For the Change!

Men I have been a lazy person lately!
Procrastination, this last month have been all about that! I am so mad at myself, but today I am changing. I need something to stimulate me to write more, to workout more, to eat healthier, to sleep less, to be less time on the YOUTUBE.
The Youtube is the place where  I unfortunately spend a great deal of time, watching vlogs that have nothing to do with me, as proof of that I can say that I had a test last week that went crappy because of my procrastination skills, I did not freaking study! men. I need to get a grip.
I have a schedule on my wall that I specially designed for increased productivity. I also posted on my wall a workout schedule so it is visible and I will make myself do it whatever happens.
And I am going to spend less time on the youtube and more time preparing stuff to promote this place ^^
That might be it for today.
DFTBA
Djoyce

Back to school!!

Back to books and classes, and studying (for real I mean). It is nice to see the friends and the people all back together. But honestly, I consider myself some kind of a nerd, and in some ways socially awkward. I am shy, and I never know what to talk about (mostly because people never read the same books I do and I only kind of talk about what I read/see), in the end of the day I consider myself a weirdo. I know some people try to reach out to me, and the thing is i feel like I might be empty inside, you know, people come to me and find out that in the end I am shallow and empty. 

Never knowing what to talk about, and when I talk I feel like they think I am an alien. maybe that is what I am, unrelatable to peers, I deal better with older people. On high school I had friends that I followed around everywhere so I wouldn't feel alone, but I was so alone then just like I am now. 

Sometimes I like to hang out with people as long as I don't speak. honestly, but that is quite stupid of me, if you want me to e honest, I should be an interesting talk, and, since I read a lot people should be comfortable around me. 

or not.

anyway. school starts today and I have class in 13min. I hope that wherever you are, you have a great day ;)

xo

DFTBA 

Djoyce

School!!!

School starts on wednesday, and to be honest this vacation was NOT what I wanted it to be...

I suck at accomplishing greatness, I had planned to work, to study, to be more sociable, and   none of this things was accomplished,
I watched 2 seasons of PLL

3 seasons of Fringe, 

and I watched a year long worth of vlogbrothers,

I finished one book, I could not write enough posts for my logs and I quit the idea of having a portuguese and a english blog, that is just too much work, I am too lazy for it...
I bet I watched a bunch of movies, and did nothing useful!


Except...

my last couple weeks were the most productive, I started working out, and I was able to resume 2 chapters of my immunology book, (which is a great deal)

so if I keep the pace for the next week (because I don't have class on thursday and friday)
 I can finish a few more chapters and finish the urinary tract!! What do you think  Can I do it? I wish I can.

and keep on working out and losing weight, I also decided I will study on the library, is better than my room, and I think you know why... I get distracted, youtube calls for me...

anyway...

wish you a awesome weekend enjoy ;D

Tuesday

So I've been thinking, and honestly this posting every day, and having specific themes for each day is like having a list of what to do to be happy. I promise I will keep up the same line of thought, I will do my researches and post about beauty, health, music, nerdy stuff and my random thoughts, I don't promise in which day I'll post what, or to post every day, but a few times a week, after all, studying medicine is a time consuming activity, and to keep up with this every day would become a burden, and I don't want any more burdens.
I hope you are having a blast this week. this is my last week of vacation, and it's being more productive than all the others... anyway, I have to study cause I have a test in my second week and I do not want to do allnighters...

DFTBA
xo
Djoyce

Music monday!!

This song is my song today Hope you Like it
It's one of those stupid songs that you can't stop listening to, though it makes no sense at all...

In my face - part 2

Today I will keep on talking on let weeks subject, Acne!!!

Well that acne-nerd stuff is all so fun but how do I get rid of this?

Well that is the main reson why that took me to write this and because my face skin kind of looks like this

I know that that is nothing compared to other peoples skin, but I don’t want this to get worst, and much less I don’t want to go around and use random products, thinking that they will do me well and just do worst.

So in my research on the Internet (I did not go very far but I am actually about to…) it says that 1.) picking is bad, because you can get a scar, and spread the bacteria (see this to understand the whole bacteria story is last week post) 2.) stop touching your face, yap, that is hard as hell, but as said before the bacteria will spread through your face if you keep touching holding it, and 3.) ther is NO SECRET MAGIC FORMULA, damn! I actually thought that there was a magic way of making this disappear. They also say that there are skin types (who would have known?) like oily and dry, (I always looked at skin, nothing else, I am learning a bunch with this bloody zits) you can go here and check your skin type apparently my skin is dry, sensitive, pigmented and firm (whatever that means) So I always have to take in account this aspect when I buy cosmetics. (which is too much for me)

But moving forward, I found this website, of this girl that started to have acne the same way it started with me and I got a lot of inspiration there, she talks about mapping your face and all that stuff, the thing is that she says that THERE IS NO MAGIC FORMULA it is a combination of factors that help you leave that stupid acne (the magic formula would be great, do you know a spell?)

