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Nov. 16th, 2012 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wildflowersoulFirst, I just read an awesome book, Book of Blood and Shadow. It's like a YA DaVinci Code (I know, a lot of people make fun of the DaVinci Code, but I unabashedly liked it), except instead of making me want to get engaged in Westminster Abbey (which I DID), this book makes me super want to go to Prague.
I don't know if it's due to him not getting enough sleep, being 2.5, a regression because of potty training, or just my sleep deprived nerves being on edge, but man, West has been pushing my buttons this week. It feels like he is testing every single limit possible and then losing his marbles when that brings about consequences, and he is doing everything so impulsively. It is probably just "being a toddler." This morning before I could even blink he grabbed a towel and threw it in the toilet. Yesterday morning after being told repeatedly to not press buttons on the dishwasher he pressed buttons again and turned it on. o_O Add in some random hitting walls with a hammer, hitting us, freaking out about being given grapes with breakfast (I know, we must be out to get him, giving him fruit he has clearly enjoyed many times in the recent past).
I don't want to toot this horn too quickly, but potty training has been going pretty well. He had a completely accident-free day Wednesday. Yesterday he had a couple of accidents that were related to not being able to get his pants down fast enough or get to the potty fast enough, but he's doing a great job identifying the need and telling us & his teachers when he needs to go.
Finally,
Here's my November box
There's a Lulu Organics lavender & sage dry shampoo powder, ModelCo mascara (full size!), Miracle Skin Transformer imperfection corrector, a perfume sample, and chocolate.
I'm super psyched about the mascara. I tried it this morning, and it definitely does the job of lengthening. I prefer really thick volumizing mascaras, it's a glasses-wearer thing, so I don't think I'll be buying this particular one once it's gone, but honestly, a tube of this stuff is probably going to last me a year. Last month's box was a lesson for me that high end skin products really do work better (OMG, I am love with the DDF wrinkle remover serum, but no way am I paying $85 to get rid of wrinkles... yet. It will remain in the back of my mind and maybe in a few years when the lines start really bugging me I may revisit it).
I've been really pleased with Birchbox. I like the monthly surprise, the samples have worked out to lasting longer for me than I thought they would, and I have actually found something in each box that I end up buying full-size (at a discount, since it's pretty easy to earn points and turn the points into $10 off).
I don't know if it's due to him not getting enough sleep, being 2.5, a regression because of potty training, or just my sleep deprived nerves being on edge, but man, West has been pushing my buttons this week. It feels like he is testing every single limit possible and then losing his marbles when that brings about consequences, and he is doing everything so impulsively. It is probably just "being a toddler." This morning before I could even blink he grabbed a towel and threw it in the toilet. Yesterday morning after being told repeatedly to not press buttons on the dishwasher he pressed buttons again and turned it on. o_O Add in some random hitting walls with a hammer, hitting us, freaking out about being given grapes with breakfast (I know, we must be out to get him, giving him fruit he has clearly enjoyed many times in the recent past).
I don't want to toot this horn too quickly, but potty training has been going pretty well. He had a completely accident-free day Wednesday. Yesterday he had a couple of accidents that were related to not being able to get his pants down fast enough or get to the potty fast enough, but he's doing a great job identifying the need and telling us & his teachers when he needs to go.
Finally,
Here's my November box
There's a Lulu Organics lavender & sage dry shampoo powder, ModelCo mascara (full size!), Miracle Skin Transformer imperfection corrector, a perfume sample, and chocolate.
I'm super psyched about the mascara. I tried it this morning, and it definitely does the job of lengthening. I prefer really thick volumizing mascaras, it's a glasses-wearer thing, so I don't think I'll be buying this particular one once it's gone, but honestly, a tube of this stuff is probably going to last me a year. Last month's box was a lesson for me that high end skin products really do work better (OMG, I am love with the DDF wrinkle remover serum, but no way am I paying $85 to get rid of wrinkles... yet. It will remain in the back of my mind and maybe in a few years when the lines start really bugging me I may revisit it).
I've been really pleased with Birchbox. I like the monthly surprise, the samples have worked out to lasting longer for me than I thought they would, and I have actually found something in each box that I end up buying full-size (at a discount, since it's pretty easy to earn points and turn the points into $10 off).
