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[geminigirl]

I've suffered from an utter lack of motivation today. It'm chalking up the malaise to PMS, along with the giant pimples on my chin (oh how I love Queen Helene's Mint Julep Mask-it's the best thing I know for drawing out the big, flat kind of pimples that just don't want to grow a head and go away-including the one that appears from time to time which I've nicknamed China.)

I've watched some Olympics, dumped some recycling, napped, grocery shopped, and now I'm contemplating dinner (and lunches for the week as well.) I have no idea if my boss is in tomorrow or not, which means I have no idea if I have to cover for her tomorrow evening. Oh yeah, and I paid a bunch of bills. I need some serious motivation; the desire to curl up on the couch for a day or two is strong. I wanted to bake a batch of cookies, but that just hasn't gotten done.

End of summer means it's a good time to buy a cooler. I might go looking for one of those soon.

Watching the Olympics makes me miss swimming. Maybe there will be someplace near where I end up living to swim...I did love it. It would be much more fun if I had company though.

I'm really really really interested in making sure I vote this year, and so it's stressing me. I did pick up the absentee ballot information today at the grocery store, but the woman at the voter registration table was in another world entirely, and had no idea when I actually have to have the application back in to the county.

I wish my upstairs neighbors wouldn't be so loud. They're heavy-footed, which I can live with, but it's the unbearably loud TV and music that drives me batty. It's sometimes so loud that I can hear what they're watching better than I can hear what I'm watching.

Dinner, I think when they take a break from women's gymnastics.

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[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Here's what the Virginia State Board of Elections says about absentee ballots.

Does the women's Olympics gymnastics team still suck? ;)

[geminigirl]

Do they still practice above you?

[gsh]

Well, they were expected to medal, but they had a bad day today. They ended up behind Rumania in points, and the Chinese haven't gone yet.

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

*grin* Nope. No more upstairs neighbours. Whoo hoo!

[minikin.livejournal.com]

Where should I look for Queen Helene's Mint Julep Mask? It sounds like what I need.

[geminigirl]

I think I got the tube at CVS or the grocery store or something like that. It's been more difficult to find when I've lived in neighborhoods with fewer African-Americans, but not impossible. If you don't find a tube (it's a large tube too, not small) let me know and I'll send you one.

There aren't instructions for using it for zits on the package, but here's how I do it. Wash your face as you normally would, pat it dry and put some of the Queen Helene right on the zit. Leave it there for 15-20 minutes (or longer, depending on how sensitive your skin is) and wipe it off. Apply a few times a day, for a couple of days-don't overwash though, or you may end up more oily. "China" the giant pimple on my chin is nearly gone, after two or three days of treating it. It's gone from large, red, flat and tender to almost entirely gone.

[minikin.livejournal.com]

I'll look at the CVS where I normally shop.

I've also just started on the first day of my new "swim everyday except bowling days" exercise program, so I don't know that that will do to my face.

I may eventually start using *gasp* moisturizer! :)

[geminigirl]

I started really moisturizing this year, largely because I found one I liked that contains sunscreen but doesn't smell like sunscreen. (I'm a fair skinned redhead, who has a family history of skin cancer...I'm less good about sunscreen than I should be, but better than I was.) I've noticed a real difference in my skin. Now if I could convince the giant pores in my nose and chin to shrink, I'd be thrilled.

[geeksdoitbetter.livejournal.com]

i love Queen Helen's cocoa butter lotion - yumm!

i find it at my local Walmart, in with all the lotions/whatnots

[minikin.livejournal.com]

I gave up on sun, instead of worrying about my skin. Although I had a few doozies of sunburns when I was a kid, none of it has shown up as cancer yet.

[geminigirl]

I generally avoid prolonged exposure to the sun, but were I to go walking outdoors for twenty minutes or so, I'd likely end up burnt. Cayne and I spent a rather short time outdoors on our first day at the lake, we put swimsuits on and jumped in and swam for a bit, and then we sat in the sun to warm up. Not much more than oh, half an hour or 40 minutes max, and despite the short time, and a hefty application of sunscreen (didn't miss any parts-Cayne applied most of it) I still ended up with a bit of color. Not bad, just enough to know it was pink.

[minikin.livejournal.com]

I found a mesh coverup that does an amazing job of providing me with adequate sunblock. It's stood up to sunny days at amusement parks, and even Hedonism III in Jamaica.

I intend to find and or make even niftier ones, someday.