Yet Tearyne Is Ambitious…

Quickly, something I’ve noticed:

On days where my face feels gunky, I just need to give it a wash with this very nice black seed soap that I bought from the beauty supply store (it’s supposed to cleanse AND moisturize), or some Dove soap (finally bought some; missed this stuff) and finish up with my St. Ives Apricot Face Scrub. Fresh and clean.

My scalp is constantly hurting. It either itches or just feels really bad or it feels like it’s sore… I deep conditioned my hair last night (Infusium 23 Moisturology + Garnier Fructis Triple Moisture + LeKair Natural Shea Butter Cholestorl Creme + aPhogee’s 5 minute reconstructor). Left it on for several hours under my wig while we had company. My hair feels so much better today.

I am growing kind of frustrated with my hair, though. I keep telling myself that I’m going to relax the left hand side bone straight (as it’s pretty underprocessed compared to the right hand side), but then I put water on it to wash, condition, or put protein in it and so I have to wait at least a week.

We’ll see what happens next week, I guess. I am just a little impatient. I’ve seen some pictures, though, showing that I can MAYBE expect 6-9 inches of growth between now and this time next year. I just have to sit on my hands, try and leave my hair alone (since I wear wigs over it most of the time anyway) and not clip it (because I’m sure I don’t have massive split ends). The growth will happen when it happens, I guess.

On a much more positive note, I’ve started clean eating. It feels much nicer and it’s a lot easier than I thought it would be. The only thing that really gets in the way sometimes is my love of cooking/baking. I like to bake for myself and others. However, last week I made Tosca’s Bison Burgers and they were AWESOME. The meat was 7 dollars a pound (god help me), but I bought it for my SO because he’s obliging participating in the clean food stock up/bad food purging.

Clean eating is hard when you have to do it with others.

Lastly, someone stole my bike this weekend. :/ So I need to find another way to exercise.

There were a few others, but money’s a touch tight right now so I figured I’d use this one first. Made the most sense, and I am trying to conserve resources. Instead of 1/4 cup of sour cream, I used 1/4 cup of fat-free yogurt. Probably should have used whole-fat yogurt, but since I am trying to stick to clean eating (aside from deserts, which will be consumed less frequently by me now), that’s what I had on hand.

The dough is currently chilling in the freezer. We have a bunch of holiday cookie cutters, so I’m really pumped about that.

This is the frosting I’ll be using:

It looks pretty close to the ones that they use in stores, albeit a little less perfect. I’ll post more when we get to rolling, cutting, and baking.