nightly routine - winter

in the winter time, weather is dryer, and i have more money from not larping so much, so i get more tattoos. apparently.

anyway. i start by taking a shower and using one of my lush shower jellies (they are the best). i alternate between the seasonal snowman one and sweetie pie.

after my shower, i lounge around in bed for a while while my hair dries. even though i live in a rain forest, i find that winter is still a bit of a dry time. especially with hot showers. a lot of my nightly routine involves ~moisturizing~ various parts of myself.

now, currently, i have several new tattoos and my moisturizer of choice is the funk off vegan tattoo lotion. i got it from etsy. all of their products are amazing, by the way.

after moisturizing my tattoos, i move onto my face. i like going in an order that involves least greasy to greasiest of moisturizers. for my face, i'm currently loving the etude house play therapy sleeping pack. it's some sort of collagen mask thing from south korea that you leave on overnight and wash off in the morning. it's quite nice and non-greasy, so i like it. on days my skin is super depressed, i use a thick shea butter concoction that i was gifted from an indie soap and lotion company around ann arbor. 

once i've moved on from moisturizing my face, i make myself some tea (currently i'm in love with alpine punch from david's tea here in canada) and put a movie on to go to sleep to. mostly because after this everything gets so slippery i don't feel like doing anything else. for my knees, elbows, feet, and any extra dry patches, i use the vanilla bean noel ultra shea body cream from bath & body works. it's all ~holiday~ looking and smells like frosting and is thick and perfect for winter. 

after my body is all weird and slippery, i get to work on my fingers. i use sally hansen's vitamin e nail and cuticle oil on my cuticles, massage that in and let it sit all night, then i use burt's bees shea butter hand repair cream. 

i smell so, so good when i wake up, it's insane. i also feel amazing. 

loot crate - october 2014

today, the mailman brought bradie and i our second loot crate. last month's theme was 'galactic', this month is 'fear', fitting for october, if you ask me! luckily for me, i tend to forget about loot crates until they arrive, it seems. this is lucky because, if i remembered, i'd spend most of the month impatiently awaiting the arrival of it.

everything about loot crate is well thought out and targeted exactly as nerds such as ourselves. the inside of loot crate boxes are always designed with the month's theme in mind. last month's looked like the inside of a space ship, this month is the inside of a boarded up garage with zombies attacking from all sides. 

the first item in our crate was a black t-shirt with a white skull on the front made of cats. 

you read that right. a skull made of cats. 

it is amazing. 

next, is a survival guidebook, how to survive a sharknado and other unnatural disasters. i'm especially excited about this, as it's a full-size book and ever since my first reading of the worst case scenario guidebook, i've loved all sorts of survival guides. the ridiculous spin on this one makes it all the more enjoyable. while absurd, the guidebook does offer helpful advice for actual scenarios one might encounter, such as how to jump into water from high up. 

each month, there is a loot crate pin button with the month, theme, and a themed picture on it. 

fitting in with the theme of zombies is a cartoony print featuring characters from the walking dead. i've only seen three episodes so far (i'm currently marathoning it as i write) and while i enjoy it, i don't really understand the reference. 

a small cardstock box printed to look like a bloody locker contains a miniature figurine weapon from dead rising 3. upon further fiddling with it, i've discovered that it's a pen! how adorable. it's called a sledge saw, and for good reason. the skill-saw portion of the weapon is the pen cap and you write with the sledgehammer. 

this month's loot crate magazine comes with 3d glasses and some 3d illustrations. the magazine contains articles related to some of the loot, as well as descriptions of everything included in the box. 

in addition to some horror-injury (vampire bite, werewolf scratch, etc.) themed temporary tattoos, there's a toxic waste sour candy, and a special loot crate edition of the walking dead comic #132. this month's downloadable loot is a skin for the game 'smite'. 

all in all, i'm extremely pleased with this month's box and i can't wait to find out what the theme of next month's will be. on the bright side, this month's crate arrived earlier than last month's. 

(i did not take any of the pictures used in this post)