ghibli theme The Magic Within [Morag]

[Morag]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, spirits in the machine, humbly we thank thee.

 

This thread will have loads and loads of bujo (bullet journal) pages posted to it. As well as all kinds of gifs and pictures.

 

 

I am adapting a bit from various Rangers and Rebels, thank you to you wonderful people, these roads we travel, this life we forge, it's better for the company and inspiration shared on these boards here.

 

Talking about inspiration...

@Terra

You are an inspiration. Always adapting, pushing, improving. Your year of superheroines, I'm copying it - with my own twist:

 

This Challenge I will incorporate Studio Ghibli's Arrietty

 

@Tanktimus the Encourager

Sometime, somewhere you mentioned (I hope I remember it right and it was actually you) making the mental leap to do Healthy Person Things because you are leaving behind who you were and are becoming the Health Tank.

I am stealing that. Kinda. Also with a twist. I always think "when I grow up, I want to be able to do that too". I'm grown up. I am going to do three specific Badass Person Things each day this challenge.

Move: attempt a freelatics workout or on bad days do a Yoga with Adriene quicky.

Eat: mindfulness, good choices.

Drink: water. I currently drink way, way too little water, so I'm fighting my way back up to a (0,7l) bottle a day, eventually up to 2 per day, increase on consistent success.

 

I am doing self-care in form of daily Sits with Tea sessions to log, sit in my favourite chair and soak up some sunlight (in my living room, still too chilly outside) and enjoy inactivity and absence of schedule related pressures.

 

And lastly I am grading the 15' of FlyLady decluttering / cleaning / whatnot daily. I have a pile of partially incorporated habits that helped me to FLY for a while, but I lost my step, and I am now choosing to go back and at least do something every day. Every. Day. Only with timer counts, conscious choice to work and rest. No stressing about the apartment all day long. Work, rest, breathe. Repeat as energy permits.

 

 

I'm tracking but not grading classes, 'cause I'll go to all of them, if I'm healthy. No excuses.

 

Running, I'm growing to love running, we run thursdays during class, even though I'm not a huge fan of running in circles indoors. I am aiming for one additional run per week, outdoors. No beating myself up if plague protocols interfere.

 

Weight, daily with trend's moving average and rarara...

 

 

I'll try to summarize Arrietty briefly. She's tiny, but fierce. Because of her size and upbringing she has a unique perspective on the world surrounding her and her family. Seeing the world differently, is something I think I could really use sometimes. When her life is turned into upheaval she doesn't lament, she confronts the responsible party, whose unasked-for help brings disaster. When her mother is caught, she makes an ally, asks for help, but not like any kind of damsel in distress. When her possible extinction is proposed, she shows some backbone.

 

 

[Muir]

Looks like several of us have gotten the cleaning bug!

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

Following along. You are right, a while back I decided I was no longer a fat person, and therefore no longer do fat person things. I am now a healthy person, and therefore do healthy person things. You are now a badass person, and do badass person things.

[Laghail]

Following along again my friend.

[Morag]

So, there's today's plan and then there's what really happened.

 

I mean I knew no plan survives first contact, but hey!

 

I just returned home. Kid 1 had gastroenterologist appointment this morning. We went there and sat on our asses and went home again. Therapeutic shopping kept within limits.

 

At home we started cleaning, made food for the kid and and tea for me and finally I sat down to take a break and drink my tea: phone call kid 2 fell, he's bleeding pretty badly and if I can pic him up and take him to a doctor? Tea sat aside and off I go. Doctor called to make sure they're still there when we get there 30mins into their lunch break and rararara. Two busses later I arrive at the paediatrics with a very calm and brave boy on my hands. Doc takes one look and sends us to the Unfallchirurgie (=accident chirurgs), call back from mum, yes she'll drive us. And after more waiting we are on the road again.

 

Eventually we got lucky: they taped and glued the cut. No stitches.

 

Home now.

 

I'm not gonna get a run in.

