The Beauty Denominator

I bought a product called Triple Flex a few weeks ago with Glucosamine which is used to help joint pain and I thought since it was suppose to be natural that it would be ok to use. I don’t take medications except Tylenol or Aleve and I decided to try this. It tells you to take 2 a day for quick relief, but I decided to take one a day. I took this for a week, but I noticed a pain behind my left eye down to my shoulder and at one point I thought I was having a heart attack.

I thought I was getting a sinus infection and I felt like crap. I felt horrible so I missed taking one of the doses of Triple Flex and the next day I felt better and the pain let up some, but I still felt like crap so when I remembered I took my next dose of Triple Flex and the pain returned with a vengeance. Bill’s daughter is a nurse and she mentioned that they gave the Glucosamine to their elderly dog that’s why I bought it to start with.

I thought we could both use it for our poor old joints so when I took mine I gave him his. I had noticed he wasn’t like his normal self either and thought we were both just sick, but I didn’t give him his last dose when I took mine and if I hadn’t noticed how much better he was acting after 2 days without that stuff I never would have made the connection so I promptly stopped and each day I have gotten better and so has he.

I could kick myself because you never know how supplements will react in your body not even when they are supposedly natural. I’m sure many people take this product without side effects, but for myself and my Shadow apparently we were both allergic to it. My advice would be to check with your doctor before taking any supplements, but even they can’t be sure how your body might react so when taking anything new keep a record of anything different that occurs with your body.

When I’m sick I am so grumpy and I don’t like being around anyone because I know I might say something without thinking and hurt someones feelings because when I’m grouchy I just don’t care until I start feeling better and then it’s too late because the damage is done.

Usually when people are stressed they do the same thing and we may think that others that love us will understand and maybe they do, but they are still hurt regardless. I could very easily become a recluse with all the mood swings I’m going through lately and strange aches and pains.

I know I have been worried about the new baby coming and hoping everything will turn out good for my Son and with all the planning that’s been going on and getting everything done before we take off for Kentucky I made myself sick and haven’t felt like answering comments or posting.

For those of you that need answers about reciprocity I will get to those later this afternoon. This is my first post since Friday and I do apologise. Hopefully after we come back from Kentucky I can once again feel human and helpful.

This is the weekend and I will be very busy so I doubt I will be on here much. For those that left a comment and needed information about reciprocity I will be back Monday, but hopefully you will find your information before that. I have been trying to get a zillion things ready so I’ve been preoccupied.

My Grandbaby is due at anytime now so I will be getting things ready to travel out of state and when that happens I will not be worried about this site at all, but I will be delighted to help when I return. This must take less priority right now because there has been a few complications so I am on alert. My very first biological Grandson and I’m excited that he will draw my Son closer to me.

Everyone has some sort of addiction some are good and some are bad, but who has the right to say my addiction is worse than theirs. Living in this life is a learning experience and how we overcome our particular addiction is up to the individual because we have choices, but my choice may not be the same as yours and vise versa. An addiction is anything compulsory that makes you feel good that you just don’t have the will power to give up.

I have tried living healthy in the past, well some of the time, actually not very much. It’s so much easier to tell someone else how to live healthy than to do it yourself. I always have the best of intentions and then I stray or revert back to previous bad habits or addictions like my smoking. I did quit for a period of time and actually felt better, but I missed it, so right back I went. I guess I enjoy smoking more than feeling good, go figure. I have absolutely no will power in some things.

They say a glass of red wine is actually good for you if you can stop at just one. If you have an addictive personality that might not be such a good idea because 1 can very easily turn into 2 or more. I like the cocktail hour, but I can’t drink wine because I get a headache, see that’s something else I could be doing that’s good for me if I could drink it. However I have no problem with vodka, but it’s not conducive for healthy living, but it does help me get through menopause.

