessed with the stomach area. Relaxed everything so much she could practically touch my spine through my bellybetton, which sounds gross but was quite fascinating... I would be impressed if you could find Shiatsu in Windhoek. Guess what random items are missing from our supermarket this week? Milk, and the entire range of magazines. What can I do without a week-old copy of South African Heat???? Meanwhile there's some lorry-jacker getting high on calcium and looking at photos of Britney Spears... I too, thought the cheese idea very funny, so you’re still making others laugh if it’s any consolation??

Re: Pie Abstinence. Hmmm, if you’ve genuinely got a problem digesting wheat, maybe, but I find a good pie brightens up the day so I’m not convinced.

Interesting about the belly ring advice. Have you ever had Shiatsu? Not Shiatsu massage, but Shiatsu therapy. It’s great. I had a therapist who was obsessed with the stomach area. Relaxed everything so much she could practically touch my spine through my bellybetton, which sounds gross but was quite fascinating… I would be impressed if you could find Shiatsu in Windhoek. Guess what random items are missing from our supermarket this week? Milk, and the entire range of magazines. What can I do without a week-old copy of South African Heat???? Meanwhile there’s some lorry-jacker getting high on calcium and looking at photos of Britney Spears…

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