 

We're not surprised, right?

 

Food is in the oven now, it's not the healthiest, but it's quick, and I just ate an apple and a banana while I waited.

 

Mondays. Gotta love 'em.

 

 

 

PS shark week started almost a week early.

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"Travel lightly, for what you bring with you becomes part of your landscape." -Anne Bishop

[Tzippi Longstockings]

Ghibli Theme! Following so hard!

[Terra]

Totally honored to be someone's inspiration!!!!  Ghibli sounds like an awesome superhero!! 

[Muir]

Kids have the uncanny ability to mess up plans without them even trying (or aiming) to do so! hehe. Glad to hear child 2's leg isn't super serious. Hope both of them have a speedy recovery!

[RhiaWolfe]

Following! 

 

I really like the idea of your sit with tea. I find that life recently has become really crazy for me. Maybe I need to add some mindful meditation to my daily routines. Hmm... 

 

Yikes on your Monday adventure! I'm glad it ended up not being too serious for your kid. It's understandable that you weren't able to make your run, but it looks like you made healthy snack choices from fruit. Definitely a win considering the stress of the day! 

 

[Tzippi Longstockings]

21 hours ago, Katrin Josephina Morag said:

This thread will have loads and loads of bujo (bullet journal) pages posted to it. As well as all kinds of gifs and pictures.

 

 

 

 

Oh my heavens! I hadn't heard of this before, but I think it might be perfect for me! I hate the ultra-segregated and compartmentalized planners that are available, and never really make a point to journal (which I always mean to), and end up with bits of paper in my back pocket at the end of every day, full of to-do lists and ideas.

I have been obsessively watching YouTube videos on this, and have ordered a notebook with a dot grid. I may not wait for it to arrive, though, and buy one here if I can just to start out, then migrate what I like in a few days.

 

This could also be a place for the sketches and patterning I always mean to do, but never keep a notebook on me.

 

Thanks for sharing this!

[Morag]

Pics added to Opening Post, as promised. Even some music for you amazing people.

 

Today. is a weird day. The whole family is home. Hubby's regular shift-change-off-day, baby boy is home because of the laceration on his chin yesterday, the big boy is home because it's teacher's advanced training days, and I am always here, almost anyway. This morning hubby and I had an interesting conversation. It was brief but the subsequent thoughts it provoked in me have been twisting me in knots. I will share in a moment. We had a family breakfast, which we have so very rarely that it was very much appreciated.

Now hubby is reading his newly delivered comics, big boy is in his room like all the other teenage boys do, the little one is playing by my feet, he asked me to crochet a grilled pork chop for him, so he can play minecraft, that pretty much describes my life in a nut shell.

 

So I will spoiler this thought vomit, you don't have to go in and read it all... I mean, you can of course, but you don't have to.

TL'DR: Hijab, choice of clothing, religious symbols, state and federal offices banning hijabs, judges and courts ruling for prohibition. THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?! Pro-Inclusion. It's a rant. A wallpost-rant. If you like people better when they have no political opinion, feel free to skip it. You have been warned.

So. Well... I mean I always thought of myself as a rather un-political, mellow person... guess I was wrong...

This morning my hubby messed with me. He's weird, that one, and don't you judge, he said something along the lines of there would be something to me wearing a veil/hijab. The idea of this beauty being his alone and exclusively. His (admittedly) weird way to give me a compliment, since we both have no roots or inclination towards the muslimic persuation. Or any religion, for that matter.

What poked to think about this later wasn't only the "there is a highly erotic component to the unveiling during a private striptese" comment, or even the older women in russia wear veils too, there is probably a component of protectiveness within the developement of wearing a hijab. Hor or cold, windy and/or dry, within all of these harsh climates I could see myself bundling up. What sparked my fire was this: He said "It's forbidden, you know that right?" And my utter uncredulous "Why would it be?"