I have tried meditation, but I can never quite get to the place I am aiming for. Sometimes just when I think a veil is about to be lifted something or some stray thought enters in and it’s gone. Whatever answer I was seeking from within eludes me it slips back to where it waits to be found then I have to start all over. I know that every question that ever comes to my mind I will find the answer within not in the reality I think I see when I think my eyes are open.

Meditation and prayer are ways that the mind connects with a higher awareness and helps us to realize that we are more than just a human body. I know that who I really am is not that human body I see when I look in the mirror that is just a shell, I am not this body. This body grows old and will perish, but I will not, my source and energy will return to it’s creator because it belongs to him.

Regardless of all the problems we create and see in this reality that we have chosen to create we are not alone as we so often believe. We have not been forsaken and cast out these are truths that I know for myself. I truly believe that I am dreaming this gift of life and that I can awaken whenever I choose to  my true reality and find that I’m perfectly safe and loved where I always was and that you are there with me.

I don’t ever argue Bible or beliefs because there is nothing to argue. I don’t have to prove what I believe and neither does anyone else. Bill firmly believes in Heaven and Hell, I do not, but we both solidly believe in a higher being regardless of whatever name he is known by. I think the Bible was written to keep a bunch of heathen in check and scare them with a mean judgmental Father and fire and brimstone.

I think God is loving and giving and forgives all of us poor creatures that believe we are separated from him and doing bad things and are scared to death to leave behind what we think we are in this reality. That’s why I try so hard to meditate and lift that veil. I don’t think that when the veil is lifted that I will be whisked away or disappear. I hear so many people say well if there is a God why does he let all these bad things happen?

My thought has always been that we are the ones letting all these bad things happen that we cry about daily because we were given the right to choose and to create and we have apparently created what we want to see. We have the power to change so many things because we were given that power, but there are so many righteous people that think their way is the only way and so we create wars because everyone wants to be right in their beliefs.

This is a quote from an unknown writer about meditation: ” The opportunity to set our own destiny, develop our manifestation of what we believe our life should be, is the opportunity meditation provides. Every action we’ve ever taken started as a thought. The thought was then brought into reality by our action on that thought. So are we able to produce new thoughts and new possibilities, in this time of quiet reflection. “

I do some reviews of products on this blog, but not many. This blog is basically personal about my experiences in life and my achievement in taking the cosmetology course and getting my license at 45. This is not a fashion blog nor is it to keep anyone informed about expensive products they should buy. Anyone can get the same results from cheaper products as the ones that charge an arm and a leg for and household items like apple cider vinegar and honey can do wonders for your hair and skin.

They usually all use the same ingredients, but from different parts of the plant. Just like when I worked in the tomato factory you pay a higher price for premium tomatoes. Burger King didn’t buy the best, but they bought like 2nd grade and when I saw the rotten tomatoes that Taco Bell purchased I was appalled and I haven’t eaten at Taco Bell for 11 years. That’s crap that I would have thrown in the garbage and they used it for tomato sauce….Gross.

Here in the states we throw molded bread and cheese away and in Europe they eat it. We all know that they make penicillin from mold and it’s very useful. I personally would gag if I had to eat mold, but to each their own. When using organic skin products you should always be careful to throw it away by the expiration date because it starts breaking down and could be harmful instead of helpful. It doesn’t matter if it cost a fortune if you don’t use it within the time period specified pitch it.

I’m a pack rat so it’s very hard for me to pitch anything, but periodically I make myself go through and pitch all my old stuff even if it’s expensive. Better to be safe than sorry. I have even gotten to the point that I don’t color my hair any more. I have decided to grow old with a little dignity and there is no way I would ever do botox. I am also one of the few people that I know that doesn’t want to be young again. Everyone I have ever talked to say the same thing, that they would give anything to be young again.

I enjoy living, but I’m tired now and it’s a shame that older people aren’t given the respect they deserve. I have had an interesting life and experienced many things some good and many not so good, but what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger and I’m happy to say I’m stronger and I enjoy every phase of my life because living is truly a wonderful experience and I’m grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to exist.

