The scarf that will forever keep me warm

Scarves seem to be the topic these days. It will only continue!

scarfI told you I was addicted to Etsy. When I was doing my Christmas shopping (yes, I am finished with the exception of my Boyfriends main gift) I decided to do it all online this year, and mostly on the wonderful place of etsy. I have no idea how I found this person, but I did and I’m glad I did at the right time because she was having a free shipping sale for her handmade scarves. Handmade people! This scarf I am wearing, was actually made to order, for me!! It came to a total of $30 USD with free shipping (which would only be $4 anyway to Canada), and since our CAN dollar is near par with USD as of today ($1.01!), it’d be a great gift. I would however suggest that you order one that is pre-made in order to get it for Christmas, if that is what you were planning to do.

Isn’t it amazingly gorgeous? What you all don’t know about me, is that when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do in life, I was enrolled in a two year Arts program at a college. I learned to weave, and I loved it so much so that my Mom considered buying me a loom. Until I objected saying it was the most retarded thing she had ever suggested. Even though I loved making place mats and thick scarves for others when I was 18, I didn’t know it could turn into something so beautiful. So if you like my super long warm scarf, you may want to very well check out Nit’s Etsy shop and get one for yourselves. I’ve favored a couple of them since my purchase and am definitely going to buy more things, after Christmas when I have a few bucks back in my pocket.


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Eczema has a mind of its own

ootdThe face looks splotchy on the camera. I swear I know how to blend my makeup. Nobody cares.

As insane as this sounds, my eczema moves to a different place on my body each winter. I know! It sounds so bizarre but it’s true. My first year when I was experiencing weird dry flakey, sore red skin — I had no idea what it was until my neighbor back home in Newfoundland (Pharmacist by the way) introduced me to hydro cortisone cream.

The first year was on my eyelids, and temples. Second year it was on the insides of my elbows, where you’d definitely think it naturally would be. Third year was on my HIPS (so painful when you wore clothes all day lol). This year. Well, let’s not go there. Ok ok. It’s a bit lower than my belly button and is awkward to scratch. If I was a man, you’d think I was ‘adjusting’. It’s also migrating to my knuckles. Specifically on my right hand’s forth finger. What gives.

I don’t think the Victoria Secrets body lotion is going to cut it this year. I think I’ll probably nee to whip out the harsh stuff, either that or go to my dermatologist again.

I never had this problem while living in Newfoundland. However, Newfoundland does have quite a bit more water in the air which gives the feeling of damp cold winters, where you can never get warm. Bone chilling to be exact. Then I relocated to Ontario, dry, nose-hair-freezing type of cold. You can actually dress for the cold in Ontario. But then comes the dry skin issues with hard water, dry air, sucking every bit of moisture out of my already lizard skin.

I went and got the H1N1 flu shot last night at a local secondary school where they had the clinic set up. Gotta say, I wasn’t too thrilled about voluntarily having a needle stuck in me, but I did it for good cause. I’m going home to Newfoundland for Christmas and I cannot be sick around my father who is on chemo. My arm is sore and I want to be a huge baby and GO.HOME. (from work that is, not to Newfoundland just yet btw..)

Ooh! I also wanted to tell you all that you need to check out Megan’s new hair color! She dyed it a few nights ago and I’m kind of thinking we have the same coloring? Anyway, regardless of that I’ve been trying to not dye my hair for about a year now. I think I last colored it in August 2008, but I can’t be too positive. I want to see my natural color for a few years, before my whole head starts going grey, you know? Maybe that’s weird of me, but I’ve been dying my hair since the age of 14, and uh. That’s a long time. So I decided to give it a break and my hair grows sooo slow, so the roots are still at around my temples or a bit lower, it’s all brassy and gross now but I don’t care and trying to stick through it. But if and when I do start dying my hair again, I think I’ll go with what Megan used: Revlon Color Silk in Dark brown (30)!

P.S: You all need to get this color nail polish. It’s by OPI — You Don’t Know Jacques. Wonderful shade.

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Can you believe this guy?

I went to the Sports Medicine clinic yesterday afternoon about my gimp ankle. The last time I saw the Doctor was on Monday, November 23 — so I had a game of indoor soccer, a bone scan and an xray on my ankle before I got to see him again. I went in there yesterday expecting to be told that I would get some physio and/or massage therapy and I’d be able to continue on with my soccer.

He gave me good news, and bad news. Let’s start with the good because that’s always fun.

It’s just a fibula bruise that is on its way to being healed. As I was on the table getting my bone scan at the hospital, I could so tell that the bone scan was going to give great results, and it ankledid. I don’t need a CT Scan, or an MRI as the bone scan results showed a few dark spots, see in the photo? That’s my ankle! So it’s almost healed, right? I can get a few appointments with my “name twin” massage therapist and be off.

Wrong. The bad news is that this Doctor of mine, has advised me to stop playing soccer immediately and come back in March/April  to see if it has fully healed and then he can give me the go–ahead whether or not I can play outdoor soccer. Taking 8 weeks off during the transition between outdoor and indoor soccer wasn’t enough. I even missed a few extra days because I was in B.C.!

See, the thing is — soccer is the only sport that has my heart right now. I hate the gym, but I’ll go because it’s good for you and it thanks my waist line, and I don’t climb as often as I wish to because the local wall is the tiniest closet/room whatever you want to call it ever, and they don’t change the routes or holds as often as I’d like them to. So yes, soccer is the only sport I enjoy right now. I told him I’d think about it. Pretty bold of me, but I guess the news made me a bit angry. But then he re-assured me that if I don’t take this time off, it could very well  become a permanent problem which will never get fixed. A permanent bone bruise. Great!

I had a night to think about it and contemplate what I’m going to do. At first, I was upset because I just dropped a couple of hundred bucks to play this super long indoor season (beginning of October to the end of April) much longer than our outdoor season, and then I thought of just playing left wing, instead of right.

Still don’t know what to do. I don’t want to stop altogether because I love scoring and I’m totally going to pat myself on the back here, but in last 6 games I scored 9 goals. So awesome right? I don’t know. I’m not exactly asking for suggestions,  and would definitely take the opposite advice of what someone gives me because I’m a stubborn ‘taurus’  like that. I guess I’m just disappointed of the outcome.

I have decided to stop playing, for the better of my health.

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