Lavender.

I have not been feeling well this week. At all. I am not enjoying this part of working in a new preschool environment. I had tried to prepare myself for this. I already knew that whenever I work in a new environment, much less a new preschool setting, I know that I will be getting sick the first couple of weeks. I did take my vitamin C and I did drink a lot of water and washed my has and just tried to prevent any sickness. The first week I started, I got sick. And now here I am in the middle of the second week and I am still sick. Not a fun thing...and I can't wait until I get better.

One think that i have been struggling with for some time is how I can't see to be able to sleep. I will not diagnose myself and say that I am an insomniac...but I will say that I have been having trouble sleeping...for a couple months now, but right now I'm really feeling the effects now. Not really horribly, but I do know that it is extremely unhealthy to be lack of sleep for a long period of time...and so I have been trying to find remedies of how to go to sleep.

That sounded wrong.

I know how to "fall asleep"...but my body just does not want to sleep. I can lay there forever and not go to sleep and that is extremely annoying. I actually just got out of the shower...because I just got home less than an hour ago. I just got back from work from Passion Roots. I love working there. It is a very relaxing environment amongst the stressful situation of having to finish a wedding prep...but I love flowers and I love working with flowers...except I hate wiring orchids, and that's what I had to do tonight...but it's all good because I was able to finish what I needed to finish. :)

When I got home, this is what I found. I know that I probably have a developing addiction of online buying...and Amazon is my favorite place. *laughs* But that aside, I was pleasantly surprised to see this waiting for me on the stairs going down to my room. Mandy had brought it in for me, and left it where I could see it...

...and I was kind of excited because I knew that what I got was something that I've read about and I wanted to try it out. Not only have I read about it, but people I trust have told me about it...and so I hope that it can work!

I have been really into these Himalayan Salt lamps. Even though I bought one a few weeks ago...(or was that just days ago?!), it does make a very calming light in my room at night...and it is the perfect nightlight ever. It's not too bright and it's very calming...and I can't really say if I feel less stress around it...but I have been less stress overall because my new job is amazing and it's not as stressful. 

I also bought one for my friend, Jackie (she would be a former co-worker)...it is said that this helps with allergies and I know that it was her birthday recently and so I got one for her as a present and so she can have one. I hope that it works for her at least.

So, I had bought a new Lamp with a oil diffuser on the top. I have heard that lavender can help you de-stress and promote sleep. I couldn't see how it can hurt to try it out...so I got this bugger to see if it would work. I do know that if it doesn't work, then I can always buy smelling oils and diffuse the the oil in this lamp and have my room smell yummy. :)

As you can see my new one is a lot smaller than the one that I previously have. I really like this lamp and I am thinking of either bring the bigger one into my classroom, or putting it in my living room. 

So, the reason why I did buy this one was so that I can put the essential oils in that little cup on top of the lamp. The heat from the light will be the one that diffuses the lavender or whatever oil that I put in it. I really hope that it works...I really would like to sleep. 

I did read though that the lavender that came with the lamp is not the best...so I decided to look up a little bit more expensive lavender with better reviews and so I ended up also getting...

...100% pure oil Lavender by Woolzies. I did read a lot of good reviews about this one, and so since I didn't want to go broke...I thought as a starter this would be a good one. But I wanted to at least use up the lavender that it came with...

Here is the lamp when I have turned it on. It's beautiful, right?! I love how there is dimmer...and when it is at the brightest, it brightens up my room enough that I don't need to turn on my overhead light or my bedside lamp...I wouldn't read with it, because it would strain my eyes a lot...but I have written in my journal with no problem. I have compared the brightness with this one to the other bigger one that I had...it was nearly just as bright...I love these lamps, whether they work the way they say that they would or not...but it is a great, great nightlight; I would definitely recommend it.

I was not very happy with the lavender that it came with because when I opened the tiny bottle, I guess part of the cover broke inside the bottle. I could not take the piece out no matter what I tried...so I what I ended up doing is just pushing the piece all the way into the bottle and so it is just in there floating because I could not take it out...

So, it is in my room right now on and even though I am not feeling well and I know that my nose is stuffy...I can smell lavender. I have to say that it is not my most favorite scent or anything...but if it helps...then that is a good thing. I hope that it will help with my sleep problems though.