FridayTea

Let's have a moment of silence to lend support to the recovery of my beloved iPhone.
WHO FELL IN THE MOTHER EFFING TOILET OH MY EFFFFF HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN.
Currently iPhone is laying in a bed of rice, while I fervently wish for it's speedy and miraculous recovery.
This means no Instagram D= I am a little bit too interested in that app. Probably the thing I update most. Really, if you're interested in what's going on in my life, you'll get the most answers from Instagram.

So, it's a Friday morning, I threw my tea at my laptop because Fridays with PewDiePie still managed to have a damn jumpscare, and I am blogging because Boo is with her daddy. Probably going to watch the Little Mermaid later because I not-so-secretly have always wanted to be her. (Legitimately had a mermaid obsession for years.) Wah. If only I could be a Disney princess.
I should also clean up, considering when my mom was visiting the other day from Langley, she cleaned my entire house while I was at a movie with Vicky. (We saw Silent Hill Revelations. If you enjoy the games, you won't like the movie much. I can only relate it to what happened to Saw; The first movie was done fantastically, had an epic story line, made you think, just enough gore to horrify you a bit. Then the next ones were a mindless gore fest. Same thing here apparently.)

While momma was down she tried to get everything I needed to do done. Although I couldn't go for my tests because apparently I have to fast for 10 hours before them, and I have to eat shortly after waking or I get sick. Ew. Blood tests.
But she did take me to order a replacement birth certificate for Boo, so when that comes in 10 days I can apply for rental subsidy. I lost my second job, so things are really tight and i'm relying on all the familial help I can get, which totally feels shitty. As well, child tax should be coming in again this month, as I filed my taxes 2 months or more ago (I know, very late), and I received a letter end of last month saying I owed THEM 189 dollars or something. So much confuse. But it should just be taken out of my payback for not having child tax for a couple months. Not uber concerned, so long as I get it end of this month I can stop feeling so stressed. If I don't, at least I am making the exact amount to cover rent.
She also tried to help me get a green bin to recycle food waste. I agree with recycling, it's smart, but generally I won't go out of my own way to get it started myself. The city only allows one regular can of garbage to be picked up every two weeks though, and I accumulate far more than that. So I need to start splitting up my waste. The landlord was delivered one in October of 2011, but the last tenant must have taken it, so he told me to get another and take it off my rent. I also wanted a recycling bin, but you can't get them apparently. You just need to ask the garbage men for the bags. Which is silly. I did see plenty of garbage cans with the recycling bags taped to them though, so I may just get a smaller can and do the same. May as well help the environment, and myself.

I'm going to try and do two regular segments on YouTube from now on, and one random video a week (or at least every two weeks) that is beauty related. I want to share things I am passionate about and that I have experience in. So I'm going to restart my idea that I'd called the BodyMods Chronicles, which basically goes into detail explaining everything you could ask about a piercing, in under 10 minutes. I also decided that since whenever I feel like vlogging, I am in pajamas and look haggard lol, i'm going to initiate No Makeup Mondays, and that will be my vlogging day. I'll rock the jim jams, bedhead, and bare face. Most beauty gurus never show their naked face, and I think that's a little silly. Maybe because i'm a mom and have other things going on, so when i'm not going out or working, I don't want to put makeup on only to have to take it off. Besides, at the end of the day you have to take your makeup off, and you'll always look the same underneath.

I'll also try to share recipes and things i'm trying on this blog, and maybe i'll do the occasional Cooking With Barbie videos. I'm hoping to get a nice camera for Christmas, something just to take HD videos and photos for my makeup work, and YouTube of course. I'm considering doing a Reading With Barbie segment, where I start a new book every two weeks, and you can choose to read along with me or not. I'll start it by reading the first chapter aloud for my lovelies, as well as the blurb, and my anticipations for the book. At the end of the two weeks, I will read the last chapter aloud and share my impressions and opinion of the book. We'll see about that, but i'd love to include all of my favourite activities on my channel.

Here's hoping!