1- I feel like I need a summer off already. Back to school has hit like a ton of bricks. Maybe in a month or so I will feel “adjusted”.
2- I started the second med today. I can’t tell how I feel or if it works whatsoever because I am so anxious ABOUT the med and that itself is making me feel worse. (I did start it at work, figuring that our clinic which is adjacent to the hospital is not a terrible place to be should rhythms go in a bad direction!)
3- I did track my time yesterday, but I still am not entirely sure what happened between 6p – 8p. I think I was scrolling on the coach. I didn’t feel great and was bemoaning, well, everything. (At least it wasn’t Reddit.)
4- I have one positive note to share: A did my nails with her home gel mani system and it looks pretty legit!
Then I found out that one of the ingredient in gel manis has been banned in Europe. Sigh. I’ll have to rethink this as a regular thing (for myself + the kids), but will enjoy it in the present.
5- Yes, it IS that time of the month, why do you ask?
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Don’t panic about the gel manicures. Emily Oster talked about this in her weekly IG AMA yesterday. The data that caused the EU to ban that chemical was based on male rats being fed the chemical. They had fertility. So unless you are a male rat looking to father a litter and you are drinking the nail polish in large quantities I think you will be ok.
fertility issues….I can’t type.
Not to hijack the comments, but I would just urge caution about Emily Oster in areas of pollution/toxin exposure, and public health more generally. She has a long academic record of arguing for individual cost-benefit analysis over public health and environment principles, often funded by entities that benefits from less regulation of pollution. While I’m not an expert on nail polish ingredients, and neither is she, my expertise is in environmental policy. In general, the EU is strong in making science-based decisions based on expert input that acknowledge the complexity and uncertainty of environmental exposures on human health. Given that nail polish is not a necessity of life, applying the precautionary principle, which the EU tends to based environmental policy on and Emily Oster has argued against, seems really prudent. In other words, using it rarely is a sensible way to go given that there is a potential for substantial harm.
Ty for this viewpoint.
This makes sense to me – especially the part about gel manis not being exactly . . . necessary (I lived without them until 3 days ago, lol). I am going to try this brand (French, not banned in EU) instead and buy for Annabel: https://us.manucurist.com/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19582594468&gbraid=0AAAAABxwI8uBJVoga8TECTeJjBkbAsMgM&gclid=CjwKCAjwt-_FBhBzEiwA7QEqyOddCT3F5d1QHr97i-3IkJ-RdSlHM6LX4CJJb63tRDmwIOWjaZNzwRoC_4MQAvD_BwE
Still much cheaper than salon manis, lasts longer than regular polish, and is supposed to peel off when you are ready to remove. Seems worth trying!
Number 5!!!! Bahahahahaha. No idea why anyone would be so rude or presumptuous to ask LOL.
I think #1 maybe be a universal experience. Here in our Seattle suburb, school started yesterday and I am totally spent from day one. This does not bode well but I am reminding myself that we humans are adaptable and the start of a new routine / rhythm takes time but, inevitably, ultimately becomes second nature.
Good luck with the new meds. I will hope they prove to be both effective and free of side effects.
Number 5 made me LOL because boy do I get it 😂
Your nails look great!! Great job, A!!
Would love to know what the nail kit is! My tween girls are obsessed with “getting their nails done” but they do not have enough money to do this often.
You might see if there’s a beauty college in your town. We have a few and they all do “manicures” for $5. Not great ones and the students are definitely learning but my girls love it and can afford it on their allowances.
Sorry to hear about heart condition requiring additional meds. Good that you are close to care when starting new meds though. Hopefully it works.
wishing you the best on medication changes.
I’m curious was hobonichi shipping terrible for you this year? I just spent more on shipping than I did on the planner itself to ship to Canada :(….
shipping was about 12.5% of the cost, and duties/fees 17.5%. 70% were the products themselves (I ordered a few!!). DEFINITEY higher than prior years.
yes I think the shipping cost was also the duties and taxes….sigh. Almost makes me wish I put in a bigger order to make it worth the shipping!
Well… we all have those days! Hopefully you’re feeling a little better now that it’s the weekend. The start of school must be so hard with three kids!!! I have it easy with my one high schooler at home.
Good luck with the meds- I guess so far, so good?
Curious about whether you’ve tried press-on nails. I tried this brand with mixed success: https://amzn.to/4nbiQSE
My first pack was amazing. They lasted three weeks! And there were 30! So I basically got two solid months out of them! I thought I had solved my nails problems for good. Then I ordered another pack (different color, but I wouldn’t think that would matter), and they kept popping off. I went through not all 30 but enough that I could no longer make a full set in like a week, and it was super annoying to have them keep falling off.
All this to say, I don’t know which experience was the outlier–would love to know if you or others have ideas! Your gel looks great, but I’m TERRIBLE at polish application.
I haven’t tried them – I feel like I’d be tempted to pick them off (!!?). But I am not against trying sometime!
I use these basically exclusively for any “nail needs” (lol- for me it’s usually just vacations or special events, so a few times per year). I have never ordered them from Amazon- I usually buy at Walgreens or Target. The only time I have had that issue of them not sticking was when I was using some remaining nails from a pack (ie I used the prep pad to do my nails once, then another time I used the leftover nails in the kit and used just some alcohol hand sanitizer to prep my nails (I wish the kit came with more than one prep wipe!). I assumed that it was either because the remaining nails were old OR that my makeshift prep wasn’t good. Every time I have used the actual wipe with a new kit, they stick for weeks without issue!! I think the ImPress nails actually look better than any manicure (gel or regular) that I’ve ever gotten! I wonder if maybe the kit from Amazon was old? And you did use the prep wipe really well?
Ok this is so helpful! I wasn’t sure if the prep pad really made a difference because there was only one per kit, so when I used the second and third sets from my first pack I skipped that step with no issue. So I’m wondering if the second kit was old! This gives me hope that I can try again and have success. Maybe I’ll try getting them from Target in hopes that they have newer inventory!
I’d be more concerned about Florida removing vaccine mandates than gel manis. Do you ever think about moving?
I mean, I think it’s reasonable to be concerned about both!
No, not likely moving given the family we have down here and the kids happy at school etc.
I’d never say never, but not currently something we are thinking about.
I looked it up and CND Shellac and OPI have removed TPO from polishes. I think we are safe in the USA but if someone knows otherwise, please respond. I get CND Shellac mani every 2 weeks with what I hope is an LED light curing machine. I’m checking next time I go in.