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Well I have failed the blog­ging sched­ule this week, well just Review Thurs­day and Fru­gal Fri­day, I am hop­ing to get some­thing out by the end of the day but I have been away for the last cou­ple of days vis­it­ing one of my friends. Isn’t that always the way that life gets in the way

Not a lot really hap­pen­ing at my end, other than my resit is next Wednes­day and I am slowly freak­ing out, and poly­mor­phism is not going into my head! Arugh! I wish this was easy, I wish I did not need to know about all these stu­pid con­di­tional state­ments and higher order func­tions so I am try­ing to make up some say­ings which will hope­fully get this rub­bish in my head.

I am still try­ing to paint the kitchen and under stair area but since the hus­band is off next week then we will hope­fully do that, more excit­ing news I am cur­rently in my wait­ing period and it seems to be drag­ging a bit, I won­der if it works this cycle, who knows, in my head I am already think­ing that it will be neg­a­tive so if it is pos­i­tive I think I might faint or cry or freak out!

My dri­ving test is in about three weeks and I still suck, so I know I will not pass that.. all about pass and fail­ing this month so only time will tell me the truth, it would be amaz­ing to pass my resit and my dri­ving test, and then get a pos­i­tive preg­nancy test but I will keep you updated

It is my turn today to do the Day­dreamz WeBlogIt project and this weeks theme is How the Inter­net Has Changed Your Life.

I was think­ing about this when I was read­ing some of the other mem­bers posts, when I was four­teen years old, I had moved away from all my friends but I was still going to sec­ondary school with them but I did not live near them (about an hour and half away, talk about com­mut­ing) so I relied on the inter­net for enter­tain­ing me and I must say I was a lit­tle bit obsessed with the inter­net, but I did meet some amaz­ing peo­ple (One of my best friends Elise who I went to the USA to meet) and learnt how to code which opened up a whole new world for me.

I think if I did not have that oppor­tu­nity back when I was four­teen, I would not of learnt how much I love web design, cod­ing and com­put­ers in gen­eral and now I am in my third year at uni­ver­sity study­ing Com­puter Sci­ence, I am pretty sure if I did not get into com­put­ers the way I did I would still work­ing as a admin assis­tant which I hated (or legal sec­re­tary, or call mon­key or PA, all hated!).

I admit I am addicted to the inter­net, I would be so mis­er­able with­out it but I am start­ing to see most peo­ple are like this these days and so it does not seem as odd as it was spend­ing all day on the inter­net when it did when I was four­teen, I can quite hap­pily spend all day mess­ing around on the inter­net and since every­thing I do these days are on-line it is a pretty nor­mal day for me to spend it in my office.

Oh other than my career, the inter­net has helped my dyslexia, because I am forced to spell and cre­ated sen­tences on my blog or talk­ing to other peo­ple, I use to write fan­fic­tion (I really want to get back into it but no time at the moment) and this has increased my under­stand­ing on the Eng­lish lan­guage. Some days when I am writ­ing an essay for uni­ver­sity, I re-read it and I am like whoa did I come up with that on my own, I am impress myself.

Final note, can you imag­ine ever using the sen­tence “Just google it” about ten years ago, I am guilty of using that all the time nowadays.

Since I did not get a chance to write my review post yes­ter­day due to get­ting so busy with other things going on I will save what I was going to write until next week (How to fig­ure out when you are ovu­lat­ing), this week my favourite fru­gal and green blog posts:

• 10 lifestyle changes that will make you richer!
• Fru­gal and Green Clean­ing Options
• 10 Ways To Go and Save Green With Your Kids
• Cloth dia­pers: a fru­gal green alternative

Fem­i­nine Hygiene products

There has been a lot of con­ver­sions on the preg­nancy forum I post at about fem­i­nie hygiene prod­ucts (aka, the prod­ucts you use at the time of the month) which you can wash and use again and again (they were using soft­cups to keep the sperm up near your cervix after sex and less mess) , I can see the idea behind it, it is cleaner and less waste­ful as a lot of women use tam­pons and pads, plus it does not remove any of your nat­ural lube like tam­pons will do, there are three dif­fer­ent cups to choose from.

Moon­cups — These look like a lit­tle fun­nel, it is made from sil­i­cone and you sim­ply insert the cup which folds and it col­lects up to three times as much as the ‘super-absorbent’ tam­pon.  At the end of the day (every eight hours) remove and tip down the toi­let.  You can still have sex and go swim­ming with it in.

Soft­cups — These look like a con­dom cut in half and put on a rub­ber ring, the same idea as the moon­cups, you can do all the things that the moon­cups can do, what con­fuses me is how do you remove this with­out it going every­where as there is not any­thing to grab onto. But you can wear these up to 12 hours which is longer than the moon­cups but these are NOT reusable you have to put it in the bin after the 12 hours or less, so you will still have to buy at least 7 or more a month, not really sav­ing you the money it costs £5.00 or $10.00 for 24 which would last you 3 months.

Divac­ups - These are a cone shape and they ARE reusable like the moon­cups, accord­ing to the web­site you only need to remove, empty and clean twice a day. But you can not have sex while this is being used.

If you are not keen, like I am (I really do not know why I can­not seem to stom­ache mess­ing around down there dur­ing my period, but I would really like to try them just so I know first hand, does any­one use these already?) you can try cot­ton tam­pons which do not con­tain any per­fume or any of those extra bits you do get with tam­pons or you could try cloth pads.

Cloth pads, seem to be tak­ing off and there many dif­fer­ent designs and styles out there, my mother did ask me to research this awhile back and I do like the idea behind this and the nor­mal pads make me feel like I am wear­ing a nappy!  There is no more sweat­ing, itchy and feel­ing uncom­fort­able because these are cot­ton and it is not like you are going to run out as you will always have a sup­ply washed which gets rid of that dash to the shops when you start (unless you are really organ­ised, I for­get, you think I would know with all this temp­ing I do for TTC but I still for­get and still have to send the hus­band out to get tam­pons at ran­dom times).

This one is from clothpadshop.com, who ship to the UK, Europe and USA, this has to be one of my favourite.  I love the pat­tern on it accord­ing to the web­site: This pan­ti­liner is topped with soft quilter’s cot­ton in a gor­geous vin­tage style print by Moda. The bam­boo and cot­ton core is trim but absorbent, and the liner is backed with mois­ture resis­tant microfleece. This pad here is used for spot­ting, light flow and a back up for the cups.

Even bet­ter you can buy a pack from the same web­site where you can make your own cloth pads!! You could have it so it any pat­tern you like and you can cus­tom it, this web­site — http://www.comfyclothpads.com/ has a lot of infor­ma­tion on how much you would save about £3,600 over a 30 year period which is pretty impres­sive I know it does not seem a lot over 30 years but still it saves you a decent amount of month and this only adds to about one wash­ing extra a month.

Here are some I found on ESTY which I really like:

This one is by Sugirons, she sells a lot of these kind of prod­ucts — Check her out!

Or you could buy this fab Show Some Uter­ine Love– Mini Men­strual Pack

Hope you enjoyed this post I have enjoyed research­ing it all.