My Whole Hearteded Opinion About AMP's!

Hey there my lovely readers!

So today I am doing something different. I am writing to you about a very important topic to me and that is AMP's! What are AMP's you may be wondering? AMP's stand for Alternative Menstrual Products and what are AMP's you ask. Well it is simple; AMP's are anything that is "unconventional" menstrual products it is everything from menstrual cups, to cloth pad or liners, and sea sponges are some of many. I have personally & recently discovered the world of AMP's and immediately knew that it was something for me. Okay so from this point on I am going to get very close and personal so if you want to stop reading here I totally understand.

 Okay so once I discovered AMP's and what it meant I knew I wanted to use them. It was a big choice but the more I found out about them the more I knew they were for me. Now I haven't been using AMP's to long so I am not an expert but I can tell you that choosing to use AMP's and change completely to them it is a big step and changes your life. Now I do want to say that if you do want to change to AMP's you have to be sure it is for you. Look I am a girl and I love to feel free and enjoy life but when that time of month comes it is inevitable. I tend to have very sensitive skin and before I found about AMP's I used pads usually the overnight heavy flow ones and I did sometimes use tampons. I had to stop using tampons because I am very prone to infections and stuff like that down there. So you could imagine that me being a heavy flow type of girl and without being able to use tampons I had to constantly change pads and it was pricy and a pain especially when I had to work. Once I first found out about AMP's I was curious more than anything but only after a few days or research I was sold on it. Now as to how I started to use AMP's. I actually sew my first menstrual pad. I found a video on YouTube (which  was how I found out about AMP's) and cut the latter cut the fabric from an old beach towel and a piece of towel and sew it by hand. With that done I tried it out and knew I wanted to change completely. After that I bought my ever reliable menstrual cup. My menstrual cup is the DivaCup. Before I start talking about menstrual cups and all that the reason I chose to use one is because I found out about them and how they work just like a tampon but have no risk of TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome) which can kill you. Now that I know about TSS I am sure that I was at risk of it using tampons because of how sensitive and pro infections I am down there. I have been using the DivaCup for a few months now and it is the best thing ever specially for going to work. I just put it in and every so often depending on my flow for the day I have to go to the bathroom take it out dump the blood in the toilet and rinse it off then put it back in and that is it, no hassle. If I keep it clean insert it correctly make sure I don't over flow it every so many hours I won't have any leaks at all! Okay I had it happen one day I over flow it so much I did not only leak I bleed through it and that was my own fault for having it for more than 9 hours without going to the bathroom once. Now I have had sleep with it and there is no problem with it. I love my menstrual cup and I adore my cloth pads. I usually just use my DivaCup to go out or to work and the rest of the time I just use my cloth pads. Cloth pads are just that cloth pads they do the same as a regular pad but are reusable and you have to wash them. Now using cloth pads have its benefits like you know that annoying fishy like smell your period brings? Not with a cloth pad! You do get some smell but is so minimal and almost none that you can't notice it at all and this is due to regular pads are full of chemicals that when the blood makes contact with the pad creates the smell which can be very noticeable at times. But with a cloth pad you don't have that problem and they are so soft your skin won't get irritated like some regular pads will do to you.  Overall I am very happy about changing to AMP's and I couldn't be gladder I changed. I have only use the pads and cup so far but I am open for trying more in the future. Now cloth pads and menstrual cups are pricy but in the long run saves money so it has its ups and downs.  I am also willing to do anything that might help the environment and one less person using disposal menstrual products means less waste out there and that always helps the environment. So think about its pros and cons before you try it because it is not for everyone. I leave with this & I hope we get to have more topics like this in the future.

