隨意角落

What a beautiful testimony that brother Lee shared with us this morning. I have to admit that I got really emotional when he talked about him and his wife marrying each other for the second time, and how their twin sons were proud to be at "their own parents' wedding".

It just suddenly reminded me that, as a kid,  I also had the same wish for the longest time, but it still became the dream that never came true when both of my parents started their new families.

I still clearly remember the day I first met my dad's girlfriend (now his wife). I pretty much scared her by bursting into tears the moment my dad introduced us. I was eight and I had never felt so hopeless before. I guess when my parents first got divorced, I was still somewhat clueless about what happened. All I knew was that my dad would not live with us anymore, but it wasn't too big of a change because he always had to travel for work and was never home that much anyway. But it wasn't until I saw my dad's girlfriend that I realized the four of us would never be a family again. Never. I cried for so long that I used almost a whole box of tissues, but I didn't say a word. After a while, I was afraid that my dad would be mad for my bad manners. However, he seemed to understand why I was acting like this, and he just sat next to me and wept.

雖然有柳橙入鏡，但是這款肥皂倒是跟柳橙一點關係也沒有~ 只是因為用了棕櫚核油而使肥皂呈橘黃色，令我想起了加州的柳橙。

一直都很想試試之前買的芒果和百香果香精，兩種都滿好聞的（雖然也聞不太出來是芒果跟百香果香），所以加在一起應該也不錯。我個人覺得味道還滿「美國」的，就是聞到時腦中會浮現「美國的沐浴產品」那種味道…。

台北這幾天的艷陽令我想起 Sacramento 的炎夏 ，雖然溫度是沒有到 Sacramento 的攝氏四十度以上，但是很烈的陽光曬得皮膚發燙，而且難得不是濕熱那種，真的有些像又乾又熱的 Sacramento 夏天呢。

這麼熱的天氣，讓我想做一款「退火」一點的肥皂~

這部電影是將近一年前上映的，不過我到現在才看。@.@ 其實我是非常喜歡第一集的納尼亞傳奇的，照理來說第二集上映時我應該要迫不及待地去電影院看…，但是去年上映時不知道為什麼，我一直沒有覺得太想看，可能是從預告片看起來場景都暗暗的，也可能是下意識覺得續集通常都會讓人失望吧。

但是我錯了…。要不是我現在有看，我就真的要錯過一部超級好看的電影了~

天氣越來越熱，有時會想要喝一杯冰冰涼涼的汽水，所以就突然想到「檸檬蘇打」這個聞了真的會令人想到汽水的香精。



對我來說這是款實驗性挺高的肥皂…。淡淡的綠色並不是天然的，而是刻意調出來的。為了要配合「檸檬蘇打」這個名字，我腦中幻想著要做出一款「蘇打綠」的肥皂，但是我不想加一大堆染料，因為這樣洗在身上不知道會不會給皮膚帶來太多負擔…，所以我決定用「半天然」的方式來製造出綠色。

（譯：妳要我去買復活節新裝，而這是他們唯一剩下的了。）

註：復活節兔是西方民俗中復活節的象徵之一，並不起源於基督教。

「蕁麻」對我來說是種陌生的藥草，因為我只會想到「蕁麻疹」。 不過將蕁麻葉粉入皂不是稀奇的事，很多做手工皂的人都做過蕁麻皂，而且聽說會讓肥皂呈現天然的綠色，是除了它本身的作用之外，另一項還不錯的附加價值。



……但是為什麼我做出來的卻還真的像是長了「疹子」？沒有把肥皂染成美麗的綠色啊。=_=

今天是姊姊的大壽，因為無法一起為她慶祝，爸爸告知了我預算，要我去幫他挑一份禮物給姊姊，然後再寄給她。

既然是大壽，就不能隨便挑一些有的沒有的，必須要挑一份算是有紀念價值的禮物。其實要代表爸爸買禮物還滿有壓力的，要是挑不好，被嫌的會是爸爸。 想來想去，我決定買……

洗髮皂是天天都要用的，所以每次快用完時就會重複再做。雖然每一次做洗髮皂我都會把配方微調，但其實還是大同小異。苦茶油一定會佔不算小的比例，倒是蓖麻油越放越少了，否則一多放感覺又會讓頭髮黏膩。



這次做了一千兩百克，夠我未來幾個月慢慢用了~

 

（譯：我是可以把那些弄成五千份啦，可是一些魚和餅應該會是較佳的選擇吧。）

經文：馬太福音 14:14-21