House Cleansing

Posted at 15:35 in Personal

We get the keys to our new home tomorrow!

I was thinking about it earlier and this will be mine and the husband’s 4th home together!  You could say we’ve moved around a lot in our 8 years together.  Our first home was sadly sold by our landlord after just a year of living there.  Luckily, our letting agent kindly found us a new home that was not far from where we were living and was ready to move into.  Unfortunately, the landlady had bought the house as an investment during the housing boom and got scared when the house prices started to fall and decided to sell.  This gave us just 6 weeks to find somewhere else to live which took us to where we’re at right now.

This is the view from my kitchen windown, which will explain partly why we hate the house so much…

Not a pretty sight is it?!

When I got to thinking about our past homes, I realised that we’ve never really had much luck at all, with each house actually being worse than the last.  Our current house has been the worst, with us both being fine and happy enough whilst we’re away from the house but feeling miserable and weighed down as soon as we arrive back home.

Being a pagan girl at heart and having dabbled quite a bit with magic and rituals in the past, I decided that when we move into our new home, I am giving the house a thorough cleansing to rid it of any negative energy.  We will then hold a little house warming party with our closest family and friends and invite love, warmth and laughter into our home which should hopefully ensure our home is filled with positive energy.

If you haven’t heard of house cleansing before, it’s actually a very common ritual that involves cleansing the athmosphere to rid it of negative energy.  It can be done with one or more of the following:  A smudgestick or incense, candles, salt and water, bell ringing or loud music and physical cleaning.

I have my sage smudgestick ready…

and I will also use salt/water and candles.

You should also never take old cleaning supplies from your new home to your new house so all my old cleaning supplies have been binned and new supplies have been purchased.

I’ve always been very energy sensitive in the past and am wishing I had done something earlier in our current home to make life a little more harmonious.  I’ve used magic/energy manipulation to benefit my life in the past and wouldn’t hesitate to do it again.  I’m thinking my neighbours better not piss me off any more than they already have until the lease of our current house runs out or I may leave them a little something behind ;)

Does anyone else have any experience of house cleansing?  Or do you think it’s all a load of cobblers? 

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Early night is calling…

Posted at 21:24 in Food

So I am going to post a quick food update and take my tired ass up to bed with my book and a glass of red wine.  I don’t normally drink very much and especially not mid week but just lately, I have really re-discovered my taste for good red wine – I just can’t resist it!

I have half written my review of the fab Sony wireless walkman and will give that a post of it’s own tomorrow so be sure to check back.

Today has been relatively stress free though I suffered with the worst headache at work this morning and even 3 paracetamol didn’t help to clear it.  It was one of those awful headaches that came with wave after wave of nausea but thankfully, lunch made by my lovely mum helped to get rid of that.

If you want to read about an incredible achievement, you must check out Anna’s blog – she just completed her first ever Iron Man – that is a 3.8km swim, a 180km hilly bike ride and a full marathon.  She completed in 13 hours and 20 minutes and is officially my new hero.  Check out her race report here.

Food today has been delicious and it’s the first day in a while that I’ve actually eaten well and not included any crap – hurrah!

Breakfast was an amazing bowl of mocha porridge topped with Greek yoghurt, fresh strawberries & blackberries, pecans and a little melted coconut butter…

Mid morning I had a skimmed latte without the two satsumas I had planned as I forgot to take them to work – d’oh!

Lunch was not photographed as I ate it with my folks but my mum made me a delicious cheese & tomato sandwich on wholemeal bread.

Mid afternoon, I was peckish and snacked on an double chocolate MP Max Elle Virtue Bar - I’m gutted as it was my last one :-(

Dinner was frickin’ amazing.  I had some venison burgers and beef with garden herb burgers in the freezer crying out to be used.  I picked up a couple of seeded ciabatta with olive oil baguettes, sliced one in half and served one of each burgers on each half with some red onion cooked on the griddle pan.  I served them with salad and some home made wedges…

After dinner I was craving something sweet and rather than eat crap, I made a bowl of banana soft serve with some cacao powder and topped with blackberries…

And now I’m going to bed – g’night bloggies!

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Stop the world…

Posted at 09:39 in Personal

I want to get off!

Life is so hectic at the moment, I just don’t seem to have enough hours in the day to do everything that I want to!  I’ve not been to the gym in a week now and I miss it but there is still so much going on at home that I just don’t have the time to make it a priority right now.

I have about two dozen emails sitting in my inbox that are waiting for replies and I apologise profusely to those lovely people that have taken the time to write to me – please rest assured I am NOT ignoring you.  I’m stealing this time from work to quickly update you all – sorry to my colleagues for blogging in work time (they read my blog), it’s a one off, I promise!

I was really over the moon this morning to see that one of my biggest inspirations Sheryl, aka Ms Bitch Cakes reached her goal weight at Weight Watchers last night.  I love this chick, she is proof that hard work and determination will get you where you want.  I also LOVE LOVE LOVE her style, she is the most glam woman I have ever clapped eyes on.  A massive well done to you Sheryl!

And now I have to dash – I will catch you all later for a proper update and a review of the fabulous wireless Sony Walkman I was sent to try out.

Happy hump day!

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