The Others

Last night I watched "The Others" for the first time. I was in the mood for a spook but I'm hard to spook when it comes to movies. To me the psycological thrill has to feel possible from moment to moment. Gore, guts, whatever, for a really good spook I have to be afraid to lok behind me. I was at the grocery store buying my health for another week & started going through this cheapy bin of VHS tapes. they were all crap but when I found this one I remembered the time DBy went to see it at the theatre & stopped in for hot chocolate on his way home. He raved about the excellent acting, and came back exactly 1/2 hour after he left and went home. He was too spooked to stay home alone. All that & $3.99 put the movie in my cart. I really liked it. Those kids were excellent actors, all 7 actors in the movie were excellent and the story kept me on my toes 100%. I loved all the little knowing glances supplied by Fionnula Flanagan. After it was over I went to bed for about 1/2 hour, then got back up and went to watch it again.

I met this 75 year old beekeeper one time that had the most beautiful skin. His face was smooth and soft and his wrinkles looked really beautiful. he made his own face cream out of olive oil, beeswax, honey & propolis that he had been using everyday since he was 20 or something. I've never been so awed by someone's skin. It was truly beautiful. He gave me a babyfood jar full of his wonder ointment and when I ran out I tried to recreate it. It's not always easy to find fresh bee materials so I started finding and trying other stuff.
My favorite homeade face wash is this:
a handful of blanched almonds freshly pulverized and mixed with 1 tablespoon of skim milk powder, 1/2 cup honey and a drop of rose essential oil. This amount usually last a few days. It scrapes off the dead skin really gently and because it smells so good you always end up giving yourself a face massage. It helps with dry skin but because honey is antibacterial it cleanses really well too.
Flaxseeds are pretty amazing. You can boil a cup of flax in a chowder pot full of water and end up with a great hair rinse and skin toner. It lasts about a week in the fridge. Really soothing. In the summer I'll squeeze some lemon or grapefruit into it but in the winter I'm all about adding the rose oil.

#1 reason for corrective laser eye surgery.

I woke up with reptile skin all over my face. Electric heat and northern Atlantic winter being a deadly combination on a gal's dermis, I reached for my coenzyme Q10 eye cream to relieve the parchment feeling and got bit with a sting. After rubbing it all around my right eye a tightening sensation occurred, and my eye watered tears the size of elephants. I grabbed for my glasses only to realize I had just applied a hefty bit o' zit gel all over my "delicate eye area" as cosmetologists refer to it. And not just any zit gel, but really old zit gel in which all of the active constituents had separated and the stingy bits had risen to the top of the tube. I washed it off and applied a great swab of vitamin E oil, but here hours later I still have this puckery red flesh around my eye. Viva la h'hivre.