A cool website and tattoo after care

Now to a less serious note!

I found this really cool website last year, through an online girls magazine (which unfortunately was shut down! It also was a cool site, and if it was still open I would totally put the link in this blog). This site is called stringsof.me, a New Zealand based site I'm pretty sure.
   So it's sort of an online diary, with a twist. Each day they ask you a different question; from serious ones such as 'The biggest personal injustice I have ever experienced is...' to less serious ones that have to do zombie apocalypses and wars between fruit and vegetables. Then they ask you the same question, on the same day, each year, so you can see how your answers,opinions, and maybe yourself have changed.  You also have the option to draw a little picture that matches with your answer.
  There's no sharing your answers with Facebook or Twitter, but you can share via email or with a whimsical rabbit. It's such a quirky little website, that's why I love it.
  If you like, you can even share stories or opinions :)

I hear you yell: WHERE IS THE LINK TO THIS AWESOME SITE????
It's right here, my friends

To the next subject: Tattoo aftercare

I got my first tattoo April this year; a dolphin and waves on my left shoulder blade. It's in full colour, coming up 6 months and the colour hasn't leached one little bit: So some tips:

• Some tattooists will wrap your new tattoo in plastic wrap. This is thought to stop bacteria breeding, but unfortunately will also stop oxygen getting through. Your tat is an open wound, it has to breathe. Personally, I removed the plastic wrap 3-4 hours afterwards. No problems.
• I bathed my tat twice a day with warm water and fragrance free soap that had no additives. It's worth spending the extra money to get an organic brand. You don't need an antibacterial soap either. I used my hand to rub my tat in slow, gentle circles - make sure your hands are clean as you can possibly get them. Rinse gently. To dry, use a clean hand towel that you've kept aside for use only on your tattoo. Or even better, let it air dry
• Moisturise your tattoo with fragrance free, colour free moisturiser. I used Aveeno Active Naturals Daily Moisturising Lotion, with colloidal oatmeal. It worked a charm, pretty sure that's why the colour in mine turned out so nicely.
• At 3-4 days, your tattoo will start peeling. This is part of the process, don't freak out! Some people also experience scabbing, this is also part of the process. 
• I carried on with washing and moisturising twice daily for two weeks. Even now I still moisturise my tat occasionally. 

And a note on pain: outlining wasn't bad, its the shading and bits of the bone that hurt the most. Managed to spit out a few swear words at that point haha. It feels like the pain of a mild bee sting, only constant.

So, I hope I've been of some use to the world wide web!

TTFN

M.F.S

Yoghurt for dinner

These were my odd thoughts while I was eating yoghurt for dinner

The TV was blaring in the background, some war story, I think it was about the chemical attacks in Syria. Pictures flash across the screen, the warning 'some of these images may be disturbing' but how many of us really turn away? Anyway, so snips of footage show of children convulsing, blood, dilated pupils, with the accompanying heartbreaking symphony of screaming and shouting. Miserable depressing thoughts it gave me.

Then I jump on Facebook; all my fellow marine biology friends posting updates about the leak of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, no more eating fishes for you, they might have more eyes than you can count.

And more locally...

The GCSB bill-
Selling off assests-
Snapper quota-
Maui Dolphins-
..etc. John Key is basically kicking himself out of power.

I could honestly go on forever, murders, decline of animal populations, deforestation in the Amazon, rising sea levels, pollution.

And believe me, I care about every single one of these issues, and many more besides. Sometimes I think I care too much.
  So I savoured the tangy taste of passionfruit, and I thought- if all this can go on and I can still sit here and eat passionfruit yoghurt for dinner without being reprimanded or judged for it, then maybe the world isn't so terrible after all. Because who knows, maybe one day someone will be chucked in jail because they were found eating yoghurt for dinner, or red velvet cake for breakfast.

My point is, my lovely internet friends, is that we should always appreciate the little things in life, and take a positive spin on everything, because you don't know how much longer it will last.

TTFN,
M.F.S

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones movie review

So! I finally went and saw City of Bones.

Not what I expected...

To be frank, I wasn't happy with it. If you're an ultimate fan like me and you've read the book several times over, you'll be disappointed. Scenes in the wrong places, spoken lines in the wrong places, big scenes that don't occur in the book (and in fact goes completely against the rules of the Shadowhunter world) and tidbits of information that you don't learn until you're well into the second and third books of the story. So straight up, the script was terrible, and I wish like hell that Cassie Clare had found a director that would let her write the script or at least have some pull with it. So yeah, I was pretty much constantly annoyed with how things turned out. But I guess the movie was made as a stand alone thing, assuming the audience hadn't read the book. In that case I guess it was a pretty good movie...but meh, still annoyed :P

I do have some praise though!!

Overall, casting was awesome! Though Magnus could have been a lot more flamboyant, he was far too serious, although Godfrey Gao pulled off the looks nicely. Alec (Kevin Zegers) was pretty much perfect, nice and sullen, Isabelle (Jemima West) was kick ass and her whip was awesome! Jocelyn (Lena Headey) Luke (Aidan Turner) and Hodge (Jared Harris) were all really well played, along with Valentine (Johnathan Rhys Meyers) (who's hair wasn't white, and he looked a little old for my tastes) Jace (Jamie Campbell Bower) was perfect, all though slightly monotone when it came to the jokes. Clary was spot on, Lily Collins really played her well. But Simon (Robert Sheehan) really takes the cake!

The fight scenes were really good, although there technically should have been more of it. The demons were cool, steles and runes were awesome, and the sets in general were pretty sweet. Though I do think that the Institute was slightly over done. I honestly thought that runes would be used more, but instead they were only used on skin, not on solid objects.

In conclusion...
From a fan's perspective: 6/10
For the movie itself 8/10

TTFN

M.F.S

It's random rant time!

Hey you!

OMG MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES IS RELEASED NEXT THURSDAY!!

I'm pretty excited, if you couldn't tell. I LOVE the Mortal Instrument series, second all time favourite book series! Currently re reading City of Fallen Angels (the fourth book). Just hope they don't ruin the book...I will not be happy. But Cassie Clare (author) seems to be happy with everything so I'm sure her huge fan base will be too. Mortal Instruments is fantasy/romance based about a race of half human half angel warriors who kill demons, so if that sounds like your thing, I suggest you pick them up. If you're quick you could still claim that you've read the book before the movie :D

Trailer for City of Bones: Click here!

Rant time!

I'll keep it short...

So I have this ex boyfriend right, who says he's still in love with me. It's been 8 months since I broke it off, but I feel like he still won't leave me alone (just realised he might be able to see this, but you know what, I don't really care). It's just things I've heard through friends, things he's said that make me feel like it's not over yet. Though personally I haven't seen or communicated with him for at least a couple of months now. He always said that I was his one true love, but I don't understand how that can be if I didn't feel the same way? Is that kind of thing possible? I feel like it could even just have been infatuation...like I read poetry that I wrote about him and I don't FEEL anything from it, like it's empty, its lost all its meaning and now it's just words on paper. I definitely don't think the same about other stuff I've written, which in a way is kind of a relief. I've also come to the realisation that the ratio of good moments:bad moments between him and my other ex are totally different...which in a way was surprising. But anyway I guess I can only move forward :) As a side note, definitely liking being single right now!

....

I have the flu and I feel gross.

Mini chewy Sweetarts are the bestest lollies ever.

If anyone has been in a similar situation to me, I'd love to hear about it!

TTFN
M.F.S