Next to working – yes, I do this from time to time… or always? – I setup yesterday a new site for a nephew of mine who’s writing a book. And then I indulged into a new (short term) adventure and for this purpose  I also created a small sub-domain-blog to here and which is devoted to the main thing currently on my mind these past few days: the Accu-Weight diet – also called The Beads Diet – and losing weight. Almost 10 pounds so far in barely a week! Feel free to check it out at accuweight.marlyse.com. So yes, I’ve been keeping busy.

It’s about Vaseline versus Baby Oil.

Told you. Not for you. And you can put all that innuendo and/or sexual thought that’s creeping up in your mind right back to where it came from.

It is about one of these things which I believe in and have used for such a long time but at the same time I am sure that it is not broadly known which is plainly a shame as I think it that good. For this reason, let it be known:

My mom swears by Vaseline, I do by Baby Oil.

Seriously, Vaseline was her preferred sun cream lotion and to keep the skin smooth and all. Of course she’d go redder than a boiled crab in no time.

My point is not to use Baby Oil as a sun tan replacement, that would be pretty suicidal for your skin. I’m talking about a general “skin lotion”. Seriously. Already as a teen I hated the feeling that a normal skin lotion leaves: it is STICKY, no matter how much it is touted as fast absorbent. And when your skin is sticky, everything sticks to it and your skin remains tacky to the touch. Eek. Next to that it’s difficult to find a lotion that doesn’t smell like a whore house (it’s the perfume I’m addressing here, not the whores).

Fast forward to Baby Oil. Barely, if even any, smelly stuff in it. You say it is way more sticky than lotion because it won’t absorb? You only need to know how to use it. So here it comes, perfect application:

The moment of application is between completing the shower (or bath) and drying yourself. Personally I love the good old Johnson Baby Oil. Very liquidly in consistency, perfect lightness, so do not get the Gel like one, it takes too much force to push out the bottle and is too thick in consistency.

Either pour some into the palm of your hand or squirt it directly onto the area you want to use it on (legs, upper arms etc.). LIGHTLY rub it in over the water pebbles which are still clinging to your body. When done, PAT yourself dry, don’t rub those locations. In spots you will have a bit more oil remaining then others. In light strokes go over those spots and spread (if needed) and it will leave your skin with a light, satiny feel – which smells only lightly and very pleasing. Your skin gets incredible soft and remains like that all day with this barely noticeable satiny smell.

In my world, Baby Oil definitely wins over Vaseline.

So I wiped down my whiteboard and made my list of things: 3 times a week study some code; 6 times a week the morning treadmill and so on. Every day I go over the list and mark with an X what I did on the list until I have 21 of them on each line. It is now not about 3 weeks nor 21, the challenge is sticking to the single points 21 times in a row, so the things which are on the daily list will reach the 21 goal within 3 weeks, but other things, such as painting will take 7 weeks… as long as I keep on sticking to it

Having A LOT of weddings and birthdays and house visits planned for this July it will be a real huge challenge. The biggest though being the getting side-tracked, just as this evening. While studying some Ajax it pulled me into related but different subjects and there went my schedule for the night. Not only did I not get as far in my studies as planned, I was also tempted to drop my daily post (yes, another point on my list of 21).

Phew, did it all the same and won’t miss a red check-mark for this item today.

Almost forgot to mention that today I cut my hair. Letting it grow from 1 inch to over shoulder length in only 20 months was fun – shocking my hairdresser constantly on how fast my hair grows during the process as I did have it trimmed every couple months to keep the flood of hair somewhat under control.

After weeks of frustration with them I decided that I need to change, as once again they were becoming more of a hindrance by either making me look like a time traveler from the 80-ties with a huge lion head, or losing myself (how I see myself, that which I feel expresses myself more truly and with more fun), while very often making me look more exhausted than I truly was.

So, here I am once again and looking more true to my avatar and definitely staying a lot more cooler during summer.