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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

We're ready...

We're ready for some (spring) football.
We are not ready to be chasing a toddler all over the football field though...

Monday, February 24, 2014

I look like a circus clown

This really happened to me.

Situation #1
On Friday after work I went to Walgreens to buy...wait for it...nail polish. I treat myself every pay (like $10-15 bucks, nothing crazy). Anyway, I am standing there lusting after all the Essie polishes. There is a older woman and her grown son picking out polish for her. The son is going on and on about all the crazy polish. "Do people really wear all these crazy, horrible colors?" Meanwhile, I am standing there with mint green nails, with a black and white chevron accent. The woman says to me, "It is so hard to pick, so many to choose from. Can you believe people wear some of this crazy stuff?" Then she sees my nails and says, "Oh, I guess they do! Do you do that your self or do you pay for that?!" Thankfully I do not pay for it, I paint those crazy colors on myself.

Situation #2
I am not a make-up snob. I love it all equally. I have some more expensive favorites and some drugstore faves as well. One of my favorite drugstore eyeshadows is Wet-n-Wild. For the price, the pigment is pretty good (although, not as good as it used to be but I digress). I was in Walgreens (again) and came across a new limited edition palette and for $4.99 I could not pass it up. It is a mainly neutral palette but kind of glittery. I go to pay and the cashier tells me it is new collection that she just put out. Then she says, "These colors are pretty, they will be good for Halloween or something like that."

So there you have it. Apparently, my choice in make-up products is similar to that of Mimi from The Drew Carey Show.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

I'm alive!

This is going to be a random post. Buckle up.

I have been MIA but with good reason. I have been sick. It started with a sinus infection. I had about one week of feeling human when I ended up with a kidney infection. And because that was not torture enough, I got another sinus infection. Good times. I finally feeling normal-ish again.

I am about to hit my one year anniversary at work. I cannot believe it has been year. This is the most challenging, rewarding, stressful job I have ever had. I love it, I really do but it has been a challenging year. But I made it. This past week was rough because I was trying to finish out the year all while being sick. No fun.

The kids and I are living for Spring. I am so ready to enjoy that sunshine after work. I am looking forward to some football (22 days!). Both of these things (sunlight and football) means lots of shooting time for me and that makes me a happy girl.

My current nail polish obsession continues to grow. I have perfected the chevron nail and I always get asked how to do it. A tutorial may be in my future. Yesterday, a barista at Starbucks told me that she loved my nails and called them "Pinterest nails." Folks, I have arrived. Also, all those hours wasted on Pinterest paid off.

That is all for now. But before I sign off, life lately...

There was some nail painting

Conor took me out on a breakfast date

There were some photo shoots

More nail painting...

Conor received some Valentine's goodies and loved it!

Annnddd some more nail painting and polish purchases.


And a few of my daredevil cutie

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Nail Rock Nail Caviar

I have been seeing all the cute nail caviar design on Pinterest. They piqued my interest but I was concerned about durabilty. But I finally caved because I paint my nails 2-3 times a week anyway so I figured, why not. I bought the Nail Rock Nail Caviar . It comes with a nail polish but the brush was kind of wimpy so I used their polish with my accent nail only. I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Coin Flip" on my other nails. It was super easy to apply the "caviar" but I am all about an accent nail only. It could be more of a pain if you are trying to apply to every nail.

Overall I like to results and will likely buy more, because, well I can't stop buy nail products.


As usual, please excuse my ugly fingers, I had not had a chance to clean them up prior to the pictures. Also, please excuse the pictures in general...they were taken in auto (gasp) with a pop-up flash (double gasp). But my sweet 12-year-old took these for me and he did a good job :D.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

My life recently as told through my phone camera...

There was a Starbucks run that include me buying yet another tumbler that I HAD TO HAVE.
I bought some Gelous because I tired the Shellac Hack (more on that later).
The boys taught the baby to give "knucks" but my crappy phone could not get good pic.

We celebrated the Super Bowl. Please note...this was fancier than usual for us because we were celebrating a birthday too. Also, we are not Seahawk bandwagoners. We are just not Broncos fans..like at not all. I *might* cheer for them if they were playing the Cowboys but then again if the Broncos and Cowboys were my only choices I would just give up football. Did I mention we are Patriots fans?

Monday, February 3, 2014

Not another nail polish post

Yes, another nail polish post.

I have perfected the chevron technique. And by perfected I mean I am able to successfully create one chevron accent nail. Up close it looks like my toddler painted my nails but from a distance they pass for cute-ish.

BUT what I really love are the colors. I used Essie "Bikini So Teeny", Essie "Stroke of Brilliance" and Sally Hansen Xtreme "White On".
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