Bellabox Review: Is it worth it?

Last July I signed up to Bellabox.com.au because I was interested in seeing what I was missing out on Health and Beauty wise.

I had done a bit of research, and whilst there was the occasional issue here and there, it was overall positive.


Last week I cancelled my subscription.

Why?

For a number of reasons.


- A lot of the product samples are cheap supermarket brands.

- There is little consideration for your beauty profile. I keep receiving foundation samples for medium shade. Which is amusing for someone who is incredibly pale.

- Continuing frustration with Aus Post. I would receive the shipping information a week to ten days before the package was shipped.

- There was a lot of repeat samples. In particular Palmers and Aveda.




All in all, if I was 15 and looking at getting into make up, I would love this.
But I'm 28.
A lot of the stuff I was being sent I have used and not like (or it didn't like me) or I was already using or I would see at the supermarket when it was on special and buy to try it.

The pricing is competitive for the market, even with the recent price rise. But for $3 more I can get really great things from places like Lust Have It (which have their own problems)/
Communication occassionally can be a bit off and I've also found that the box delivery date is never a set time of the month, which is frustrating.

Shiny and New

Myself and (possibly) a friend of mine are starting a new blog.
It's all nice and shiny *U*
It's called How Not To Run Your Life
check it out - will post here occasionally
<3

I did it again.

I've continued to fail at posting more blogs.
I will soon

Just leaving this here

http://threadless.com/?from=lady_sparx

So I'm participating in NaNoWriMo

yep I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month
I'm only 455 words into my 50000 word in a month epic and I have no idea what I'm writing about but hey it's AWESOME FUN and a exciting challenge for myself.

So peeps you can either follow my progress at http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/718334
or participate yourself and good luck ^_^

Happy (Belated) 70th Birthday Mr Lennon

On the 9th of October John Lennon would of celebrated his 70th birthday.
Whilst Beatles fans, media outlets and Google celebrated by having tributes to the man, PBS' American Masters showed their documentary LennoNYC in Central Park.
Alas that is about a million miles away from my house.
(well more like 30000 kms)
Hopefully the good people at PBS will some how find a nice Australian free to air tv channel to show it on, as the podcasts have got me totally interested.
Seriously.
If you are interested in watching LennoNYC and are American tune into PBS on the 22nd of November
If not, be content with the podcasts on itunes.

Many many MANY apoligises!

I'm sorry.
I should be writing more!!!!
But alas my course work and other things have gotten in the way and conspired to keep me from blogging, but now as it's coming into summer I will be writing more
I promise ^_^

What's the problem with the wii?

Ok I don't quite understand all the hate aimed towards the nintendo wii.
It's a family gaming unit. It has never tried to make itself out to be a PS3 or xbox360 and hasn't tried to.
And whilst all the gaming hardcore wipe their cheezel crumbs of their shirts, I assume (like me) you got into gaming by playing the SNES and game like mario kart and sonic the hedgehog.
WHY MUST TODAYS KIDS MISS OUT ON THESE?
so build a bridge and get over it

Saturday is now deemed youtube day

as a small tribute to youtube, every saturday I will post a video from youtube on my blog.
Today's is a favourite of mine. It's of George Harrison on Eric Idle's show Rutland Weekend which was first shown in the seventies.
Please enjoy!

The wii fit weightloss dream or plain useless?

So I got a wii fit plus for Christmas last year excited that I had another tool to help me lose weight I eargley began to use it.
And now six months later I'm perplexed. Whilst it has helped with my weight loss I have a couple of issues with it.
Like how come there's only 2 levels of difficulty for somethings and 3 for others?
Why wasn't the seasonal banter from the wii fit board in the game changed for southern hemisphere users?
It's annoying to listen to it whinge about it being cold when it's 35 degrees outside.
Also why is the colour changing of the fitpiggy set at such low levels? Whilst its a small incentive to continue playing in retrospect, I always got a little excited and when I hit gold at such an small amount I felt a little cheated



All in all it's a game that helps with exercise but needs a bit more attention

The 61st blog post/ crazy stuff

*lets off streamers and balloons*
yay how awesome!
Now on to discuss some somewhat craziness of the world.
I remember when I was 14 and watching M*A*S*H and being quite sure that Frank Burns was a twat and people like him shouild be avoided.
Well it seems we are begining to have a world full of Frank Burns, ignorant, nasty people who have no clue.

Another piece of craziness for me is Taiwan building a nuclear reactor along a major fault line and earth quake prone place. Named Lungmen, it will be Taiwans 4th nuclear reactor.

Last piece of crazy for today
A report on ABC America about the oil spill in the gulf. Towards the end of the report a soldier (american equvilant to a reservist) said that the oil was a difficult enemy because "they couldn't bomb it or invade it, they just had to wait til it attacked"
WTF!?
til next time!

The essay blog

Sorry it took so long to come back and write, my back up plan failed to keep regular blogs :(
lol

For those who were slightly interested I was writing an essay on Pericles and democracy.
Yea I think it's not gonna get a good mark.
Shall post a nice long meanigful blog tomorrow

*headdesk headdesk*

I hate essay writing
I just epically fail at it
So until wednesday there will not be a new half decent blog :(
sorry!

