I Have a New Deoderant! (and you should totally care)

Here is the story of my new deodorant

My boy, whom I love dearly, is always finding new web sites and caused to concern him. ( How he finds these thinks I have no idea) Recently he found the campaign for safe cosmetics which basically outlines all of the unsafe products that are put into the majority of cosmetics/shampoo/deodorant that could cause cancer and are highly toxic in large numbers.

Now the boy tends to get VERY passionate about these sort of things and immediately swore off all these products and would make his own shampoo and soap from natural products. OK, I have no issue with that. But then he said that he was swearing of his deodorant as well.... that I have a HUGE problem with, I love him, I do, but he tends to get stinky. Thus my epic quest to find a deodorant that was in compliance with the Campaign for safe Cosmetics began.

 After much searching I finally found one such deodorant called the Crystal body deodorant which uses Ammonium sulfate which is totally non-toxic, better yet it works. Added bonus: It is completely orderless (Unless you want it to be of course.) It goes on clean skin and keeps those nasty stinky bacteria away.

I tired it out for a few days at my place of employment, which for me at least tends to be very physically active, and it worked just as well as my old deodorant.

So I recommend you checkout the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, support their cause and switch to less dangerous cosmetics, and deodorants.

Thursday Photodump!

Pride and Prejudice

Hey all sorry I have neglected to update thus far this month School and Work have been keeping me pretty busy this semester. Happily though I have finally finished my first book on the BBC 100 list and here is my reaction for all of you.

 

This book opens with one of the best quotes ever. " It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." The rest of the book is based around the assumption that this quote is true.

The story centers around two romances, one between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy and the other between Jane and Mr. Bingley. Elizabeth is our protagonist and one of the only sensible women in a novel of increasingly vapid females. Pride and Prejudice read like the typical modern chick flick: Boy meets girl, girl hates boy and boy hates girl, boy and girl are thrown together, boy now likes girl, girl rejects boy, girl sees different side of boy, and finally girl and boy get together. They live happily ever after, normally I am not a fan of films or books like these, but Austin has a way of making even a non-romantic like me want to read on. 

The good

Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner: These two are from what I can tell the only sensible people in the entire book. As Elizabeth and Jane have either absent or idiotic parents these two step in.

Elizabeth: Ah finally a female character I can get behind. She is smart, can converse well and is one of the few characters in the book I did not want to strangle. For me her character is what makes this book likable.

Mr. Bennett: Ah my Mr. Bennett now this is a guy I can like despite his failings as a parental figure. He communicates through sarcastic humor, necessary when he is surrounded by some of the worst females in the book. His wit is what got me through the first few chapters of the Book had it just been Mrs. Bennett and her daughters I would have given up.

The Bad

Mr. Colins: Reading scenes with this guy in them were positively painful. I felt embarrassment for this guy whenever and wherever he opened his mouth. He reminded me of that friend that every group has that is so awkward that the group tries to exclude them from everything, but shows up uninvited anyway.

Mr. Darcy: I know he is supposed to be this book's heartthrob of whatever but I really can not stand this guy. He is an unbearable snob the entire novel and in his proposal to Elizabeth he just reiterates how unsuitable she is because of her families station. He deserves a smack upside the head and I am very sad that I am unable to give him one.

Mr. Bingley: Oh poor, poor, gullible Mr. Bingley. Yeah he is a nice guy, but he is way to nice and simple for my tastes. He lets his sister and friend manipulate him away from Jane because they think her to be inferior. The real reason I do not care for his character is that he is so one dimensional and bland, he is just the nice guy that dates Jane, nothing interesting here.

The Ugly

Lydia: Oh Lydia, Lydia, Lydia I spent the entire book wanting to strangle you. You are the most idiotic and selfish of the female characters in this book. Just thinking about you makes me angry and you deserve what you got in the end.

Miss. Bingley: Her like Lydia is one of the recons I hate the female characters in this book. All she cares for is her station and looking down on those who do not compare with it, including the Bennetts. She is particularly cruel to Jane by separating her from Mr. Bingley, and trying to ruin her brother's happiness.

Mr. Wickham: Wickham is one of those snakes in the grass, a character that at first seems so perfect that you just know he is going to turn out to be a slime ball. He like Lydia really deserved the crap life he got in the end.

I don't usually like books with a sappy romantic plot but I really enjoyed reading this book. I think it is because I spent more time obsessing over how vapid the other characters were that I could not bring myself to hate Elizabeth. However if you do end up reading this book I recommend supplementing with sparknotes or something similar. Primarily because this is a dialogue intense book and it tends to jump from character to character without much warning. So if your anything like me and have trouble following the dialogue just read the sparknotes for the chapter you just read in order to better understand the flow of conversation. Over all a fantastic read especially if your into British Literature. 

One down, Seventy-nine to go! Next book: Emma - Jane Austin

Recently I saw the documentary “The Cove” on Animal Planet, and was thrown through a loop between “oh my god these guys are awesome” and complete disgust directed to the people allowing this to happen.

For those of you who do not know the film follows a team of activists and filmakers who try to expose the dolphin slaughter that happens every year in the town of Taiji Japan. This is facilitated by Ric O'Barry who once captured and trained the dolphins for the show “flipper” O'Barry has since advocated for releasing all dolphins from captivity and is one of the leading dolphin activists. The majority of people is Japan have no idea that this is going on and O'Barry has made it his mission to show the world what is going on and force the Japanese government to stop the slaughter. Parts of it watch exactly like oceans 11 but better, because these people actually exist and are trying to do something good for the world. 

That is until they finally do get images of what goes on in the cove. The final minutes of the film were some of the most depressing I have experienced and more than that it made me so angry at what is going on. This needs to be stopped so I'm asking you to watch the film rent it, borrow it, watch it online.

Then go to the cove's take part website and see what you can do to get involved http://www.takepart.com/thecove

Sign the petition

Get involved and stop the slaughter

Thursday photodump!

Here my lovely little cherubs is my weekly photo dump of all the things on the interwebs that made me smile :]