I finally got around to reading Beastly. In honor of NaNoWriMo (and the fact I’m writing a re-telling) I decided to make November re-telling month. With that, Beastly was up first. Because I put it off for so long. This was another one of those won’t-watch-the-movie-til-I-read-it things but to be honest, the movie didn’t look all that interesting. I just thought they casted weird people. I’m not a Vanessa H or Olsen hater but I don’t know, the Olsen part sort of bothered me.

Anyway!

Kyle was a jerk. I mean he was a jerk. Like I wanted to reach through the flippin pages and strangle him. It’s so sad that his mindset was passed down from his father, who was an even bigger ass. I thought this would be your typical boy is a jerk and pisses off a witch and blah blah blah, which it was, but you couldn’t help but feel bad for Kyle. His dad completely judges and ignores him and you could tell all he wanted was just a little bit of attention. And maybe if he had gotten that, he wouldn’t had been such a jerk.

I loved Linda. She was sweet and caring and optimistic. Her father was also a flippin ass though, probably the biggest ass of a parent I’ve seen in a re-telling so far. How do you treat the only daughter you have like that? She cares for you, puts up with you and you just treat her like trash? And poor Linda, she shouldn’t have to feel guilty for anything when it comes to her father, ever!

I also loved Kyle’s teacher Will. He was a pretty great character to be around. He cared about Kyle even though he hardly knew him and didn’t judge him. He always gave him the advice he needed and was just what Kyle needed in his life. The maid as well, she was also a really great character.

Beastly had a lot of similarities to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. I haven’t read the original tale so I can’t really compare. It did have it’s distinct differences like Kyle grew obsessed with growing flowers and I thought that was a pretty symbolic thing. Before his transformation he never cared for things and especially not silly things (his words, not mine) like flowers. And I think the fact that he cared SO MUCH for his garden was what really made me feel for him, it was really the only thing he had.

While I wasn’t completely impressed with Beastly, I did enjoy the journey. But I still won’t see the movie lol!

My periods are heavy. I normally use Always pads, usually the ones with the wipe attached to them but I dont use their wings. From my own personal experience, the wings dont really help. Not only that, but they’re annoying to deal with. They always end up scratching my thighs :(.

I received a “sample box” of these with one of those jumbo double box buys with my usual pads. I didnt really care for them, I was certain these thinner pads would do me no use. So I ignored them. I made a stop at Target a few months ago with my sister in law to pick up some stuff, pads being one of the things I had to pick up.

She suggested that I try them and how amazing they worked. I couldnt believe her. I told her about my heavy flows and how there’s no way those pads would work for me! She told me both her and my mother in law use them and they both really like them. So I agreed to try them, and if they didnt work, it was her fault lol.

So I tried them. And they worked fantastic! My period has never been so pleasant! The pad is indeed thin. Like, pantyliner thin. The material on the pad isnt scratchy or irritating like other pads, its nice and smooth. It doesnt make you feel like you’re waddling like a duck when you walk around, the wings dont scratch me at all though they are really sticky and are kind of hard to pull off when I’m changing my pad. They’re extremely absorbent! I’m impressed with how well this went with my heavy flows!

Of course, I thought maybe I was just having a lucky run with them. So I tried them again the next month… and the next month… and now I dont know how I ever lived without them!

Thin, absorbent and comfortable! This is just what us ladies need during our hellish week! I highly recommend you try them, if you havent yet. You wont regret that you did :)!

When it was at its worse in 2006, I was constantly washing my hands. By constant, I mean maybe once every half hour. It didnt help much that I worked as a cashier. I obviously couldnt wash my hands every single time I did a cash transaction so I carried hand sanitizer in my pocket with me. Probably the worst idea ever. The constant hand washing and alcohol from the hand sanitizer successfully stripped my hands of all moisture. My hands were so dry and chapped that my finger tips were completely messed up. I couldnt touch silk or satin without my finger tips getting irritated, I couldnt even feel the fabric, at all from my messed up my finger tips were. I also started getting red itchy bumps (which I still get) and I’d scratch my hands until they bled, it drove me nuts.

I was at the hospital one day and me and my boyfriend (who’s now my husband) were in the pharmacy to pick up some medicine (I dont remember what I was there for, I’m going to get cough medicine since that year I got Strep Throat for the first time). We were standing in line and they had a tester bottle out for Glove in a Bottle. He read it and suggested I try it, but I refused. He went ahead and tried it himself and really liked it.

So the next time we went to the pharmacy (which wasnt until summer-ish 2007) he got me a small sample bottle thinking it would help dry hands.

I went from being a cashier to working in cash control for a theme park. If you dont know what cash control is, basically we handle all the cash and tickets that come into the park. So basically, its like a room full of cash. For someone who has OCD, it wasnt exactly hell but it was close to it. Everything in that room was dirty (but it did help me realize that I am capable of ignoring my OCD, I even threw out the trash a lot there, incredible)!

The site says:

When the natural oil is stripped from the outer layer of skin the moisture (water) quickly leaves the outer layer of skin leaving the skin dry, irritated, and itchy. Worse, the deeper layers of skin are left exposed to harsh damaging substances including detergents, solvents, cleaners, paint and thinners, gardening chemicals, dirt and grease, latex gloves and powder, etc.

This results in more dry, irritated, and itchy skin that becomes chapped, cracked and damaged.

Hand and skin lotions only replace natural oils with artificial ones. These offer temporary relief that does little to heal the skin. Regular use of lotions can actually cause the skin to produce less natural oils.

Gloves In A Bottle is a shielding lotion – it bonds with the outer layer of your skin and helps lock in your natural oils and moisture – the reason why dermatologists recommend Gloves as an effective dry skin treatment.

I would use this every single time I washed my hands after using the bathroom at work. It says its waterproof but I’d put it on again just in case.

The lotion is fairly thin and it absorbs quickly into your skin. It smells like glue on your hands, but after it absorbs, your hands do feel smoother and softer. After using this everyday for about two weeks, I was starting to see and feel major results. So I used it for a good amount of time, maybe six months or more. And it helped a lot! For one, my finger tips werent messed up anymore, I could finally touch silk and satin without them getting irritated and I could feel the fabric! That was the biggest thing about this to me, something so small as not being able to feel fabric is depressing, I’m so glad my husband found this for me!

If you’re like me and you feel you’ve stripped your hands of all its moisture or if your hands get really dry and chapped, I do highly highly recommend this lotion. Of all the lotions I’ve tried to heal my hands, this is my favorite one!

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This book goes more into Hunter and Sky. It revels more about Cal and Selene as well. Morgan has a hard time through out the book as far as figuring out who she is, what she is and who she believes. You cant help but scream at the book because she does make some stupid choices when the answer is right there, in front of her. She’s obviously too caught up in Cal that she doesnt chose to see them.

She finally confronts Bree and it doesnt turn out for the better, sadly. There isnt much going on with the coven, they have one circle the entire book and that’s about it. I found it funny how this book was timed around Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving just passed. I think I started reading these books around the right time lol.

The ending will leave you angry, anxious, nervous and eager to read the next book! Of all the books in the series so far, this has got to be my favorite one.

You dont know what’s happening with Cal or Selene or Hunter… you dont know who’s lying and who’s telling the truth and you dont know what Morgan will do next. Or who she’ll believe or who she’ll listen to!

I have to admit, Selene freaked me out in this book. She was way too pushy and sketchy. Cal was acting a bit sketchy in this one as well, half way through the book you couldnt help but just turn Team Hunter from how odd they were acting.

Maybe I wont review the books, maybe I’ll just write down how I feel about them. It seems much easier and I dont have to spoil anything lol.

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