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Last Monday I had my first session of hapto therapy. This is a therapy based on your emotional and physical feelings and something my doctor recommended to stop my destructive circle (or should I say spiral) of pain and stress (pain causes stress, which causes more pain, which causes more stress etc).
I spent most of it explaining my physical problems and the mental stress it causes while he looked through all my medical paperwork.
Then I had to lay down on my belly on the medical table and he gave my waist a simultaneous poke on each side and told me to tell him exactly how it felt. The left side hurt a lot and the right side was pretty painful too. Then he laid one off his hands on my lower back and told me to “feel” his hand, then his wrist, lower arm and upper arm mentally. It’s a good thing that I’ve studied Jedi Realism so this was really simple for me. Then he laid his other hand above his first and told me to do the same thing.
I could instantly feel a sort of circle and told him so. He then told me to hold on to that feeling, removed his hands, poked me again and I didn’t feel any pain. That was really weird.
He then told me to let go of feeling him and poked me again. It hurt less then the first time but it still hurt.
I have my next appointment in 2 weeks and in the meantime I have to focus on opening myself up to others and closing myself inside similar to what I did with that exercise.
Last night I tried it out on Felix, who spends most of his sleeping time next to me on my bed, and I instantly felt a connection. Now he’ll leave me alone even less then what he did before lol.

Felix is adapting great by the way.
He prefers to sleep on my bed but also likes Chewie’s bed.

He’s not afraid to put Neesha on her place when he gets tired of her trying to catch his tail and Chewie respects him and simply leaves him alone.

Last Saturday I went with a friend to the tattoo guy where I had my Star Wars tattoo redone so she could get her first tattoo. It took nearly 3.5 hours but it sure turned out nice.

And another friend of mine had her zodiac sign tattoo-ed on her waist.

Yesterday my fitnessbuddy and I did some warming-up exercises for a Bollyrobic dance called Maahi Ve.
Bollyrobics is a kind of modern belly dancing which involves a lot of hand movements too. It was really funny to do but I do know that it will take a long time before I can do the dance.

I’m nicely surprised that my back isn’t extremely sore and it’s a fun way to exercise.
Once we can do the dance, we’ll put it on YouTube.

Something really funny happened last Sunday when I was walking Chewie.
He likes to chase after birds and especially ducks so when he saw a bunch of them, he started sprinting towards them and most of them took off to the safety of the water, except for 1 of them.
The poor thing couldn’t fly so Chewie slowly started to walk behind her waiting for her to take off, like ducks always do, but then the duck suddenly laid down and pretended to be death.
Chewie then started sniffing her and got really confused by the fact that she acted so weird. He knew she was alive but why wouldn’t she let him chase her?
After checking the duck out myself, I decided to take Chewie with me so the duck could go to the water to join the others.

It was just so funny to see Chewie act so confused and it was reassuring. I was already 99.9% sure that he wouldn’t harm them and now I know for sure. He just loves to chase them.

I have just quit the charity work at the pound.
It was just too hard on me and unfair to Raymond since he had to walk Chewie most of the time after I came back from the pound because I was simply to worn out to do it myself.

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Meet Felix, a 15 year old cat for whom his owner couldn’t take care of anymore due to health and financial problems.

He has a very loving personality and is really easy-going. It looks like Neesha will need some time to get used to him though since she keeps on hissing at him but Chewie doesn’t even pay him any attention besides some sniffing.

I’ve been walking the dogs for his former owner so I already knew him and when she told me that she didn’t have the feeling that she could take care of the animals anymore (whom have ended up at her place in one way or another) and that she had to find new homes for the cats, I offered to take him in if Ray would agree with it. Ray knew him from when he helped her with her PC and he instantly said yes.
She’s inseparable of the dogs and since I’ve been helping walking them she has a way of keeping them.

So now we’re looking for new homes for the other 3 :

Kontiki is a neutered male of 4/5 years old. He is a bit shy but once he gets over it, he’s very affectionate.

Duschi (left) is female and about 5/6 years old. She and Kontiki have had 2 litters. She has a mind of her own but can be really sweet when she feels like it. She hasn’t been neutered.

Solo (right) is a neutered male of about 14 years old and he is also really affectionate.

Please let me know if you’re interested because they’ll otherwise have to go to the pound and I think it’s a lot easier for them if they can skip that step. They all need their shots btw.

My sister and brother-in-law have gone to Lowlands (a huge Dutch music festival) for a few days so we’re taking care of their Guinea pigs Nono and T-bob.

I prefer more active animals instead but the sounds they make are adorable and you can actually put them on your lap.
I ended up putting them in my room since Neesha just wouldn’t leave them alone.

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Today I had my first real modeling session and it went great if I may say so.
I was totally worn out after it but due to having to walk to various locations my left leg isn’t acting up to much and after 2 glasses of diet coke and dropshot at least the stabbing pain has stopped.

My fitnessbuddy and her husband came along to make sure that nothing would happen to me since you can always come across some creep but luckily he was a really nice guy and really clear with his instructions. They really helped out by keeping a eye on whether people would come along while I was changing outfits and posing and by helping me carry my stuff. Thanks again!

The photo session was in a nature area in Rhoon and it’s a really nice walking area there. I’m sure that Chewie would love it there too.
You can find the photo’s here : AmandaBB’s Model Portfolio

If you ever want to have some photo’s made then you can always contact him through his website : Jan Westbroek (jdf foto)

I just had my first Dog Walking customer too. She is the woman you can see in the video in my previous post and she owns the 2 Pugs. Her health is even worse then mine so when I told her that I was trying to set up a dog walking service she instantly asked how much money I was asking. So I told her that I’d walk them for E 2.50 for 15 minutes and she liked the price. I ended up walking them for 25 minutes but I was walking Chewie too so I didn’t even ask for more then 2.50. They’re really cute dogs anyway so that really makes it a joy to walk them.

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