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Trust Your Inner Compass: Lessons from Renovating a Countryside House
When I first set foot in my old countryside house in Sweden, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. No running water, no working heating system, and a renovation list longer than I could imagine. And yet—I felt at home. Buying this house wasn’t just about bricks, beams, and repairs. It was about something much deeper: trusting my inner compass.
In this post, I want to share what this house is teaching me about personal growth, transformation, and listening to the quiet voice within. My hope is that you’ll see reflections of your own journey here—and maybe find the courage to take your next step forward.
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Trusting Your Desires, Even When They Don’t Make Sense
For years, I ignored the longing I felt inside. On paper, my life in Germany was fine. But deep down, something wasn’t right. I had always felt called back to Sweden, especially to this very area where I had lived before.
The truth is, our inner desires rarely disappear. If you feel a persistent pull toward something—a dream, a place, a way of living—it’s not random. Ignoring it often leads to numbness, dissatisfaction, or even burnout. Following it, however uncertain it may feel, is what brings you back to life.
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The Honeymoon Phase Always Ends—And That’s Okay
At first, the excitement of being in the house was overwhelming. Everything felt magical, exactly as I had imagined. But sooner or later, reality sets in. For me, it looked like:
• Stress over not having water in the house
• Worries about heating before winter
• Endless phone calls to contractorsThis stage isn’t failure—it’s growth. Every personal transformation moves from the thrill of possibility into the challenge of reality. The key is to keep going, knowing that the discomfort is part of becoming the person who can live the life you truly want.
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Every Challenge Reveals Unexpected Strength
Living without water, I discovered how much I had taken it for granted. I found creative solutions: using rainwater, brushing my teeth in the yard, even accepting help from neighbors who offered showers in exchange for home-cooked meals.
Personal growth often works like this. When you step into the unknown, you uncover strengths and solutions you didn’t know you had. But you can only access them once you’ve dared to leave your comfort zone.
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You Don’t Have to Do It Alone
One of the biggest lessons this house has taught me is that independence is overrated. Whether it was friends helping in the basement or neighbors stepping in when I needed support, I realized that asking for help isn’t weakness. It’s community.
In life—just like in renovation—we thrive when we lean on others. Transformation isn’t meant to be a solitary path.
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Trust the Process, Trust Yourself
Your inner compass will never lead you astray. It doesn’t promise an easy path, but it does point you toward the life that’s aligned with who you are. Yes, there will be obstacles. But each one will either show you a strength you already carry or teach you something new.
When you feel that inner pull, you can trust it. You don’t need to know the entire path. You only need to take the next step.
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Final Thoughts
This house is becoming more than just a renovation project. It’s a mirror of personal transformation—messy, challenging, and deeply rewarding. Every broken pipe, every delay, every small victory teaches me to trust my inner compass more deeply.
If you’re standing at the edge of a decision, wondering whether to follow your own calling, I invite you to listen inward. You are not broken or in need of fixing. You are already worthy of your dreams, just as you are now.
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Swedish “chokladbollar” {vegan, glutenfree} | Recipe
This recipe for vegan, gluten-free Swedish “chokladbollar” (chocolate balls) is an absolute everyday favorite. Easy, quick, with only a few ingredients, no baking, and delicious. Everything I love.
The recipe is based on a Swedish classic and can be found on many websites, including the website of the Swedish supermarket chain ICA. For the original recipe, see the ICA website.
My adjustments
I like to use xylitol (birch sugar, available at dm, for example) for sweetening. You can, of course, use your favorite sweetener and adjust the amount to your taste. I like it a bit less sweet.
I use coconut oil instead of butter; I like the taste and imagine it’s healthier—and it makes the recipe vegan.
I use more liquid than the original recipe calls for, simply because I find the rolled oats are more digestible when they’re slightly soaked and not so dry.
The recipe is gluten-free as is; if you’re particularly sensitive, you can of course use the explicitly gluten-free rolled oats.
I can’t tolerate caffeine, so I use the decaffeinated version instead of regular coffee. For a kid-friendly version, replace the coffee with oat milk. 🙂
In the original recipe, the chocolate balls are rolled in pearl sugar; I use coconut flakes.
Ingredients
Makes about 15-20 pieces
100g coconut oil
1 tbsp birch sugar (xylitol)
3 tsp cocoa powder
150g oat flakes
about 1/2 cup (decaf) coffeeCoconut flakes for rolling the balls in.
