Saturday selfcare 🐝 & 🪐 rx

6.29.24

Good morning! I slept pretty deeply and for a little longer than usual (7:30am!) upper body has been percussion massaged. I’ll save my leg massage for early pm. The last couple days swelling has come down noticeably in the ankle and calves, size is a lot closer to normal, no longer an angry red itchy rash below the knee. It only took half a fucking year for my legs to improve 😆. I did recently change my laundry soap to All free and clear. Just incase the old one was causing more issues than necessary. The thickness of my feet hasn’t changed though. You can sink a finger in it and it pits. But it isn’t as painful now which is a relief. My legs were pounding the other day and then it was like they were getting better ever since. I was giving up hope.

I think the mānuka honey might just be a legit medicine. I also just started using this bee venom cream, it does more than moles and warts, says on the box it is for excema. I do have two raised moles on my shoulder, and one flat really dark one, I’ll try to see if it works to eliminate them. The dark flat one is fairly new, it freaks me out because I always think theres a bug on me 😂. No it’s just my mole.

I thought it might help the itchy area on my leg. I just have one remaining itchy spot on my right inner thigh that wraps around my knee and under into that knee pit behind it. Which is a horrible spot to be itchy! Also still using the bee venom patches too. Just an fyi, the bee venom doesn’t irritate skin, it isn’t like the lip plumping bee venom products. I’ll update when I use one up, I have two.

For my feet: I have seen people using Vicks vapor rub for swelling. Well, it’s worth a try considering I’ve tried a lot of things, it can’t hurt. So I’ll get the smallest Vicks I can and try it tonight with my massage ritual. If it helps I’ll get a larger one, I just don’t want a bunch of large tubs and tubes of stuff that didn’t work laying around I’ll never use again. I don’t have room for that.

So that’s what happening today, I feel like a sandwich from jj’s for lunch and some veggie noodles with Alfredo and steamed broccoli for later or tomorrow for lunch. Simple and cheap.

Other than that…not sure yet, maybe write, maybe art, maybe music. All of the above.

I got this mat to repot my plants sometime soon, they desperately need new soil. This will make it easier. I think I’m just going to take the baby succulents from the parent plant and let them start over in the goat planter. Hopefully they grow. Ps I don’t know what I’m doing, just guessing.

I’ll be meditating Saturn you don’t have to ask me twice. I love to. I may add on to this post through out the day. Check back later. Have an excellent day !!

Here’s a trippy art pic for missing art dump

9:28pm

I tried to write this a little earlier and the page froze up, so I had to restart my iPad. I lost the stuff and had to start over. Grrr!

Anyways I had a dinner plan change. I went with Qdoba, I don’t need to explain 😂, I just crave it and it’s fairly healthy and it is two meals for me and I wanted these xochitl tortilla chips. Was very good. Also I got this gothic cross ring in the mail today and figured I’d show. It is for one of my Halloween looks, but it is an any day ring for me. I got it because Mercari gave me a $10 coupon and I didn’t want to miss out on it. I basically got it for free but paid shipping. It was kind of like them reimbursing me for the one order I didn’t get paid for.

Earlier today I made a short movie of some footage of a trip through Death Valley I did in October 2019. It was really hot even in fall I can’t imagine how hot it feels in the summer. It’s name is no joke, go there prepared, no shit vehicles they won’t make it and nobody is coming for you, lol. Lots of cellphone signal dropping in the canyons. I was in a hurry so I unfortunately didn’t get to take as many photos as I would have liked to. It was the most beautiful place I’ve ever been, there is something appealing about the dangerousness of it aswell. Such a hostile desolate hellscape, but it is actually beaming with life if you look closer. The elevation is all over the place too, my dog Zita did not enjoy herself, the elevation changes made her sick. We stayed on otherside of the park in Lone pine/Mt Whitney area. Very nice little California town in the woods. I’ll post the video tomorrow on IG. Here are a few photos from it for you tuning in here.

I have always been fascinated by the place. When I was little everytime I visited my grandparents in West Virginia, my favorite thing to do was sit down with a few encyclopedias. 😂. It was a big deal in the early 80’s to have them! They were the leather encyclopedia Brittanica 1977, beautiful photographs inside and heavy AF! I would sit and stare at Death Valley and read it over and over again. When I was really young I wanted to be an explorer and lead expeditions I thought that would be cool. This was one of those places, but you know it’s already been discovered so I guess the job would‘ve been a tour guide. Such fantastic ideas that come to you as a kid, you never really doubt you’re going somewhere in life until later on. The first time I saw a glimpse of Dora the Explorer as an adult I laughed out loud for real. I thought huh, there I am. O’well. Death Valley happened to me, still I just got the senario confused. I’m glad I didn’t have to be a tour guide to see it because it would have sucked. See, the divine timing I was in made it happen how it was supposed to happen for me and made it a pleasant experience. More so than I would have based my whole life around it. If that makes any sense...The dunes were a surreal experience for me, I wish it were possible to go out to them but you can only do that at like 4am until sunrise, it’s much too hot when is the sun is out, and very far from the road. My love for the desert is something from another time and place very familiar, I’m trying to tap into the why, maybe I’ll know someday, it also seems like it is this desert in particular. Like there is something I should know about it. Ah anyways that is all I have on that.

Feeling good in the body, all massaged. Relaxed. Going to do the vapor rub tomorrow in the am though. I’ll be up for a while, but calling it a night here. Going to listen to music. So, good night 🌙