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Nov. 12th, 2018 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyI had a list a mile long for my weekend and I've managed to do like maybe .001 of it. As in the list looked a little like this:
- swap out holiday wreaths
- make a dent in the stack of magazines/mail on the coffee table
- clean my room
- laundry
- try that new face scrub I got to test out
- clean the cat box
It's not really a long list when put like that, but most of those things take a fair amount of time, dammit. And I made it through exactly ONE magazine while watching trash holiday movies before snoozing. Not even one magazine that I got to chuck in the recycling bin because I keep meaning to check on something and then forgetting. D'oh.
And now I'm being hit by another wave of the sleepies. To be fair, I didn't get my full however many hours earlier and also if left to my own devices, I prefer to sleep when my period comes a-knocking but still.
Plus side, after starting this post I did go and try the scrub. So that's one of the three or four days done. Yay?
--- Three years later ---
Or, the next morning if you'd rather. I'm fighting off a headache and I don't know where it's come from but I'd bet good money that it's a sinus thing and I'm going to have to choose between potentially knocking myself out via Benedryl or suffering and eventually taking them anyway. :P
I've made a little more progress on my To Do list, however, so that's nice. I cleaned the cat box as soon as I woke up and realized I would, in fact, be awake for a fair bit, and while I waited for it to air dry I started on the area around my bed. I've essentially made it impossible to go back to bed without having to work for it, but it's a step in the right direction. I also found some things for Mums and two Twix ghosts that I will make short work of later.
Going to blather a bit about the scrub so when I fill out my form in a week or so, I'll actually have something more articulate than "it was a scrub and I liked it okay" or something similar.
1) I thought I liked the scent until I went to put it on and it's just one I don't care for. It's peachy or mango-y and I've made it quite clear over the years that if you smell at all peachy, I will run because it's just gross.
2) It's really, really gritty. Which means any and all of my possibly flaky bits are now gone, but at the same time I'm not really sure this is something I'd want to use 3-4 times a week as directed. My skin is pretty much an oil slick 98% of the time but I can't imagine this would be great for dry skin as a regular use kind of deal because my skin went through this cycle:
felt amazingly smooth - > kinda felt flushed and a bit irritated on the inside but outwardly looked fine - > feels a bit tighter than I'd like 10+ hours later.
But it doesn't feel like the normal oil spill so there's that? Also, the grittiness means you don't need a lot per use.
3) It leaves a ring of product on the sink. This is going to be super fun when I use it in the shower, huh?
Honestly, I'm betting that when I attempt to peel the tape they wrapped this sucker in, it's going to turn out to be the St. Ives Apricot Scrub. But we will proceed for the next week as if that's not a foregone conclusion because I could be wrong. It could just be a dead-on dupe for my memories of this thing.
Lesse. I've now swapped out my wreaths and found that someone didn't wrap the fall one up so the poor pumpkin is now basically white and needs new paint. Or simply a new pumpkin, so I should note that in case I remember next year or get lucky and find a pick should I go to the craft store any time soon and they have one thrown in a bin somewhere.
Oh, I haven't updated the hair saga lately, have I? So you might recall that late last spring like half my hair fell out. I'm not really exaggerating there either, sadly, though I did get lucky that it didn't do so in a way that made it obvious if you weren't me or Mums. No giant patches of baldness and semi easy to hide. Well, I can now feel it being thicker than it's been in quite awhile and I'm noticing it growing out. It's gonna get really weird in a couple of months but for now it works because if my hair is down the shorter bits blend in, and if I pull it back, they're just long enough to go with the flow or short enough to not really be a thing (or are cutely curled at the nape of my neck). So that's making me happier, honestly.
What else, what else. Oh. Apparently the combo of Sinful Colors Prosecco and Sally Hansen Gel Top Coat means my nail polish ain't ever coming off. Which would be great if I liked the color but this looks like glittery mucus and what's worse is I think this is my second bottle. I got it at work because it was on clearance, I had a coupon, and I couldn't remember if I'd ever tried it before. Yes. Yes I have because I thought of the mucus thing before. Sigh. Gonna have to dive into the bin of polishes and find something I like more that I haven't used lately.