Step by step
Melt the coconut oil.
Mix the dry ingredients.
Then stir in the coconut oil and coffee, and knead everything into a smooth mixture.
Let it sit (I usually make the dough the day before, but a shorter soaking time is also sufficient; just experiment).
Form balls with your fingers. I always keep a bowl of water handy and moisten my fingers occasionally; this prevents the dough from sticking to your skin and makes it easier to shape.
Roll the balls in coconut flakes.
Place in the refrigerator (or, in summer, the freezer is also delicious) and let sit for 1-2 hours.
Variations
Spices aren’t included in the original version. I always go with what I like best. Especially in fall and winter, I find cinnamon and cardamom go very well. I’ve also kneaded in cacao nibs, which was also delicious. I can also imagine a pumpkin spice or gingerbread version.
Your version of the Swedish no-bake chocolate balls
Let me know in the comments if you’ve tried the recipe and created your own variations.
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From Fertility Struggles to My Dream House in Sweden: The Real Story Behind Following Your Heart
Hi, if you’re new here, my name is Sarine, and I want to share something deeply personal with you today. This past winter, after a fertility treatment, I found myself in a life crisis.
That experience made me question everything. I went on a retreat where I finally admitted to myself that I wasn’t living the life I truly wanted. I had no choice left but to make the decisions I had been avoiding for years.
One of those choices led me to buying my dream house in Sweden.
I’m sharing my story because I want you to know: yes, you can create the life you want. But it’s not as easy as social media sometimes makes it look. There will be pain. You need to understand that so you won’t question yourself when things get hard.
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Why I Went on the Retreat
In the fall, I went through a fertility treatment. It wasn’t how I had imagined it. I chose it, yes—but it felt wrong. The first round didn’t work, and I was left with a nagging feeling that something deeper was going on.
Part of me thought: Maybe there’s unresolved childhood trauma stopping me from wanting to be a mother.
Another part whispered: Maybe motherhood just isn’t right for you.I felt torn. Some days I desperately wanted to align myself with moving forward with treatment. Other days, my entire life felt wrong.
I had trouble getting out of bed in the mornings. I had no excitement about my life, nothing to look forward to.
I realized I was avoiding something important. I’d been following Teal Swan for a while, especially her workshops where she helps people see what they’ve been avoiding in themselves. Her approach resonated with me because she doesn’t sugarcoat reality. She talks about the real pain and difficulty of choosing your truth.
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Making the Leap
When I saw she was holding a retreat called “Curveball,” I knew I had to go—even though it was a lot of money for me. It meant selling some stock options, but the investment felt worth it.
I thought maybe I’d attend in the spring. But then I found out there was one in February… in Costa Rica. I didn’t care about the location. If that’s where the truth was waiting for me, that’s where I would go.
On the very first day, I saw it clearly: I was being fake.
Most of my life choices were about making other people like me, not about what I truly wanted. I rarely asked myself: Do I even like this person? Do I want this?
That realization was painful because I knew it meant I’d lose many relationships. Some people would leave me. Others I would have to walk away from because staying connected hurt too much.
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The Sweden Connection
One of the biggest truths that surfaced was my longing for Sweden.
I’m originally from Germany but lived in Sweden from 2011 to 2017. When my relationship ended and my job contract wasn’t renewed, I took it as a sign to leave. But I’d missed Sweden ever since.
Even when I traveled to beautiful places, I’d think: This is nice… but it’s not Sweden.
On the retreat, I admitted it: I already knew exactly where I wanted to live. Not “somewhere in Sweden,” but the exact area I had left years before.
I had been eyeing a particular house online for weeks, telling myself it was just a “future vacation home idea.” But I knew the truth—it was the house I wanted to live in. Now.
When I returned from Costa Rica, I booked a flight to Sweden immediately. There was a viewing that Sunday.
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The Price of Following Your Dream
Following your heart sounds romantic, but it often comes with loss.
In my case, it meant breaking up with my partner over the phone—something I never wanted to do. I also quit my job. Not just because I was moving, but because I didn’t want to stay in a system where it’s normal to spend five days a week in an office, and then “treat yourself” to expensive things and outing to compensate for the lack of meaning in my life. I wanted more time to do the things I love. Like expressing myself creatively (through YouTube videos, blog posts such as this one, and photography), and for my coaching sessions, where I help others build trust in their own vision for their dream life and find very specific action steps that are actually managable for them in their current life situation. And also just for being in nature, being with my feelings and just dilly-dallying and playing around.
