I’m in so many different directions right now as what I want to write about, but I will start with my dirty secret. My corner in an extra room I have dedicated to scrap booking. My son is going to be 8 years old, and I think the last time I scrapbooked with dedication was when he was one year old. Since then, I have stowed everything that I thought important from his life in this area. I keep. I admit it. I. Keep. Everything. Then I go through it and purge a bit, but still, I keep. This is a photo of the end result.
I keep. Therefore, I am. Whatevah! I want to find a way to organize this mess and make it into a functional space that I can keep up with. It is totally overwhelming when I go in there and look at it. I smell a goal set: I will look for various ways to clean this mess up and ideas on how to get it organized into a keepsake for Thomas. I will start with finding ideas on what others have done – God bless the internet! Then I will make a plan on how to accomplish these ideas to work for me. Then I will start cleaning up the mess one pile at a time.
And on to other news… the other night I tried a tomato peel off mask that I discovered on http://www.crunchybetty.com/. It consisted of 1/2 cup of a squeezed tomato, for the juice, and one packet of plain gelatin. You mix together on low heat until the gelatin is dissolved and then let it set until it is “almost” of jello consistency. Then you slop it all over your face and let it dry. Then you peel it off which results in beautiful skin.
I hate tomatoes, other than ketchup and spaghetti sauce. It was hard for me to slop the tomatoes on my face with the smell and hate and all, but I did it. This is what I looked like after it was wet and on my face.
I don’t know if you can see the tomato-ey sheen to my face, but it is there. After letting it dry on my face for about 45 minutes I started the peel off process. It dried so tight on my face it felt like I was peeling off my skin. I also worried that peeling it off was basically like waxing the hair on my face. It hurt. And I think it was peeling the hair off of my neck too – this is the area I started peeling first. After a few minutes of pain from the peel off process I took a warm rag to it and it wiped off very easily. However, I don’t think I will be slopping it on my entire face anymore. I will probably use her other suggested method of just using it as a peel off nose strip for those pesky blackheads. As for the 17 day diet, I am still trekking on somewhere in the middle of cycle 3. Things are going well and since I have been tracking my 1600 calories a day I have been steadily losing weight.
That’s all for now – battery warning just lit up!
More to follow next time.