 Resuming because I am leaving now (really got to go sleep tomorrow waking up early as hell)

1.     there is no magic formula

2.     don’t touch it

3.     find out your skin type and then buy the cleanser/cream

4.     find out why are you getting it from mapping your face and attack that thing!!!

5.     And never irritate, it always makes it worst.

I really got to go But I will continue this next week !

DFTBA 

xo 

Djoyce

numbness

Some days I feel like randomly writing today is not one of those days. Writing use to be something that I would do anytime anywhere, it does not seems like that anymore. I guess people grow up. Damn. I don’t want to grow up. But what does it mean, to grow up, I mean, what is the purpose of growing up, or not doing it?

What really sucks, besides growing up, is being numb, and I believe that, that is why people don’t like to grow up. The numbness of not enjoying anything, not taking risks, being too careful, I know a lot of adults like this. I also know kids like this. Kids that do not want to jump to the swimming pool, that do not want the parent to hold the bike behind them, want to know they are safe. Safe, safe can be really awesome, like having a safe place to go in a rainy day. But safe can also keep you from living an awesome life, take, for instance, hiking, is a wonderful experience, most of the times safe enough, but when there is a more inclined passage, or narrow or when you have to literally climb without a safety net an harness or an instructor, it stops being safe, and now only the bold ones will keep on moving forward. Are they risking their lives? Can they get out hurt, or even dead? Yes they can, but you too, can die if right now in this moment an earthquake happens right under your feet. So, why not take the bold choices? Don’t take me wrong, I don’t want you to go and do all the wrong things because YOLO. But do the best of the life you have, what you and I need, and probably lost along the way is the boldness we had, not so long ago when we were kids, when a friend would propose a challenge we would do it even if in the end he didn’t pay what he promised. This reminds me of a movie I saw a long time ago. “How to eat fried worms” if you are sensitive do not watch it, but if you want to try and test how far your stomach can go do it. It is quite amusing.

“I would totally eat fried worms but what would other people think?” I would think you are a brave human being. I am not. I wouldn’t because I don’t usually like animals of any type, and worms, no thank you. Don’t think about what other people would think, they will only expect of you as high you set the bar for the to expect. It does suck when someone looks at you weird and asks “vegan? Oh really? And you go and do protests in front of McDonalds and stuff? How do you get protein? Do you even like the food you eat? How can you survive without meat?” Well most of the times they are just jealous because you can do something they can’t. It is true. They can’t.

It is called self-control. I control, my emotions, my thoughts and my cravings, if I say “I will stop eating meat” and then I crave it, I have to tell my brain “dude, not gonna happen, I have the power over myself, I can win this battle”

It is true self-control gives you boldness. Reason before doing anything stupid, YOLO is not “do all the stupid things!!” YOLO is “Be the best version of you every day, be bold and new, don’t let yourself dive among others, be unique, stand out, but, then don’t go back to normal.”

In the end of the day, ask yourself, “How will this make me a better person?” let me tell you that the experience of hiking and climbing is the best thing to enjoy the nature, and when you get to the top you feel realized. There are plenty of hard parts, but quitting in the middle will never give you the same pleasure of accomplishment that finishing will.

We are not afraid to grow up, we are afraid to be numb.

Be bold.

I guess I’ve been reading too much flinch. 

a book - The Flinch by Julien Smith

The Flinch

Great minds, great ideas great men, great women.

Face danger, overcome fears, to fight.

Step out of your comfort zone.

Fight, or flight?

Face bears?

Stop smoking?

Lose a few pounds?

Change jobs?

Flinch?

Cold showers. Your biggest enemy. Look inside. Go further then surface. The fight. The fight that matters. Scars. Patterns. Limits. Homework assignments. To know myself.

If you thought that I would speak about how I felt while reading, I felt miserable, like there is no such thing as hope for me, but guess what? There is. Not gonna tell you the whole book though. It is up to you to find out how great it is. And it is free.

Yap. Free.

Written by Julien Smith, I know nothing about him except that he wrote this. And, that he has a blog, for now that is all I need to know.

Enjoy. I know I did.