I decided to buy the house in cash. That meant using all my savings and taking on some debt for renovations. I used to fear loans, but I reframed it as a bet on myself. The bet being very simply that I would always be able to repay the relatively small sum I borrowed. I wasn’t planning on doing this without ever having an income again after all, so … not really a huge gamble.
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The House as a Teacher
Now that I’m here, I’m enjoying having time for my coaching clients and my creativity. But the house also comes with challenges and choices.
For example: Do I take on another loan to install a modern heating system, or do I live with some physical discomfort by heating with wood?
Each choice comes with its own pressure. A loan might push me to make money faster but could create stress (which would lead to me breaking down and not making said money). Living simply might keep me comfortable financially but it might be … well, pretty uncomfortable physically. Which might also lead to my motivation for creativity to take a hit.
The deeper question is the same: Do I believe in the value of my work enough to do it consistently—whether I “have to” or not?
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Why This Matters
This house represents more than a physical space. It’s a mirror for my growth.
Keeping it warm, safe, and alive requires me to keep showing up for my work, to believe in my value, and to stay aligned with what I want—not what others expect.
It’s not easy. But it’s alive.
And I’ve learned that comfort without alignment will make you miserable. That’s what I had before—safety, stability, and constant people-pleasing. It made me ill.
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You Can Do This Too
If you take one thing from my story, let it be this:
What you feel inside is possible.For me, the moment of clarity about my house came in February. By July I owned it and moved in.
Things align when you take steps. Opportunities appear. For example, I negotiated a lower price because of a fungus problem—saving far more than expected. In the long run I will obviously need that saved money for the renovation but this still bought me some time not having to do everything at once. New income streams are appearing as I write this, so everything is working out.
You don’t have to do it alone. I couldn’t. I got help from retreats and coaching. And it fulfills me with deep gratitude that I can offer that to others as well in my personal life coaching sessions.
If you’d like my perspective on your situation, you can book a free discovery call through this link.
If you’d like to hear about actual clients’ results, check out the highlight “client wins” in my instagram profile.
Remember: You are always loved. You deserve the life you want. You already have what it takes inside you to create it.
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Junk food – for real 2
I did make those burgers for dinner today – with homemade BBQ sauce and hamburger dressing and all. Only the ketchup and the mayonnaise in the dressing were not made from scratch, even though there were recipes for that in the Junk food book. I hope you’ll find it in your heart to forgive me this fast food faux pas.
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Recipe – Make your own nutella
The hazelnut chocolate cake deliciousness from earlier reminded me of one of my favorite homemade things. Homemade nutella. I came across this recipe when I got into the low-carb thing. I am not that strict about it anymore as I was then but I still use birch tree sugar.*
Obviously you can use any sweetener you like – and it’s still home-made nutella. In all fairness: it doesn’t taste exactly like nutella. In my opinion, it tastes better. Plus, it’s easy, fast to make, with no exotic ingredients (except the coconut fat), and some might even say: healthy. I don’t know if I would go so far considering that I probably eat way too much of it at once. I would however go so far as to say that – as anything home-made, and thus made with love and care – it is a healthier alternative to the stuff from the store.
You need:
- 2 cups of ground peeled hazelnuts
- ca. 4,5 to 5,5 tbs of sweetener (just use how much you like)
- 3 tbs cocoa (the raw stuff for baking, not the sweetened ready-made stuff for chocolate milk)
- coconut fat – I start out with 2 tbs, see how the texture turns out, and add till it’s right
- a dash of vanilla
Just put everything into a blender and, well, blend. Add whatever you feel needs adding according to your preference. Done. It lasts … well, I don’t know, in our household never long enough for me to actually figure out a best before date.
Hazelnutty for you! * Birch tree sugar is a form of xylitol, which doesn’t up the blood-sugar level so much. I like it best out of all the alternatives because although the sweetness is different from the taste of sugar, I don’t feel “cheated”. Stevia just tastes like licorice to me, so that’s no real alternative if you ask me. I make sure I buy it at a health food store because xylitol can also be made from – guess what – GMO corn.