Gah! Neighbours

I think I’ve mentioned this before. I live on the 1st floor of a 3 story unit block. It’s small, and lacks any sound proofing so when the neighbours upstairs decide to party til 3am or play soccer it makes life help.
Yes I know this bitchy and whinging but I don’t care.
It’s major essay time at uni and with all the other crap that’s going on I’m finding it hard to concentrate as it is WITHOUT listening to a bunch of idiots playing the same song over and over again from 8pm til 3am.
I dunno maybe at the old age of 23 I can’t be bothered with bullshit.
It’s only one unit that makes all the noise and the landlord won’t do anything about it and I feel like a dick calling the cops.
What are ya supposed to do?
I’m guessing wearing ear plugs to bed is the only solution.

I'm back/ Internet awesomeness

Sorry. I haven’t been blogging, been busy with personal things and university work, BUT I have now made a plan to blog regularly. SO EXPECT MORE UPDATES KIDDIES


Today’s blog: AWESOME STUFF FROM THE NET

Recently I have found myself  looking at random things on the net.
 And HERE are the BEST

Zero Punctuation
A guy who goes by the nickname of “Yahtzee” does game reviews via animation. Hella amusing and informative. The animation is simple and is always good for added laughs. Check it out whether or not you are a gamer, non gamers will probably find it amusing whilst gamers (especially fan boys) may be offended. But if you’re offended by game reviews YOU HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES.



Cheezburger Network
The doods who brought us I can has cheezburger and pundit kitchen have expanded and now have FIFTY WEBSITES under their umbrella, making it the best procrastination tool on the net EVER.
Best to check out Epicute, Learn from my Fail, Failbook and Poorly Dressed.

Passive Aggressive Notes

People’s notes posted on a website showing people’s complaints (and sometimes whinging) is pretty amusing.

the health blog

So I spend a lot of time in hospitals.
Both here and in Victoria, and when Kevin Rudd announced his new plan for hospitals I got excited.
Why?
Coz maybe when I visit a specialist at the  Royal Hobart Hospital here in Tasmania where the population is around 500 thousand I won't have to wait 2 and a half hours in a half empty waiting room to see the specialist for 5 minutes.
and the possibility of finally FINALLY getting some of the specialists this state needs.
As far as emergency response is here, it's pretty good, not fantastic but you know you will be seen in about 90 minutes and that's pretty good.
but we desperately need specialists!
I personally have to go to Melbourne on average once a month to see a urogynaecologist. The usual wait to see my specialist is 20 minutes and the wait room is ALWAYS full and I don't feel that I'm being rushed at all (yes this is at a public hospital).
I decided to email Lara Giddings (Tasmania's health minister) to inquire into why we don't have a urogynae here I didn't get answer.
Well I did but it was the usual political shit spinning which didn't give a reason but said people could see a gynaecologist
THEY'RE NOT THE SAME SPECIALIST PEOPLE!
one deals primarily with the girly bits
the other deals with what happens when the bladder decides to have issues and brings the girly bits with it.
I'm sorry but how does such a bunch of incompetents get to be in charge?
I mean really?
HERE'S AN IDEA; HOW ABOUT AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION WE GET SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY HAS SOME EXPERIENCE IN THE HEALTH PROFESSION ACTUALLY IN CHARGE OF THE HEALTH PORTFOLIO!


til next time kids

End of Summer

Yep summer has gone and the start of autumn in Tasmania has been nice.
Except for this morning and last night which was really cold.
Like cold enough for a hot water bottle and warm blankets.

Yea I'm thinking winter is gonna be nasty this year - snow in town probably

trying to be kawaii for AI Con next weekend

so next weekend is the state's anime convention.
and in an effort to be more adventurous and outgoing I'm entering the Fruits Fashion beginners contest.
I know I will fail epically, but hey! You don't know if you don't try and I'm sure it's going to be fun anyway.
I've got most of my outfit together but I have to make some sleeves.
I'm not good at sewing so this should be interesting to say the least.
If you want to go Pre Registration finishes 28th of feb.
for more details look at this awesome website here> Anime Island Convention

Update on Housemate? Election signs

I got a new housemate!
but it's a girl! so it's all good!
*stress disappears*

and in another note this year there's a huge amount of elections coming up in Australia and other places.
Sooooo
If you see any campaign signs that have misspelling, have been amusingly graffitied on*, or are just plain lol email them on mutatedpixels@gmail.com or post them here


til next time!

*we do not advocate/encourage you to graffiti campaign signs, as it's illegal and we don't want anyone to get into trouble

I don't want live with a guy I don't know!

So I live in a apartment which is owned by the student union. When they asked me if I had any preferences for who I wish to share with I said females only.
I have my reasons.
I don't want to share them.
Today I get a phone call asking if I was comfortable living with a guy and I said no.
They said if he wants to live there that they can't stop him from signing the lease.
WTF?!?
how is that fair?
I know that there's heaps of empty rooms with the union atm because their prices are too high and majority of students have preplanned to get a private rental with friends.

So what can I do now?
I guess I have to wait til sunday when I get home to find out if I have to share with a guy ._.