I have tried serums and oils sometimes (I turned 50 this year and in my late 40s I thought maybe I should try some stuff out) and all of them make me break out or my skin get weird. I do use good soap, though!
Do what your skin says is right for it, and glad you use good quality soap.
Not even trying to be an argumentative lil shit, but do you think it could have been the result of "skin purging"? And not necessarily a bad reaction to serums?
we have ended the on-the-mosquito-lunch-menu phase of the summer (a week in rural Maine with The Fambly) and are now returning to our natural habitat
this was the view from the mosquito buffet table as we kvetched to anyone who'd listen about Gordon's misleading account of the London Conference
technically neither have we. (we've been on numerous sail-powered vessels but none of them were schooners – mostly catboats and sloops, one ketch that called itself a schooner because it made the tourists happier, and one full-rigged ship that stayed happily moored, not that I blame the old girl)
I'd say you've got the sea-longing and are therefore obviously of the blood of númenor but don't you live by the sea anyway?
so either it's not that or it's REALLY that and you're gonna be the next Eärendil or Aldarion
bring me back a silmaril would ya?
I've done plenty of sailing in little 2-sail craft (maybe Flying Juniors? One mainsail and a jib and easy to flip) in many, many summer sailing classes on the Willamette (leaving from a dock in Sellwood) but I've never been at-sail in a larger craft. I'd like to experience it someday!
maybe we'll go to sea again one day, but I absolutely draw the line at "sail power on the open ocean". the sea is a fickle, murderous bitch-goddess at the best of times and the less power i give her over me the happier I will be, generally speaking.
sailcraft, like nuclear power plants, are incredible feats of engineering that demand immense technical skill to operate and which I am perfectly happy to contemplate and observe but prefer to leave close proximity to while in operation to the professionals whom I consider slightly delightfully mad
can’t believe I’m posting this because I used to wish death to mosquitoes all the time but I live in Thailand and the mosquitoes have just… gone! I can’t remember when I last got bit…. it’s actually scary…. so at least they thriving somewhere and not… extinct 😳
same here, i really really hated on them, but this is surreal, they’ve just… gone! We can hang out at dusk in total comfort, no citronella 😁 no long sleeves, windows wide open, it’s unheard of.. I hate em but I know it’s very bad if a whole species vanishes…. so conflicted 🤣🤣🤣
oh no….. oh please no…. that hadn’t occurred to me cos (happily) we’re not an ‘at the forefront of’ kind of country…. now I want the mosquitoes back 😳😂😂