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Junk Food – for real
I am not only a hoarder when it comes to thrift-stores, no, I also hoard books. Library books. I cannot praise Gothenburg’s library enough – free membership, branches in every part of town, a huge selection, and, the best of all (yet also my downfall, as will soon become apparent): you can borrow a lot of items at once. I mean it: A LOT. You’re not supposed to borrow more than five at a time but there is no mechanism in the scanner that prevents you from checking out more.
I try to be reasonable but what does happen to me a lot is, that I go to one of the libraries (they are nice places to hang out in town when it’s cold outside and you’re waiting for someone), and I find something that interests me. Lately mostly cook books, and diy related stuff. Mainly because those are really nice to look at, and inspiring, and also: expensive, so I wouldn’t buy them. What happens next then is me thinking “Oh, I want to borrow this one. But wait, I already have so many books at home. But if I don’t check this one out now, I’ll probably forget the title, and what if it’s not there anymore next time I come here?!” So… you get the picture.
This past week I borrowed a cook book, which makes me want to cook/bake through every single one of its recipes. It’s called Junk Food – på riktigt. I’d translate that with: Junk Food – for real. It combines two interests of mine – junk food and health. Health is obviously relative, in this case I mean that the food is made from the best ingredients possible (because you’re the one making it, duh), no funny business like preservatives, flavorings, etc. So the book has recipes for how you make all the classic junk food meals from scratch. Get this: there is even a recipe for how you make marshmallows!? I’m in love. Also, the food photography is really appealing – lots of vibrant colors.
I am planning on making hamburgers (including making my own bbq sauce and hamburger dressing) tomorrow but since the dough for the buns is a yeast dough, I prepared that tonight (fresh yeast dough tastes great but it is basically a guarantee for a stomach ache).
The yeast dough is rising under one of my beloved Kate Bingaman Burt kitchen towels. Ok, I admit – I just included this pic to have an excuse to show off one of my beloved Kate Bingaman Burt kitchen towels. 
Turmeric is what makes them look so nice and yellow. So, thank you Gothenburg library. I actually think I will purchase this book.
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No poo – tested for you
Well, ok, it wasn’t a completely selfless act, I do dig these kind of diys. I have been meaning to write this post since last Wednesday (that’s when I tried some recipes) but I wanted to wait till I had some pictures. As most of the times, I am not completely happy with them but I am afraid if I wait until I am, I will never share this with you. And that would be sad because trying out these recipes really was a revelation for me. So: do try this at home!
I tried some of the recipes from this ByzantineFlowers post, namely the soap nut shampoo, the green tea conditioner, and the coffee scrub.
Soap nuts The soap nut shampoo I simply did because I had those nuts (that are berries) at hand. It’s actually what we’ve been using to do the laundry with, I had no idea you could use them as shampoo. Boiling the soap nuts in water for 30 minutes, preparing the shampoo every time you want to use it rather than storing it – the procedure is simple yet somewhat time-consuming, so I am not sure I will stick with this one in the long run. The liquid does have a distinct smell, which I find neither particularly unpleasant nor particularly pleasant. It’s ok. As to whether this shampoo worked or not – I find it hard to say. I mean, my hair did get clean and looked nice but I can’t say for sure that it was the soap nuts, or simply washing my hair (after all, some do use water only), or …
… The green tea conditioner. Now this one I loved. My hair usually is very hard to comb (I don’t even use a brush). I have gotten used to it and don’t even think about the discomfort anymore but those days are over! I was skeptical, and wondered how this was supposed to work, after all, the green tea is water, and won’t that just run down before I even got a chance to rub it in? I have no clue how it worked – but it did. My hair was super-easy to comb, and it did look nice (again, I can’t know for sure what to contribute that part to).
Green tea The real revelation however was the coffee scrub. It is easy to make, relatively cheap yet it feels really expensive (which is the best, right?), feels nice, and makes you smell so good! I only deviated from the original recipe in so far as I used coconut fat instead of olive oil. Again: because it was at hand – and also because it is supposed to be good for Pitta (yup, I just had to sneak in something Ayurveda). Also I used vanilla sugar instead of regular since I had prepared a jar full a while ago (you just put a vanilla bean in a jar with sugar and let it sit), which we don’t use anymore (the sugar being white). Same goes for the coffee: we haven’t been drinking any lately, so this is the perfect way for me to enjoy its smell anyway.
In the original recipe it says it’s against cellulite but I just went ahead and used it as a full body scrub. Peter was concerned that maybe that way I’ll just end up spreading cellulite. Very good point, so I will keep you posted as to whether I suddenly develop cellulite on my nose or something.
