It's been hectic around these parts. Most of my spare time is spent fitting in a run or working on Halloween costumes. I don't sew many articles of clothing for my kids, mostly because I don't have a good sewing space to lay out my stuff. This will change soon, however, as our basement is set to get finished within a month or so. The kids will be able play downstairs safely (no worries of dropping a 45 pound weight on their toe or anything...) and I will be able to lay out my sewing supplies without getting in the way of day to day life.
Anyway, I have always been dedicated to sewing at least one of my kids costumes. I even used to sew my stepdaughter's Halloween costumes back in the day. This year, Macy and Ellis are getting the homemade costumes. Hopefully I didn't bite off more than I could chew by committing to two costumes this year. Now that I think about it, I didn't make anyone's costume last year, so I guess I owe them.
Oh, and I got myself a pretty little iPad for our eighth anniversary. This beautiful piece of electronics seems to be eating up a teensy bit of my free time as well. I love this cute little thing. I'm going to think up the perfect name for her....
Patrick's gift from me has yet to arrive in the mail yet. It's coming all the way from Lithuania. It certainly doesn't compare to the iPad, but if it works, I think it will be worth it to him. I'll keep you updated on how that goes.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Good Bye, Sweet Lactose...
So, I'm trying a little experiment. The idea came to me yesterday on my 9 mile run. Yup, I ran nine miles yesterday. It was freaking awesome, by the way. I've committed myself to the Gobbler Grind half marathon, and I'm feeling a little full of myself.
Anyway, back to my bright idea. I've had issues for about the last six months or so with severe teenage acne. I've googled until my eyes were blurry, like any good child of the internet, and devotedly tested each idea that I thought sounded plausible. I've spent too much money on washes, astringents, creams, and zappers. I've disinfected objects that come into frequent contact with my pores, including my phones, my towels, and my children. To no avail. I continue with large painful sores on my face.
I used to roll my eyes at the poor people on the Proactiv commercials who's acne was the worse thing that ever happened to them. Now I'm the self conscious one who is getting carded because I look like I'm struggling through a horrible puberty. I forgot how conspicuous you feel when your face is exploding.
So as I was running down Santa Fe, I faintly remembered a girl at work telling me how giving up dairy cleared her adult acne up. Hmmm, was this something I could do? I had given up meat for a couple of years, I gave up carbs for almost nine months, could I refuse cheese for the sake of my vanity? The idea behind this (yes, I googled it) is the extra hormones in milk add to the hormone levels in your body and in turn make hormonal acne worse. Even "hormone-free" or organic milk has intrinsic levels of hormones in it, because milk comes from lactating cows, and you have to have higher levels of certain hormones to lactate! It makes so much sense. You can't have real dairy and have it be truly hormone free.
I'm not really a milk drinker, and I don't even have cereal for breakfast. There are a few things that will be hard for me to give up. Number one: string cheese. This is a go to snack for me, probably at least twice a day. I'm pretty sure they make fake string cheese, but I'm wary of the texture. Number two: cheesy Italian food. Lasagna, pizza, pasta with mozzarella, etc. Especially pizza. Dang I love pizza. Number three: McDonald's snack size Rolo candy soft serve ice cream thingy. I am not typically an ice cream eater, it tends to hurt my teeth, but mixing delicious caramel and chocolate in the ice cream? Freaking amazing. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is the root of my face explosions, too. I can vaguely connect the nights where Patrick has brought home a delicious Rolo treat for me and the following days where I have super serious break-outs.
So, maybe it's premature, but I went the whole day yesterday without dairy, and my zits are all in healing stages for the first time in months. I have no new breakouts at this point in time. I'm going to give it a month and see what happens.
Anyway, back to my bright idea. I've had issues for about the last six months or so with severe teenage acne. I've googled until my eyes were blurry, like any good child of the internet, and devotedly tested each idea that I thought sounded plausible. I've spent too much money on washes, astringents, creams, and zappers. I've disinfected objects that come into frequent contact with my pores, including my phones, my towels, and my children. To no avail. I continue with large painful sores on my face.
I used to roll my eyes at the poor people on the Proactiv commercials who's acne was the worse thing that ever happened to them. Now I'm the self conscious one who is getting carded because I look like I'm struggling through a horrible puberty. I forgot how conspicuous you feel when your face is exploding.
So as I was running down Santa Fe, I faintly remembered a girl at work telling me how giving up dairy cleared her adult acne up. Hmmm, was this something I could do? I had given up meat for a couple of years, I gave up carbs for almost nine months, could I refuse cheese for the sake of my vanity? The idea behind this (yes, I googled it) is the extra hormones in milk add to the hormone levels in your body and in turn make hormonal acne worse. Even "hormone-free" or organic milk has intrinsic levels of hormones in it, because milk comes from lactating cows, and you have to have higher levels of certain hormones to lactate! It makes so much sense. You can't have real dairy and have it be truly hormone free.
I'm not really a milk drinker, and I don't even have cereal for breakfast. There are a few things that will be hard for me to give up. Number one: string cheese. This is a go to snack for me, probably at least twice a day. I'm pretty sure they make fake string cheese, but I'm wary of the texture. Number two: cheesy Italian food. Lasagna, pizza, pasta with mozzarella, etc. Especially pizza. Dang I love pizza. Number three: McDonald's snack size Rolo candy soft serve ice cream thingy. I am not typically an ice cream eater, it tends to hurt my teeth, but mixing delicious caramel and chocolate in the ice cream? Freaking amazing. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is the root of my face explosions, too. I can vaguely connect the nights where Patrick has brought home a delicious Rolo treat for me and the following days where I have super serious break-outs.
So, maybe it's premature, but I went the whole day yesterday without dairy, and my zits are all in healing stages for the first time in months. I have no new breakouts at this point in time. I'm going to give it a month and see what happens.
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