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Green
Homemade shampoo and toothpaste/powder – I’ve been experimenting with the concept of making my own stuff. Have you ever read the ingredients in both shampoo, conditioner and toothpaste – what is all that stuff that you’re putting into your skin? Think about it, what is all this stuff?
saccharum officinarum = sugar cane extract
sodium laureth sulfate = chemical used to degrease and cannot be metabolised by our livers
sodium chloride = salt
trimethylsilylamodimethicon = silicone
DMDM hydantoin = antimicrobial formaldehyde releaser preservative
niacinamide = vitamin B3
polyquaternium- 10 = white granular powder with a characteristic amine odor that reduces static electricity
pyridoxine hc1 = Vitamin B6
linalool = naturally-occurring terpene alcohol
then various dyes
ci 15985/yellow 6 (Sunset Yellow) = synthetic coal tar and azo yellow dye useful in fermented foods
why exactly would you want to use a chemical that degreases engines, that creates rubber, formaldeyde, some white granular powder, synthetic coal tar that is used to ferment food in your hair but not only is it affecting your hair, its getting into your bloodstream and going into your brain and not only are they bad for you but its expensive.
There are other ways to clean your hair, I’m currently experimenting with some recipes for organic shampoo and eventually some organic soaps bars. What I’ve noticed is that since I’m using castile liquid soap as my base and then adding additional organic ingredients, I don’t need a second rinse of conditioner because my hair is soft and pretty much tangle free.
My first attempt, I think I used too much sunflower oil in my base and I have slightly oily hair but a quick rinse in vinegar and distilled water should fix that problem. And I’m going to try adding beer to the mixture to cut back on some of the oil. Its a work in progress but I think I might have found my creative niche, if I could ever find the time to work on it and seriously its my own hair that I’m experimenting on, its not like I haven’t been using harmful stuff on my hair anyways, its time to try the natural cheap solution..now when I start experimenting with herbs and different colored herbs, I might need a dark haired guinea pig 🙂
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Toothpaste/powder – I haven’t quite figured out the paste part yet, so toothpowder – this is easy, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. I’ve had these ugly stains on my teeth every since I got my braces removed 20 odd years ago and nothing, nothing has ever been able to get rid of them until now. The simplest homemade solution is actually whitening my teeth, yea, it takes like salt but its working. And eventually I’ll figured out the process to add some flavor to the powder..maybe a whole new line of toothpowder coming..
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Homemade laundry soap – this was born out of neccessity, I didn’t have any, I needed to do laundry and thought what the hell, let me try this too, it worked pretty good. I have to say, I make quite a mess making it. Castile soap and baking soda have a tendency to foam when mixed together.. I used this recipe
and what I’d love to have is a commercial kitchen/prep area to work on my ideas…in time perhaps
sit and spin
I’m still here just busy, many ideas roaming around in my head, just haven’t had time to stop and write them down but now I’m waiting for a computer to do it’s thing and if you know anything about IT, its called sit and wait…
Windows Genuine Advantage Notification – how to get rid of it, this and this work perfectly, now you’re probably wondering what this thing is, is like a Microsoft spyware, if your copy of office or xp isn’t validated by Microsoft, its not genuine however there are bugs in that concept, if perhaps you bought a copy from an OEM dealer, its possible Microsoft won’t validate the software which is ridicolosive, yea, I misspelled it but anyways, this harmless but annoying security update gives you a countdown to validate your software or you can’t get updates and it phones home to let Microsoft know that you don’t have a validated copy. What I don’t like about it besides it phones home, is that it shows up everytime you login or reboot the computer and then gives false negatives about legal copies of software and besides that it gets installed without asking if you want to install it. Anyways, if you want to deinstall it there are ways.. I would also suggest using a file shredder or eraser program to delete the WGA files permanently so they don’t come back to haunt you.
dreams
I’m taking an auditing and assurance class and one of the things we’ve been discussing this week is fraud but this post has nothing to do with that but something one of my classmates said that just struck me as sad
When I look back on all my dreams as a child and compare them to my realities now I realize that my dreams were not in line with what was actually possible. However I have chosen to adjust my dreams rather then commit fraud
I wonder why she had to adjust her dreams, why would her dreams have the potential to commit fraud? One shouldn’t have to adjust their dreams. It just seemed so sad to me that someone would adjust their dreams.
