Monday, May 25, 2015

Summer!

Passed my biology class! Yay and got an A for japanese class :)! Now its summer and I'm going to be visiting NYC and my home country in Vietnam... so no summer classes for me. Anyway, I actually made something productive with a graphic program on paint.net

It's a picture of me with hearts over my eyes... I've always wanted to do that and never had the time to, well now I do. I don't think I did too well on it but it's ok.

PS. I wanted to put hearts over my eyes because I think my eyes look creepy! I look way better with something covering my eyes ;D


I hope you like it ^^ :P ! <3

Monday, March 16, 2015

Personal diary entry #145

Hello! So many things have happened in my life so far. Like, ending up in the mental hospital again around November after my car crash accident. This is because I couldn't get to my daily niacin supplement... Now I am trying to recover from the prescription drugs I have taken that was supposedly supposed to help me ... Mentally. But. The drugs did not make me feel good! I also lost connection with my body and my belly was looking like I was pregnant all the time! I couldn't even play video games and winning was hard. Heard that it lowers your dopamine so that explains my lack of rewarding pleasure in everything. So I had to quickly come up with a solution to solve my problem with impulse control. I remembered the one movie called culture high where a little boy suffered from seizures everyday. Until his father found cbd. It saved his life, and stopped his seizures. He was also on lots of prescription drugs. And so I was desperate to stop taking prescription drugs so I bought some cbd too. I'll have to say, that hopefully cbd is more natural than niacin and does prevent me from paranoia and suspicious behaviors. And I really do think that it's helped. Another good thing is that it's in liquid form so I just keep it in my bedroom.

I also got a blood test done after a while of being on these new prescription drugs... (4mg) of risperidol (I feel that is way too much) and it showed that my hemoglobin was lower than average but just by about 1-2 digits. I googled what it was and it shows its responsible for bringing oxygen to your brain in your blood. As the days passed by I realized that I might actually be a little anemic. I didn't think much of it until just recently, the not being able to breathe (I would be trying to take deep and deeper breaths but stl didn't bring enough oxygen into my brain) happened. It has felt like I was going to faint or die from lack of oxygen flowing to the brain if I didn't do somegthing. And I figured that I should have enough iron levels because I eat lots of real food. So it must be the b12 since I am vegan. I know that you can make it in your gut but I needed something to fix this as I probably wouldn't be able to absorb much b12 since I just got off using strong prescription drugs. And well what do you know, the b12 supplement has improved my quality of life by milestones! I feel like I am doing more and best of all can breath normally. In fact, I have been able to start (that's easy) and actually FINISH (that's hard) sewing pieces of fabric! I just made my very own hemp pencil case using scraps from hemptraders.com (that sites awesome). I wanted to put all my toxic utensils in it and store it in my car. I didn't want them to be in the house anymore... I can feel the it in the air that it is toxic. And if you have read my essay that I wrote about earlier, you will know why. I vow to never buy anymore plastic pens and pencils! They can be so toxic that you don't even want to use them. Many things feel very unnatural when using these types. There's a huge difference when you're holding an organic stick versus a plastic pencil. Also, the reason why I decided to put these utensils in a hemp bag is because I was watching videos about these hemp concrete walls and found out that the hemp fibers actually store carbon or something from the air. I just know that if you put natural organic chemical free fabric on something toxic, it will be 'neutralized' in a sense. 

Anyways, around the time of my car crash... I think... I also got a new mattress! But not just any old conventional mattress... But an organic 100% natural latex free of chemicals! Along with my pillow. It was great! While on niacin, I wouldn't get uncomfortable red and itchy while on the mattress. I suggest that you also switch to one to if you haven't already done so... Because you spend a good part of your life on that mattress. 

Monday, December 22, 2014

Plastic free laptops

I'm pretty sure plastic free laptops don't exist. I searched everywhere but they all have the same plastic keyboard. Even Apple does. 

Recycled wine corks

There's a lot of alternatives to plastic that I have found online. These include plastic recycled wine corks that you can use for bottles instead of disposable plastic caps.

http://www.amazon.com/Premium-Recycled-Corks-Natural-Around/dp/B006BF7BBE/ref=sr_1_17?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1419253731&sr=1-17&keywords=used

This is what I would be using to seal bottles instead of plastic caps you get from stores.

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Going plastic free

For a long time, after watching Beth Terry and being educated about 'plastic pollution' due to internet media and newspapers... I decided to cut back on my plastic pollution. But I still did not really think about it and thought that all that plastic could be recycled. However, as I was taking my English College class for my Fall 2014 semester... I realized that it wasn't completely true. See, my topic was about plastic pollution because I knew that it was a very toxic substance because it isn't natural and made from oil that belongs in the ground. My basic knowledge was that plastic took 20+ years to biodegrade and that it should be recycled. Unfortunately, this was just a back up marketing tool for them to make us use more plastic and 'recycle' it. As I started to research my topic for my essay on what should be done on plastic pollution... I found out that plastic actually lasts forever and doesn't biodegrade at all. Worst of all, most plastics can't be recycled as only a small percentage of all the plastic in the world that goes to the recycle centers are recycled. You can read more about this on my essay I did in class here. So after I found out about all this knowledge, I re-watched the lecture of Beth Terry in the Plastic Pollution Coalition. I realized why she did all these things now. I now plan on being completely plastic free and hope to find some products and post them here so you guys can have a chance to be plastic free also. I will be on a hunt for plastic free items. Beth Terry also has her blog called myplasticfreelife.com which also offers tons of plastic free products. For now I have one product that you can easily get without plastic today.


Dozenegg Harold Import Glass Citrus Juicer, Clear - I am proud to say that I have purchased this and it had come plastic free, including the packaging tape! I love this juicer and the juice that comes out of it has no usual toxic chemicals in it compared to those nasty plastic juicers.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Disposable Plastic Bubble Tea Straws... not environmentally friendly

I own a tapioca shop down in Pearland, Texas and that requires buying those Bubble Tea straws that you see online for wholesale. I realized that yes, they may help you run your business and make bubble tea or smoothies... but it can also ruin the environment. I noticed that I couldn't find any information about compostable smoothie straws. Wait a minute, never mind I just found some. They are actually called 'Jumbo Straws' ... not smoothie straws. But the even bigger ones for tapioca (bubble tea) probably don't have compostable versions. Yeah, just a did a google search for 'compostable bubble tea straws' and the results didn't come up with any legit 'compostable' ones. They do they biodegradeable... but how do you know if they are COMPOSTABLE. The best thing I can do is get the smoothie straws.