Reads: I just finished Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story by Shanna Hogan. It was a good read, she did a very good job capturing the "It's Complicated" relationship between Arias & Travis Alexander. What surprised me was that she made me feel sympathy for Arias without toning down the details of the crime at all. Briefly, Arias & Travis were in a relationship for about six months or so, then broke up but remained friends with benefits. The dynamic between them was that Travis did not see a future with Arias at all, but he was still willing to sleep with her, & Arias was desperately in love with him & willing to continue the sexual part of their relationship if she couldn't have him in any other way. Add in her sociopathy & a probable personality disorder & there you have the slaughter that occurred. I am DEFINITELY NOT SAYING that Travis deserved what happened, & I do think Jodi Arias is too dangerous to breathe free air ever again. It was more a perfect storm of different factors; had Arias been healthy mentally, she probably would have been able to let go of her obsession with Travis & walk away. It's hard enough once you're in the mindset of "This man/woman is perfect for me, why can't he/she see that?" to drop it even when you've got things together upstairs. Anyway, good book, I recommend it, the author is fair to all sides involved.
Fragrance: I've been alternating between Eau Sauvage, John Varvatos Artisan & Shalimar. Yes, the first two are men's colognes, why not? ES is a wonderful scent that mixes lovely, lemony jasmine with citrus notes & basil. Artisan is orange blossoms, citrus & herbs. Both of them are like a cold glass of lemonade on a hot summer's day. As for Shalimar, well, it's a beast that opens with a shotgun blast of bergamot, leather & powdery vanilla, but it's a beast that melds with my skin chemistry, so don't even think about prying the bottle away from me.
Watching: Nothing, really. I don't have cable so it's hard to keep up with new TV shows, & I can't say I miss it. I do watch a lot on South Park Studios though. "The Hobbit" had me ROFL'coptering. I did watch The Europa Report & The Last Days on Mars via Netflix, those were both decent enough.
Outer: Last week this happened.
I took off 8-10 inches of hair, the most I've had cut in almost twenty years, & it's incredibly freeing. My hair is fine & thin, so this looks way better on me than my limp, straggly hair used to. In other appearance news, I've been acne-free for almost a month(!!!). I haven't been able to say that since I was twelve. I'm not sure if my skin finally decided to settle down now that I'm almost thirty, or if the products I've been using did it. I stopped using any products that contain fragrance, & I also switched my sunscreen from one with avobenzone to one that has titanium & zinc oxide in it & I think that really helped. Here's my current "big guns":
Retinol serum to tell my skin cells, "HEY YOU! BEHAVE LIKE YOU'RE HEALTHY!", two different strengths of BHA to exfoliate (the stronger is for areas where I tend to break out such as my chin, & to fade the marks from past breakouts), a vitamin C serum to brighten & that wonderful jar of hippy Vaseline in case I go overboard & get chemical burns/skin flakes/leprosy. Apparently all my skin wanted was some beeswax & propolis to act happy. Either way I'm satisfied.
Resolutions: Work out, eat healthy, drink less, write more. I'm sure I can accomplish those ;-)
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