How to make green tea, honey and aloe salt scrub

ok so i am being cheap for christmas gifts this year and making all my own gifts for my friends and family. if i do not make it then it was free from somewhere like a free magazine subscription that i found. so i like salt and sugar scrubs and they are expensive. yeah yeah you know the shpeal. here is the recipe... 2 cups salt (i used what i had on hand and that was regular table salt cause i realized i had like 4 of them in the cabinet) 1 cup oil (again used what i had on hand just plain ole veg oil, i did not want to feed it to my family because of all the GMO outrage and bla bla bla, you can use coconut oil, olive oil, grapeseed oil, whateva) 3/4 cup freshly scooped aloe vera (yes straight from the plant and it is sticky and slimey and gooey and it was way too much fun and my kids were mad i would not let them help) 2 tablespoons of honey (the better the honey the better health benefits will help heal cuts bruises and all that. i had some on hand that my kids help remove from the hive) 2 tablespoons of loose leaf green tea, the bigger the leaves the better it looks. ok so for the aloe plant break off a leaf at the bottom split it open with a knife and just scoop out all the slimey pulpy goodness into a measuring cup until you get 3/4 cup. throw out the green skin. seriously just that easy add all the ingredients to a big bowl and get in there with your hands and squish it all together it will end up kind of like wet beach sand. then just stick it in a jar and call it a day. you can pretty up the jars and give them as gifts. now i think this would be super duper for feet. word of caution dont use it while standing up in the shower. you will fall on your butt and it will hurt. you know that addage water and oil dont mix yeah so slippery slippery. i tried to upload pics but for some reason it is not letting me so i will try again later. P.S. yes i know there are spelling errors, i am sure there grammar errors, i dont mind i am sorry if you do. i hate editing it requires too much left brain stuff and i just dont use mine often. so dont hate. :-)

hmm

so i watched this movie called, forks over knives, on netflix. i have decided we are going vegan. plain and simple. i was amazed at what i saw and what i learned. ok so amazed is not the correct word, more like disgusted, grossed out, nausiated, horrified, and possibly a little ashamed. a friend of mine recommended me to this movie and i had been like "yeah right, crazy lady rebecca wants me to watch a movie about why i need to give up meat. yeah right it ain't happening." so i was bored and there was nothing on t.v. hubbs was not home blah blah blah, i gave in and watched it. you need to watch it, seriously, WATCH IT! so now i guess i need to figure out how to make meatloaf without meat. grr any suggestions would be appreciated.

An odd thought.....

so just a warning, i do not generally check my punctuation, my spelling, my grammer or any of that.  i start in on a thought and frankly i am just too lazy to do a "final draft" as my high school english teacher would require.  OK. so on with my stuff.

i sit here in my big comfy chair at 11:15pm with a major case of snack attack.  I go to the cupboard and find that almost of my cookie crisp cereal has been eaten.  yes i know there are 4 tiny little people in this house who also enjoy them but really i dont want to share.  do you think that our parents ever had thoughts like that?  do you think that our parents were like, "step away from the cookie crisp cereal and no one gets hurt!' i am not a big fan of whiney kiddos and sometimes i really just dont want to fight the battle of why you have to eat your green beans or why you have to have some chicken before you eat half of a pan of brownies, BLAH BLAH BLAH.  because honestly there are days i just wanna skip the chicken, the green beans, the tossed salad ALL OF IT and just dig into the pan of brownies and ice cream and chocolate syrup and sprinkles and chocolate chips.  But i dont think my mom ever had those thoughts.  i swear the woman was perfect.  and dont even get me started on my gram.  she has perfectly portioned meals all the time and a wonderfully clean house, change subject because my organization skills and "womanly" duties really need work.  ok so what was i saying?................oh yeah junk food.  do you think as parents we will ever just "grow up" and become that adult that we laughed at when we were younger.  because i swear to you i do not feel like i am 25 plus shipping and handeling.  (yes speaking of my age, no you dont need to know what it is)  i still feel like the day i graduated from high school, well aside from the 30 or so (maybe more) pounds i have put on since that day or the single grey hair i found (shh i plucked it no one knows about it lets keep it between us) but i do not feel like i am getting older, yeah sure my kids are getting older, the people around me are getting older but i am not.  so anyway, i am sure i had a point somewhere but i am failing to remember it right now.  so anyway tomorrow for breakfast cookie crisp for everyone, brownies and ice cream for lunch, and pizza for dinner (no green things though).  i really hope that one day when my kids grow up (yes i will still be 25 plus shipping and handeling) they will look back and say, "back away from the cookie crisp and no one gets hurt!"