E45 Bzz Campaign

In case you haven’t read any of my posts before, I am part of a website which allows me to test new products and then tell everyone my thoughts (sometimes I get free samples for friends/family etc). This great website is www.bzzagent.co.uk, seriously check it out!

My recent campaign was E45 Nourish and Restore but also the plain E45, which I have used and think it’s great because the whole family can use it! However the E45 Nourish and Restore, well that’s another story. As a pregnant person you find (for some people) that your skin changes and mine in particular gets dry, I have dry hands and then random dry patches everywhere. Whereas other moisturisers do nothing or irritate my skin further the E45 Nourish and Restore has done what the bottle says!

I was pleasantly surprised to receive my bzz kit and find two bottles (not tiny bottles) for me to test, and then as well I got free samples to give out, which had three sashes of the E45 Nourish and Restore. I gave out my samples to family, friends and co-workers – all have said good things and are quite interested in the product.

 

What always seems to disappoint me with such a good product is the price in local supermarkets, at the moment this is £4.50 for a 250ml bottle. If I had more money I would buy it however being a Mother and having another child on the way I won’t be buying this product often(maybe once in a blue moon). For my friends, family and co-workers only so many (if they have been impressed) will buy the product. But I do recommend for those who have sensitive skin or even the odd dry patch to give it a go!

Today could have been better

Today has not been a good day for me; I won’t go into a lot of details because some of it I feel should not be put for everyone to see! But in short, I ended up in tears and pretty much having a panic attack. Which didn’t help when I had to do a group exercise, which was part of an interview for my current role in my job but it went ok (I think). This I can go into more detail, basically I cover a supervisor position and if the person I cover wanted to come back to the role I would go back to being an agent. However, for some reason I and the two other covers have to retake an interview (along with other candidates) for those cover positions. I find out tomorrow, I am not worried if I don’t have the role because I get to go on Maternity soon but at the same time it would be a shame since I have done the role for 2 years!

Another thing that has upset me today (but I am a little over sensitive), why do people think its ok to call a pregnant person fat! I have got a large bump, people have been calling me fatty etc for a long time during this pregnancy but now it’s starting to get to me. For me, I have an issue with my body and I am very sensitive when it comes to weight… I try not to be and normally smile or laugh because I don’t see the point in letting it get to me. But when I was pregnant with my first child (who is now 5) at the start I weighed about 7 stone, was real thin and honestly I probably looked ill. I doubled my weight with my first child… I did get rid of some of the extra weight but it knocked my confidence. I will say I look healthier for having a bit of weight on me rather than how thin I was. Now I am pregnant for the second time one of the concerns I have had is will I put on a lot of weight like last time, I ask my partner, friends, family and mostly they say no but I wonder if I have… Writing this is actually making me quite tearful which may sound silly to most but I honestly don’t deal well with weight and have been ignoring it for the past 5 years because that’s how I found it easier to deal with it. My baby is due in 7 weekish, I guess I will see how much bigger I am then (well probably a little longer than that) but I do plan to breast feed, exercise (when I have recovered from the labour) but only time will tell. I just want the comments to stop…

Sorry I haven’t been around!

So I have had a busy time off work, its half term and I have been to visit my mums! The first few days I didn’t do much other than tidy my house and there is still more to do, which I am not looking forward to.

So I went my Mum’s Friday and just got back today, I am shattered! The reason we went down was so Joshua could go to Wembley to watch Crewe Alexander and Southend. He went Sunday morning at 5am… I had to wake him at 4:30 and normally he would kick off at being woken but no he was up straight away. Totally hyper, he loved it and Crewe won so he was ecstatic! He didn’t sleep on the way there nor on the way back, he even sung Jingle bells on the way back and was so chuffed.

I will update better but I really just can’t be bothered. I guess I will be in a rut for a few days again or maybe it’s the lack of sleep.

Things that are irritating me

So I actually removed someone from facebook for the first time because they offended me, I actually don’t really need them on my facebook they are my sisters longest friend’s brother who I use to hang around with when I was ickle. I don’t tend to talk about my religion because I don’t feel the need to push it on people and I am not the perfect Christian at all. It was something small which most people would not find offensive but if I don’t force my view I don’t expect people to force theirs on me (Although a lot do). He was annoyed because of all the religious posts people put on their facebook, but there is this great thing about facebook where you can hide people’s annoying statuses or even better a remove button. No instead he has a rant on his saying how he doesn’t want to see their religious posts (still not offended at the moment), how he will remove anyone who keeps posting them (yeah not offended because I don’t) but then he goes on to say how Jesus is imaginary. That is his view yes, but not mine and it pissed me off. I asked a girl at work if I should be offended or not because I wouldn’t want to overreact and she is not religious but said if she was me she would be offended. So instead of moaning about it on my facebook and pushing my beliefs on everyone – I removed him. Honestly, I don’t actually think it’s that offensive (I have heard worse) but I don’t really want people telling me what is or isn’t imaginary. Don’t get me wrong, if you don’t believe that is your choice and I won’t really go into a conversation with people about it. I have my reasons just as everyone has theirs not to believe, or have a different culture (although I find it interesting to learn about them), or even if you are not sure.

That is just one thing, at the moment a lot of things are getting irritating and I wonder how long it will be before I snap. People keep talking down to me, like I am a child or don’t know because for whatever reason (maybe they think I am stupid). I wouldn’t say I am stupid or a child, I have my moments when I come out with ditzy things or I say something that is stupid (this does not make me stupid/thick). I can’t say I am intelligent but I am always willing to learn, if I don’t understand something I ask, I don’t tend to get jokes but I think that is just me. I don’t mind people telling me something I already know but the way people say it you would honestly think I was a child or stupid. I wonder why people do this, does it make them feel superior or do they honestly not see that I am 25 years old with a kid of my own (who I will say is well behaved most of the time) he is still alive and well looked after so surely they should see that. My sister does this a fair bit but that is the way she is, she thinks I am incapable of driving because of the one time I drove to bingo but my problem is if I don’t know where I am going I do talk nervously (this is my nature). But I am fully capable of getting to my home town which is over a 100 miles away with my son in the car, I have not had a crash (touch wood I don’t) but my confidence drops when she is in the car judging me.

I am going to stop, I am getting irritable about the irritating things…