So apparently everyone had imaginary friends except me

I think this may be the reason why I'm so messed up. Everyone talks about imaginary friends like 'oh yeah, I totally had those' and I'm starting to realise that I never had one, or at least I have no recollection whatsoever of having one.

Are imaginary friends an important part of childhood?

Totally just bought 4 500ml bottles of Lush's limited edition Twilight shower gel

I love this shower gel so much. It came out about a year ago (for like a week because it was so popular) and I bought an itsy little 100ml bottle, which I have regretted ever since. It would have been better to get none over that tiny bottle. I love it so much that it has ruined my shower gel life. This is the only shower gel I want to use, but I can't use it all the time or it'll be gone.

It's friggin' delicious smelling, I wish I could drink it. I'm not a huge lavender fan, only when it's dried, but this shower gel smells so good. Its like lavender and musk and malty deliciousness.

Also it leaves my skin soft and doesn't dry it out.

So you should go buy it before it's not available anymore. It's awesome. I don't think it's available in Australia, not sure if it will be, it is available in the UK and US. I'd recommend buying it online from the UK website because it's a bunch cheaper than anywhere else.

Spidergate

Yet another spider has ventured into my room. This one is quite a lot larger than the rest.

He was hiding behind my laundry basket and scared the bajeesus out of me. This was three days ago...I haven't seen him since, I've been scared of touching anything I can't clearly see ever since.


In other news, my dog keeps on looking at me like this:

And I don't know what he wants.

A creepy guy on the bus creeped me out and that makes me mad

So this guy on the bus yesterday morning was being generally creepy, asking for my number, trying to get my home address, telling me that I smelled nice, etc. and it made me really uncomfortable and I'm pissed off about that.

I'm a feminist, so I'm pretty well versed in women's issues, specifically rape. I keep on reading all these stories about women being harassed and followed home and stalked and such and it freaks me out a lot. I've never had this kind of thing happen to me before, this is the first time a guy has hit on me and I've felt trapped. Usually it'll be at a party or something, they'll say whatever and I'll walk away. But on a bus I didn't have the option and that scared me.

This guy was sitting behind me, he introduced himself when I got on and asked if he could sit next to me, I said "...okay" and I now know that that was a bad response because he didn't take that as, 'she obviously doesn't want me to sit next to her, I should leave her alone.' he took it as me saying 'Okay! I would love for you to sit next to me.' So he sits next to me and I'm like, 'Oh shit, what do I do now?' He asks me all sorts of questions, all of which I give fake answers to, except when he asks me if I have a boyfriend. Stupidly, I say that I don't have a boyfriend. I could have ended all of this by saying that I had a boyfriend, I'm sure he would have left me alone if I had.

It makes me so mad that someone is allowed to make me so uncomfortable to the point that I feel like I have to lie in answer to all of his questions. I shouldn't have to worry about whether this guy will somehow find out where I live or that he'll stalk me and maybe rape me. It's complete bullshit that I have to feel so paranoid and anxious on a bus. I was literally shaking in my seat terrified of what was going to happen next.

He got off at the same stop that I did, walked next to me for a while even when I went an unconventional route. Eventually he had to go in a different direction to me. What makes me even madder was that he tried to kiss me, I turned my head so he just got my cheek, but it makes me so mad that someone feels that they have the right to do that without my permission.

The rest of the day I couldn't stop looking around me. It pissed me off that that ruined my day, I still had a nice time shopping with my friend, but I was paranoid and anxious all day.

Oh God, what did I just do to myself?!

I just drank two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in a cup of water. The internet told me it would cure me of my sinusitis (yeah, I'm sick yet again), but half way through drinking this cup of death a thought occurred to me. From my understanding, my stomach is in no way connected with my sinuses. I may have just drunken that horrible concoction for no reason.

Drinking apple cider vinegar, even diluted in water, is the worst thing ever. I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect it to taste quite as bad. Maybe because I saw "apple" and thought, 'hey, I like apples'. Let me tell you, it does not taste like apples. It tastes like it will make me worse than make me better.

