My favourite protein supplement

This is my favourite protein supplement.

It is 131 kcal for 30 grams of protein. It also has some vitamin B6 and B12.

I mix each into ½ litre of water and usually drink one after training.

Since protein is 4,1 kcal per 1 gram of protein, it’s only 8 calories “extra” after the protein. This is something I look for when I pick a protein supplement.

It comes in different flavours:

Apple/Lime (Not so good)

Cherry (Good)

Orange (Good)

Pineapple/Mango (Not so good)

Pink Grapefruit (Icky)

Raspberry (Good)

So close I can almost taste it

Just one little test tomorrow and it’s summer holiday for me.

I seriously can’t remember the last time I’ve had so few plans for an entire summer!

After tomorrows test, my next “have to” on my list is august 27th!

This needs a little something…

Ah.

There. Much better.

Hehe.

Anyways.  I want to make the most of my wonderful free time and finish off a lot of projects I’ve had rattling around in my head.

Seriously sour duties

I have an issue with taxes I need to work on. I might just have to mail them and that will fix the problem, but… Urgh… Taxes.

Work and school related

Going to work on a “sister”-uni’s website a bit. Its semi-volunteer work, but it looks good on my CV and I can do it from home

I borrowed a bunch of nonfiction to read. Maybe I should make a habit of a one hour study session every evening?

Family

My beloved grandpa died 2 months ago. It wasn’t expected, so it left everyone a little rattled and has caused some issues in my family

My aim is to go to Denmark to visit them twice during the holiday

Home improvement

The lights in the living room and kitchen need some work

We need to get some new stuff for the bed too

The curtain in the living room needs to be put up in a different system. It will require some drilling and sweaty work

I want some hooks and a planner up in the hallway. It will be the logical place to check for daily plans or put out things you need to return, remember or fix outside of the home

One day trip to Ikea should fix most of it

Generally

Be a good little housewife and do all the chores since Hubby has to work and I don’t

See my friends a lot!

Declutter and put up my unused hair things for sale or trade

Meet up with Rockpaperscissorlizardspock (Yes?)

Get my ass together to decide on a new laptop

The shallow stuff

I want to get more serious with hair and skin stuff

My plan is to set up a serious schedule and maintain it. Since Hubby will be working and I won’t, I have the evenings to myself (Just feels weird to do girly maintenance around him. Hmm)

Get back in a supplement routine

Blog stuff

The broken images need replacement with the functioning links. Yea, that won’t take forever…

Have a bunch of posts ready and queued up for when I get busy again so my blog doesn’t run dry so easily

I have a bunch of ideas for articles, solid and researched stuff instead of the pulp I’ve been putting up for a while. I’m quite looking forward to this: I like the research and organisation necessary to post final results that are read-worthy

Awesome beauty-haul

Seriously the best skin mask I have tried, ever. It left my skin feeling absolutely clean and soft. Wonderful stuff. I recommend it warmly (Just remember not to put it on too thinly or it becomes difficult to peel off)

Limited edition “Into the ocean” of Davidoff’s Cool Water. It was a major nostalgia trip for me. The ordinary version was “my” scent (Along with millions of others) in the mid 90es until it was replaced with CK one (Along with millions of others). The limited edition is a bit more spicy and fresh, so this was instant love.

Wonderful body lotion for my sensitive skin. It’s not too light and not too heavy either, so I will try the facial line soon too.

A bag friendly water spray for the skin. Absolutely a must-have for the beginning summer heat!

How I wore it this Christmas

What are these things called?

Santa-hat? Christmas hat?

My English vocabulary needs some work.

Anyways, I found a super long one last Christmas. It reached all the way to about mid calf, longer than my own hair.

I wore it with the tail wrapped around my bun. Quite comfortable and very festive IMO.

(Of course there were some negative comments, but those were from the people who will find something to complain about no matter what)

Hair bingo

Everyone seen this one?

I think it is absolutely brilliant.

Wish I knew who originally made it.

Tried some new leave-ins

I was feeling fancy and wanted to try some new leave in-products instead of my usual orange Sunsilk.

I even had grand plans of making an in-depth analysis of them.

I didn’t really get around to it though.

First, the Aussie product (Granted, in association with two other Aussie conditioners) annoyed me so much with its scent that I gave it away.

It’s not even an unpleasant smell, it’s just so damn strong I couldn’t ignore it in the room. Weirder still, it seemed to give off a “puff” of smell every time I moved them?!

Then the Frizz ease made my skin break out. Hair didn’t mind, but my skin absolutely hated it and started itching on my hands and scalp. I don’t intentionally put leave in-conditioner on my scalp, but some will “travel” after I put it on the length and comb my hair into an updo.

The Toni&Guy leave in seemed nice enough. Too heavy for my taste and way too expensive though.

Meh. No reason to waste too much energy on products that just didn’t work for me.

The culprits: Itchy, Smelly and Expensive.

Curls

I was caught in a rainstorm before lunch and when I came home, my loose hairs had formed the most perfect little S-curls.

I loved them!

How can I recreate them in a way that doesn’t involve nasty cold rain?

Close-up of today’s crown wrap

BB cream

Anyone else still using these or has the hype passed?

After lots of experiments with mine, I have ended up only using mine in one way: In a 50-50 mix with my regular day cream on days where I just need a light cover and glow.

Thistle oil

The first oil I ever had any success with, was thistle oil.

It was completely random: I had bought it for cooking use and on a whim, I put some in my ends and wrapped a plastic around it.

For the first time ever, my hair didn’t throw a fit over oil.

Up until then, it always felt like I was “missing” out on something. It seemed like all other longhairs had the whole oil-thing perfected and had amazing results with it and just couldn’t live without it.

Me? My hair turned into a horrible stringy mess if I tried to oil it.

Up until that very day where I put it in the ends like that day.

Since then I have made oils work for me.

I still can’t use any on the top half of my hair without irritating results, but I don’t feel the need to force it to work.

However, I haven’t been able to find thistle oil since then.

Not that I have put a lot of effort into it, I have just been checking the oil-sections of most supermarket I have been in.

Now, randomly I found it.

And I’m very excited to see if it’s actually any good…