Valerian and Chamomile and... Jewelry?

So for my aunts' Christmas presents, my mum and I are making trees just like the ones at Roger's Gardens.
This is what they look like. Picture taken from the Rogers' Gardens website...

 We raided our jewelry boxes and got a tremendous amount of things... but it didn't seem like anything we found had enough substance. They were mostly just a few beads and some pendants but nothing great.

So I was looking around Craigslist and saw somebody selling jewelry for $1. So I contacted them and asked if I could buy their spares and the ones that were broken beyond repair for cheaper. He (who I just assumed was a she) told me I could buy 10 things for $1. BEST. PRICE. EVER.

So 'Der Boifriend' and I went to the place. Herm. I didn't realize that this might not have been the best area in our county... I stay within a half-hour bus ride/ biking distance from my house... and that means that I stay in the nicer areas. When I learn how to drive my moped (I'm working on a driver's license, then going to take the class) I will broaden my radius and hopefully pursue more things further away.

I want to visit more tea and coffee shops. There was one in a neighboring town a good drive away that a Hello-Kitty obsessed friend took me to with a couple others. He recommended the orange tea and it was DELICIOUS. (I took their idea of using the rinds, cutting off the pulp, drying them and then steeping them in place of tea. It worked wonders and if you use tangerine peels, it's easy to de-pulp and the smell is AWESOME.)

So we pilfered through this guy's jewelry box for what seemed like ten minutes, and left with a good amount of stuff. I filled a gallon sized freezer bag 1/3 full and got it for $7, rounding up. It was more like $6.50 but I didn't have change.

So anyways I've been having trouble sleeping... and I don't like the idea of taking medication. I always feel like I'll overdose since I'm so tiny or that I'll become dependent on it or something. So I like looking up natural or home remedies. Most of them work well. When in doubt... C4. When sick... black tea with honey and lemon. My favorite cure-all.

Anyways so I noticed reading somewhere that Valerian was supposed to be good for people with insomnia and is good for people trying to get to sleep. That's my main concern... sometimes it takes me hours of tossing and turning and (weirdly enough) trying to create seed-dreams in my mind. Though these usually never work... they seemed to help me sleep when I was a kid...

And ever since Gawd-knows-when I've known that chamomile is supposed to be good for sleeping too. So I'll see if I can find Valerian tea or something at my local hipster-market and some chamomile tea.

I think I drank chamomile tea once.

I don't remember anything but the color. Imagine... well... yellow ochre paint mixed with a ton of water. That was it.

Yes I just described what you thought I described that way.

So yeah. That's been my day.

Work wasn't bad. Though this chick did come to me wanting to return a bunch of items and then buy them again using a different coupon... normally we wouldn't do it but the cashier called our manager and she said it was OK. So I got landed with typing all the codes in manually... TWICE. And don't get me wrong... these are 12-16 digit codes, not to mention the barcode at the top doesn't scan so I have to type in that 24 digit long code (I should count the numbers in my spare time.)

So that was SO MUCH FUN.

My leg just fell asleep. Perhaps I should stand up and run around the house singing "Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is Dead..." from the Wizard of Oz. Gawd I loved being in that play.