Monday 25 April 2016

SPOONIELIFE: One week progress, day by day

Remember this post?

This is a follow up, as promised. I will outline day by day, at the end of each day to show you guys how this is working for me. Depending on how this goes, I may keep this up as a monthly blog with a week-by-week on progress.

Join me under the jump-cut for a day by day.


Monday 18 April 2016

Otome Nadeshiko Koi Techou OVA

Episodes: 1
Aired: Jan 26, 2012
Runtime: 10 mins
Producers: Studio Izena


This OVA was bundled with the special version of the Otome Nadeshiko Love Story 2 light novel and it follows the story of a young girl falling in love in Japan's Taishou Period (1912-1926). I usually don't go for historical things, unless you count the special arc in Air, but something about the simplicity of this intrigued me and I'm somewhat looking forward to how a romance would blossom and what etiquette would be.


Monday 11 April 2016

Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan

Third-rate Magical Pokaan
Episodes: 12
Aired: April, 5 2006- June, 21 2006
Runtime: 26 mins per episode (5.2 hours total)
Producers: Shinobu Yoshinuma, Nobuhiro Osawa, 室谷陽平, Katsuhiko Nozawa

To be honest I found this anime while deciding to trawl through anime with "idol" in the tags, this one popped up. I looked at the character design and animation style and it reminded me of my beloved 90s anime. Read briefly it was about four princesses.. and I thought, why the heck not!
The opening sequence was the clincher, however I later found it didn't really portray the anime at all- for this, my friends is very much a parody.

DISCLAIMER:
This anime has quite a lot of fanservice and I wouldn't recommend it for young teenagers due to this. In clicking past the cut you are saying you are above the age of 17.

Monday 4 April 2016

SPOONIELIFE: One week of small, nerdy changes

You all know by now about my Endometriosis and #Spoonie status. Yes I'm a young mother with endometriosis (I will make a bigger post on this later), skeleto-muscular abnormalities, chronic fatigue syndrome and IBS-like symptoms.

With all this comes a lowered immune system, fatigue, constant pain, low mood, anxiety and a feeling like a hook being ripped through my stomach thanks to lovely things called internal adhesions.

While waiting for an MRI my only way to manage is physiotherapy and "resting". Not possible as a single mum! So I've decided to make a few small changes and see how it affects me. I'll outline the things I'm doing every day thanks to the convenience and nagging of smartphones.
If you want you can join in with me and see how it effects you!
Thanks to these apps we can even get some healthy support and competition going.