I have been combining using this scrub with the Ayurveda massage technique from the morning routine, so I fancy myself getting the benefits from both. I am no expert though, so I don’t know, I am just going with my gut here. Another thing that’s great about this scrub (yes, there is more!) is that the coconut fat (or whatever fat/oil you’re using) keeps your skin from drying out in the shower. At the same time, you don’t get so sticky that your towel or clothes feel greasy after using them. Your skin just feels really nice and smells like coffee – how cool is that?!
Coffee scrub FYI: all this coming from someone who normally doesn’t use more than shampoo and soap in the shower – read: I don’t get excited about beauty products very easily. Yesterday I even managed to get Peter excited about this coffee scrub. His only concern was that he was going to a lecture, and that the coffee addicts among the guests might be tempted to start licking his skin. No reports of the sort have been filed, so I guess this delicious scrub is safe for use in public. Well, maybe not the actual use but you know what I mean.
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Ginger – my best f(r)iend
After having had the most horrible stomach aches after pretty much every meal for two weeks now, I finally seem to have found the root of all evil: my beloved ginger!?
First off, yes, I am aware of the irony of me being on such a health trip, and at the same time not really taking any time to look into (or have someone look into) this problem. My stomach was burning after seemingly anything I ate, my digestion was a nightmare – yet I kind of didn’t do anything about it. I attributed this to the sudden changes in my lifestyle I’ve been making, and just hoped it would go away once my body would adjust. As the saying goes, it’s easier to see the splinter in other people’s eye than the log in your own. So maybe this was karma.
I just don’t like going to doctors, especially not here where you don’t even have a specific doctor you go to – you go to a so-called health center, and you’re assigned whoever happens to be on duty that day. Plus I get the impression that the medical practice here is very “traditionally western”. It seems to me that antibiotics are subscribed as if they were skittles. I am just not into that.
Yesterday however I started looking up doctors in town with an Ayurvedic background or a homeopathic one, willing to bite the bullet, and pay for a consultation outside the tax-funded mainstream health system. Then Peter and I had a heated discussion about my state, his concerns that I was downplaying it, etc. And somehow, I don’t remember exactly how, we realized that the number one food that I have increased my intake of since I got into Ayurveda was ginger. It suddenly dawned on me that all the times my stomach couldn’t tolerate a meal, I had added ginger, and I had done that with about anything since it’s supposed to be so good in so many respects.
Perfect example of how there really is no universally valid recommendation, that it always depends on the particular case. For now that I’ve come to this conclusion I suddenly have been able to see all the lines where it says in which cases not to eat ginger – and they were all the symptoms that I had, or rather: developed in a chain reaction after continuing to eat ginger (high metabolism/high Pitta, diarrhea, all that good stuff).
So, today I avoided ginger, drank peppermint tea in the morning to soothe the stomach – and I haven’t had problems all day. I guess I did get around consulting an expert this time after all, and became a little more of my own expert (not sure whether that really is the take home message from this ordeal though).
I did discover one quick remedy (or rather: Peter pointed me to it), which is obviously no solution for the actual problem but which helps the immediate symptoms, and sometimes that is needed: baking soda. Just dissolve about a tea spoon or so in a glas of water, and drink – works within minutes. Baking soda seems to be good for a lot of things, so I guess there is a post about it in the future …
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What’s your morning routine?
Do you get up just in time to throw on some clothes, leave for work, and maybe grab some coffee on the way? Do you get up early so you can take your time and wake up slowly, read the paper, and eat breakfast at home? What does your morning look like?
I have always found myself in the category of people who hate to have to rush, even if that means sleeping less. A while ago, before I got into Ayurveda, I started meditating or doing different mudras (good when you – like me – have a hard time letting your thoughts go – mudras work whether you are able to focus or not). It hadn’t occurred to me that there are other rituals that could help start the day right.
This is the daily routine as presented by Ayurvedic physician Vasant Lad (which is the one you’ll find most in books or online – with minor variations in the details).