But it is. I have skimmed over wikipedia. I know, not the perfect source, but it'll do for me for now. Country after country listed as having banned the weiring of hijabs. In Germany, which is of increased interest to me because I am German, and thus it directly impacts on my life, here in 8 of 16 states the female teachers are prohibited to wear hijab to work. In the whole of Germany driving a vehicle while wearing any kind of head veil is illegal. For the burka and the niqab, I can understand the need to prioritize road safety, but you can not tell me that a hijab, or a (and they all are) well-pinned-into-place chador are more cumbersome than wild hairdo's or traditional european hair and clothes choices.



I have ridden in my sign-language teachers car, while she was driving, she is an excellent, observant driver. Yes, she is deaf. Yes, it's not easy for deaf people to aquire their drivers licenses. But you can not tell me that a woman who chooses, for whatever personal reasons, to cover her head and shoulders in a piece of cloth, is unable to drive a car safely. This is prepostreous. It's barbaric (in the negative sense, obviously) and plain stupid! I'm lucky, we live in one of the 8 states of Germany where wearing a hajib is perfectly okay for teaches and other state officials. What is wrong with people? I mean sure, if father, brother, husbands force their female relatives to hide their faces that is not okay, obviously. And as a society I do think we should step up and protect each other from this kind of limitation and potentially abusive pressures. But emancipation is about freedom of choice! I am a stay at home mother of two wonderful boys, it was my choice to stay at home, I am still an emancipated human being of the 21st century and my husband even more so. If someone walked up to me and told me I was bad for the image of female strength. If they told me I taught my boys the wrong values I would be deeply, deeply ... honestly I would be confused. I wanted to write I'd be hurt, but honestly, I wouldn't necissarily be, I'd mostly be confused: It's my choice. If I'd chosen to life in a 1950s type of household with my hubby and the kids. That would have still been my choice! Noone elses. The only reason why the hijab issue is such a big deal, is because the western people refuse to accept that this is important to some people.

 

You can not have people, fleeing for their lives, settle in your country and expect them to leave behind the people they were and embrace without fail all of the country they come to live in. Yes, language immigrants should be forced to learn, not because of any kind of negativity, but because they will need it to get by. But expecting people, immigrants to give up clothing, symbols, identity that is ridiculous. The only way you can win a people over is to accept them as they are. In a generation or three they will adapt... and you will adapt and then you will be something new. Not quite you, not quite them. But a bit of both, stronger for the acceptence and inclusion.

 

The easiest way to breed problems for later is to force people. And I don't mean it like it sounds, you have to force people to a degree. But don't force them to give up their identities, force them to find compromise. You can say blind people can not drive cars, deaf people can, if you can barely see outside your veil you can not drive a car, if your face is as free as it would be with a lot of hair you can drive. If you make people fear loosing something important to them, they will stay apart. Their brothers will grow up and resent you, for how you treat their sisters and mothers. They will in turn teach their children to be weary and not let the state get the better of them. If you accept that the immigrants you let in now will not ever be fully part of society, you learn something important: they may not ever be truly (whatevercountryyouwish), but this country can accept them (not change them, give them the tools (language) they need to cope, and then accept their differentness), and their children and so their children will grow up and they will have children and do you really think that a people, who is constantly fighting to not forget who they were, because the land they live in is trying to remove who they were, do you really think they will grow to become a full, velued, integrated part of the whole? Or do you not maybe think the fighting against the outside pressure will become a defining part of their identity. Otherness, standing apart, will become what in a generation or two the children will still soak up with their mother's milk. Instead of highly privileged children, growing up with all the religions to choose from, with a family highly adapt in speaking 3 languages by default (whatever they bring with them, German, and English, because English is a big thing in our schools nowadays), they are valuable, wonderful children so very full of potential. Instead we exclude where we can. The fuck is wrong with people. It's like we never had an emancipation movement and we never learned anything at all. How can we teach our children that EVERY religion, EVERY skincolour, EVERY ethnicity is actually equal while we still act with these double standards? Hijabs are prohibited, christian nun's can wear their habit freely though. If we truly remove all religious symbols from our schools and teach our children true freedom of choice: HOW can they chose what they do not know? Why do we have mandatory religion class (=christian stories) in elementary school but no good religion treachers who actually teach freedom of choice to these young and impressionable children? We are close-minded and we have a so very much to learn. Why can't we just for a moment stop pretending otherwise.

