Living Without Carcinogens

Just recently, absolutely every appliance broke in my house after 28 years!!! I took this opportunity to upgrade (cheaply, I might add!) to energy and water saving devices. So I got a tankless water heater, an energy efficient washer and fridge and my DWP bill went UP!!! I could feel my cells changing, I was so angry. In fact, these new appliances, unlike the trusty old ones, only have a 10 year shelf life! PLEASE!!!! What a scam! Anyway, I immediately googled graywater because I thought,”To hell with the DWP, I’ll recycle my shower, kitchen and washer water to the garden.” Absolutely no one on this continent seemed to be up on this trend. So I e-mailed Ed Begley, Jr. on his website and voila, Buzz the Graywater guy came over with such a reasonable install price that this sysem will pay for itself in one year. My question is why is Buzz the only guy??

Subject change-HARVEST-I lost my first harvest of tomatoes to a weird brown rot at the base of each baby tomato supposedly as a result of lack of calcium which I don’t believe, because my compost and soil are not store bought so the are “alive” and I was feeding them (only periodically) Dr. Earth. The rest of the garden is flourishing. I made an amazing Vegan pureed soup the other night and have really started “living off the land” i.e. three 4×4 raised beds of veggies!

In the name of good health and practicing what you preach, I think I’m finally used to getting up at 5am to go to bootcamp to get that out of the way early. I have to say that 5 years ago, I had suddenly put on 45 big ones, my cholesterol, was over 200 (my father died of a heart attack), so I bit the bullett and started going to this spinning gym in Toluca Lake, Ca. I won’t mince words, I hated it and couldn’t keep up with the class for 3 YEARS!!!!-No kidding. But, I went everyday because I lost 20 lbs. the first 3 weeks and the other 20 came off over 6 months. The next five came off without incident in year 2 of spinning. Aside from the products that I use (if you’re interested in really FRESH makeup, cream, etc. that’s paraben and all the rest of it free, go to yourdestiny.myarbonne.com), I attribute the best body of my life to the owners of my gym. I have always been pretty conscientious about my diet, but after a certain age, you really need to kick it up a couple of notches. Otherwise, as my friend Johnny “Drama” Alves says,”It’s like shoveling shit against the tide!”

Be happy, be healthy and be grateful that we were born in this country. We don’t want anyone else’s problems! Be safe!