Love,

Elaine

My New Novel

My lovelies,

So as I told you before I been working and writing a new Novel that was born during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) on November last year. This Novel was inspired by something my best friend and fellow writer said to me during a conversation. It is something special and fun;tThough it is still on its initial stage I can promise this new Novel is and will be a fun light read. I am working on a more contemporary genre something I have never written before. Since I usually just write Young Adult fantasy or eroticas I am very excited to be branching out more and getting out of my comfort zone. I can't say much about this new Novel yet because it is still on its beginning stage and it is still a fragile idea but what I can say it is that it will be a Young Adult Contemporary. This is a fun story mainly from my wild imagination but inspired by the people that are close to me. I am planning on letting the characters guide me and my intuition dictates what happens next. I got a small outline on how it starts and how it ends but the journey I have yet to discover it. I am excited to say I am planning on it to be a stand-alone for now unless I feel like there is more to tell after the story is done it will most likely be a stand-alone. I am planning on finishing the story this year and publishing it. I have big plans for the story and what I want to do with it once is done and written but that is a story for another blog post so keep in mind there will be a lot more updates on this Novel throughout this journey on writing it and publishing.

With warm love and wishes,

Elaine

My Writing Update on Future Writing Plans

Hey there my lovelies!

I want to give you an update on my writing and my plans for it for this year. So last year on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) I got an amazing idea for a Novel. I did start to write it but didn't write much since NaNoWriMo happens every November and by that point I didn't have my new laptop still. So I did fail at it, badly, but I only wanted to do NaNoWriMo to help my boyfriend who is also a writer to get out of his writing slump and it did work a bit. This experience did help me realize that this year I want to write a lot more and get my first Novel published this year. I am going to be working on my Novel soon and I will update you guys more on it later on.   This year I plan on writing this one novel and participating on NaNoWriMo2016 with another novel too. I am trying to keep my goals little and not to many since I am going to be attending school full time and working. It will be hard for me to do a lot of things at once and I don't want to overwhelm myself this year. I do want to do a lot more blogging this year and I know I say that a lot and never make it as much as I want but I will try to write blogs in advance and publishing them at least once or twice a week. I have not set up a day for them yet but I will think of something and I will update you on it later on as well. I am working on making blog posts about many different topics and not just writing because I know life is more than that and for an aspiring writer sometimes writing about anything is better than not writing at all. I want to keep it real and keep it realistic and more about my daily life even if it is mundane. I want to do this because that is the only way I can think of blogging and helping others in their daily life. So more blogging and writing; a new fresh novel coming out soon hopefully and maybe a few short stories or something and definitely another Novel for NaNoWriMo2016 though I don't have any idea yet on what would it be about. Until the next blog post! 

With Love,

Elaine 

2016, New Year and New Ideas!

Hello my lovelies,

I would like to say Happy New Year to all of you first. I hope everyone had an amazing New Year’s Eve and a good Year so far. With a New Year there are new challenges and new goals. I want to tell you some of my goals for this year. 2016 is a big year for me; not many people know that I struggled a lot in college the last few years and I did though I don't regret any of it. Many of the struggles I had made me uncertain about my future and what I wanted but because of this struggles I have found myself growing in some unexpected ways. This year I am going back to school, to a new school, for an intense program that is going to take me about nine months to finish. I am excited and terrified about it but this is what I am meant to be doing so I will give it my all. I am also going to be working which always makes it harder but it is a necessary evil since I do have to pay for my own schooling. This year I am planning on working on my writing more and my blogging. I am hoping that this year I can blog a lot more and be more inspiring and helpful to others. Also I will be reading a lot more and with this I hope to make my goal of at least reading forty-four books this year. My last and most important goal this year is to be able to get married to my amazing boyfriend soon to be fiancé. We have both been talking about settling down together soon and that is my most important goal. I know many people would think we are doing this too fast but having been dating for almost two years (two years this summer) and knowing each other for about four years already we know we are each other’s one and it just seemed to be the natural step to take. There are other things involving my writing that I have planned but that is a story for another blog post. With this I leave you for now. I hope this year brings you all happiness and that all your wishes come true!

Love Always,

Elaine