The Flinch

A better planet

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Words? Just that? Do they mean something? Do you care? Do I care? What do you do? What do I do?

We have one planet. We live on it as if it were disposable. It is not. It renews itself, but, at its own rithym, can you follow it? Do you want to follow it? You have to slow down, wait for it, maybe, even, give some steps back, change, participate, help, clean, do everything that everyone else consider themselves, too busy or too good to do.

In order to ‘decrease world suck levels’ we have to be willing, it won’t be easy, taking one step at the time, and never stop. Do it, so the next generation gets here and see it differently than what you and I got here to see, and, teach them to take care of their toys, their loved ones, their houses, their animals, their Earth.

I believe that the world is just as sick as its habitants, a nasty house is always a nice place to find disease. We have to take care of one and of the other. And w ego back to the same old subject I HAVE TO CHANGE MY LIFESTYLE for health, for beauty, for the environment, “be the change you want to see” walk the talk. I am focusing on this because is my purpose, stop talking the talk and start walking the walk, and put my money where my mouth is. I need to change, and I want to do it one step at the time, because all greta journeys began with one step, and has time goes by I will walk faster and faster and then start running toward my goal. Becoming better, for me, for you, for the world

And what is the best way to start?

Put on some goals.

1. 1.    Always turn off the lights (I have that bad habit, always forgetting lights on)
2. 2.    Buy a water bottle, that is not made of plastic, honestly I want a Sigg cause I had one and until today it was the best water bottle I ever had, it was stolen. But now I drink from regular plastic bottles, and even washing them there is always a time when they start smelling, I have to throw them away, and buy a new one… I hate it, and planet Earth hates my trash.
3. 3.    Another thing that I want to buy is a thermic cup, so I won’t need those Styrofoam cups, then I can take my tea and coffee everywhere.
4. 4.    I realy want to reduce the amount of plastic bags that I use, each day I might use about 4 … and honestly it sucks. As I may have said before I eat on my university cafeteria, and I hate to eat breakfast there, I go to the cafeteria get the cereal and come back to my room, (hint: I always bring my cereal in a small plastic bag, like the ones people use on fruit and vegetables) but today I did something different, instead of bringing enough cereal for today I brought enough cereal for at least until Sunday! (Awesome right?) Now, tomorrow I’ll just go there to get a banana and hot milk (in the damn Styrofoam cup) I have a plastic box that I use for lunch so at lunch hour I don’t increase  world suck levels.
5. 5.    Shorter shower, wash clothes once a week and walk around everywhere is something that I do already! (yay me, something right joy!)
6. 6.    Something I want to start doing, and I know it will hurt, mostly in my pocket, is to start buying organic/eco-friendly/crueltyfree cosmetics. Like this. And since all my beauty treatments go on the homemade, DIY direction I believe it won’t be that big of  deal (for my pocket I mean)
7. 7.    Clouthing. Well I know that in Argentina I won’t buy any clothes, mostlye because it is economically and tastily out of my range, one way up other way down. Anyway, I already use each piece of clothing until it cannot be used anymore. I have nothing but essential, but regarding buying I’d like to experiment buy on those eco-friendly lines… I don’t know… something like that.

So, this are my initial goals, probably I will change and adapt many of them and probably also add some new things, as I learn. Now I want to hear from you! What do you think about all of this?

What are your biggest issues? Any suggestion?

Feel free to comment and suggest ;D

Enjoy

DFTBA

Djoyce

Healthy Tuesday: New Start

What's up internet?
Hope you are doing just fine, and today I come to you to talk about health.

and what is health?

That my friend is a controversial topic like most essential  topics in human existence, but let's use something more, 'official'.

So officially, for the World Health Organization (WHO) health "Is a complete state of wellness, fiscally, mentally, and socially, not only the absence of illness."
It is hard to tell if right now I am healthy, because I lack substantial social life. Back to subject. Personally I hate doctors and hospitals (irony: I study medicine). And I was raised in the better safe than sorry environment, mostly concerning health. And so forth, I have come across an acronym really awesome, which uses 8 non-drugs to prevent disease, keep the body healthy and live long with quality. And since I started to study medicine I have realized that most diseases are originated on a bad habit. so let's change habits!!

Oh the acronym...

here we go:

Nutrition
Exercise
Water


Sunlight
Temperance
Air (fresh)
Rest
Trust in God


These are in deed things that used in the right amount can give all of us a New Start. I believe that if we all did this, instead of studying medicine I would be doing something else because medicine wouldn't so necessary.

