For the student

So yeah I'm on a new lifestyle. Haha. Well this evening I looked around for exercises to do whilst reading and stumbled across this link with some inspiration for non mobile students. ;)

Fancy doing "The Scorpion" while studying?

Le sportif!

Me and Edith playing badminton, drinking Powerade. Yeah!


Woke up this morning an could hardly move. Yesterday Edith and I hit the gym and played some badminton. You know me right. Firstly I'm tall, so I'm not so lithe and usually have a back problem. Also I quit smoking in december and used to smoke about 20 cigarettes a day. I thought I'd be completely dead after two hours (one hour badminton and then one hour at the gym) but strangely enough I had even more energy. I thought that was a myth. HAHA! Today I can hardly move. started my day with a hot bath which made it a bit better. But not much. More badminton tomorrow! I must me crazy...


ps. Stole the pics from Edith. Thanks! x /G

Silencio

Forgot to mention. While at my grandparents we went through a couple of my gran's old clothes. It is SO depressing! I always loved her dressed and her shoes. But my gran was the slimmest thing in the whole wide world. I used to be able to get in her dresses when I was like 15, but now I cant. And all her shoes are size 39, and I take a 40-41. My sister was with me, and all the clothes and shoes fit her. :( She went home with 5 pairs of new shoes!!!! Lovely lovely old beautiful shoes. The way they aren't made any longer. I am SO jealous! I know it is impossible for me to have a body of a 16 year old. But things like this just makes me hate it. It sucks to be the oldest. I am 6 years older than the older one and 8 years older than the younger one. They will always be younger and more beautiful. I am dead serious. I hate it.

Had a great evening at Sanna's any way. Took me ages to get home though. Thank you for a fab evening!

Here are a couple of pictures I took for school the other evening. And yes, the first one is my stunning ashole of a sister who stole all the shoes! (Sorry hun, I know you can't help it. Love you anyway. <3)
Not really too happy about the photos. I was what we in Sweden call a "klant" and had the highest ISO on my camera. Didn't notice that until later and by then I was cold and tired and heading for a coffee. The last picture was just a test shot when I was testing the light. It is quite dark, but I sort of liked that. I love Pearls red hair, the problem is that it makes the face look red too. And I'm not that good at photshop... So when is the crash course Sanna?

Cheap Skincare!

I have decided to start doing something about my skin problem.
I've been on medication for my bad skin 3 times, it works for a while then it goes back to the way it was... My main problem is that I have really dry skin which then causes acne. Yes, you can have that combination too. Acne doesn't always come with oily skin.

I know -quit smoking would be a good start. But it is hard when my boyfriend smokes so much. And no, I have absolutely no discipline... My plan is to start eating healthier first. It's not that I want to loose weight, I am slim and don't easily gain weight anyway, but I eat like crap and I have started to feel that it's effecting me in a bad way. Mostly I am tired all the time and I have a hard time sleeping. So my sister and I have decided to start running together once a week. I would never do it myself, so it's a good start. Also I have started making notes on what I eat and drink, mostly because I am worthless at drinking (water that is... ;)) You get moisture to the body from what you eat as well, but it's still important to drink.

Ok so today I have held a "mini spa". Quite a nice thing to do when you are home alone. So this is what you do:

-Have a nice long bath, candles, good music and so on.
Put your hair up in a hairband so it doesn't get in the way. Wash of your makeup and wash your hands.

-Use a piece of lemon against the skin. get the lemon juice all over your face (Not the eyes!). The citric acid will take away dry skin and cleans the pores. This will sting a bit... Leave on for about five minutes then wash away with cold water (this neutralizes the acid).

-Boil some water and pour it in a bowl of some sort (I added cinnamon and honey to the water, it smells nice and is supposed to have soothing effects. Also in old time cinnamon was believed to hold magic powers and act stimulating for sexual lust. So there you go.) Have your head over the infusion for about a quarter of an hour with a towel over your head. This softens up your skin and opens the pores.

-Afterward you can use a mask to add nutrition to your skin. I didn't have on e so I used avocado which you can make your own mask with. (There are lots of recipes on the net, but I chose to go with plane avocado) Avocado contains lots of oils, B-, E- and K-vitamins. Leave it on for about ten minutes. You can use the inside of the avocado skin to peel your face as you go.
-Wash off with warm water. Use a toner with vitamin E. Then add a moisturizing cream.

Voila!
This is the first time I try this. I wont be doing it every day I can tell you. Once a week maybe. My skin feels really nice and clean. I like that you don't really have to buy any expensive products.