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Medical diets and such... (like sugar)

I have severe allergies. Actually, it's pretty BAD. But it only truly manifested after I moved to LA (smog?!). I also have very annoying digestive problems. So with both combined, sometimes I am not a happy camper. I have seen various medical practitioners and my last acupuncturist said that part of the cause is from the Candida yeast. She put me on daily nasty herbs and a very restricted diet. No wheat, no sugar, no sugar substitute, no dairy (love cheese), no fruits, no alcohol... and this is just part of the list. Because of this diet, I have been slowly switching to a pescetarian diet. The double restriction is too hard for me. I don't have a sweet tooth but once I started this regimen, I began to have very explicit brownie fantasies. That lasted about a month. I cheated here and there but I think I can say that I was observant 75-85% of the time. This diet is recommend for 3 months. I am at my 4th month now and I think that I will continue with it. I can't really tell if it's helping my allergies (Oct/Nov has been really bad with the severe winds) but it has definitely helped with my stomach problems. Not only has it calmed down dramatically, I lost about 7 lbs too. It's amazing what sugar does to your body.

Speaking of sugar, I broke down and had a few ice cream sandwiches today... for lunch. I knew that I would pay for it, but at that moment, reasoning took the back seat (more like locked up in the trunk) and I plowed through them without remorse.

Fast-forward to the evening, shopping at Whole Foods. I was collecting ingredients to make my new favorite dish when I suddenly became anxious and felt that I would have to eat something right NOW. That's when the dizziness started. I became foggy and lightheaded. I then started to heat up, breaking a sweat on my forehead, which then spread to my chest and then to the rest of my body. I tried to wrap up my shopping asap but all I could think of was, "cake, pastries, sweet stuff - but no chocolate bars," over and over again. This made no sense to me. I was about to pass out at the register, barely able to sign my bill and I'm thinking of cupcakes and such. I sat at their dining area to rest and eat my sushi roll. I can't explain, but that just wasn't what my body wanted. Once I had enough energy, I was determined to fulfill this vision. I got an apple turnover, a muffin and some very expensive gummy bears. I sat in the car for another 10 minutes devouring everything. This relieved most of the symptoms and I was OK enough to get back home, though exhausted.

Is this a sign of hypoglycemia? Or worse diabetes? Whatever the case, I don't think I'll be pulling another super-sugar stunt for awhile.

Sorry to report...

So it looks like I will not be at the Abbot Kinney Flee for the rest of this month. There are weekend events that keep on popping up and I'm reluctantly making the hard decision to pull out for the rest of November. I am currently conducting photo shoots every Sundays until end of December. I planned on taking a break for this Saturday and re-join next week but then there's a meeting that I need to attend, so I will miss that too. Then the last Saturday is Thanksgiving weekend. I hope my schedule will be better for December for AK Flee.

"Mauerfall!" 20th Anniv. of the fall of the Berlin Wall... and I'm not there...

Photo: Pirco
Giant dominoes painted by students representing the wall, waiting to be toppled.

About a year ago, Pirco and I were on a Long Island Railroad train in NY and saw a poster advertising the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I got really excited and proclaimed that we would have got to go, can't miss it, what a cool event, blah, blah, blah... so on and so forth.

So here we are, a year later and I'm writing about IT from home, rather than from there in the midst of all the buzz. Somehow in the last few months, a little bit of laziness crept in and decided that I didn't want to bother with traveling, save some money, blah, blah, blah... so on and so forth.

Now I'm kicking myself for missing out on such a historic event, a party to remember as Pirco uploads photos and videos on facebook. Oh well... Maybe the 25th Anniversary will be just as celebratory.

I just remembered a story that Uwe (P's dad) told me of what he was doing when the wall came down. Once he heard about it, he and Verena (P's mom) drove to the wall and an East Berliner approached them. He was in awe to see a real Mercedes. The only car they had in the East was the "Trabant," a very basic car made of plastic derivative, like formica. Uwe invited him into their car and they just drove around town watching all the East and West peoples spill out into the streets.

On another note, I guess it rings a deeper bell for me as my birth home of South Korea is still divided, reaching nearly 60 years. The hope of reunification is strong and yet seems so distant for the Koreas.

UPDATE: P said that it was cold and rainy and hard to get to. They waited almost 2 hours to watch the falling of the dominoes which took less than 1 minute from where they were standing. Oh, well...

What is twice the size of Texas?

Of course there are many answers to this but the particular response that I'm looking for is "garbage in the ocean." There are chunks of debris that are floating in the Pacific; here is an article in the NYT about this topic. Strangely, this is my second mention of garbage in the last few weeks. Anyway, saw the photos and it made me very sad.

"In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from any national boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling current so large that it defies precise measurement."

Photo: Mario Aguilera/Associated Press (via NYT)


"Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas.
Photo: Lindsey Hoshaw for The New York Times

Unique Los Angeles UPDATE

We are slowly (in a fast way) heading towards Unique Los Angeles. Rabbit Kinney's personal page is finally up on Unique's site, including a picture of Baby J from my recent photo shoot. Practically all the craftsters that I know are abandoning other events just so that they can be at this show. Unique just needs to update my URL and then I'm totally set!

I have a feeling that this is gonna be B-I-G...

CD Release Party for "The Wild World of Wildlife"

Date: Nov. 6th, 2009 - Firday
Place: The Treehouse Social Club
426 S. Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048
Time: 4pm until 7pm
Price: Free with purchase of food

The songstress Birdie Mendoza will conduct 2 performances from her new kid-friendly CD at the Treehouse Social Club with great activities for the youngsters and a raffle giveaway, including some gifts from Rabbit Kinney!

"The Wild World of Wildlife" is her latest CD with hits like, "Iguana Wants to Baila," "Elephant in the Congo" and "Shake Their Tail Feathers."

I've heard that the venue, The Treehouse Social Club has an amazing playroom. I will be there around the 2nd set of music, so if anyone will attend, come by and say "hello."

To learn more about Birdie Mendoza, visit her web site.