my butt is dragging

hello everybody! i seem to have lost some of my high energy i've had for the last two or three weeks. maybe i'm doing too much exercise, or maybe not enough. who knows? not me. i have these ups and downs all the time, but i think i have noticed something over the last few weeks that might be helpful to me. i seem to feel alot better if i'm getting more greens in. my moods seem better, and also my energy. so, over the next few weeks i'm going to make more of an effort to get those in. right now i've been eating one or two avocados with tons of celery,lots of oranges,a large salad in the evening ,the occasional lara bar, and also some nut butters. not very 8-10-10. also the ocassional blip which i have spoken about before. but all in all,still doing pretty good. rock on, all you raw food warriors..... the rare raw southern bird

checking in

just checking in today. not much going on. i am having alot of energy lately. still doing pretty good on the raw foods. it gets pretty routine after you've done it a while. like i said before, i started dabbling in raw food in 1999 while i was living in tucson az.(best place ever) my daughter and i went to a raw food demo. we split a family sized hershey chocolate bar in the car. the lady giving the demo was very buff and nice looking, but unfortunatly she cut her finger right at the start of the thing and was kind of bleeding as she went. think julia child and saturday night live, if you saw that episode. anyway she made a date nut cake, some spagetti with a maranara sauce, and a couple of other things i don't remember. it was all good. what i do remember is the ginormous stomachache i had after that. probably the worst one i ever had. around the same time i found shazzie's blog and david wolf's site. there wasn't a lot on the web at the time, so the first thing i started doing was a fruit smoothie everyday. i would do that a while and forget about it awhile then go back to it. but what i did do was continue to read about it and surround myself with as much information as i could. and i still do that everyday. i listen to cd's i've downloaded when i'm in the car and when i'm walking. i continue to buy and read books and reread them, because alot of times i will pick up something i didn't get the first time i read it. i was always reading diet and health books over the years but when i finally read fit for life(this was way before raw food came up)it made so much sense. i tried that for awhile but would slip back into the s.a.d. diet.(i was mostly vegetarian then anyway) but a very junky vegetarian. anyway i have evolved over a long period of time to where i am now, able to eat and enjoy raw food most of the time. if i do eat something cooked i enjoy it and i don't worry about it.(but i always pay for it later in how i feel). anyway, that's a little bit about how i came to be a raw food eater. see ya later...... the rare raw southern bird

mysteries of life

i know there are many, many, mysterious mysteries in life, and that you yourself may have pondered endlessly on some of them, as many of us have. say, for instance, the beauty of a flower, or the miracle of creating a baby (of which i have created four, with only the tiniest bit of help from my now ex-husband) or the awe inspiring beauty of a sunset. yes, there are many mysteries in life. and yet, i have a new one for you. perhaps one you have never heard of. a brand new mystery. so exciting. and here it is. wait for it..... wait for it......... HOW IN THE WORLD CAN A PERSON (and i mean me) WALK 53 MILES IN 10 DAYS AND NOT LOSE ONE FREAKING OUNCE! now really, how can that possibly be. that can't be possible you say, well, let me assure you that, yes indeed, it is true. in fact, is possible. i mean really, it boggles the mind doesn't it. think about it. 53 MILES. 53 longggg, longgggg miles. fifty-three miles. try to wrap your mind around it.( it's almost impossible, isn't it ) the only answer i can come up with is, I MUST BE A FREAK OF NATURE. THE MOST EFFICIENT CALORIE BURNER THERE EVER WAS. yes, that must be it. but if anyone else out there in the great cyber world has a better answer i would love to here it. or if you have a mystery of your own i would love to ponder on it. while i'm walking, walking, walking. i have to go now,(i've got walking to do) but keep on keeping on, all you raw food warriors. bye, from the rare raw southern bird.

while i have access to a computer(mine is on the blink)i thought since it's the last day of the month i would give you(all one of you)an update on my monthly goals and get in a little bragging time.well..the buddha thing didn't work out like i planned it.i did listen to one cd on the topic of the buddha but didn't get around to reading the book i have on the subject.so he has to be rolled over for another time.(can one do that? i quess one can,if one wishes to.)and as far as the head stand goes,it didn't go.my neck was not happy about that,so it too will have to be rolled over.so now to the bragging(is it impolite to brag on one's self? because if it is, i'm gonna do it anyway)i walked 38 miles this week! yep that's right! count'em,38!i walked five miles a day monday thru friday and then did my own personal half marathon on saturday.(if my math is wrong don't anybody tell me.)(all one of you)(and i mean it)so i'm headed toward my goal of doing some long distance hiking.now i have to start working on my absolute terror of sleeping outside at night with all the bugs,the wild animals,the creepy crawlies,the no see'ums,the rain,the lightening,the crazy hiker killers(and they are out there,i just know it)rabid skunks(as if just being a regular old skunk wouldn't be bad enough).i hope i haven't scared anybody else out of the same dream,but it is something to think about.but you know what they say about fears(in case you don't,i'm going to tell you)FACE THEM.yea, easy for them to say.they'll be in a cozy bed at night.i could face them better if some one would go with me.(any takers,all one of you reading this)anyway it's something to think about while you're doing nothing.helps pass the time.so long till next time-----the rare raw southern bird.