Anyway i wish you the best tuesday.

DFTBA
xo
Djoyce

You got away

To believe, to trust, to have faith, that one day you will be mine, you won't be the one that got away, not anymore, the one that does not belong to me, the one that is not anymore, I want you to be my now, I want to be with you, laugh at your jokes, with you. I'm sick of crying sitting in the corner of the room, watching life go by, and not be able to do anything, not be able to react, not fight. But I am tired to ever get up or even to clean the tears. You and I? Never gonna happen.

No chance, because now, even if you want me, I don't. Want you. I did, it passed, it had to be that way, I needed my "one that got away" you are that, that one that never worked out. This is no fairytale, and it is to expect  that not al romances end up well, because they don't. But with you I picture the fairytale, the perfect romance. But all the good ones are tragedies. and we are a great one. will always be. never vanishing, but always reminding myself that I am capable to love. intense and regretless love.

(try to have an) Happy Monday
xo
DFTBA
Djoyce

In my face!!!

Today is skin.

It is going to be acne, well because I am twenty now and  I started to get zits and blackspot and I do not want this to get worst, so I am researching and sharing.

A little background…

I am that character that goes through adolescence without one zit, I am that girl that all the other girls envy on high school, yap that is me, and I never thought I would ever  get it, I consider my skin quite clear, even though sometimes it can be extremely dry, but well,  came to my twentieth birthday and it started, this bastards started to appear, at firs it was news, “look I have a zit! What would happen if I pop it? Oh damn now I have a mark, not gonna pop a zit ever again!” well and it started to get worst, and now my forehead, temples and eyebrows are becoming mines. The thing is that I really am not a facial volcano, but I don’t like the path that this is taking, so the solution is to do some research of how to get rid of this thing!

Why me??

What I understood from the places I have been looking is that acne can appear as a combination of one or more of those three factors:

·      Increasing of skin oils internally by super production of sebum on sebaceous glands, or externally, by make up or some sort of cosmetic.

·      Keratosis retention When the cells are not eliminated connect sebaceous conducts

·      Trapped bacteria under the skin surface that when above the skin are harmless.

Some places declare that it does not matter, if one of your parents had acne at some point of their life you are going to have too, while others say that genetics are like a charged gun, but he factors I mentioned above, are the ones that pull the trigger.

Well in my case, I have no idea what is provoking it, but lately I have been feeling my skin much more oily then before, and because I never was the person the always buy the right moisturizer or face soap, I never really thought a lot about my face skin.

What is acne?

One thing that everyone agree is that acne is a disease, or skin disorder. That appears, in some, during puberty, due to a considerable amount of changes on the system, in others around their twenties or thirties or even forties… You can never predict when it will come or if it will come, or when it goes away. Does not have a cure but you can treat it, in some is more intense then in others, and is really rare someone that never had it, have or will have it. It usualy appears during puberty because of the production of male hormones (in both sexes)

 

How does it happen?

Everything starts with a follicle and a sebaceous gland, that usualy produces an oil called sebum, that is secreted without any problem, until, for no special reason, occurs a super production of cells in that follicle and the pore is blocked and the sebum is now unable to get out, and now the conditions arecreated to the growing and production of bacteria, and it forms a micromedone, this is the initial phase, now one of two things can happen, it can inflame or not.

So there are two types of acne, inflammatory and non-inflammatory.

Non-Inflammatory Acne

There are two forms of non-inflammatory acne.

• The whitehead, that happens when the sebum and the bacteria are trapped under the skin, and form a small white head really small, most of the times invisible to the naked eye.

• The blackhead, that appears when the pore opens and the sebum, that contains melanin, oxidizes and becomes dark, the colour we see. They can last for a while because the content is poured to the outside very slowly.

A blackhead or a whitehead can free their content to the surface and heal by itself, or the follicle wall can brake and, follows an episode of inflammatory acne. The rupture can be provoked by any random thing or by picking and/or constantly touching the skin, that is why the less you touch the better it is.

NOTE: Many times sebaceous glands are mistaken with blackheads. They have kind of the same size and might be side by side ad you are not able to tell them apart, I know I’m not… One only knows the difference after picking, the sebaceous gland gives you a white oil, and the blackhead a greyish secretion.

Inflammatory acne

• Papule it happens when the follicle wall breaks and white blood cells go there to avoid the sebum from spreading, so now the pore is inflamed and it forms a
• Pustule, a few days later when the white blood cells achieve de surface, now you have a zit that hurts and you just want to pop it.

To be continued....

DFTBA

xo

D