45 days

The title makes it seem kinda ominous doesn't it? Well it's not! As I somewhat attempt to keep you all updated here is another update and a hint and whatever else. First of all I am doing this on my phone and it sucks a lot more than it does on a computer. Second this won't be too long because of that! So the boyfriend (Nick) and I are leaving in early September and our trip is as follows                 Tokyo, Japan

                  Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

                                     Phnom Penh, Cambodia

                                    &

                                   Phuket, Bangkok, Thailand!

The trip is constantly expanding and we are simply so excited! To my happy dismay???? My boyfriend wants a different backpack than mine but you know what this mean, 1. I can hide stuff in his bag that I don't want to carry, I probably won't do it but you never know if I really want that extra bottle of sprite, my sweet addiction. Second, I have to research which is the part that sucks because I've hit a lazy spot these last few days and anything other than binge watching greys anatomy on the couch is incredibly tasking! So I guess it's time to start researching because he should be getting his passport any day now and then we will be applying for our Vietnamese visas finally! I mean we are in the final stages of this trip and I'll show you all the itinerary soon! Also this man is amazing, I mean right now we're mid brief argument but it'll pass and then we will back to watching Netflix and cooking dinner. I think we're doing brownies tonight and maybe tacos???? I have no clue right now which is a shame because its 2130 and only getting later but I think Grey's anatomy is calling me~
Well I'm going to attempt to keep you guys updated as we move along on this road to our first vacation together and I will be posting as we're traveling as well so I mean at least you will hear from me by mid September right? Well I'm signing off for now because it's time for dinner and to research this backpack situation!
Goodnight all!

Corny as ever

Literally the cutest

*updates! Nick is getting the same backpack as me, and we get our visas in about two weeks!

Also! Expect more corny photos of us as time moves through September!

So this happened

Boyfriend & I

Still us~

So because I'm so incapable of staying in the US for more than a year at a time, a great airfare came up and me and the companion (Surprise! We're at 6 months now, go him! I'll post photos of us later). Well first I haven't been posting due to a new job and to be honest my life is really boring except for this awesome trip I have coming up and the fact that the companion and I just did the Grand Canyon but I'm boring. So I won't make you guys wait but I won't tell you the dates I'm going but I, cross that out.

WE are going to

TOKYO, JAPAN

HO CHI MINH, VIETNAM

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA

&

PHUKET, BANGKOK, THAILAND

So there's that, see ya'll later~

*Update! Photos are added :)

Giant hole in the ground

Guess who's back....back again~

Vera is now 5 and just getting cuter

My grandpa just loves
 the ferrets!

Hey everyone! Sorry I literally have been completely inactive for a few months now. So here's the good news, bad news, sad news and my mad news.

DISCLAIMER: This post may not include all of the above.

So number one on the list tonight, I got a boyfriend! Crazy right? It's crazy I don't even have to ask that, how he puts up with me I will never know but he does so if he's reading this I love you~ If not, well I love my boyfriend reader so there's that. We started dating back in January and it's been pretty much perfect ever since. We did the Grand Canyon last weekend and we're doing California next month and hopefully Sea World because sharks. He is amazing and wonderful and pretty much perfect and we're starting a garden this week which I'm super psyched about because plants and life and all that hippy stuff I'm into.

Vera learning to play
with her new pals

Numero Dos, I got a new job! So I can't tell you what my job is for obvious safety reasons and maybe I'm a spy ;) Just kidding I'm not but would you believe me? I don't think so~ SO new job, I start in three days and it's crazy, I've been waiting on this opportunity for a while now and now it has fallen into my lap and for some reason now I'm somewhat lethargic about the whole thing. I don't like change because I'm a creature of habit, very much so. But it's a GREAT opportunity, they'll pay for my college and it's good money and same hours and a way better company with real benefits so I need to grow up a tiny bit and take it instead of flying across the world for months on end (Which I prefer any day). Anyway so now I'm growing up the tiniest bit, still will be traveling this year, I don't know where or for how long but I will be going out of the country for minimum two weeks.

Edric being sneaky

Number three; I thought I had more to talk about but I guess I don't? Oh well my crazy hives are back due to my Chronic Autoimmune Urticaria. It's a stupid disease look it up (I'm essentially allergic to myself and if that isn't fun enough, making my boyfriend worry about me going to anaphylaxis is kinda funny, in a sick and morbid way because I don't take it seriously). Check it out it's a stupid disease and I'm covered in hives 24/godforsaken7 if I forget to take my meds which I do because I'm spacey. Also I have hypothyroidism which is stupid because I can't win in life and I always have to have something wrong because what's the fun if I'm healthy. The funny part is I was given too high of a dose of my meds so I went from Hypothyroidism to Hyperthyroidism so from 24-.001 which is not good but I'm alive so it's fine.

Number four: I lied, I had a number three but now I don't think I have a number four so this is me signing off I suppose. JUST KIDDING!

ALERT

I GOT FERRETS PEOPLE

Them as of a few weeks ago, fat and happy

2 perfect

I now am the proud owner of two precious ferrets by the names of Illiyes and Edric and they are perfect and cute and little perfect carpet snakes that I love eternally. Also I got my own new apartment (First time on my own!) and I have my dog and my cat both of which got fixed and neutered last week and they're doing wonderfully. Stay posted for possibly upcoming photos, Jk I will be uploading photos regardless, just gotta do it on my phone because now my new job doesn't have me sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day because now I walk around and clean all day which I'm going to enjoy SO much more than this!