A woman with immigration background is good for cleaning jobs, but not for the field she studied or learned or worked in where she came from.

Men with immigration background are good for hard labor and delivering packages and garbage disposal trucks, immigrants usually know they will have to work hard, and stereotypically they do. The lazy immigrant is a fear in the heads of people who know nothing about how it really works. Immigrants don't all come from war zones, they know what a cellphone and a laptop are, they have had jobs in the home they left behind, they are skilled people. Why do we keep our circles of safety closed against these people? Yes they are survivors, they have done what they had to to get by, not all of which was legal. We should praise their inventiveness and celebrate their backbone, and make them feel safe and accepted and at home. Afterall through no merit of our own they chose to settle here. They offered to live amoung us, our descendants will live better lives because of the genes these people brought into our gene pool. We are better as a people, because of these ready-to-work-hard, inventive people. The least we can do is teach them the language and give them the tools to get by and make a home for themselves. But we expect the little the state can do to be enough, frankly we say it's too much, the state spends on immigration, integration and language teaching.

It's time we start thinking in longer terms. Not in terms of a budget of 4 years, but in terms of 10, 15, 20 years.

What is wrong with people?

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Sorry for blowing up like this, I had to vent that whole thing somewhere.

 

Love you folks.

Even when I am being a bit weird and silly... and slightly extremist.

[Laghail]

Spoiler

I like your extremism Katrin.

This topic is tricky, and it involves a war over perspectives on the best way to render a peaceful public space. On one hand you have those that want public space to be a vacuum of religious values, everyone interacting as a-religious humans. But on the other, you have to wonder how humans are supposed to remove their most dearly held values from themselves for part of their day, especially if you see religion as the meaning behind why someone does anything. Lets ignore the distinctions between religious expression and proselytizing for now. The ungainly compromise seems to be everyone trying really hard to come up with a public religion for you to hold at work, and it can give value and meaning to your professional life, without cluttering up the workplace with authentic human expressions of faith or value. The terrible irony of public un-religion, although it was conceived as an expression of peace and harmony, once you create a public ideology, it doesn't conveniently remain static. The zeitgeist moves and strange things emerge as accepted public beliefs. The German version of this state sponsored un-religion finds hijabs objectionable but is tolerant of the Islamic faith. The American version finds Muslims ultimately objectionable, but we're still working on exactly what horrifying way we'd like to make that faith actually illegal. Geert Wilders and Steve King voice their common belief that the state religion needs to worship western culture. Although the Dutch and American legislators are both fringe voices in their respective milieu, it's telling that the American denunciation of King's racism only affirms the narrative; Paul Ryan defending immigration as an institution because of his family history of Irish immigration, or, asserting that white European immigrants will always be welcome. #bitterramblings

 

[RhiaWolfe]

How do I do a spoiler thingy where it hides contents? lol. 

[Laghail]

5 minutes ago, RhiaWolfe said:

How do I do a spoiler thingy where it hides contents? lol. 

I don't know if you can on mobile. On web, it's the eye icon to the right of the font size selector. Don't worry about it, I think everyone here knows you're not picking a fight.

[RhiaWolfe]

Spoiler

Oh, ok. I got it. I'm not on mobile. 

 

Anyways, I agree with Laghail on this one. It's something that for many of us it seems like a simple thing. People should be free to choose what they want to believe and generally what they want to wear, especially with respect to religion. However, it's a lot more complicated than that. 

 

As Laghail pointed out, most workplaces and other things like that have a more un-religion culture. Don't talk about it and practice in private? Is that really freedom of religion? 

