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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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Hubs has a new job... YAY, he's been working for himself, but that's because working for himself was his only option... but now we have full time employment and lovely benefits again, that always makes me happy. Also kids are starting school tomorrow, usually an exciting time. I love summer and doing fun things, but I also like getting back to a routine. So why the ":(" cause I'm SICK... I have the worst sore throat I've had in a long time. I feel awful and I want to crawl in bed and do nothing all day. But I can't because this is a big week for us!!! My body has awesome timing doesn't it? ;)
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
FAVORITE things...
I've found that a lot of my favorite products have come about by other people... do you feel that way too? My mom recently introduced me to one of her favorite products and it got me thinking about all the products I love, so here are a few, just in case you are interested ;)
This one was my mom's suggestion... okay so I'm um... THIRTY now, and in the last three years I've noticed that my pores are getting larger :( I know, right? Super sad, but it's just a fact of life and I've just had to deal with it. Along with larger pores came more blackheads, am I grossing you out? Hope not, they are just blackheads. What do you expect, the world is dirty... I mean, if my car can't stay clean for a week and it's kept in the garage, then certainly my big pores are going to be dirty as well. Anyways, my mom bought me Neutrogena's Blackhead eliminating daily scrub, and now I seriously LOVE this product, I noticed a difference the next day, I mean, I still have some, but they are far less than before and my pores look noticeably smaller too, so much better than the apricot scrub I've tried and toners and stuff, it's a keeper!
Next up: Lip gloss, I love lip gloss and I've tried quite a few, but I have long hair, and when the wind blows, or I lean forward or anything my hair gets stuck in the sticky lip glosses and that just grosses me out. So I went on a hunt for a good, long wearing, nice shine, NON-STICKY lip gloss, my favorite, another Neutrogena product, go figure! So their MoistureShine gloss is awesome, shimmery, not sticky at all, lasts a long time (for lip gloss) and it doesn't smell either (that's a big one for me, I have a sensitive nose!)
On to eyelashes: So a while ago I ranted about separating your lashes and why someone couldn't come up with a better solution than a thumb tack. (I don't think it was on THIS blog, I think it's on my other one, so don't feel bad if you don't remember that.) My aunt responded with a product that actually works! The Sepralash by Tweezerman. Unable to find it in my local Ulta, I settled for the "travel" version, the folding Ilashcomb, get it "I" lashcomb... it took me a minute, it's made by Tweezerman and it is fabulous! Most people I know don't need to separate their lashes, but I always needed to, and this did the trick... BUT I don't need to anymore, because I finally found my favorite mascara!!!
My favorite mascara: So I have a friend with the world's most gorgeous eyelashes, people are always asking her if they are fake. They are LONG and curly and just about as perfect as you could possibly get. I've tried and loved (for a few weeks) dozens of mascaras... frustrated, because of clumping, crossing, not getting enough coverage, flaking etc. I texted her while in the store to ask what kind of mascara she used. It was Covergirl Professional Super Thick Lash. Ulta didn't have it, so I sat there in the Covergirl section frustrated and wondering what kind to buy. My mom, yet again, came to the rescue... she said that she had read about what kind of brush to buy, it was skinny and straight, not at all like any of them I had used before, so I grabbed the Covergirl with the brush that looked the most like my mom's suggestion, actually she picked it up first, so she gets all the credit for this one too. Seriously it's my new favorite, and it's passed the "few weeks" test, where it's been a while and I still love it. It doesn't flake, even at the end of a VERY long day, the brush is perfect and covers really well, all in all I'm very pleased, and I've hated whatever mascara I've been using (all five of them) for the last 8 months! So try the Lash Blast Length mascara is the new one I recommend!
Along with lashes: The same aunt who told me about the sepralash also suggested her favorite eyelash curler. I have the straightest eyelashes on the planet, they are long and they point straight down over my eyes... I have always had to curl my lashes, I've tried Revlon's Maybelline's, and Tweezerman's, they've all been okay, but not great. Aunt and my mom both use Shu Uemura's eyelash curler. They were both right, this one is PERFECT, at $19 it better be, but it helped me learn that the $5 curlers, just aren't going to cut it!!! I get perfectly curled lashes in seconds, love love love the Shu Uemura curler (even if I can't remotely pronounce it ;))
Okay, so that's it for today, these are my can't live without products right now... I love being a girl, it's so much fun, makeup and products are just way too much fun to try and to love!!! :D
This one was my mom's suggestion... okay so I'm um... THIRTY now, and in the last three years I've noticed that my pores are getting larger :( I know, right? Super sad, but it's just a fact of life and I've just had to deal with it. Along with larger pores came more blackheads, am I grossing you out? Hope not, they are just blackheads. What do you expect, the world is dirty... I mean, if my car can't stay clean for a week and it's kept in the garage, then certainly my big pores are going to be dirty as well. Anyways, my mom bought me Neutrogena's Blackhead eliminating daily scrub, and now I seriously LOVE this product, I noticed a difference the next day, I mean, I still have some, but they are far less than before and my pores look noticeably smaller too, so much better than the apricot scrub I've tried and toners and stuff, it's a keeper!