Well for now

Goodnight

See ya'll soon~

The Many Uses of Activated Charcoal!

I mentioned it looks weird during!

I'm happy that I didn't make this blog about something super specific like breeds of cats or cars because I have the ability to literally write about anything that I find amusing at the moment and what I'm doing with my life. It would be weird if I was going into a post about the dangers of inbreeding cats and dogs and then I suddenly had a post about how great charcoal is for the body, it can help a lot, even though it can't help inbreeding. Okay, I got off topic, sorry! Writing this at 6am, what else do you expect from me? Gosh, the expectations. Now onto the real reason I'm writing this!

After! So pearly :)

 So recently I've been getting pretty hippy-dippy and one of my friends recommended activated charcoal powder to me to brush my teeth and to take with water when I'm feeling ill, which is like always (I have terrible nausea consistently). So I ordered some off of Amazon, it was this one organic activated charcoal powder. Warning! Charcoal is really good at staining things, I've heard it ruined someone's tile grout and it stains, I haven't had this issue with my sink yet though and I've been using it for a few days now, just don't spill the container on the ground. Also take note that I am NOT a doctor so you should probably message/call/see your doctor before trying new chemicals/medications/charcoal/whatever. So you'd think 'If this stuff is as staining as she says it is and it ruins grout, won't it stain my teeth' the answer to that is No! So basically for whatever reason is does not stain your teeth and it pulls off the plaque and makes them noticeably whiter after a few uses, it can promote good oral hygiene and I'm going to have my mother try it for her gingivitis and I'll post an update here and see if it helps her at all. Its recommended to only use it about 2-3 times a week and that's what I'm doing now. I'm just a simply girl, I don't know the science behind any of this I just know what I've experienced. If you're wondering how much you use when you brush your teeth, you just wet your toothbrush and dip it in the charcoal and brush your teeth for about two minutes and then you keep rinsing out your mouth until the water is clear because at first your whole mouth is black (it's scary but it's hilarious). Feel free to floss afterwards because sometimes there will be small pieces of blackness trapped in your mouth but I found that brushing with toothpaste afterwards dealt with that for me (I do it before work, don't want to scare people now)

When she was doing it often (a few times week)

Apparently some hospitals use charcoal with cases of ingestion because charcoal works through absorption, so it absorbs the toxins and then they're eliminated through regular body processes.
Here's somewhat of a testimony I suppose, well the guy didn't die so it counts. A while back a guy (I think his last name was Marsh?) (I couldn't find what I wanted to in order to write this haha) He took a lethal dose of Arsenic? and mixed it with charcoal and he didn't die, nor did he have any of the side effects from consuming a lethal dose of Arsenic. Don't try that at home kids/adults/humans. I don't have the measurements but charcoal can also be taken with water to treat food poisoning, bloating, and nausea! Once again I'm not a doctor so consult your physician please!

So there's some information on it, I could probably write about this all day honestly because I think it's so great. So feel free to research it more and check it out, and try it! I'd say let me know, but I know it'll work!

Also this may be obvious but I know it's not for some people! Use charcoal that is food grade and made from wood or coconut not from your backyard BBQ or from some wood you burned! Buy it online or in a health food store, food grade people!

Tattoo Number Two

Sorry I haven't posted in a while! Happy New Year and all that good stuff everyone! I've been caught up in life as usual, between work, writers block and my life being rather boring without recent travel, or at least what I would define as boring. I have been making some cool plans and getting some cool new Ink! I had a great holiday and all that jazz~

 

The finished fresh tattoo!

This is going to be a rather short post because the title says most of what this post is about. In a recent post I posted my passport stamp from Russia which I got tattooed on my right calf and I got yet another tattoo to my families dismay. Honestly I super love my tattoos and do plan on getting more, right now I'm working on getting a full world map with all the country lines on it but I haven't decided where to get it yet because of how large of a tattoo it needs to be. The new tattoo that I got is a traditional version of St. Basils Cathedral in Moscow, Russia. I didn't originally plan on getting it either. Ignore the fact that it looks crooked, it's on my right shoulder and the way I was positioned made it look that way.

The tattoo before color!

     So basically I went out with my friends on one of my days off and all of us planned on getting tattoos which we were all excited about because of the deal that was going on at the time. However I was never able to get mine done, or any of my ideas because of the complexity of them but in all truth I just think they were tired of me and refused to do it to spite me. So after my friends got their desired tattoos I went on my merry way set to get one, no matter the cost and no matter the shop. I went to my old shop where my mother gets her tattoos and where I got my first one and met a great artist who I spent the next three hours with getting a needle poked into my skin. Totally worth it though, here's a photo of it fresh, before the color and I'll add another one soon when I take a better photo. I never thought I would go for traditional style tattoos but apparently I do, this tattoo is amazing and it cost about $200 and it was absolutely worth it.

The next tattoo I plan on getting is my world map one and then shading in the countries as I travel to them and then I plan on getting a traditional tattoo done when I do my trip in Thailand in 2018. Traditional tattoos are generally done with ink on a stick and then it's repeatedly tapped into your skin, unlike the tattoo machines they use now a days which are inevitably faster. Now I'm not only going to be having this one passport stamp on me either, I spoke to my artist and in a few years I'm going to get all my favorite passport stamps done on me, I can't get all of them because I eventually plan on being in every country so that would be way more than just my leg. I'm excited for my upcoming ink so stay tuned~