getting rid of negative energy
I know, I know I just need to tell him that he needs to stop coming over here when I’m working and I’ve tried but today was the last straw, how can you not see that I’m working? I might work from home but from about 9am to 9pm and sometimes even later, I’m working and just because the door is open or my car is in the driveway, does not mean that I have time to stop and listen to how your life is unraveling, seriously. I feel like every single time he walks in the door uninvited, a wave of negative energy follows and I’m left annoyed and pissed off, all my energy is drained and any momentum I had to get my work load done in one day is just gone. Today I just ignored him, eventually he got the hint and left but I’m still left with no energy and annoyed. I so want my space back.
And I’m very peeved at what happen the other night, I finally relented and went to dinner with him, let me tell you I NEVER EVER WANT to do that again, unless I’m very very very drunk. The whole 3 hours of torture of listening to him tell me stories about himself and not once did he ask me anything about myself or seem to care about anything I was doing and the stories aren’t even that interesting especially when he repeats the same thing he told me earlier that morning. And we were suppose to go dutch, I paid with my credit card, I don’t carry cash on me and I said I’ll pay with my card, you give me cash. Yea, you can see where this is going right? He put his billfold away and didn’t give me half of the dinner. I didn’t have 45.00 in my account to pay for his meal too, I had enough to pay for my half.
Time to go relax, rejuvenate, gather my energy back and do a home protection spell because my home is suppose to be my safe haven, not a place I hide from someone, I shouldn’t have to close my doors to make him go away.
losing time
when i was young, i wanted everything that my sister had, when she got braces, I wanted them too. I wanted a broken arm so I could have a cast (in retrospect, I really could have done without the braces or the broken foot). when I was young, things were simpler, there weren’t computers that tied us to our chairs 12 hours straight, we got outside and played, the closest thing we had to video games was atari and pong and we didn’t spend hours and hours playing it because it was boring, being outside was far better treat than being stuck indoors all day long.
Today, we’re all so busy multi-tasking, that we don’t take the time to stop and just be and see the world around us. I look outside at my backyard and think it would be so nice to stop and just sit in the sun but when I do, I drag my computer out to be with me so I can sit in the sun and surf the internet. I keep thinking to myself, that it would be nice to stop and people watch but I feel like I have the time to just stop and even if I could just stop and take the time, my brain is always racing and multi-tasking through my thoughts or so I thought.
Lately, I feel like I’m losing time, that another part of me has taken over because even though I can see the evidence of the things I’ve done, I don’t quite remember doing them, is there another me? Is multi-personalities part of being bi-polar or is there some other reason that I’m losing time? Could the logical me be a part but separate me that has panic attacks and doesn’t like leaving her house and for the life of her can’t manage to struggle to find a parking place without being overcome with a fear of looking stupid (those have been recent issues and I’m not sure where or why they started) but maybe I’m finally understand me, all of me, maybe I was right, there is me, myself and I, as I jokingly call myself somedays. But this losing time thing, its happening more frequently or maybe I’m noticing it more now.
Apparently when my brain shifts from manic to depressed, the brain chooses to “sleep” during this in-between period, I’m still functioning but my short-term memory doesn’t work. If this in-between period last more than a few days, then I’ve lost the memory of what occured which is strange to me because I normally remember everything. And no I don’t hear voices in my head, I just don’t remember why I didn’t follow through on something or why I did a journal entry that way or didn’t enter the bill but obviously paid it.
