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Our weather stayed pleasantly and very unusually cool until about the third week of June, and then summer came in with a vengeance. Today's high was 97 F (just over 36 C), and I don't care for it. The good news is, our altitude and low humidity mean that even quite hot temps are tolerable in the shade--though 97 is about when they cease to be--and things cool off a lot at night. The bad news is, our altitude and latitude mean the sun is STRONG. I feel bad for everyone working outdoors. And sadly, there's no real cooling predicted for the foreseeable. Like most of the rest of the northern hemisphere, we're expecting a hotter than average summer.
It's sapping my will to do things I need to do for my health (exercise every single damn day, and follow certain medically indicated dietary restrictions). All I want to do is lie in front of the fan and eat ice cream and potato chips (not medically indicated). I'll be glad when it's October.
More cheerfully, today at work I managed to score a bunch of free essential oils (old testers being replaced by ones in newer packaging, but still perfectly fine and almost full in 30 ml bottles). So now I can do some scent experiments without it costing $$$$. I got: bergamot, Himalayan cedarwood, cinnamon leaf, clove bud, pink grapefruit, jasmine absolute (7.5% in jojoba oil), Bulgarian lavender, sweet orange, peppermint, sandalwood (10% in jojoba oil), and tangerine. I left some others behind in order not to be greedy, and regret it now--I should definitely have snagged the spearmint and the patchouli. (For those following my patchouli journey, I gave it a sniff and was surprised at how menthol-ish it was in addition to the expected "perfumed dirt" thing.) If there's anything still left tomorrow I'm grabbing it. I got a pretty decent assortment regardless, and I already have a vetiver oil and a lime oil. So I'm contemplating blends.
Now, of course, my lovely free oils will mean buying some little sample-size bottles, and some paper test strips (which I needed anyway), and some pipettes so I can control and measure amounts, and who knows what else. No such thing as a free fragrance, apparently.
It's sapping my will to do things I need to do for my health (exercise every single damn day, and follow certain medically indicated dietary restrictions). All I want to do is lie in front of the fan and eat ice cream and potato chips (not medically indicated). I'll be glad when it's October.
More cheerfully, today at work I managed to score a bunch of free essential oils (old testers being replaced by ones in newer packaging, but still perfectly fine and almost full in 30 ml bottles). So now I can do some scent experiments without it costing $$$$. I got: bergamot, Himalayan cedarwood, cinnamon leaf, clove bud, pink grapefruit, jasmine absolute (7.5% in jojoba oil), Bulgarian lavender, sweet orange, peppermint, sandalwood (10% in jojoba oil), and tangerine. I left some others behind in order not to be greedy, and regret it now--I should definitely have snagged the spearmint and the patchouli. (For those following my patchouli journey, I gave it a sniff and was surprised at how menthol-ish it was in addition to the expected "perfumed dirt" thing.) If there's anything still left tomorrow I'm grabbing it. I got a pretty decent assortment regardless, and I already have a vetiver oil and a lime oil. So I'm contemplating blends.
Now, of course, my lovely free oils will mean buying some little sample-size bottles, and some paper test strips (which I needed anyway), and some pipettes so I can control and measure amounts, and who knows what else. No such thing as a free fragrance, apparently.