 

It's one of those things, how do you define what is and is not acceptable? I agree with dress code rules in schools. The reason I agree with it and even support uniforms is because in the real world, jobs have dress codes. Events have dress codes. Certain outfits are appropriate for certain environments. However, I don't agree with shaming people for what they are wearing. I don't believe that women should be taught to hide their bodies because it's shameful. 

 

Jumping off of here, I believe that there should be dress codes in work places. Again, certain situations require certain attire. However, when does it cross the line of being a practical uniform dress code rule and being discriminatory against a certain people? Discriminatory against women and body shaming or a muslim wearing a hijab? 

 

There is a lot more to this than just practicality which is I think what makes it hard to really set rules and enforce them in a way that it really makes sense. 

 

(Just FYI, I don't agree with making wearing a hijab illegal.)

 

[Morag]

 

I don't know if you can on mobile. On web, it's the eye icon to the right of the font size selector. Don't worry about it, I think everyone here knows you're not picking a fight.

 

 

 

Or, which works on both mobile and browser: type it out [spoi ler]Text you want to hide.[/spoi ler] no spaces.

 

 

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"Travel lightly, for what you bring with you becomes part of your landscape." -Anne Bishop

 

 

 

 

[Terra]

So NF unrelated question:  Where would i look to find some of these anime cartoons?  My girls would love it!  

[Morag]

 

Amazon? Where do you usually buy home entertainment schtuffs?

 

Studio Ghibli made an amazing spectrum of movies, some are for older, some are for younger audiences all that I have seen are incredible (i think I'll eventually get around to use them for challenge themes, most of them anyway, over the course of the next year or so)

 

 

"Arrietty" is good.

 

"My neighbour Totoro" is good too, and I can't imagine anyone to be too young for those.

 

"Ponyo" is good too, the main character is 5 in this one.

 

Ame and Yuki wolf children is a love letter to mothers, I really like it, hubby says the ending is melancholic, I disagree, I just like it and if there's feelz, I can live with that.

 

Kiki' s Delivery Service is just plain wonderful.

 

But Spirited Away, Mononoke, Nausicaä, and the one with the fireflies, they are not for the smallest children. My 13 year old saw Spirited Away when he was too young, he still refuses to watch it again. If you get those, and they are wonderful stories, especially Mononoke and Nausicaä, both picture- and message-wise but watch them just adults first and then decide when your kids are old enough to see them: animation is not automatically all age groups.

 

 

But to buy them I'd just go and check on amazon there's a "ghibli collection" out on the UK market at least that I can order over amazon.de, I'm sure, whichever amazon is yours they can get them for you.

 

Or if you have money to burn pack the kids and come by, our projector screen is 3x2m and I make a mean pot of popcorn (and we have a lot of the Ghibli movies here).

 

 

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"Travel lightly, for what you bring with you becomes part of your landscape." -Anne Bishop

 

 

 

 

[Muir]

12 hours ago, Terra said:

So NF unrelated question:  Where would i look to find some of these anime cartoons?  My girls would love it!  

 

Netflix has quite a few Anime programmes. At least, the UK version does. I can't say for the US version.

[Morag]

Wednesday. Breakweek is flying by. How about that?

 

Time to post an update. Tuesday night training was really good. Glad I went. Cough be damned. I had to take things easier than usual, but I have to learn to take care of me. I'm struggling to not take hubby's not coming along to training personal. He was tired, he played a game with the kid then went to bed early. And even if he'll never get into the whole fitness classes thing... it'll be okay. Right?

 

This morning I woke increadibly happy and ready to hit the deck running, the weather sure helped:

View from my balcony.

 

Bujo review and rarara

First thoughts on my first daily food log spread thingy: too coloured and wild, also impractical: Having to have the whole quiver of pens with me every day is a bit meh. I will in future make a setup with either one color plus fountain ball pen or make it with two and ball pen, just a main and a contrast color. Everything looks chaotic and unruly here. Otherwise really liking the 1-2 lines per meal setup and the letters as spacers, so to speak, really liking the trackers on the dutch door, inside the fold are my meal planning and shopping list, and on the back is the prep/brainstorming I did for this weeks class. I like the pretty of the forecast, but really don't really need it.

