It's 6:20 am and I'm
dressed and ready for the day. I still need to make an aeropress of the
Moonshine Coffee David got me in Minneapolis, but my rhubarb is roasting for
the Nutty Rhubarb Oatmeal I'm trying out by Pastry Affair. Today is going to
start well, at the very least.
For the first half of
the week David will be camp speaker at a little Bible camp a few hours north of
us, so I will be going to work each day and coming home to a blank canvas of
introverted possibilities.
I think tonight I will
be purging my bathroom closet. When I got married, many well-meaning ladies
from our church got me gifts of highly-fragrant lotions. I don't know, maybe
it's a subtle way for Christian ladies to say "congratulations, you get to
have sex!" but instead of lingerie gifts, which are equally awkward, they
buy these young brides lotions that reek like a bordello. Oi. I have a
sensitive nose to begin with, and on top of that, none of these lotions smell
like me. I can just see it now, a romantic evening alone with my husband, our
eyes meet, he takes a step to close the 20-foot gap between us, but before he
can, he meets the oppressive cloud of artificial fragrance and steps back in
fear and dread.
No. Thank. You.
I could never throw
these smelly perfumed gifts away before, they just formed a large pile in a
wicker basket in the bathroom closet, never touched, and for heaven's sake,
NEVER opened. Now I have overcome the mental barrier I had against getting rid
of it all. By deciding to a) go all natural and eliminate artificial/harmful
chemicals from all my foods and beauty products, and b) simplify my life so
that I live with less and am happy with less, I can now do a purposeful purge
without guilt.
Along with the perfume
grenades (otherwise known as any lotion/body wash made by VS or B&BW) I
will be purging my cosmetics. I'll be ridding myself of anything I haven't used
in the last 6 months, and anything older than 2 years. Cosmetics do expire, and
those that don't change at all in the course of a few years are probably LOADED
with chemicals.
I will reduce my
makeup down to that which can easily fit in one makeup bag. That's my
commitment. I wear so little of it now anyway, I should easily be able to
fulfill it.
As for smelly lotions,
they is gone, baby, gone.
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