Today is Tuesday! Which means karate day! Hopefully it will be bearable this time and not a loud cluster**** like last time. Anyways, I slept through breakfast again thanks to staying up until 3am to finish a book. I can't help it. When I get to a point in the book where there's only so many chapters left, I think "well crap, I can't put it down now....might as well finish it" and that's what I did. It was a cute book though. It was called The First Assistant, which was the follow up to The Second Assistant. They are easy reads. I'm in that kind of mood lately. If you are into the celebrity gossip thing, then they are worth the read. Have a stack of books still to choose from and then the other day I made out the mother of all lists to take with me next time I am in the bookstore. Which will be before the end of the week I am sure.
So I started using a few Burt's Bees face products the other day and wow! Already I can tell a difference! While they weren't the huge, mountainous red zits I am used to getting-my forehead was very bumpy just with the tiny zits that were easier to just feel than see. While the redness I used to have in my cheeks mostly went away when my doc Rx'd me something for my acne, I still have the redness issue on my nose. I have only been using these products for a few days and already my forehead is so smooth (meaning no more teeny tiny zits everywhere), the redness on my nose is almost gone (but with glasses-I expect there still to be some redness where those rest, but that doesn't bother me) and overall my face looks clearer.
Here are the products I am using-
Orange Essence Facial Cleanser 
Peach and Willowbark Deep Pore Scrub
Herbal Blemish Stick
I will admit though, the herbal blemish stick smells like death. It smells like licorice which I am definitely NOT a fan of, but whoever said beauty was easy? I'll use it if it works though, so oh well. I think I mentioned the other day how awesome it would be if BB's made makeup. Well. I found out last nigh that they DID make makeup but have discontinued it and have no plans to do it in the future. Crap crap crap!!! Figures. So I'll have to keep looking I suppose.
I found a really cool site last night. You can check it out here. It's a cosmetics database. Quoting from their website-
Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group.
Skin Deep pairs ingredients in more than 42,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind. Why did a small nonprofit take on such a big project? Because the FDA doesn't require companies to test their own products for safety.
Fascinating stuff. Makes me really reevaluate what we are using in our home. It lists makeup, skin care, oral care, fragrance, nail care, eye care, hair care, and baby care products. They don't leave much out. This was actually how I found out that Burt's Bees used to make a cosmetics line.
Alright so that's enough of that. I'm going to try and be productive even though John has already did all the laundry today. Not that I am complaining. I know he's awesome.
Food log for today
Breakfast-
slept through it again
Lunch-
roast beef on whole wheat hoagie with swiss cheese
Snack-
blackberry kiwi slush with flax. Pure awesomeness.
