Decompressing on the downlow

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Carried by a Promise, cartoon series, feta and silverbeet pie, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, little girl giggles, Mojo, new job, Nieces, Papa Bear, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, satire, suppressor, The Wonky Donkey, Tinkerbell, update, world of impermanence, Yoga

A little more street art from my 'hood

 

There’s been the odd hint or two from certain people about my lack of blog posts in recent times. I know.

Well, blame it on all the energy I had to put into surviving the Hellhouse of Horrors, but I’ve been a touch short on inspiration lately.

Thing is, I don’t wanna post just for the sake of posting either, and I do know I sort of owe a few posts that I promised in January – more on Carried by a Promise, and reviews of the two yoga intensives I went to.

So believe me when I tell you that they’re still coming. They are. No really, they are!

I haven’t forgotten my bloggy friends either, believe me. I’m still reading your blogs and commenting when I can and right now, I’m preparing for my first day on the new job (back into contractor mode – I jokingly refer to this as the world of impermanence, which is more of a yogi joke than anything else!) tomorrow morning.

Right now, I’m waiting for my feta and silverbeet pie to finish cooking – my lunch for the next few days.

This weekend has been busy, too. First, there was that glorious experience of reveling in not having to go back to my old job any more, not ever-ever-ever-ever. Once I’d gotten over that, I realised how freakin’ tired I was!

And Saturday afternoon/evening was a family thing for my (currently) youngest niece’s birthday (there’s another niece-ling in the oven right now!). That cheeky lil cutie just turned two and is apparently fascinated by “Tubba” (Tinkerbell). So much fun!

I also had my hands full “doing tricks” (yoga) on command, helping both nieces do some acrobatics of their own, and reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears in my best character voices (you should hear my Papa Bear, it rocks!). Oh, and I was introduced to a very fabulous kid’s book called The Wonky Donkey. It’s rather hilarious and another good one for character voices and other exaggerated noises that elicit perfect little girl giggles! 😉

So today I just kinda collapsed, and thought very hard about writing a post or two but… not. Instead I had a lazy day of enjoying the rain from inside my apartment, eating an incredibly late lunch at one of my favourite local spots, grocery shopping and preparing for tomorrow.

So, I’ll be back soon okay? I just need to get a lil more inspiration mojo back, which will arrive once I’ve recovered from the stress and exhaustion. Because I’m a suppressor of my own “stuff”, in case you hadn’t realised. I’ll put up with ridiculous things for a really long time and sometimes it takes me a while to recognise what’s going on. Then it takes me a little while longer to recover…

Hey, let’s just call that another very handy side-effect of Post Traumatic Stress, shall we?

Anyway, if you draw all of the above on a graph, then I’m somewhere towards the end of that particular timeline, but just not quite there yet.

HOWEVER, I will have something delightfully wicked for you shortly – a brand new cartoon series called “The Yoga Rebel”… *cackles maniacally*

Of course, I’m no artist so my stick figures could be slightly on the ugly side. But ah well, I read Toothpaste for Dinner and understand the irony of bad art and satire, and it will amuse me and hopefully also readers of this here blog. If I haven’t lost y’all yet with my radio silence, that is!

Catch ya on the flip side, folks!

~Svasti xxx

Update to ‘About Svasti’

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About Svasti, evolution, geek, Growth, Healing, line in the sand, nest, progress, superstitious, swan, Tardis, time-space continuum, update, wolf

I just love this image, don’t you? It evokes for me a sense of love. Though I can’t explain why, not rationally.

Anyway. There’s a few new posts in the works, but for now I wanted to mention that I’ve updated my About Svasti page. Which has kinda turned into an essay in itself…

Had a read over it and realised I hadn’t touched it pretty much since I started my blog – which is well over a year ago.

And a lot has changed since then. So it seemed like time to draw a line in the sand and say I’m on *this* side of the line now! Wheeee!!!

But don’t get me wrong – I’m not in a position to say all of this stuff is over. Not yet anyway.

I guess the point is, when I look back to how things were when I started my blog I can honestly say life is several thousand times better these days.

I am no longer at the mercy of daily PTSD episodes. Depression (for now) is on the ropes. I am actually feeling, well, kinda-just-a-little-bit happy these days. Can you imagine? 😉

Ummm… not that I’m superstitious (I’m not!! – she says defensively) but gawd I really hope that writing this post isn’t going to cause some major imbalance in the time-space continuum *steps back into the Tardis* (yes, I am a geek).

For all my blog friends (those I’ve met, as well as those I’ve yet to meet), I can only wish with all my heart the same for each of you on your own journeys.

Namaste!

~Svasti