It’s gotta have happened somewhere, surely. A burst pipe, or the sprinklers going off.
And our local shopping centre is mostly white tile, like a bathroom, and if you’ve ever seen a bath after a lush bath bomb…yeah, our shops would wind up tie-dyed…
Also, as a regular buyer of Lush products, the vanilla soap I know of that they have as part of their staple stock is Rock Star – the pinkest, candiest confection they make. Terry isn’t having with your gendered expectations – he goes for the pinkest soap because he likes how it smells.
Bathroom complete! What is fairly subtle but essential is the grab rails – one over the bath, two in the shower, one by the toilet and the grip handles in the bath itself. Future-proofing for @kath-ballantyne . She loves the one over the bath already. Makes it safe for her to climb in and out of the bath herself. And an Intergalactic bath bomb to celebrate. After over a month without even a half-broken bath, it was amazing.
So today is a bad day. I just had a bath with my Sakura bath bomb, @kath-ballantyne is making me food, and we may make pear ice cream later with the little corella pears that never ripened that she put in to roast in the oven.
Which is all lovely. But it felt like the hardest thing in the world to even move. I couldn’t go to the gym even though the exercise might help because just the thought of leaving the house made me feel like I couldn’t breathe.
When I get like this it’s paralysing. I know I’m hungry but I can’t do anything about it. I am literally unable to open my mouth and say, “I need food.” The words are there, the need to eat is there, but I cannot speak, let alone go to the kitchen, look at what we have and come up with a meal, even if that meal is just juice drunk from the carton.
I can’t focus enough to read, even when I know escapism would be helpful. I can’t game. The will to do things is there, but the actual ability is as inaccesible to me as if I never had it at all.
I left the water in the bath. I may get in it again later, if I need to.
6.5km today. And I did three runs. I ran for ALL of I’m Not Okay (3m8s), half of Mama (2m20s) and half of Planetary Go! (2m). And I survived!
When I got home, I had a shower and used my bar of Rock Star for the first time (which I LOVED) and had a hummus, vegetable and salmon cake wrap and felt very virtuous.
Today’s music: May Death Never Stop You – My Chemical Romance
Today’s weight: 72.6kg
I can confirm that a tub big enough does exist. My mum has one. But the spa jets are old and broken and leak, so I can only fill it this high.
So you can cuddle, but are only immersed up to your hips, which makes a photo of me and my girl in it a wee bit NSFW. (The bubbles are from a tiny piece of Unicorn Horn, a Valentine’s Day special bubble bar!)
Today was a Bad Day, anxietywise. I slept badly, I had to make a stressful phone call, and then we had a bunch of things that we had to leave the house for which Could Not be put off. We’d just done the third thing on the list and were swinging back to the grocery store end of the shopping centre when my partner hesitated and pulled fifteen dollars from her pocket and asked if I wanted to go to Lush.
I didn’t need to. I shouldn’t; I mean, we’re trying to save money. But the fact that she noticed I was struggling and offered something to help me through nearly made me cry on the spot.
Then, when I’d just gone in, and she’d wandered next door into Build-A Bear, suddenly, she was back with me, though usually just walking past Lush can give her a headache. “It wasn’t bothering me too badly so I thought I’d join you,” she said.
So we smelled some bath bombs and some soaps and settled on a thin slice of Rock Star, which I’ve wanted to try since I bought some for my sister last year, and Unicorn Horn, a Valentine’s day special bubble bar.
Then, when I got home, I ran the water as deep as I can in Mum’s broken spa bath and added just the tip of the bubble bar, just enough to make it bubble just enough. And it helped. It really did.
So, you know, my partner is just the greatest and I love her more than I can say.
Luuuuush!
They finally got stock back in of the Atomic tooth powder, so I got a sample of that to try.
Also, I finally used up all of mum’s ancient bath salts, so I bought my first ever Lush bath bomb! Tossed up between several and eventually settled on Sakura, which was the cheapest of the ones I liked but smelt just as amazing as the others. Plan is to smash it and use a bit at a time, since I can’t fill our bath more than hip-deep anyway, and also, am poor.
can we please bring body glitter back in 2017. we already have enough to deal with in 2016 but 2017 is the year we need to fully commit ourselves to glitter and all things that sparkle. who is with me.
i hope you all realize that reblogging this is a binding spiritual contract and i expect follow through
You can make your own body glitter incredibly easily. You’ll need:
Pure aloe vera gel. I get a big ol tub off of ebay for like a fiver, keeps me going for a nice long time.
Some small clean jars to put yer goop in. I get a big batch of clear screwtop plastic storage jars off ebay for a quid and make glitter gel gifts for friends. Keeping the goop size small means you use it up fast before it dries out.
An assload of glitter. Again, ebay has this in many different sizes and colours, which is what you want. I also get mine from facepaint-uk.com, which is my favourite shop in the world probably. make sure to get a variety of sizes, colours, and shapes: that looks best tbh. If you can get it in ziplock baggies as opposed to like jars and shit then it saves you money on pointless packaging because who cares
HOW:
Take jar. Shoof a buncha glitter in the jar. Not enough to fill it, fill it like a quarter of the way with a mix of glitters. I usually fill it a third of the way because I like my glitter gel to be excruciatingly glittery
Squirt some aloe gel on top to fill the jar half way. Stir carefully until a gritty paste is formed. nice
Add a bit more aloe and stir again. Keep adding gel a bit at a time until a smooth glitter gel is formed.
Put the lid on and marvel at your creation! Well done. Now wear it all the time. I wear mine to work habitually. It might dry out if you don’t screw the lid on well – but it can be rehydrated with a few drops of water and a good mix. I tend to tear through mine pretty fast though.
Let the contract be bled on and wrought.
For those of you who want to make your own glitter gel, this is a very good tutorial.
(Listen closely: you can hear @peteventers muttering “nooooo not glitter.”)
Also-also – Try to find biodegradable mica-based glitters, rather than plastic/PET-based glitters, as the latter is very bad for the environment when it goes down your drain!
Or, another planet-friendly option if you can’t make stuff or don’t have the time is buy a bunch of Intergalactic and Sunnyside bath bombs from Lush and fucking IMMERSE yourself in cruelty and toxic free shinyness.
knitting in the dark 