Bitchin' Hot Chocolate : )

This is the creamiest, smoothest most indulgent hot chocolate I've ever had. Its very rich so one cup is usually enough. Unless your feeling glutenous.

Now, first make the mix...Put it into a nice glass jar with an airtight lid or a nice tin with an airtight lid. I keep mine in a cute vintage coca cola tin thats been thouroughly cleaned. But any container will work.

So, in your chosen receptical, put the following:

• 4 heaped tablespoons good cocoa powder
• 3 heaped tablespoons icing sugar
• 2 heaped tablespoons of Horlicks or any other powdered malted drink
• 2 heaped tablespoons of cornflour
• A pinch of salt 
• 100g Dark Chocolate, grated. 

You can use milk chocolate if you want a really sweet hot chocolate. I also don't grate mine, i use chocolate chips but grated chocolate does melt easier. It really depends on how lazy you are haha.

Now, shake that jar. Shake it baby. Make sure all the powders and chocolate are well mixed.

To Make The Hot Chocolate:

1. Over a low heat, simmer some milk. Type of milk is up to you. I fill up the mugs i'm gonna use with milk before i pour into the pan to know how much milk i need. But a pint usually does 3 people.
2. Add 2 tablespoons of mix for every cup/person your making the hot chocolate for.
3. Whisk together until all the chocolate melts and then just heat through
4. Keep whisking until its nice and hot.

Pour into fancy cups, pour on some whipped cream and marshmallows and enjoy. Be careful, its pretty hot.

 Mucho Lov

Nova

My ASMR Experience

Just a little bit of nova history...

I know its a fairly new thing to the people of the Internet but for me, i have been experiencing "the tingles" for 6 or 7 years.

It all started when i was about 15 and the terrors of adolescence started baring their teeth. I developed a terrible case of insomnia, something that followed me for years. Of course, back then while i was still at school it only presented itself at the weekends but when i finished school at 16 and took a year off before going to college, the insomnia bedded down for a long stay (hehe).
During these 3 years before i went to college, i discovered infomercials and the shopping network on TV. Soon, i spent all night watching them and most parts of the day watching the repeats. They started to have a strange effect on me. After a while, they began to calm me, making it much easier for me to close my eyes and drift off.
I began getting the tingles, triggered by the gentleness of the programming.
That strange fuzzy sensation in your head that almost feels as if your brain is turning to mush but nice tasty mush with chocolate sprinkles and coconut. It was sheer pleasure. Such a feeling of relaxation and tranquility.
But it didn't last long.
I didn't realise it at the time but my insomnia was being caused by depression and a feeling of isolation. Soon the triggering power of the calming voices of the shopping TV presenters began to have no effect on me. I lost my tingles but still had the insomnia. I stayed away from the shopping network because i almost felt like it was becoming an obsession. In some stupid way, i felt that if i kept staying up and not sleeping, if i kept watching that my tingles would come back and i would be able fall into a blissful mushy headed sleep.

I would not have a tingle for nearly a year. My insomnia reached its peak when i went to college. I was going days without sleeping yet somehow was still able to focus relatively well. That was worse. I felt like i could stay awake forever and never see any ill effects.
It wasn't until i was at college for about 5 months that i got access to the Internet in my apartment. Having never had much access to it before i was enjoying watching movies and listening to music non stop, all hours of the day that i wasn't at class. It was like the shopping channels all over. But instead of soothing and helping my insomnia, it fed it. like a ravenous bird.

And then as if my magic when i was 19, my second year of college, i was recommended a video by YouTube. It was a video of Lita, doing her massage thing. For ASMR fans, you will know who i am talking about. After that, i watched every massage video she had, loving the soothing music and voices and just like the shopping network, it had the same calming effect on me. Then i branched out. I realised i loved watching soothing craft videos and that i loved the sounds of beads and buttons clacking on a wooden table. I loved watching Bob Ross paint and people pretending to be make up artists or opticians. I thought id gone insane.

It wasn't until i discovered Maria (GentleWhispering), that i realised that all these years there was a name for my tingles. And that there were so many others out there chasing that gorgeous feeling. Not through drugs or alcohol, but by gentleness and whispering and soothing voices.

ASMR was my escape from the insomnia. And now, anytime i cannot sleep or am stressed or have a headache or am angry or sad, i know i can watch a video of someone just whispering in my ear and that fuzzy mushy feeling in my brain tells me everything is going to be all right. It may sound weird or strange but for me the tingles play such an important part of my life.

So, thats my ASMR story.
And down here, is a list of my favourite ASMR wonderfulness providers...haha!

1. GentleWhispering
2. CalmingEscape
3. ASMRrequests
4. asmraurette
5. SilentCitadel
6. TheWaterwhispers

Enjoy : )

Mucho Luv

Nova Kaine

Where did all the fear come from...Who left the tap running?

This was on old post that i deleted accidentally... oopsie!

A few days ago my boyfriend left me a link on my facebook, to a website he is criminally obsessed with... Cracked.com

The title of the post he sent me on a quest to read... 5 Things you do every day that are actually addictions.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19426_5-things-you-do-every-day-that-are-actually-addictions.html

So, most of the things on the list dont actually apply to me... Because i dont listen to pop music or tan.. or chew ice. But when i came to the section on applying lip balm, all of a sudden a switch flipped in my brain space.
Now i would never have thought i had an addiction to lip balm but reading that section, i thought maybe i do. I do use lip balm every day and am constantly re applying it. And then it went on to talk about Carmex lip balm ( the brand i use ) and how it contains the same chemical thats in embalming fluid (Mmmmm). And i started to feel sick as i stared at the jar of carmex in front of me and acting almost on instinct, i threw the carmex in the bin. I ran upstairs trying to find a different lip balm and ending up applying like a gazzilion coats of some shea butter and vanilla crap, which was the only one i could find. I felt kinda scared and worried about wheter id done any long term damage to myself.

And i started to think, if i had never read this article, i would have continued to use my usual lip balm and probably never have a problem with it. But reading something like that which (whether intentionally or by accident ) is desgined to put the fear in you, you start to worry about the worst. And it just goes to show how scared and terrifed people can be when it comes to their body and health.
I think that my generation has been greatly desensitized to things like violence, anger, sex and death because of the power of the internet. But that power has also turned us into germphobic scared little pussys. And that pisses me off... I don't need to know that my lip balm has embalming fluid in it or that staring at a computer screen too long is gonna make my eyes fall out or that eating red MnMs will give me cancer or any of the other bullshit claims the internet tries to spit at us. So, from now on, im not gonna read any more health related articles about anything that will make me stop living my life the way i've already been living it... until limbs are hanging off or i go blind or something. I've lived 21 years doing it my way ( well most of it anyway ) and im ok with going on like that for another while anyway...


Also, im now addicted to Cracked.com.... haha!

Mucho luvo

Nova
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Im Back Baby!

Its been a long time since i could really enjoy typing on the internet. I recently got connected to the internet in my own abode, so now i can finally sink my teeth into writing a proper blog.

I get a lot of little ideas during the day. Some for stories of fiction, some very forward opinions on what im watching on tv or silly arguments i have with my boyfriend.

Its like, my mind is bath bomb. Its a beautiful coloured lump of scent and sparkle but as soon as it lands in the water, its melts and mixes and creates an even more delicious sparkle soup. My mind is full of ideas and words and thoughts and they feel too tightly cramped sometimes. So here i am, to make word soup...Does that sound weird to anyone else? haha

So, this wont be a blog about anything in particular. Just thoughts and ideas of a normal person with a strange outlook on life..

Mucho Luv

Nova