Next up: Lip gloss, I love lip gloss and I've tried quite a few, but I have long hair, and when the wind blows, or I lean forward or anything my hair gets stuck in the sticky lip glosses and that just grosses me out. So I went on a hunt for a good, long wearing, nice shine, NON-STICKY lip gloss, my favorite, another Neutrogena product, go figure! So their MoistureShine gloss is awesome, shimmery, not sticky at all, lasts a long time (for lip gloss) and it doesn't smell either (that's a big one for me, I have a sensitive nose!)
On to eyelashes: So a while ago I ranted about separating your lashes and why someone couldn't come up with a better solution than a thumb tack. (I don't think it was on THIS blog, I think it's on my other one, so don't feel bad if you don't remember that.) My aunt responded with a product that actually works! The Sepralash by Tweezerman. Unable to find it in my local Ulta, I settled for the "travel" version, the folding Ilashcomb, get it "I" lashcomb... it took me a minute, it's made by Tweezerman and it is fabulous! Most people I know don't need to separate their lashes, but I always needed to, and this did the trick... BUT I don't need to anymore, because I finally found my favorite mascara!!!
My favorite mascara: So I have a friend with the world's most gorgeous eyelashes, people are always asking her if they are fake. They are LONG and curly and just about as perfect as you could possibly get. I've tried and loved (for a few weeks) dozens of mascaras... frustrated, because of clumping, crossing, not getting enough coverage, flaking etc. I texted her while in the store to ask what kind of mascara she used. It was Covergirl Professional Super Thick Lash. Ulta didn't have it, so I sat there in the Covergirl section frustrated and wondering what kind to buy. My mom, yet again, came to the rescue... she said that she had read about what kind of brush to buy, it was skinny and straight, not at all like any of them I had used before, so I grabbed the Covergirl with the brush that looked the most like my mom's suggestion, actually she picked it up first, so she gets all the credit for this one too. Seriously it's my new favorite, and it's passed the "few weeks" test, where it's been a while and I still love it. It doesn't flake, even at the end of a VERY long day, the brush is perfect and covers really well, all in all I'm very pleased, and I've hated whatever mascara I've been using (all five of them) for the last 8 months! So try the Lash Blast Length mascara is the new one I recommend!
Along with lashes: The same aunt who told me about the sepralash also suggested her favorite eyelash curler. I have the straightest eyelashes on the planet, they are long and they point straight down over my eyes... I have always had to curl my lashes, I've tried Revlon's Maybelline's, and Tweezerman's, they've all been okay, but not great. Aunt and my mom both use Shu Uemura's eyelash curler. They were both right, this one is PERFECT, at $19 it better be, but it helped me learn that the $5 curlers, just aren't going to cut it!!! I get perfectly curled lashes in seconds, love love love the Shu Uemura curler (even if I can't remotely pronounce it ;))
Okay, so that's it for today, these are my can't live without products right now... I love being a girl, it's so much fun, makeup and products are just way too much fun to try and to love!!! :D
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
I moved...
It's been a long time since I have blogged... why you might ask? Is it that I have four children that keep me super busy? Is it because I recently celebrated my 11 year anniversary? Is it because it seems like no one actually read blogs anymore anyway? Nah, it's because we had to move. The house that we have been renting for two years was being sold, so there was no renewing of the contract available, so on the 31st of July, we had to be out of there. It was sad for us, we loved it there but I'm ready for something a little more permanent. For the first seven years of our marriage we were in the same condo, we bought it and closed on it a few weeks before the wedding, and stayed there until we were bursting at the seams with three kids in one bedroom, us, the piano, treadmill and second TV in the other bedroom and one bathroom to share. Needless to say we were completely relieved to buy our first house. Too bad we were only there for 4 months. We bought the house, moved in, fixed it up and then got offered a job in Las Vegas. It just felt right, and as hard as it was to sell my first house (especially because I loved it SO much!!!) We packed up and moved to Vegas, it was an adventure, and luckily we rented our house down there... especially since houses dropped so much in value the two years we were there. Then when the company my hubby worked for laid off 200 employees (including us unfortunately) we wanted to stay there, but ended up finding a job closer to home. So we moved back, and after being out of work for a few months decided to wait on buying, so we rented again. Renting isn't bad, in fact I think it's pretty responsible, especially if you are going to move a lot like we have. People say we are wasting our money, but it's not a long term solution for us, it's just a few years... can't be any worse than losing 120K on a home, which is what happened to the house we were renting... actually it's not worse than that, it's much better. But anyways, now we are ready to be in ONE place for a VERY long time... the problem now? We are self-employed and with the stricter lending standards, we have to jump through a few more hoops. PBBBBLLL!!! So we wait until January, when we can file taxes again, and while we wait, we are lucky enough to have a house to live in for about 6 months. So that's where I've been. Packing for a temporary move so we wouldn't have to unpack everything. We are living with about 1/3 our stuff, the rest we are storing. That way it's not as hard to pack up and move again when the time comes. So that's what I've been doing, organizing, and packing and getting rid of stuff and having a garage sale, and organizing and packing some more... but we are here now, and we are mostly settled, and we are grateful to have some time to save up more money to make us less of a risk to the lovely banks who have really low interest rates but don't want to lend any of their money, and eventually it will all work out and I will again own a home and I will never move again!!! Well, maybe not "never" but at least for several years! So yeah, did you miss me?
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