What?!

I'm back! Maybe. Who knows these things...I go through phases.

I start my MFA program on Monday. That's a day away. Pretty close. Surprisingly not nervous yet, but that's probably because my first class is MexAm Lit and not a workshop...that's when I'll get nervous. I'm probably also not nervous yet because I got a job at Gymboree Play and Music Center, and tomorrow I'm teaching my very first music class and am terrified. I'm already teaching art classes and School Skills classes (a 2 hr drop off class), and I'm good with those two (of course it's always more fun when I'm not being bit on the leg by new little toddler chompers...so sharp!)...but music is different. First of all, you have to learn new songs each week to demonstrate, and...well, that's actually the only difficult part. But those songs are hard to memorize sometimes. Whose ever taught me a song about a mosquito? Nobody. Exactly. But now I know one. 

This past summer has been the summer of cooking. So much cooking. I've never cooked in my life. I was raised on Whataburger, McDonald's and Luby's (boobies! Shoutout Jess). I don't know how I'm alive. But I am and don't weigh 500 pounds! Now that I have my own kitchen though, I've found myself super into natural cooking. The internet has been my best friend and taught me so many things about traditional foods, why white sugar is a no-no and all the better-for-you alternatives, why natural living naturally goes together with natural eating, and why sometimes the simplest recipes are the best.

(Trust me, if I can not only cook but cook good, natural, traditional foods...ANYONE can. I made cookies with no sugar, yo! And Josh ate them all up! Okay, I helped him. A lot.)

So our apartment is now a no-high-fructose-corn-syrup, no-canola-oil, no-vegetable-oil, minimal-white-sugar, no-white-flour apartment! Yum. 

Oh and I discovered a great love I have for peaches. 

BY the way...go buy some soaps from here...support them. They are amazing. Their soaps are amazing. 

Remember that no-poo experiment I tried doing last semester? It failed miserably. My hair hated me. It seemed to congeal into one big mound of nasty. But I was determined to make this work. Every time I squirted shampoo into my hands I could hear my head crying. CRYING. 

So I researched more on it and found the solution...I'd been doing it all wrong. I'd been mixing baking soda and water as is...turns out I had to boil the water and THEN mix the baking soda in. (1 tbs bksda to 1 cup wtr) That did the trick. Now my hair is squeaky clean all the time and I never have that weird gunk. And I haven't used shampoo in over a month. A MONTH. And my hair smells like NOTHING. So, it works. Case closed.

Oh, guess what I also haven't done in over a month? This might be TMI, but whatevs. I haven't used deodorant. I promise I don't smell. I've been around people occasionally when I'm not sequestered in my apartment, and they don't lean away. Instead of icky, commercial underarm swiping, I use...coconut oil. No, really. I do. 

Okay, I know I've turned into a hippie. Stay with me.

I use coconut oil, and then a mix of baking soda and cornstarch. IT WORKS. No smell, no nasty scents to mix with my body chemistry and produce an even nastier scent. I use the refined coconut oil, so it doesn't even smell like coconut. But to my understanding, if you use unrefined, it does smell like coconut.

Okay, I'm going to stop now. I think I'm overloading with all my new hippiness. 

Nap time! I was supposed to take a nap an hour ago, but then the dirty dishes started screaming. I can't nap with all that screaming.

Okay, bye.

Comments

[Jdhaught]

LOL luby's boobies!

[Jdhaught]

and you always had the best soaps. hahaha

[Jdhaught]

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