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Lately I’ve been learning a lot about two things: Adwords and toxins in cosmetics. They’re not exactly related. My Adwords reading is partly based on curiosity but mostly because of a project that I decided to take on at work. The toxins reading with a curiosity the food industry and has morphed into a slight obsession with everything we bring into our homes.
Not that long ago I remember talking about what a waste organic things were. I dated a guy in college whose father (uncle?–ok some relative) grew both organic and regular rice. At the end of the day we swore it all got mixed together. So as an organics skeptic, I rolled my eyes a little bit as I read yet another post about natural cleaning supplies.
It turns out the people who were really examining chemicals in every day products are really on to something. Lately I’ve turned into “that girl”– the one who is reading every label and asking a million questions about everything. I even started questioning my eye doctor about the chemicals in the contact solution that she was recommending to me. Luckily, I’m in California and people are used to dealing with my new kind of crazy. It turns out the contact solution that she was recommending had a bunch of conditioners in it and when she realized that I was concerned about this stuff, she recommended a completely different kind of cleaning method. If I hadn’t asked I would’ve continued exposing myself to the chemicals in contact solution. Does it really matter? I’m not sure yet, but while I’m figuring it out it doesn’t really seem worth the risk. It turns out there are a lot of really great natural products that work as well or better than all of the chemical stuff. When given the choice I think I’m going to err away from complex chemistry and toward nature.
Do you guys care about this stuff? I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how many people are looking for the same things. I’ve even found some great local businesses that seem to share my same concerns.
Today is the four year anniversary of when Peter and I met! Can you believe it?! It feels like such a long time ago, but not all at the same time. I’m not really sure what to do with this anniversary now that we’re married. It feels a little silly to have another big celebration less than a month after our wedding anniversary, but it’s also such a special day! And besides, any excuse to celebrate is a good one, right?
Relationships at work fascinate me. I’m not talking about secret romantic flings–just everyday co-worker relationships and politics. We have this office cat where I work that’s the source of quite a bit of tension. Personally, I love cats, but this little guy’s space was getting a bit out of control. Everyday on our way to the bathroom we had to stare at not one, but TWO litter boxes positioned right next to one another. I completely understand the desire to make your animals comfortable, but this was a bit out of control. Getting rid of one of the litter boxes wasn’t an option, so we turned to good ole IKEA for a solution!
IKEA has some great curtains that work in a variety of spaces. Basically, you buy a metal rope that acts as a curtain rod and you can separate any space quickly and easily. We used these to hide some litter boxes, but you could easily use them to section off room in a studio apartment as well. Just for fun, here are the photos. We went from looking at this everyday…
To looking at this:
So much better right?
I’m posting this a little bit late this year since Halloween has already passed, but I thought our families would like to see our simple Halloween decorations. A couple days before Halloween we weren’t exactly feeling festive and knew that something needed to change: enter bats. I downloaded the bat template from Country Living. After folding the construction paper in half (hamburger style–not hot dog!), I traced the template two bats to a sheet and cut out my critters. (Can be bats be categorized as critters?)
Then we taped ‘em up on the wall and called it a day. Simple Halloween decorations!
I wonder how long we’ll leave them up. We would take them down but this apartment wall looks pretty sad and empty without them.
Is anyone else still enjoying their Halloween decor? Any last minute projects you want to share? Peter and I are planning to make Day of the Dead bread tonight! We’d intended to do it yesterday but I ended up on the couch with a migraine instead. Womp womp. I’ll let y’all know how the recipe turns out!
After last week’s sock curls didn’t go so well, I decided to give another hair tutorial a go! This time I tried YaYa Lifestyle’s Heat Free Dolly Curls. For some reason the embed code isn’t working, so if you’re curious you can watch the video here. Basically, I ended up looking like this.
I had a hard time sleeping with these socks next to my ears. I tossed and turned and wished for the bajillionth time that I was one of those people who slept on their backs. But when I woke up in the morning, the results were a lot more impressive than my original sock bun curls and the curl lasted all day.