I am posting this article from the Nithyayoga-site because it goes a little more into detail regarding the oil pulling technique (“Gargling” in Lad’s article), which I find important. Also, I think that setting a positive intention, and thus: the tone of your day, might be a little more accessible than the prayer for some.Ayurveda knows of routines not only for the morning but for the entire day – the Dinacharya in Sanskrit. Just type the word into your search engine of choice, and you’ll find a bunch of sites giving you a variation of this.Now do I do all of this? Well, sort of but not to a t. I am a person who loves rituals, and to some extend feels lost without them, so naturally, as I read about Ayurveda, the idea of adopting a morning routine (and one for the evening) sounded appealing to me.These days I start my mornings:
- early – I wake up between 4.30 and 6.30, depending on a variety of factors – usually around 5 or 6 (regardless of whether I am working that day or not)
- by drinking some room temperature water, sometimes with a little lemon and honey in it (Ayurvedic remedy if you have problems emptying your bowels in the morning)
- going to the bathroom
- boiling some water for tea and a nose cleanse – during the winter I often wake up with a stuffed nose, cleansing it with warm salt water helps
- over the past few days I started doing some yoga before (I don’t have/take time for this on the days that I work)
- meditating and doing mudras for about 30 minutes
- oil-pulling/gargling for about 15-20 minutes
- while I do that, I usually turn on the computer, check e-mails, start writing something
- after I spit out the oil, I brush my teeth, wash my face and underarms – or I take a shower
- when I do take a shower, I started combining this with a massage (again: if I have the time, so, not on working days, and not even on all days off)
- I get dressed
- drink some tea
- and start writing
The order in which I do things does vary, I also skip some steps some days, when I am too impatient and anxious to actually start my day – working on that one. Like today, I brushed my teeth but never really washed the rest, and I am still not really dressed. Sometimes I just feel like I need to start writing first, and then after a while I’ll get back to finishing the morning routine. In reality, it often doesn’t happen then, and I never actually sit still for a while to contemplate the day I am about to begin. Kind of funny, that I manage to rush into the day even though I consciously follow a morning routine.
I am not ignorant (or I’d like to think at least not THAT ignorant), so I know that me having this kind of extensive morning ritual is largely thanks to me not having a full-time job, and my hours being spread over only two to three days per week. Also, am guessing that not having kids might have something to do with it. Basically, I have the luxury of being able to use a lot of my time as I please.
I find this kind of morning routine very pleasant, energy-inducing, and thus: I find that it helps me make the most of my days. I can recommend it to anyone but I do wonder: is this realistic? Can anyone (who wants to) adopt such a routine? Is it just about setting priorities, and getting up early enough? Or does the world we live in today not really allow for paying so much attention to yourself? Will I still do this as a parent? Do those of you who are parents do this? What do your mornings look like?
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Spring cleaning pt. 2
Although I didn’t get as far as I had hoped, I still got the chance to try out some no poo cleaning techniques – and can therefore make some actual recommendations:
- Oil and a mix of vinegar, water and lemon (roughly equal parts) turned out to be my best cleaning friends, I didn’t use much besides that. When it comes to oil and grease stains, it’s really a fighting-fire-with-fire kind of method – and it works, too! The spice rack being located above the stove was covered in a sticky layer of cooking grease and dust. I just dabbed some paper towel in oil and wiped the sticky surfaces. Just use the cheapest you have/can get, doesn’t need to be you precious EVOO. This is obviously only step one, unless you’re content with replacing the old grease layer with a new one (that will get yucky in a few weeks). This is were the lemon/water mixture comes into play. Why not use that one first? Well, I guess you can, but when I tried it felt like I needed to use much more force with that one – using oil was a lot easier.
- I tried out the recipe for cleaning the oven (actually started with that one since you’re supposed to let it sit for 8 hours). I found that the ratio in the recipe made the mix to dry, so I just went with my instinct and added more water until it took on a “wasabi-like” texture (if you were to conclude from this that I have a sushi-related problem you’d be right on). Also, I used about double the amount of the original recipe. I got good results – I am telling myself that the stuff that I couldn’t get of has been there even when we moved in. This recipe is perfect for me since I am not a very patient person. I tend to get sloppy at the end of a task but luckily, with this recipe, I do not need to worry about whether I am going to die from the next meal I prepare in the oven after cleaning it. Sometimes you can have the cake and eat it, too!
- Oh yeah, maybe the most useful piece of advice that I managed to ignore once more after already having made the mistake: filter the lemon juice before you pour it into a spray bottle. Otherwise the pulp will clog up the pipe/spray head thingy. Or: don’t use a spray bottle, just dab the cleaning rag in the liquid.
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