Need to know...menstrual cups

Okay, I know it sounds gross or weird but a lot of people are really curious about them and I can tell about them from experience...and I love them! I first got my femmecup when I was in England because I really hate the idea of tampons because the bleach messes with the pH and also the fibers that get left "in there" are not good for you. Not to mention how much money us girls spend on tampons! Geez, we are paying to throw these things away and helping pollute the earth. I think I read somewhere that women go through 10,000 tampons in our lifetime...and that is a lot, so I wanted to try something that is a lot better for my body, my wallet, and the earth.

Femmecup! I heard about these oddly enough from a bathroom stall in London...I think it was the bathroom at Spitalfield Market. When I got out of the bathroom I asked one of my friends about it and she said her sister uses one and loves it but she hasn't tried it because, I don't know, it can be kinda weird. So, I thought it was a good idea to try and I went onto Amazon and bought a femmecup (there are many different brands, but femmecup was the one that was being sold in the UK, divacup is the one that is sold in the US.) Since getting it, I have fallen in love with it! It is not weird at all since I am pretty comfortable with my body. I never realized how many tampons I used before, but now knowing I don't think I would want to turn back to them.

I have realized that a lot of women are interested in trying them and they just have never tried them because they don't know anyone who has used it and they want a personal testimony about them. :) I am now that person and I have talked to one of my co-workers who has always been interested in them but never tried them because she has a latex allergy and when she was seriously looking into them, they were pretty much only made from latex but now they are more often than not made from silicone. So, I told her my opinions about them and she ordered one the other day! :) I am really interested in knowing what her experience is and I can't wait until she tells me...well I can wait, but you know what I mean.

If anyone has questions about them or wants to know my experience then I am more than open to talk, I think I have recommended them to about four people or so.

Not dead! Just busy!

I haven't posted in like a million years because I have been super busy being back in the States and all. I have mainly been bumming around and hanging out with friends and mah boyfriend! <3 Being back in the US is so weird because I am not hearing the British accent constantly, people are not speaking in different languages around me, there are a lot of trees, and people are not as polite in the US as they are in the EU. Overall, I am pretty happy to be back, even though I miss RHUL and everyone I met in England and other places...I want to go back soon...Jake and I are legit starting to plan when we are going to go back because he really wants to see the Lourve and I didn't get to go when I was in Paris, so I wanna go too! :P 

Bumming around has entailed, sleeping, cuddling, watching movies, making jewelry, going to yard sales, and eating. :) I have been making a lot of new jewelry that is on my Etsy shoppe right now. When I came home from the U.K. I had a bunch of change that I didn't know what to do with, so I started to make earrings out of them and bracelets, they are quite neat! I also had to restock my stuffs at Veggie Art Girl, so I made some more soda tab earrings and bracelets. 

Oh! The other day I went to a yard sale and I got a box of antique/vintage postcards and they are so awesome! I wanted to get them to send to some postcrossing peeps, but then I soon realized that I should save them and sell them because they are pretty old...Some are from 1906! Plus some of them have writing on them and they are super neat to read and look at the person's handwriting. I guess I am just a big nerd when it comes to history and other people's lives...I just taking a peek into their lives and what they wrote and how they wrote it. :P 

Hanging out with Dutch twins in London!

This is Fabs and Maurits just speaking Dutch...for all I know they are making sexual and racial jokes, but I don't speak Dutch so I have no idea...

So I went to London with Fabian to meet his twin brother Maurits! We met Maurits at the King's Cross train station and then went to McDonald's for "breakfast" even though it was like 12pm or so. They totally looked alike but I could easily tell them apart, but they did look oddly similar; I guess it isn't that weird because they are twins. Lol. 

After McDonald's we went to go to the Natural History Museum (or as Fabs says the "National History Museum) oh those crazy Dutch! :P But we walked around the Museum for awhile and looked at some pretty neat stuff. There was a Sex Exhibit but it was like £8 to get into and I didn't want to see animal sex for £8, but I would have totally seen it for free! Lolz. Oh! We did get to see a picture of swollen baboon genitals! *It was in the primates part of the Museum, so it isn't really that creepy.

Here is the main hall of the Natural History Museum with some sort of herbivorous dinosaur.

We then went to look for a pub for the boys to drink at, so we were walking around a bit and we finally found a place that looked neat enough to stop at. All I remember is that it was near the Covent Garden tube station, but it was so weird and cool looking there. There was a little alley but the buildings were painted in funky colors and when the alley opened up it was a small quad that had benches and a restaurant. So Maurits went and bought me a Coke and he and Fabs a Fosters from the corner store and they drank there. 