As you can see I skipped cleaning timer and tea yesterday, so I am making damn sure I do both today. And, you probably can't really read it, but I did a 7 minute yoga before bed quicky as "move often, like a badass" which is a bit little in my book, so I will go improvise and improve on that today, if I can. We'll see. I have no real plans for today except finish class prep for tomorrow (incl. play list) and get the little one to his ergo- and logo-therapy appointments.

 

So far so good. Oh, when you have trouble reading my journal that'll be because it's a mix of German and English. Mixey-mix.

 

Back to our regular programme:

 

 

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"Travel lightly, for what you bring with you becomes part of your landscape." -Anne Bishop

[RhiaWolfe]

22 hours ago, Terra said:

So NF unrelated question:  Where would i look to find some of these anime cartoons?  My girls would love it!  

 

What the Morag said! 

 

My favorites for kids are My Neighbor Tortoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Ponyo, and Porco Russo. 

 

My personal favorite is Princess Mononoke, but it is pretty violent. I'd save that for more adult audiences. I also love Howl's Moving Castle. That one has some pretty dark scenes, but rates on my list as one of my favorites. 

 

You can buy most of them at just regular stores that sell DVDs because some of them are pretty popular. You can also get them online. 

[Terra]

My kiddo is into BlackButler right now and I'm not sure how I feel about that one...  She is 12 today!  

 

[RhiaWolfe]

8 hours ago, Katrin the Morag said:

 

Bujo review and rarara

First thoughts on my first daily food log spread thingy: too coloured and wild, also impractical: Having to have the whole quiver of pens with me every day is a bit meh. I will in future make a setup with either one color plus fountain ball pen or make it with two and ball pen, just a main and a contrast color. Everything looks chaotic and unruly here. Otherwise really liking the 1-2 lines per meal setup and the letters as spacers, so to speak, really liking the trackers on the dutch door, inside the fold are my meal planning and shopping list, and on the back is the prep/brainstorming I did for this weeks class. I like the pretty of the forecast, but really don't really need it.

As you can see I skipped cleaning timer and tea yesterday, so I am making damn sure I do both today. And, you probably can't really read it, but I did a 7 minute yoga before bed quicky as "move often, like a badass" which is a bit little in my book, so I will go improvise and improve on that today, if I can. We'll see. I have no real plans for today except finish class prep for tomorrow (incl. play list) and get the little one to his ergo- and logo-therapy appointments.

 

 

 

Well, it's definitely very pretty! I can see where having all those markers all the time would be a pain. Looks really nice though! Colors!

[RhiaWolfe]

1 minute ago, Terra said:

My kiddo is into BlackButler right now and I'm not sure how I feel about that one...  She is 12 today!  

 

 

Ah, Black Butler is... erm... interesting. I really enjoyed it... but I watched as an adult and not a 12 year old. I don't think it's TOO bad... but it really depends on what you want to let her watch. 

 

I'd suggest something more along the lines of InuYasha or Fruitsbasket. 

[Morag]

57 minutes ago, Terra said:

My kiddo is into BlackButler right now and I'm not sure how I feel about that one...  She is 12 today!  

 

 

Oh, yes, that's right!

Happy (haven given-)Birth-day!!

 

53 minutes ago, RhiaWolfe said:

 

Ah, Black Butler is... erm... interesting. I really enjoyed it... but I watched as an adult and not a 12 year old. I don't think it's TOO bad... but it really depends on what you want to let her watch. 

 

I'd suggest something more along the lines of InuYasha or Fruitsbasket. 

 

I did not know that, but after watching a trailer... yeahhhh, o-kay. yeeesh. Okay, wow. Moving on. I can understand why you don't know how to feel about that... I'd be conflicted too.