Scents of Food in Every Room but the Kitchen

Today I tried a number of different things.

I covered my face in honey, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Okay results. Not sure if that concoction is worth trying again for me.

I covered my hair in olive oil for nourishment on my sad split ends. It's weird smelling like pasta! It feels soft, but we'll see when it dries. I may need to do better at heating it up while it's on my head if I do it again.

I then had an oatmeal bath. Firstly, the oatmeal was not chopped up finely enough. I used my new food processor I got for Christmas, but it makes such a squeally sound that I didn't have it on long enough to really chop it up enough, just in case my neighbors could hear it through the wall at 11pm. I think it did make my skin a bit softer, but after about 10 minutes, the oatmeal had settled too much on the bottom of the tub. It felt weird bathing in breakfast. Will try again when I can chop the oatmeal better.

Tomorrow when I get a few groceries, I'm going to get a handful of other ingredients for natural hair and skin products. Herbs, cider vinegar, aloe, and a lemon. I found instructions for a lemon-based hair spray! Just the fruit boiled in water and strained!

Cataloging a Crazy Library

LibraryThing.com is crazy fun.

Especially for a book-lover, like myself and my fiance'. We cataloged over 1,000 books between the two of us. In my defense, 2/3 of them are his. And he has a bunch of theology-related books from classes and special interests. (And a bunch of Star Wars novels. What a nerd.)

The best part of doing this is for insurance purposes. If we lost those books, we'd be out of at least $10,000 of property, not to mention notes in margins, underlined quotes, and memories of turning pages. At least we'd have proof of owning the books.

Go check it out. We paid for the lifetime membership, but you can do 200 books for free.

www.librarything.com

Go. Now.

Honey, You Got It

My face is smothered in honey. No joke. Honey, cinnamon, and brown sugar to be exact.

This is one reason Pinterest is dangerous.

I got the idea from a pin to this blog: http://www.collegefashion.net/beauty-and-hair/dorm-room-spa-3-easy-diy-beauty-recipes-to-try/

I didn't have nutmeg, so I used brown sugar. I keep reading that brown sugar is a good exfoliant, so I just replaced the amount of nutmeg with the same amount of brown sugar. We shall see if the results work or not once the 30 minutes are up.

The worst part is that as the honey heats up from my body heat, it starts to liquify more and avalanche just a little. It tickles. Maybe next time I won't use quite so thick a mask.

Crazy and Beautiful

So, as I start doing a lot of "weird" things, I thought I would track the journey.

I've got food on my face, a wedding to plan, homework to do, and friends to entertain. Lots to do.