30 rocks

Before Roscivs got sick I made "new month resolutions", one per month. To incorporate a new behavior, do it for 30 days. This month I had enough energy and incentive to try a new month resolution again. I am lucky; I made it: for January, I have juiced every day!
   Yesterday, in fact, I did a one-day juice fast. I ate only juice. I even managed to make a tasty savory dinner juice.

♣ Dinner Juice: asparagus (4 stalks), bell pepper (1, yellow), bok choy (1, baby), cilantro (handful), cucumber (3, peeled), garlic (1 clove), ginger (0.25 in.), lime (1, peeled), green onion (5), parsley (handful)

For my dear readers who might be :-? or :-7 about this juicing thing, well, I was too. But
 a) it is part of the GAPS protocol I'm following
 b) St. Pear (my doctor) kept recommending it
 c) a friendquaintance (a friend of Roscivs' from Jr. High) started juicing daily (without any particular health need), and then
 d) I heard about it from my dearest L. Fractal

and it's totally working for me.
   I think it will be easy for me to keep at this. I'm going to maintain my daily breakfast juice and escalate to a juice fast every Tuesday.
   I have had more energy this month — more enough to do a new New Month Resolution for February. I haven't decided what.

Moo Goo

My Kiva loan this month was to Bolivian Señora C., who sells bovine gelatin and wants to invest in freezers to protect her product.
   I buy bovine (moo!) gelatin (goo!): I buy it from Great Lakes; theirs is made from grass fed cows. I use it to make stuff like homemade marshmallows. This recipe is easy and pleasing. My modifications: I heat it until it looks good (don't own a candy thermometer) and I use a hand mixer (don't own a stand mixer).
   I realize that "heat it until it looks good" is not prescriptive or directive in the way recipes usually are. But that's how I cook. I measure with smells and tastes and sounds, not cups and minutes.
   I measure, but not with tools that can be shared.

Potion #025

♣ Today's juice: I call it Rooty Fruity Green (Plus Golden Coin)! Rooty: rutabaga (1), beet (1), ginger (~1 in.), carrot (1); Fruity: apple (2), lemon (1, peeled); Green: wheat grass (1 oz?), dandelion greens (~12 leaves), kale (½ bunch), mint (~7 sprigs). And an egg yolk (pastured, raw).

Potion #024

♣ Today's juice was red bell pepper (4), lime (1, peeled), parsley (a handful), cucumber (1, peeled), apple (2), carrot (2). Pepper + lime = pretty tasty.

Musicings

Friday night I walked alone downtown to the Black Box theatre and took in some jazz — all originals. I enjoyed myself.

I thought about where I want my business to be in a year. My goals: 12.0 teaching hours* a week; T/W/Th; starting at noon. My current position is 8.0 teaching hours a week; M/Th; sometimes starting earlier than noon.
   I want to retain at least 3 of my students from now to then. This is not a goal because I don't have a good idea of how to effect it.
   Since Friday, in furtherance of my goals, I have

1. started moving my Monday students to Wednesday
2. posted expanded (Wednesday) hours with the company for whom I am an independent contractor
3. decided I will open up Tuesdays in June (health permitting)

The end.

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* 1.0 teaching hour is ≥1.5 working hours.

Wintry Day Summary

Today I woke (11am), then I juiced (celery, beet, carrot, apple), then I bundled (-1ºC) and walked (1.5 mi) to my phototx (255 mJ).
   I walked home (1.5 mi) with a stop in at the local apothecary to buy bentonite clay and kelp powder. I add these, in rotation, to my nightly baths.

Potion #009

♣ Today's juice was apple (3), no egg yolk. I'm afflicted with a poison|bug. My 100.2ºF body is eliminating from both ends, resulting in 6 pounds lost.

Potion #008

♣ Today’s juice was beet (1), burdock (1), carrots (2), celery (5), cucumber (1), grapefruit (½), mint (2 doz. leaves), pear (1). Color: gorgeous. Rating: yum.