I'm worried that apple cider vinegar is supposed to cure the sore throat that can accompany sinusitis, but I don't have a sore throat.

If this doesn't cure me I am going to be so mad.

There's a cat in my garden so I fed it tuna

Sounds like the opening line of a storybook, right? Nope, there's a cat in my herb garden and it scared the bajeesus out of me.

There I was, weeding my garden, growing increasingly frustrated that the taps around my garden don't work and therefore I can't water my plants. When suddenly I hear a growling sound as I reach over the other pots to pull some weeds from around my chives plant. I pause like, "what the truck was that?", realise that something is growling at me from the bushes and jump back, my hand at my throat. Not even kidding, I had a flash of that scene in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban where there's a wolf thing growling at Harry from the bushes as he waits for the Knight Bus.

Anyway, it turns out it was cat. A very angry cat from having me disturb its hiding place. Well it shouldn't have been hiding in my garden, now should it?

So I brought it some tuna hoping to make a new animal friend, but that just seemed to make it angrier.

August Lust Have It! box

I was so stoked when I received this, I've been looking forward to it all month. I was a little disappointed that it didn't come in a little makeup bag like it did for the past two months. It came in a white box with a black ribbon tied around it, looked nice, but I couldn't use it for anything.

tanGo Tanning Glove

I don't really know what I'm going to do with this since I don't self tan...I can't think of any other uses. Objectively, it seems nice. It's one of those microfiber towels (not a glove), small, soft.

Tigi Rockaholic Rock Out Shine Blaster

I was so excited to try this! I am a huge fan of Tigi products, I love the packaging and concepts behind the products.

Rock Out feels silicon-y and smooth when smoothed through the hands and applies to the hair without leaving a residue or weighing it down. It softened the hair and left it with a nice shine. I think this would be really good for after using heat styling products, especially after straightening.

Appelles Body Booster Skin Lotion, Body Bar Vegetable Soap, Skin Detox Shower Gel - all in the Wild Berry scent

Over all, these products smell amazing. Really delicious. My first thought when smelling them was apple and raspberry. It's a really sweet fruity scent and I love it.

I haven't tried the shower gel yet, so if I think it's any good I'll review it later.

Appelles Body Bar Vegetable Soap

My favourite of the three, I use this as hand soap by my bathroom sink and every time I wash my hands I end up smelling them for ages afterwards. So delicious.
It's a lovely red colour, lathers into a milky foam and the scent stays on your hands for quite a while. I wash my hands a lot because I'm a bit weird, so my hands smell like it all day.

Appelles Body Booster Skin Lotion

I was well excited for this also, has the same scent as the soap and moisturises quite well. It's an oil based lotion, so it packs a good moisturising punch and it isn't tested on animals, so that's a plus. It comes in quite a small bottle (I believe the one I got was full size), so I'm not sure you would get many uses out of it or how cost effective it is. Probably wouldn't buy it again because of this, but I love the scent, so I'll definitely buy the soap.

ModelCo Eyeliner in Black

Not a very creamy eyeliner, it's quite...thick? If you can describe a pencil that way. Like it doesn't go on very smoothly and is kinda dry, so the colour isn't very black and it would be hard to make precise lines.

However, the dryness of it makes it surprisingly waterproof. I took this photo yesterday and still have a bit of the eyeliner on my hand. And I tested it on my hand before I tried the Appelles soap, so even with soap and water it didn't come off. It's possibly too waterproof, I don't know how you'd get it off at the end of the day.

Marc Jacobs DOT

I'm not a huge fan of this perfume, probably won't purchase the full size, but I think I'll use the tester atomiser.
It's a bit too chemically for me, I'm a big fan of natural scents, mostly florals. This smells kinda like passionfruit and pineapple and chemicals at first spray. As it dries it's a lot softer, and goes kind of sweet and musky. I want to describe it as vintage or heirloom, but I don't think perfumes are generally described that way.