No More Physical Therapy!!

I had my final followup appointment with my ENT today, and he's so pleased with my progress. 

Apparently I'm doing so well, I don't have to go to PT anymore. 

My therapist was great and all, but getting up so early to have my head shaken around and have a CNA all but wave a pencil in my face for me to follow with my eyes while looking at me like they have better things to do was for the birds. That, and I was the youngest person there. 

So, instead of paying $40 to have my noggin shaken like a salt shaker, my doctor told me that I can do my own exercises at home, like riding my bicycle and yoga, both of which are great for balance. 

 I was beyond pleased that I could eliminate one bill. 

Then, on top of it, I asked for a certain motion sickness medication, and he gave it to me. 

It goes behind your ear and lasts for 72 hours, and stops nausea and vomiting, and hopefully will allow me to travel easier and do things like shopping. In a real store. Not online. 

I haven't been to a real store since I went to Walgreens in like March. 

I need to go to Sally Beauty Supply!

 My hair is dyed kinda purple right now (check my instagram for my instafail), and the purple is so dark it looks almost black. Even after bleaching. Yeah. I need to get better dyes. Manic Panic seems to suck if you don't lighten your hair to almost white. My sister did half blue and it looks super cool, but she took her hair down to almost white blonde while I stopped at a red blonde because I was terrified that bleaching too light would make my ponytail snap off. 

Either way, but shopping!

I'm so crazy happy right now. 

I even spent a good 45 minutes on my bike today to get a start on my new exercise routine. My abs hurt in that good way and my legs feel like jelly. Now I can kick some of this weight I've put on, too. 

Now it's time to get my life back together, get signed up for fall semester, and hopefully get everything back on track. 

Berrisom SOS! My Lip Patch Review

Back when I did my Wishtrend haul, with the Berrisom My Lip Tint Pack came two free SOS! My Lip Patch. I've seen these on quite a few blogs and was excited to try them for myself!

These are super hydrating lip masks have the main ingredients of collagen, peptide, and hyaluronic acid. It is super nourishing and even adds some volume to your lips!

Happiness Is Forever Learning

안녕!

Today has been a very good day. 

I managed to make it from my house to the Dunkin Donuts without getting sick, then made it from there to therapy, which is about five miles away, with no sickness. Yay!

After I got home, I watched two Monster High movies with my niece and got some really cool things in the mail. 

Here is our Haunted selfie:

She's such a big goober. 

The first thing that made me happy was I got my keyboard stickers! 

I don't know if you can see very well, but I've got my stickers to help me with my 한글 (hangul) typing. It's SOOO much different than being able to type in Japanese like I used to! I was having to bring up a keyboard reference and it got to be a pain, so I got these from amazon for $3.50. 

Then, I got my first Klout Perk in the mail!

This is a mother's day package full of Fair Trade Certified products. What's Fair Trade? This label certifies that these products were sourced from farms that are getting their fair share of their labors. For example, the chocolate? This group makes sure that the women who harvest the cacao beans get the money they deserve and the care they need for them and their families. 

In this package I got a bag, the dark chocolate and coconut bar, a jar of coconut oil, Tumeric tea, two pounds of organic cane sugar, that amazing box of cereal that reminds me of berry Kix, and a tube of lip balm. I'll do a bigger blog about this later. 

To put the icing on the cake, I managed to walk down to my children's bus stop, something I haven't been able to do in a long time. 

When we arrived home, this was waiting on my doorstep!

Languages has always been another passion of mine. I love learning them and communicating when I can. I already have a good bit of Spanish under my belt, as well as basic conversational Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese. It was only natural to go to Korean next, because I take to Asian languages like a duck to water. 

To end the night, my boy child and I did a pizza night!

 We received this Red Barron pizza as a part of a promotion for BzzAgent. Again, a blog post will follow :) I just loved his smile that I had to share this picture. He's one photogenic kiddo. 

I hope you all have had an amazing day like I have. Goodnight!

Liquid Liner Love: Rivecowe Liquid Liner

It's taken me forever, but I think I found the best liquid liner that I've ever used, short of the Chanel liner I used to swear by.

I purchased a Rivecowe liquid liner from Wishtrend and I've started to love liquid liner again. It's got a brush type tip which I think gives better control over the liner.

From the pen itself, it doesn't look very spectacular, just like a regular eyeliner pen. 

The difference comes in with the pen, which is more like a brush instead of a felt tip. This gives you some amazing control over the lines of the liner compared to the harder felt tip types. 

Just for fun, I decided to draw with it on my wrist. The tip is so flexible that I was able to draw this little heart, but not so flexible that it bends when you apply it to your eyes. It all depends on how much pressure you apply to the brush. 

 These are a few quick lines I did on my hand to show the variation that is possible with this liner. I tried to get thinner, I'm just not steady enough in my hands. 

I know a lot of people who have purchased this and have been unhappy with it, but I adore it. It lasts forever on my skin. Those swatches? Even though I washed my hands quite a few times that day, it stayed until the next morning. 

This liner is a total toot!

You can purchase this liner from Wishtrend. Click the link in my sidebar and check out all of their amazing products!

What is your favorite eyeliner product? 

Should We Really Rely On BMI For Health?

I'm frustrated. 

Flat out frustrated. 

Mainly because even though I lost weight (yay!) and feel better, I am still considered obese by the terms of BMI. I am just over five feet tall, and dropped down to 157lbs from 160lbs in a week or so by cutting soda from my diet and lowering my sugar intake. If I really think about it, I've lowered all of my food intake to be honest. I just don't feel like eating. I'll eat when I'm hungry but that's about it. 

Out of curiosity I decided to plug my height and weight into the BMI calculator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. BMI is thrown around so much when it comes to figuring out if one is considered overweight or whatever. 

Now get this: If I put my height in at 5ft, I'm considered obese.

If I put it in at 5 feet and 1 inch, I'm just overweight. 

I hate these words so much because I am otherwise a healthy individual if you don't take my vertigo and weird stomach issues into account.  

When I see those words on that chart, I don't see the words overweight or obese. I see huge. I see big fat cow, whale, fat ass, no self control. I see "you are just another statistic in America". 

This also stems from some old low self esteem issues and the fact that I've always had an abnormal relationship with food. It doesn't make me feel anything but low about myself when I see words like that. 

I am nowhere near as bad as some of the other people in my town. It's not an uncommon occurrence to see someone riding in one of those motorized carts at the supermarket not because they are disabled, but because they are so obese that walking is uncomfortable and simply not feasible. But when I hear my doctor say that I am obese, I feel like I am one of those people who will have to be carried out of their house by a flat bed truck when they die, like they will have to cut the side of my house out. I go from feeling healthy at 157lbs to feeling like I'm 600lbs and need my own show on TLC. 

It's depressing as all get out. 

So why should we rely on such scales like that, that give one chart for bodies that vary so much? We aren't all the same, and we have different needs for our bodies. Even when my sister was in tip top shape, because of the fact that muscle mass is much heavier than fat, she was still considered to have a high BMI. 

I don't get it. It's irritating to me.