First World Problems | Pamper Night | Hair Update!

I'm going to start today by complaining. Yay! I hate living with other people. Particularly if those other people happen to be your older relatives.

I've been waiting to do my laundry since last week and if you live in Ontario you probably know all about the on-off peak hours thing so I have to wait until 7 pm to do laundry except on the weekends. Problem with that is my Aunt and her boyfriend us the washing machine every single day. I don't know how they are dirtying that amount of clothes or if its just that they never actually completely wash all of their clothes.

They do things like plan to leave all day and put a load in the washer and just leave it there ALL DAY. So, no consideration for the person who is actually home to begin and finish their laundry. Seriously, every time they leave for the day they leave a load in the wash so I have to finish it before I can do mine. It wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't every time.

Some would say, "why don't you just talk to them about it" but really, to me its just such a common sense issue to not start a load before you leave that whenever I think about talking to them all I can hear in my head is me yelling about how ignorant they are. Not very mature, I know, but I can't really help it. The topic enrages me. There is no reason why someone cannot start and finish a load of laundry.

Right now her boyfriend is putting a load in the wash and then he's going to sleep until 9:30 when he will go to work. Which means the laundry is staying there over night because my Aunt doesn't like to go down and get it because it wears her out. Right now she also has a leg infection - so I wont judge her on that. But I could have started and finished all of my laundry this evening.

I know its childish, I know its stupid... but you try it and tell me you wouldn't get upset after a while.

In other news I'm trying out a face mask because I feel pretty pooped today. I didn't sleep well last night because of freaky serial killer dreams so I figured I'd try a face mask so I could at least say I tried to do something with my skin. We'll see if it does much of anything.

And finally my hair! Its been a week since starting the Folic Acid & Cod Liver Oil. I'll upload a picture below to see if anything has happened.

Blogilates Day One!

Alrighty so I have decided to embark on Blogilates and Muay Thai!

Basically I'll be doing Muay Thai Tuesdays and Thursdays and all of the other days I'll be doing Blogilates! Don't worry, I will factor in some rest days as needed since I already know Muay Thai will totally kick my butt!

I just finished the full body work out and my buns are feeling the burn!

This actually is not my first attempt at starting the Blogilates Beginners Calendar. Which attempt is it? I have no idea! I have started so many times that I have lost count! But I am hoping through this I will feel more accountable and do it regularly!

For those of you who don't know what Blogilates is I really encourage you to go to Blogilates.com and check it out. These are free pilates workouts posted by a woman named Cassey Ho. She is amazing and bubbly and has a calender just for beginners to get people like me started (again). If you decide to give it a go and want an internet workout buddy, let me know - we can cheer each other on!

Some might ask why I'm doing this and really its just because I don't feel healthy, or at least as healthy as I want to. I'm not obese and I'm not a stick figure - and honestly I don't expect to be, I'm human after all. But I don't sleep very well and I don't really have a lot of energy during the day and I've heard that exercise can help with that.

Also I mentally feel better after exercising. I could go all science nerd and explain how it releases endorphins and such, but I mean on a pride level. Straight to the nuts and bolts of it when I complete an exercise routine I feel like I accomplished something.

From the sounds of it everyone has issues with depression or anxiety or body image and honestly, from my personal experiences, counting your daily accomplishments helps a lot. Maybe one day I'll write about depression and the ways I have found that really help me, because it might by chance help some random passer by. Even if it only helped one person that would be worth it, right?

Also! I am already in my jammies so I will post Week One Pictures tomorrow! After Muay Thai!

Folic Acid Day 2 | Challenge Details

Alrighty so...

I guess anyone who read before this post knows that I am taking Folic Acid to try to make my hair grow luscious and long again. So far no change!

I'm kidding, I didn't honestly think I'd wake up the next day like Rapunzel. Oh, but wouldn't it be nice?

I figured I should actually explain what the whole deal with the 'challenge' and what is supposed to happen. Although I'm sure that many of you have already heard of it or maybe some of you have even tried it! If you have I'd actually be interested in knowing how it worked for you!

The challenge is to take Folic Acid tablets for 100 days and see how long your hair grows, if it grows faster/healthier ect.

What is the challenge bit? I'm not really sure. Maybe you have to cheer on your hair? Or maybe its just remembering to take these tablets every day. I'll be honest, that bit will be a challenge for me! I'm pretty scatter-brained when it comes to taking vitamins, supplements or meditations. I don't use The Pill (you know what pill i'm talking about, don't pretend you don't because you do!) because I can't remember to take it every day.

So I am going to try to be responsible for 100 days. We'll see how that goes.

I actually bought a bottle with like 360 and something tablets so I wont be able to do a "oh my this bottle is empty!" picture. Well maybe I could... I could feasibly section out 100 tablets into another container and show you guys when its empty.

Some people have reported growing 3 inches in the 100 days, but my hair grows pretty quickly so I'm hoping for more. But we will see!

I'm not really sure if I should gauge my growth with pictures or by measuring... maybe both?

Well. We'll see what I decide at the end of the week!

Yesterday | Super Book Sale! | Everything To Do With Sex Show: Toronto

Hello again! So yesterday I had a pretty eventful day with a lot of fun adventures! I am going to have to get better at taking more pictures while I'm out and about - the boyfriend is usually the shutterbug when we are adventuring.

First we adventured out to a warehouse book sale which was AMAZING! For those of you who don't know me yet I am a huge book worm. I love to read and I love a good deal on books. All of the books I got there were between $1-$5. HOLY CRAP! Really? YES!