And now I'm hungry so it's time for breakfast.
- swap out holiday wreaths
- make a dent in the stack of magazines/mail on the coffee table
- clean my room
- laundry
- try that new face scrub I got to test out
- clean the cat box
It's not really a long list when put like that, but most of those things take a fair amount of time, dammit. And I made it through exactly ONE magazine while watching trash holiday movies before snoozing. Not even one magazine that I got to chuck in the recycling bin because I keep meaning to check on something and then forgetting. D'oh.
And now I'm being hit by another wave of the sleepies. To be fair, I didn't get my full however many hours earlier and also if left to my own devices, I prefer to sleep when my period comes a-knocking but still.
Plus side, after starting this post I did go and try the scrub. So that's one of the three or four days done. Yay?
--- Three years later ---
Or, the next morning if you'd rather. I'm fighting off a headache and I don't know where it's come from but I'd bet good money that it's a sinus thing and I'm going to have to choose between potentially knocking myself out via Benedryl or suffering and eventually taking them anyway. :P
I've made a little more progress on my To Do list, however, so that's nice. I cleaned the cat box as soon as I woke up and realized I would, in fact, be awake for a fair bit, and while I waited for it to air dry I started on the area around my bed. I've essentially made it impossible to go back to bed without having to work for it, but it's a step in the right direction. I also found some things for Mums and two Twix ghosts that I will make short work of later.
Going to blather a bit about the scrub so when I fill out my form in a week or so, I'll actually have something more articulate than "it was a scrub and I liked it okay" or something similar.
1) I thought I liked the scent until I went to put it on and it's just one I don't care for. It's peachy or mango-y and I've made it quite clear over the years that if you smell at all peachy, I will run because it's just gross.
2) It's really, really gritty. Which means any and all of my possibly flaky bits are now gone, but at the same time I'm not really sure this is something I'd want to use 3-4 times a week as directed. My skin is pretty much an oil slick 98% of the time but I can't imagine this would be great for dry skin as a regular use kind of deal because my skin went through this cycle:
felt amazingly smooth - > kinda felt flushed and a bit irritated on the inside but outwardly looked fine - > feels a bit tighter than I'd like 10+ hours later.
But it doesn't feel like the normal oil spill so there's that? Also, the grittiness means you don't need a lot per use.
3) It leaves a ring of product on the sink. This is going to be super fun when I use it in the shower, huh?
Honestly, I'm betting that when I attempt to peel the tape they wrapped this sucker in, it's going to turn out to be the St. Ives Apricot Scrub. But we will proceed for the next week as if that's not a foregone conclusion because I could be wrong. It could just be a dead-on dupe for my memories of this thing.
Lesse. I've now swapped out my wreaths and found that someone didn't wrap the fall one up so the poor pumpkin is now basically white and needs new paint. Or simply a new pumpkin, so I should note that in case I remember next year or get lucky and find a pick should I go to the craft store any time soon and they have one thrown in a bin somewhere.
Oh, I haven't updated the hair saga lately, have I? So you might recall that late last spring like half my hair fell out. I'm not really exaggerating there either, sadly, though I did get lucky that it didn't do so in a way that made it obvious if you weren't me or Mums. No giant patches of baldness and semi easy to hide. Well, I can now feel it being thicker than it's been in quite awhile and I'm noticing it growing out. It's gonna get really weird in a couple of months but for now it works because if my hair is down the shorter bits blend in, and if I pull it back, they're just long enough to go with the flow or short enough to not really be a thing (or are cutely curled at the nape of my neck). So that's making me happier, honestly.
What else, what else. Oh. Apparently the combo of Sinful Colors Prosecco and Sally Hansen Gel Top Coat means my nail polish ain't ever coming off. Which would be great if I liked the color but this looks like glittery mucus and what's worse is I think this is my second bottle. I got it at work because it was on clearance, I had a coupon, and I couldn't remember if I'd ever tried it before. Yes. Yes I have because I thought of the mucus thing before. Sigh. Gonna have to dive into the bin of polishes and find something I like more that I haven't used lately.
And now I'm hungry so it's time for breakfast.