Well done Canterbury

I think the most of the country agrees that it has been amazing seeing how organised canterbury has been with an earthquake that was not ever predicted.

From neighbours helping neighbours.
The Mayor seems to be right in the trenches helping as much as possible.
The Prime minister staying in NZ and going to the people in Canterbury to show support.
WINZ stepping in with financial support for small businesses.
The council employees pitching in straight away getting in and assessing buildings.
Nurses and Doctors calling in to hospital pitching in where possible.

The Great Factors in NZ which made this disaster better than it could have been. (No Deaths)
- Excellent laws around building houses and other structures.
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Luck :-) - 4.30am on the Saturday morning 4th of September, when some of the worst damage to buildings was in the central business district.
- Before the shops were starting to open and after most night clubbers would have gone home.

Grapefruit/ Lemon and Miso Soup Diet

I seemed to have stumbled across something that actually works to loose weight. (crossing fingers)
It is only day 3.
My weight 3 days ago was 170.4 and was slipping upwards again.
My weight today is 168.
I have made a mixture of 1/2 lemon juice and 1/2 grapefruit juice and added water with it.
Then I will make miso with 1/4 to a 3rd of a cup of my mixture in with it.
It takes like miso with a little tang to it.
I take this before breakfast, then before lunch and before dinner.
I feel full really fast and I am just eating what ever I feel like, but today I have noticed I just can't eat as much as I normally do, I just feel too full.

Well early days but I will blog how this progresses. :-)

My very unclinical reason for this working -
1) Apparently grapefruit lowers insulin somehow
2) Soup helps fill you up for long periods of time
3) Miso soup has protein in it (and also seaweed which has lot of lovely vitamins and minerals in)

Conclusion, body is no longer craving ANYTHING -
1) No sugar cravings
2) No feeling hungry because you are full
3) And brain also switches off the "I am hungry" sign in Neon because of the protein
4) And also any other possible craving due to need for vitamins or minerals deficiency is sorted by the vitamin c from the grapefruit and lemon and everything else from the seaweed

But as I said before early days

Earthquake Questions

At work we have been discussing the question of land. e.g this image in the NZ Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/christchurch-earthquake/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502981&objectid=10672369
So your land has been stretched, does that mean you have to move in your fences because your fences are now sitting on some elses property? Or do you now own more land? (After filling in the hole).
And this goes the other way round as well, if the Earthquake compressed and pushed up your land do you then own less land?

Christchurch Earthquake

Wow what a scary weekend. Saturday morning we woke to hear that there had been an earthquake in Christchurh, the news originally said 7.4 on the richter scale, later they said that it was actually 7.1. Last time we had such a big earth quake in New Zealand was in 1931, called the Napier earthquake and that reached 7.8, 10:47 am on Tuesday February 3, 1931, killing 256 from what I can tell from historical evidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Hawke's_Bay_earthquake
This one hit the Christchurch CBD (central business district) at 4.30am on the 4th of September 2010. Thank your god there have been no fatalities presently. One man was awfully hurt from a chimney collapsing and an old colleague of mine advised that another man had a heart attack. (I think I would have as well)
Auckland is far too far away and we did not feel a thing here. I contacted mum who is living near Picton, they did not feel a think. Mum advised that Aunty Barbara felt a little bit as she is a bit closer to Christchurch. Mums husband Hugh was a bit worried for his daughter who lives in Christchurch though as they were having trouble contacting her.
The CBD in Christchurch is rather destroyed and has been closed for assessment of the damage.
If the earthquake had hit during business hours instead of 4.30am this would be a very different story.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/image.cfm?c_id=1&gal_objectid=10671407&gallery_id=113693#7075994

I have a feeling that out of these ashes will be the rise of New Zealand financially pulling us out of the recession. People will be more optimistic with work being needed to help Christchurch get back on its feet.

Woman at the supermarket

At the supermarket last night, we were going through the express check out along with quite a few other people. In front of my husband and myself were 2 ladies.
There were 2 check outs open, so there should have been 2 separate lines, like there has been for over the 6 years I have been going there. The woman with the trolley filled with about 6 bottles of wine and nothing else, although well presented at the front of this strange line, and another young lady just behind her. The young lady noticed the next person was nearly finished and since the woman with the trolley was not moving up decided to move forward.
The woman with the trolley grabbed her arm and basically told her that she was not allowed to jump the queue. I heard this and said "there should be 2 queues here", she turned around and said it was supposed to be merging like a zip, and then added as an after thought, "well it should". I said "since when?" and the young lady who she would have embarressed also agreed with me.
But we left left it there, while this woman was emptying her trolley she looked around at the other isles to try to back her claim, to no avail.

I was soooo cross, she has embarressed a young lady in front of a large queue, she had actually broken the law by grabbing the young ladies arm, and who was she to impose her sanctions on others? Well I have now vented and I am sure Karma will bite this woman (who goes shopping only for wine and to assalt people and insult people) in the butt.