I picked up a total of 6 singular books and a boxed sex of 6 books all for $27. That's only like $2.75 a book! And when I was leaving there were minty girl guide cookies for sale. SCORE! The Oreo knock offs just don't give me the same nostalgia. Mint for the win!

So the books I got were...

1. Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century - Dick and James Strawbridge
2. Prescription for Herbal Healing - 2nd Edition - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC Rev. by Stacy Bell, DSC
3. Falling Kingdoms - Morgan Rhodes
4. Frost Burned - Patricia Briggs
(I actually realized after I got these home that this is like the 7th book in a series... but I heard the author was good so maybe this will encourage me to buy the other ones?)
5. Bloodrose - Andrea Cremer
6-12. The Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris.
(I liked what I saw of True Blood so why not?)

So maybe as I read these puppies I will review them! So far I really REALLY like my Herbal Healing book.

And then we made our way down to Toronto for the Everything To Do With Sex Show!

My boyfriend knows that I want to some day become a sexologist and suggested we go (I actually didn't know it was going on this weekend! Already failing at sexology? MAYBE!). So I'm actually really super impressed with him. He impresses me all the time with how thoughtful and amazing he is!

It was actually pretty great! We got a free *toy* and some other goodies including a very phallic lipstick that I will never use because I don't want to destroy its perfect penis shape. Haha. We also saw a very tanned man in a speedo/thong/bunny costume? He was like 60-70 years old so it was pretty crazy. Power to that guy for being so confident! I actually loved the atmosphere there were everyone seemed really comfortable and open and friendly. It was so uplifting!

My boyfriend isn't really into the whole thing but even he said he enjoyed it.

I also got to meet Dr. Jess O'Reilly who is a Sexologist I hear all the time on the radio at work and she was really friendly and offered to help guide me on my path to becoming a sexologist which I thought was really nice! So I'm really excited to have met her and kind of have he invitation to pick her brain if I need some help. She was actually great and I really suggest checking her out if you want to find out more about sexology or are just curious.

You can find her really easily if you just type in SexWithDrJess into Google, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Or just check out her website SexWithDrJess.com

Then when we were tired of perusing the many stands of whips, chains and to my boyfriend's amazement at least a hundred, if not thousands, of different types of dildos and sex toys everywhere we headed out to try to find something to eat.

Now I know there are a lot of people who LOVE Toronto but I do have a complaint... Right around Union Station there isn't much in the way of Restaurants. Now keep in mind it was raining and I was cold, my feet were wet and squelchy so I mean like in the direct vicinity. Hate me if you want for being uber lazy, but squelchy feet are serious business!

We ended up busing back to Newmarket where there was a car we could drive to food. :)

AND THEN COMMENCED SNUGGLING!
My favourite part of any day.

P.S. If you would like pictures of the bunny-man or the phallic lipstick let me know!

Did any of you go to the Everything To Do With Sex Show?
Or the super book sale? 
Any questions?

Let me know in the comments! (I know there aren't many/any of you yet but hey, can't blame a girl for trying to make conversation.)

Hello World! | My Hair

Okay so I've decided to start writing a blog. On what you may ask? EVERYTHING!Well pretty much everything I encounter and think I'd like to chat about anyways. Why? Because I can!

Also, I pretty much am not very good at being a girl (hair, make-up, fashion... I pretty much fail at all of it) so I figured I would share my attempts, successes and failures here. It seems a little less scary to write about my experiences and post pictures than it does to start a Youtube account. Baby steps people! And this site seems to allow vidoes so that is kind of neat!

So let's get started. Who am I?

Well my name is Lydia and I live in a small town in Ontario, Canada. I'm kind of quirky and as well as being a pretty failure at being a girl I have a dog and a boyfriend and over all my life seems pretty good. I have psoriasis and its pretty much the bane of my whole existence. I'll be trying things out for that here too so if you know of anything let me check it out!

I work as a Graphic Designer and I'm looking at going back to school for Psychology and maybe eventually one day becoming a sexologist. What is that you may ask? Its like a psychologist - but for your midnight romps. ;) Or daytime romps. Which ever you prefer or end up having.

I don't know why, "romp" has always sounded kind of sexual to me. What say you we have a romp in the bedroom? Heh.

Moving on!

I'm 23 and I am generally interested in trying new things so if you, mystery reader, ever want me to give something a go let me know!

And now for the second part of this little blog here...

My Hair

I cut my hair short and I don't like it anymore. Sad face. So I did some research and found out two possible aids in making my lovely locks grow back faster! I'm going to give it a go and post up weekly shots of my hair and we'll see what happens!

First off is Cod Liver Oil. I read that any kind of fish oil is good for your skin and hair so I've begun taking some of those capsuls every day! So far... no difference but its only been about a week - less than since I was away from home most of the week. So really we'll count this as day one...

And Folic Acid. Yes, I know normally people take that when they're having a baby or trying to have a baby, but I read that it aids in the growing of hair and nails and is good for your skin. AND in my big book of Herbal Healing it says its good for psoriasis. SO WE WILL SEE!

My Skin

This wasn't in the title but I just remembered that I picked up something to try for my psoriasis at the drug store today. The doctor recommended Glaxal Base because it seems to be more moisturizing than most lotions so its supposed to relieve the itch some and help with the scaly bits.

Also I picked up another little present to my skin and it is the Garnier Body Intensive 7 Days Soothing Gel-Cream with Peach Oil. Its said to have you feeling soft and smooth for up to 7 Days so I'm going to test that. Mostly because I pretty much never remember to moisturize. So far I really like it because it didn't leave me feeling greasy. Smells alright too.

So this is how long my bangs are today.

And this is my hair not looking like a mushroom cap.

Hair Supplements! (If anyone wants specific details just let me know)

Skin stuff!