Update picture on the baby birds, they did have a nest of sorts as you can see I took this one while they were relaxing. They look like little wrens in this photo, but the mother looked like a purple finch from the bird book that I looked at. At any rate they have now left the nest so I don’t have to worry about losing another one and that makes me happy.

I need to clean out the mess that they left behind in my evergreen and when I say mess that is exactly what I mean. It’s rather yucky and I certainly hope that bird doesn’t make a habit of returning every year. It was rather creepy all the noise from the mother as she watched over her young to scare everything away. The noise at times made me feel like the birds were indeed coming.

I love nature and I love to watch it, but not right outside my back door because I never know what will happen with my 2 dogs. I am now worried that a skunk is somewhere near because lately if I go outside around 3 in the morning I can smell a skunk and that’s all I need to have one in my back yard when I let the dogs out and have one of them get sprayed…Yuck

I know nothing about skunks, but I have heard that bathing in milk or tomato sauce will help neutralize the odor, but I certainly don’t want to find out if that’s true. Just felt like dropping in a quick update before we take a ride. Have a safe and happy 4th and enjoy the fireworks later.

I love to cut hair and do facials, but everything else I dislike. That’s why I no longer practise my profession. If you don’t love everything about the job you do then it’s time to leave it and find something that makes you happy because life is too short. I know many feel trapped in their job because of responsibilities and maybe the money is good, but are you happy and do you make your family happy or are you miserable and make your family just as miserable? Is it worth it? Well, it wasn’t to me.

Many of the girls I went to school with have also stopped practising for various reasons. Some couldn’t stand touching other people, others couldn’t use the chemicals on a daily bases and still others realized that they just weren’t good enough to make the grade. The ones I have run into seem much happier being bank tellers, clerks, cooks, and waitresses. They are still working in various people businesses, but it’s less personal.

It really is hard to touch other people, but it’s something you have to endure if that’s what you have chosen to do. It was something that I wanted to do all my life and so I did it finally and was very proud of myself. I really did enjoy it at first and it made me feel good when I was able to achieve something that my client wanted and they were happy. I hated using chemicals because as far as I’m concerned they destroy your hair, but people simply don’t care.

It’s an endless cycle, you screw up someones hair then they spend more money to have it corrected so you can screw it up some more. The money that people spend on perms and bleaching just to have over processed hair amazes me. Those people that wear acrylic or any other type nails as far as I’m concerned are nuts. I can do manicures if I want to, but I don’t because I have seen too many ruined nails underneath those tips.

The things women do in the name of beauty. I think it’s great to go to the spa and be pampered because it’s very relaxing, but some parts of the beauty rituals we women use and do really bother me. I will probably never practise again, but I still like to keep up with stuff. I keep my license active because I worked so hard to get it. Maybe someday I’ll open a shop for corrective cuts, facials, scalp massage, and deep conditioning, but no harsh chemicals allowed.

I have just been reading about Magnolia Extract and how natural it is for relieving stress. Now this is something that I definitely need to investigate further because with menopause I seem to have a lot of stress because of  weird things that keep happening to my body and I get totally freaked out when my skin feels like little bugs are crawling all over it.

I have always liked sports, but in the past couple years I haven’t been able to participate because I feel like crap. I have noticed that I’m also aging a lot quicker and I contribute that to lack of hormones and stress. Stress is a major contributor to health problems that many suffer from, but what if there was something natural that even sports figures could take that wasn’t illegal?

When I was younger I loved to compete in sports, but I always got uptight and seemed to freeze up and invariably I lost because my stress levels were so high. I over thought everything and made myself sick. It’s too bad I didn’t know about magnolia extract back then and a product called AbsoluteCalm which has 90% active ingredients compared to others 2%.

I am looking into this supplement because I think I might benefit from it. If you are curious about this supplement read about the benefits that can be attained within 15 minutes of taking one capsule, but also read any and all warnings and always talk to your doctor before taking any vitamins or supplements. Make sure you know what you are putting into your body.