After drinking there a bit we headed to Camden Town to meet some of Maurits' Dutch friends that were there with him for a physics thing. I kinda felt awkward with them because they were all speaking Dutch and I had no idea what they were talking about and I always feel as though bad things are being said about me and I don't know...so it makes me feel bad. But Fabs and I went into this really cool store called Cyber Dog and it was a store that was all rave like and had anything needed for a rave (clothes, wigs, shoes, hats, make-up, etc,...) and there was a sex shop as well. The whole store was really neat because there was rave music blasting (not the creepy rape music that plays in Abercrombie) and black lights as the only form of lighting. OH the cashiers there or the clerks there were girls dressed up like go-go dancers in their rave gear and dancing, the males were just pretty much dressed in rave gear and standing there...but it was much cooler to see the girls dancing around AND being a cashier. :)

I am really glad that I actually got to meet Fabs' twin and I can't wait to see him again whether it is in America or Holland. :) <3

Sleeping at a strangers house in Spain = Overall success!

I went to Spain from the 22nd until the 25th of May and spent the night at my penpal's place. I had never met her but I did send letters and trinkets to her so I had a feeling that I would be okay. :) And luckily I am alive to tell about it! Vero was super nice and I had a really good time staying with her and her father (even though he spent the nights at his girlfriend's house). 

The first night I got there Vero picked me up from the airport and then went back to her house so her dad could cook us dinner. :) While I was riding in the car I could not help but gawk at the scenery because it was so amazingly beautiful. I was so happy to see mountains again because there is a distinct lack of them in England and really anywhere else I went...and I didn't really realize how much I missed them until I got to see them again. But Vero's dad cooked us tortilla for dinner and I loved every second of it! :D It was so neat just sitting at a table while everyone is speaking Spanish around me. :) After dinner Vero and I went to the old part of Santiago and saw the cathedral and where the protesters were spending the night. The protest was so cool because it seemed like a little festival, but it was a protest. Oh, there are protests going on all over Spain because of the extremely high unemployment rate, I think it is at 29% or so. But we just meandered around for a bit and saw the old parts of town and then we went back to her place. To finish the night we watched Jennifer's Body, which was amazingly awesome! It was mainly amazing because it was so terrible! I loved watching it.  :)

The second day was pretty much Vero, her friend Maria, and I walking around Santiago. We went to a cute park that use to be a cemetery and saw a bunch of happy couples which enraged Vero and I because we wanted to be those happy couples. :P We also went inside the cathedral which is a point of pilgrimage and there is a stone there where pilgrims would tap their heads on it three times and they would get a wish or something like that. But we went and saw that but the stone was roped off because it was damaged from people smashing their skulls against it. But I got to see the cathedral and the protest during the day and that was really cool! :) There was music and people having fun at the protest...it was nothing like a protest that I have seen or heard about before. After the old part of Santiago we went to the city and had a drink and to talk about what we would do the next day. When we finished the drink Maria went to go hang out with her boyfriend and Vero and I went to another adorable restaurant/bar that had a water mill. The water mill made me so sleepy because it was hypnotic. :) After we had a drink there we went back to her place and made ourselves dinner which entailed bacon, sausage, pepperoni, eggs, and some leftovers...and that dinner quickly turned into us having apples and oranges with chocolate. Yes, we had fondue! :) After we had chocolate and fruit we went and watched the Hunchback of Notre Dame before we went to sleep. :) I love old Disney movies! They are my favorites.

Day three was pretty exciting because we drove to A Coruña which is on the coast of Spain. It was so beautiful there and I was pretty much staring at everything. When we got there we went to see the Torre de Hercules which is the oldest light house in Spain or something and it was built by the Romans, but I really was more interested in seeing the ocean. :) We went to the beach and just dipped our feet in and it was so nice. :) I saw so many old women boobs there and it was very disheartening...I know my future now and it is not a good one. We eventually got lost trying to get out of A Coruña but we got home eventually and dropped off Vero's friends that were with us. We then went on a search for souvenirs that I could bring home...but my search yielded very little because it was like 10pm.. :/ After the search we went to dinner with Vero's father and his girlfriend. They were very nice and I am really glad that I got to spend time with them. :) Even though during the dinner I ate something that had alcohol in it... :/ My sorbet had some kind of alcohol in it and I didn't know that when ordering it but  I could totally taste it. It is all good though, even though I don't like the taste of alcohol. After dinner Vero and I got dropped off at her place and then we went to bad pretty early because I had to leave the next day.

On the fourth day we went to the airport at like 9:30am and I was so tired because we went to bed at like 3am, so I was more than tired. Saying goodbye to Vero was pretty sad because I loved spending time with her and her family. I know I will see her again so I am not that worried. :) Spain is by far my favorite place that I have been since being in the U.K. 


P.S. Vero has an amazingly adorable cat named Tikki and it was so nice being in a house with a cat again, but it made me miss my Tuukka kitten. 

Pictures of Vero and I! :D

May 12 of 12

I am too lazy to write descriptions...here are pictures and a video! :)