Maybe I’m traveling through time and I just have no recollection of that specific time and space or maybe my brain has decided it’s time to sleep. Its made me more aware of the notion that something is happening, I’ve started writing lists of things to do, I’ve tried to stop and take the time to go through my weekly calendar and schedule everything, try not to overwhelm myself, get plenty of sleep and I wish the panic attacks would stop but maybe my brain is trying to tell me to take a moment and relax, stop all this multi-tasking, take the time, stop, be still and see what is going on around me, what’s the worse that could happen? My brain will go to sleep while I’m working away? That’s already happening. Maybe its time to stop letting the world pass me by and be in the moment, if it doesn’t get done, tommorrow will come again.
if the cup runneth over
to design an adequate blog to match a website takes maybe 3 hours, I didn’t say great, but adequate. To design a great one probably 6-10 hours, so me thinks that for an hour worth of work, he might get a so-so design, a blob design or just a cookie-cutter design? I don’t know where my clients get the impression that I work for free or they can make up some arbitary number to pay me whatever they feel its worth. I have a feeling a few of these people just think that by bullying someone that it will work but little do they know, I get paid for a specific period, then whatever doesn’t get done this month, piles itself into the next month, if the cup runneth over, it doesn’t get done. Some clients see lots of detail and pull out one specific thing in a detail of 20 lines and question why that one thing took 4 hours, can they not read? And additional work requested is not free either, its billable unless I’ve forgotten that I’ve talked to you, then it might be free but in general all work requested is billable at my hourly rate, what part of that don’t people understand? enough bitchin…on to more important thoughts
the magic of gold
Did you know that you could buy gold? buying gold is a unique, real way to invest. For centuries was the best way to preserve one’s wealth and purchasing power. Gold is a fascinating element, that man, woman and child alike have found intriguing full of beauty and magic and the power to change lives, it is universally accepted and can be easily bought and sold around the world, reminds me of when I was little panning for gold, it was awesome and fun to pan for my own little gold nugget.
Goldline International has many different way you can buy gold, you can add gold to your IRA, you can buy gold coins, gold bullions, or better yet gold bars. If I had the money, I think a gold bar would be the way for me..
Share your Valentine’s Day with Haiti
Wondering how you can help with Haiti? Don’t have alot of money to spend? I’ve been pondering the notion to donate something for Haiti but like many I don’t have alot of money to spare these days but you can help, valentine’s day is just around the corner and when you buy chocolate from Intentional Chocolate such as love truffles or the Valentine’s Day Love Gift Box, you will be donating your purchase to Haiti because Intentional Chocolate is donating 100% of their profits to charities that are helping Haiti until Valentine’s Day. What could be better – you get chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Chocolate Caramel Squares or numerous other chocolates and you show your love and support for not only your loved ones but for Haiti as well.
Intentional Chocolate: Through the power of food infused with good intentions, Intentional Chocolate and its research partner, the HESA Institute (Human Energy Systems Alliance – www.hesainstitute.org) are reintroducing the ancient concept of intentional eating to refocus our attention on the important relationship we have to food. Our intention is to use good intentions to galvanize a shift in the food industry that would bring greater health and quality of life to all beings.
Share your Valentine’s Day with Haiti, buy chocolate from Intentional Chocolate!
Drifting mind
I’m trying to finish my study CPA exam, oh how boring, I’ve got so many things to do and this is just not one of those things I want to be doing which is probably why I’m completely distracted with everything else and anything else that is interesting, not that my billing is although that interesting but its better than doing a practice CPA exam for a grade. I wonder if they would let me listen to my ipod during the real exam, its like background noise to me, the quiet room concept doesn’t help me concentrate, I get easily distracted by things around me.
Like for example, these two questions popped out at me
Following the Professional Standards which of the following is not one of the assertions made by management for account balances? Relevance and reliability is not included in the professional standards as an account balance assertion. AU 326 presents as assertions: (1) Existence, (2) Rights and obligations, (3) Completeness, and (4) Valuation and allocation.
Me personally thinks that management really should make sure that account balances are reliablity. Who thinks of these things?
This one is just interesting: Professional skepticism, when exercised during the consideration of the risk of misstatement due to fraud is an attitude that includes a questioning mind, therefore if you are curious about things, you too could be an auditor after you learn about all the auditing rules and stuff but remember take an auditing class from someone that is interesting because otherwise you’ll either be incredibly lost or bored out your mind.
And if I’ve completely lost you, then let your mind drift and check out this, this is where my mind drifts when I’m bored.