I started making soaps thinking it would be a fun hobby...not the cold process method where you have to use lye, but more like the melt and pour kind.  Where you melt the soap base and add essential oils and color to it and shape it in different molds.  I made a brown sugar and vanilla soap that turned out really well.

Anyways, I was starting to get a collection of essential oils and thought I might try my hand at using them to help with different ailments like headaches and stress and sleeplessness.  While searching the internet I found a free online class called Introduction to Essential Oils at Aromahead.com and thought since it is free I will take that class so I can have a better understanding on using essential oil and make sure I do it safely.  I bought a essential oil  Geranium for a soap I was planning on making and the salesperson was telling me all the other uses I could use it for which is why I got interested in learning more.

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Off to Rhode Island and my new life today.  Rhode Island is the smallest state.  It is only 37 miles (60 km) wide and 48 miles (77 km) long, yet the state has a tidal shoreline on Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean of 384 miles (618 km).  It was the first state to declare independence from Britain.  I've only ever been there for a couple days at a time, to see hubby's friends/family, so I'm looking forward to the chance to explore. 

I just got a new phone with internet, yea.  We have a new TMobile plan, for $100 we get 10 gbs of data for each of our phones, along with unlimited minutes and text.  For another $10/line we can double the data to 20 gigs.  Hubby's been grumpy when I've used his data on the computer, now I have plenty of my own, and he's going from 5 to 10 and if he needs more I can turn on my hotspot and he can use mine.  And if I have extra data at the end of the month I can download games with it.  I've been using about 3 or 4/month being conservative, now I don't have to be... well, it depends on how much Netflix I want to watch.

Well, fellow fishies, I've just confirmed my return flights. 

I'll be leaving on 18 November and getting back home on 19 November.  I can't wait!


 

lilyr wrote:

And this answers my question about where you are stusue!   Yikes!  Almost a whole YEAR since you've been home!

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Actually, Lily, apart from a month back home over Christmas, when I got called back saying that Mum had only days to live, I've been here since July LAST YEAR!  So actually well OVER a year!



As to how I feel, well, let's just say that feeling like death warmed up doesn't even come close.  I just hope I don't get any worse so that I can get everything organised before I go and am well enough for my trip home, which is 3 planes and over 30 hours!