Waiting

I'm waiting for a lot of my herbs to come in. I ordered the harder-to-find herbs online and now I'm playing the waiting game. I ordered a little too late though. I got my wonderful monthlies today and I am cramping with no herbs to try out. Grrrr.

Speaking of monthlies...I really have been trying to embrace it more. While reading Herbal Healing, Gladstar sings praises to our monthlies (I am not even at the point where I can say the p-word numerous times in one blog) telling us women to welcome it and look at it as a time of rejuvenation. She writes how this is a time to shed ourselves and come into a fresh new month. Or maybe I just made that up but that is the gist of it. I am trying very hard to have that mentality but it's not quite working right now. I agree with her point that it should not be something that is shunned by society, but I can't quite come to the point of celebration over it. I like my monthlies for one reason: it means I'm not pregnant. And eventually - I will hate it for that reason, I'm sure. But I don't know how to get around the mentality that I have that it is a good for nothing mess.


However, I must report that I absolutely love Valerian. I have some night sleepytime tea that already has Valerian in it, and I decided to add a little extra Valerian (about 1/4 teaspoon) just to see what happens. I could barely keep my eyes open past 11:00 at night - on a Friday night! It was a struggle to stay awake. I have always been affected by any kind of drowsy medication. Nyquil knocks me off into the deepest sleep and now Valerian is bringing on the drooping eyelids. In fact, when I was younger, I would sleep talk and sleep walk when I was in deep sleeps. Lo and behold, my husband told me that I was talking to him in my sleep on Friday night. So, for now, much success with Valerian and I am planning on taking some tonight, as I'm trying to stay away from advil with this experiment.


Further updates on honey mask: I did the honey mask last week again. I made sure not to have self tanner on. But what I did following the mask was a bad mistake: I applied self tanner to my face after. What was I thinking? It's essentially like pouring dirt into your open pores. My face completely broke out. When I say broke out...think embarrassing middle school years. I refuse to believe it was the honey because I had such a good result last time. I am having so much trouble balancing self tanner and the herbal remedies for my face, so I have taken a break from the self tanner for a week. But I haven't done anything else yet either because of the horrible breakout.

But, good news, my husband wants me to try to make a rinse for dry scalps and I also have another friend who is interested. This is great and I will definitely have to have them keep me posted. I'm not sure my husband will be the best guinea pig as he usually doesn't have the patience, but I will keep checking on him. It involves apple cider vinegar, that's all I really remember...but there is also the fact of rinsing your hair for 2 minutes that might lead to some impatience on his part too.

Hopefully I will have a much more detailed post later as I will have more of my herbs and essential oils to play with! This was just an impatient rambling post.