so...hello everybody(all one of you)today i have a confession to make.i had a little blip in my raw food eating. just a little,tiny,teeny one.this is what it looked like,---/\---.see,nothing big.no worries(sometimes i like to think of myself as australian, because they have a way cool accent).good on ya mate.(see).anyway what happened was,i got caught in a little social situation where everybody wanted to go to macaroni grill,which is a good place to eat for most people,but not for me. their
idea of a nice salad is the size of a saucer,and i needed one the size of a swimming pool. i was hungry man.so...i decided to just eat regular food, just to go along,but what i really wanted was a bigggggg salad.now,i can hear everybody saying,yeah right.(all one of you)but it's true!so anyway i'm enjoying the food,having a good time,thinking this will be no problemo(sometimes i fancy myself as being a least partially spanish,or mexican,because they have the best accent ever!)i'll just continue on with my raw food after this tiny,teeny blip.you saw how tiny it was,right. why, i don't know if i should even call it a blip.what's tinier than a blip?anyway, we'er all having a nice time,singing country roads,take me home,all the way to my house.every thing is good,right? wronggggg!..what!..WHAT!..WHAT the H...E..DOUBLE L did you do? my stomach had woken up and was not happy.and if your stomach is not happy,you're not happy.so i said,stomach(that's what i call it)there's no need to get all bloaty,nausous,and sick feeling.i had what you might call a blip or possibly a bleep(after careful research i have determined that a bleep is definately smaller than a blip).and my stomach is like,OH NO YOU DIDN'T,and i'm like oh yes i did and it's like OH NO YOU DIDN'T and i'm like...well you get the drift of how that went.and let me just say, i't did not go well after that.no sleep,bad sick feeling all night.so the morale of this story(if there is one,and should't all stories have one)would be to make sure you don't piss off your stomach.(ever again)that's all i've got for now, so, i'll say aloha(because sometimes i like to pretend i'm in hawaii because they have the best weather ever)
keep on keeping on raw soldiers----the rare raw southern bird

so,hey i'm feeling good today.walked 9.3 miles in two and a half hours.raw food thing going good.thought i had put on some weight,but no,lost a pound!i've been eating a lot.no starving here.so,today i thought i would put in some info about me.i'm a nurse.yep a real pill pusher.i work in a small prison health unit. i don't know why they call it that since nobody there is the least bit interested in health,but that's what we call it.kind of a strange place to be when you don't believe all these different kinds of pills work.i've been a nurse since 1982 and have learned this along the way.gotta make a living some way though and this is the way i make mine.but i will say that all of the people i work with are great and they do a really good job working with the inmates.i always miss them when i'm gone for the summer.thank goodness i'm gone for the summer.i love the fact that i don't have to work full time,because the time it takes for the upkeep on myself since i turned fifty increases every year.there's the weight to watch,yoga to do,bunches of walking to do,wrinkle watching,skin brushing,enemas to take,raw food books to read,grey hair to color,various and sundry hobbies.it's down right exhausting.not to mention the sit ups,leg lifts,crunches,and that freaking pilates.talk about hard!oh and don't lets forget about those butt tighting torture exercises. and my butt still looks like it's trying to have an intimate meeting with the backs of my knees.but lucky for me, i'm no opera winfrey,because i love to exercise.(opera hates to exercise.i'm not making that up)you just can't tell by looking at me that i'm a lover of working out.also i want to say here before i forget,that picture of me over to the right is about 20 years old. of course i still look amazingly like it.(at least in my minds eye).anyway i'm planning to put up a more current one sometime or other.so be watching for it.that's all for now,bye, from the southern rare raw bird.

i'm really excited, i have followers. yea! one is my daughter,so she doesn't count as much, but the other one is a total stranger so i feel really excited about this. i feel almost famous. maybe one day i'll be almost as famous as bunny berry, wouldn't that be great! so now i feel this big obligation to be as funny as possible and to also make this as interesting as possible soooooo i'll ether have to make stuff up or make the crap i do seem really great!o.k. here i go.today i walked about four miles.we had some beautiful weather here in arizona today.i'm doing pretty good on my raw food.i do have passing thoughts of coke, pizzas,and french fries occasionally but i just let them float on by.eating alot of oranges and orange juice. i've had more fat from avocados and a little almond butter than i intended to,but i'ts just part of the process.no worries,just keep going in the right direction.i'm way past the beat myself up stage.got to make it sustainable,that's what i care about most.
to change the subject a little,i want to say, in case you haven't noticed,i can't type. right now i'm a hunt and peck kind of girl .hoping i'm going to get better fast.next time i plan to include some info about how and why i got into raw food.
bye now, from the rare raw southern bird.
ps: now to find jokes!!!!