Skin, kids and getting things done!

So I've had not so good skin for many years. In high school I had approximately 100 zits on my forehead for a good few months. I've had bouts of good skin, but for the most part, I worry about being the person with the 'bad skin'. It sucks.

Recently I've gotten a brutal patch of nasties on my neck, under my jawline. They really suck, they're really ugly and they F'ing hurt. These aren't your regular day to day, garden variety zits. These are zits that take about a week to develop, don't really develop and take about a month to go away, all the while leaving a nice little subcutaneous bump. Eventually that subsides, but that takes about TWO months.

For crying out loud, I'm 30... not 15! I know all that stuff about adult acne, but come on!

I've been going to get facials for the past 6 months in hopes that I can tame them, but nothing. So a couple weeks ago I decided to give Proactiv a try. Those TV commercials really wear you down, I say!

So the day after I tried the 'refining mask', they actually looked better. I was shocked. Perhaps it was just that the redness was gone. I've been using everything for about a week now, and while my skin looks better... it has also dried out a lot in areas where the zits are not. To the point where it feels scaly. Hence I didn't use it two days ago and was very selective when I used stuff last night.

We'll see how this goes, but I am cautiously optimistic that this Proactiv will get rid of these horrible zits. I'd like to care about other things, thanks.

Not so good segway...

On Wednesday we had some friends and their kids over for dinner. I've had a personal belief that these kids can be problematic. Their parents are pretty relaxed in how they are raising them, and I have a hard time with that. I was all worried that our house would become a battle zone and that I would have to spend hours cleaning up... but I didn't. They were far more controlled in our house than in theirs. We had a nice night.

With all this parenting content on my blog, I should probably have kids of my own so that I can show people how it's really done right? ;) The sick thing is that I believe that to a point...

Another poor segway...

And back to the house content, because it's oh so exciting. We had a plumber drop by last night to check on some of the stuff around the house.

Stuff like:

__- everytime the kitchen sink drains, a bit of water ends up in the dishwasher and then it sits ___there (because we don't use it). It's nasty. We're getting that fixed.
__- everytime the sink drains, the connection to the main drain in the basement leaks... pouring
___water all over the basement floor. Fortunately the floor drain is only 6 feet away.
___Fortunately that will now be fixed.
__- He's installing a water filter we bought for the house. Bye bye chlorine!
__- fixing some of the work we did in the bathroom - no we're not professional plumbers...

We could have addressed some of this ourselves, but instead, we're actually getting it done and are able to move on to other things on our list of 47 things to do. PLUS, we might even get rid of the 'false drain' in the basement. Apparently years and years ago there was a big scare about how rats could get into your house via the drain and up into your toilet. So they installed all these false drains that vent to outside and have a fun little trap to drown the rats that can't swim (seriously!). Anyhow, it's a good 'main drain' sized pipe (cast iron? huge galvanized pipe? I don't know) that will now be gone. It's in a seriously inconvenient spot, so getting rid of it will be good.

So that's another update from around here. Pretty boring, but very much my life right now!

Have a great weekend! I'm going to spend mine outside and listening to some great live music at the Hillside Festival. We'll be seeing Broken Social Scene, Danny Michel, Hawksley Workman and many others. I can't wait! I just hope the rain can!