The fermented CLO daily has helped my rosacea and in general hot flashes (not that you asked but hey there it is.)

I’ve been drinking a lot of spiced wine lately and that flushes my face as well as exercise, otherwise it’s not really that noticeabled. I have been mixing sweet almond oil with rosehip oil, borage oil and evening primrose oil and putting that on my face since summer. It works at least as well as the fancy pants face cream I was buying for “aging” skin. First I spritz with rose water but roman chammomile would be even better for rosacea. Sandalwood & chammomile are the two recommended oils.

Last winter I was using emu oil which I loved but it went rancid before I used it up and I haven’t bought more. I got mine from http://www.flutterbyearomatics.com/ and I have to warn you her site is seriously addictive. I could spend days on there, in part because the navigation is not what it could be but wow what a resource!

I really need to give up coffee and switch to green tea but I’m just not there yet emotionally.

My husband said I should do a day in the life post and my initial reaction was that I didn’t want to overwhelm anyone. I tend to jump into things 150% and probably most people would give up at that level. I don’t sleep much and spend all my free time on the computer or in the kitchen or reading up on new things to try. I don’t really have a social life. I enjoy learning though so this is my form of continuing education.

I’ve been meaning to do a post on time management because there are ways of organizing your time that seem to free up quite a bit more of it. I do everything in waves, focusing only on that thing and ignoring everything else until I get it done. Otherwise you end up adding to your list and never getting anything off it. Then you get overwhelmed and it takes 50% longer to get any one thing done because mentally you’ve lost steam.

For instance, I catch up on blog reading maybe once a week. I respond to emails 3 x daily rather than as they come in. I let the phone go to VM and check that 3 x daily and return all those calls at once.

I don’t process orders in my store until after the kids are in bed and my kitchen stuff is done. I plan all the kitchen stuff the night before so that I can start everything together and just have a few steps in the morning to get things going.

The house I let slip and do one big cleaning a week. Otherwise you run around straightening up and cleaning only to clean and clean again when a week’s worth of dirt won’t really hurt anyone (says I…)

I try to stop and play with the kids during the day and really focus on them so they are more likely to let me get things done in an uninterrupted fashion the other times.

And I just have to accept that I can’t blog about everything I do because that would throw me over the edge, even though I want to.

Did I mention that I don’t sleep much? Not healthy but until my kids are in school full time and don’t need so much help with everything it’s the only way I’m going to have time to read and blog and try my wacky experiments.

The more you cook this way the more efficient you become as well. I remember watching my grandmother move about the kitchen effortlessly and in just a few minutes she would have started 5 pots of things, washed all the breakfast dishes and swept the floor. I thought she was magic. And she was.

I’ve been using the virgin coconut oil as a body lotion after showering almost daily since July and my skin looks and feel amazingly smooth. I have to be careful not to saturate the skin to avoid breakouts, though.

I like the idea of making a homemade lotion mixing coconut oil, water and essential oils. I think I’ll give this a try. Now, does it harden at room temps below 76 F?

A while ago you mentioned that you have rosacea prone skin. Me too, with very mild with symptoms, just some pink undertones and occasional flushing triggered mostly by exertion/heat. Since I started adding the right kind of fats to my diet, soaking grains, sweetening with raw honey and drinking lots of green tea, flushing has markedly decreased. This has also helped a lot with two coexisting conditions: seb derm and GERD. I’ve successfully treated the seb derm with raw honey and the GI issues started to resolve with the diet changes. No meds. Ain’t that grand?

Have you ever tried emu oil? I ordered a bottle a couple of weeks ago and started applying it daily on my face, after cleansing. It feels even better than the coconut oil.

I’ve been meaning to ask you… How many hours do you sleep? How many hours do you spend online/on the computer? Do you read books? Would you write a post about a typical day in your life? I would love to read that! You see, I am starting to think that I waste a whole lot of time daily and I can’t tell how, really. I mean, for example, today I seem to have spent the whole day in the kitchen yet all I did was start the soaked bread, make fish stock with shrimp heads/tails and a cream of callaloo soup. Three lousy things plus tidying up after the cooking. That’s it. If I had two kids, a business and cooking the traditional way for four plus all the other stuff you do, I don’t think I’d get more than a couple of hours of sleep!

XOX

You could do it w/o GSE and add some vit C or nothing at all and just use it up in a few months. It’s not hard to do with this weather! I was thinking about putting some lavender oil infused something in the kitchen right now to make me happier about cleaning it so frequently with all the extra xmas dishes. Sounds like you could use some too with all your water troubles!