So how was your day? - Page 10

My day yesterday was marked by bringing home a giant haul of things from Lush. The Great Enabler just got a job managing their downtown store and now I have to help him with his homework... I got to test some stuff on my hair last night and now I'm completely addicted.

I also decided, after months of trying to deny that I was putting on weight, that I have to put myself on a diet. I'm getting to the point where a lot of my favourite clothes don't fit. (Probably because a lot of my favourite clothes were purchased when I was petite and feeling good about myself to boot.) I've actually been pretty successful at taking off weight in a reasonable way in the past, but it takes me time. I managed to drop 40 pounds at one point, but I feel like a lot of it has crept back...

Katred, These things happen over the Winter and Summer-time is the best for eating more healthily.  I crave fresh food in the Summer - salads never taste better lol!

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My day yesterday was marked by bringing home a giant haul of things from Lush. The Great Enabler just got a job managing their downtown store and now I have to help him with his homework... I got to test some stuff on my hair last night and now I'm completely addicted.

 

I also decided, after months of trying to deny that I was putting on weight, that I have to put myself on a diet. I'm getting to the point where a lot of my favourite clothes don't fit. (Probably because a lot of my favourite clothes were purchased when I was petite and feeling good about myself to boot.) I've actually been pretty successful at taking off weight in a reasonable way in the past, but it takes me time. I managed to drop 40 pounds at one point, but I feel like a lot of it has crept back...

I love Lush's R&B for my curly hair. makes me feel purtiful. hee!

i'm with you on the diet. this month i am trying to stay away from beer, which is my love of loves, and started working out again. i hate having to buy larger clothes to house my thick and deliciousness. i kept some of my old jeans so i have some sort of "ideal" to work towards.

thanks! i'm finally less sore from the workout i like ("Insanity"), so hopefully i'll see some results soon. at least it gives me an excuse to buy new sneakers. hee!

Today went well!

I went to Sephora again (omg, it is so nice to have a Sephora 25 minutes away FINALLY and not have to travel over an hour). They let me exchange something I bought for someone (and they wouldn't take it) for an item I actually want so I don't feel like I wasted my money anymore. We went to Dos Amigos for dinner and it was good food (as always). I did feel a little sick during it because I read there was a tornado warning at the state below me and I've been more paranoid about the weather now, so, aha. Plus we were supposed to get severe weather AGAIN and yee. There's another storm in TN and it's kinda going southeast, sort of toward my area, so I'm a little hesitant again. Now I'm just sitting here waiting to take a bath and drinking my iced americano with whipped cream.

I'm quite pleased with myself so far on the diet. I've basically managed to avoid temptation (meaning fried and sweet foods, although the former is really where I tend to have problems) and I've been getting out for at least an hour's walk a day. Strangely, the immediate effect is that I'm getting extraordinarily powerful cramps... I normally have a rough time, but this is unbelievable. I keep taking anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxants (which I normally avoid doing) and they do nothing. Anyone else ever have something like this happen? (Sorry if that puts anyone off..)

The weekend has been fairly mellow. I managed to get some writing done last night/ early this morning (yay insomnia), which I haven't been doing enough lately.

I also got to try a couple of things from Hourglass for the first time. I'm very impressed with the quality. They've priced themselves around the same as Chanel/ YSL/ Armani but they do live up to the hype. (There's a complete review of what I got on my blog- link is in my signature.)

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Today went well!

 

I went to Sephora again (omg, it is so nice to have a Sephora 25 minutes away FINALLY and not have to travel over an hour). They let me exchange something I bought for someone (and they wouldn't take it) for an item I actually want so I don't feel like I wasted my money anymore. We went to Dos Amigos for dinner and it was good food (as always). I did feel a little sick during it because I read there was a tornado warning at the state below me and I've been more paranoid about the weather now, so, aha. Plus we were supposed to get severe weather AGAIN and yee. There's another storm in TN and it's kinda going southeast, sort of toward my area, so I'm a little hesitant again. Now I'm just sitting here waiting to take a bath and drinking my iced americano with whipped cream.

Yeh we've had really bad weather lately. So far not too bad, in the area I live very close though  but other areas have had tons of damage.

We finally got a Sephora a little more than a year ago. It's great that it's only 15 min away.
 

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I'm quite pleased with myself so far on the diet. I've basically managed to avoid temptation (meaning fried and sweet foods, although the former is really where I tend to have problems) and I've been getting out for at least an hour's walk a day. Strangely, the immediate effect is that I'm getting extraordinarily powerful cramps... I normally have a rough time, but this is unbelievable. I keep taking anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxants (which I normally avoid doing) and they do nothing. Anyone else ever have something like this happen? (Sorry if that puts anyone off..)

 

That's great. I love fried food also but sweets are so tempting. I usually do ok with the sweets if I don't have them in the house because it is usually late at night that I crave them. Haha while typing this I have downed about a halk bag of Werther's hard candy. My hubby is bad to buy ice cream and chocolate and he knows that these tow items have me under a spell. He just tells me I need more will powder and self control. Men..

Yeah, I've no idea if it came over here or not. Well, no, the bigger part was straying away and we were getting little bits. I fell asleep before it got here and I'm still alive, so, haha. Although now there's a gigantic belt of storms all the way up to the top of the country and that's just wonderful (not, haha). But as long as it's cloudy here, it's getting weaker. We have storm chances all the way to next Wednesday. I'm ready to just get out of the east coast, f'real, ha.

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Yeah, I've no idea if it came over here or not. Well, no, the bigger part was straying away and we were getting little bits. I fell asleep before it got here and I'm still alive, so, haha. Although now there's a gigantic belt of storms all the way up to the top of the country and that's just wonderful (not, haha). But as long as it's cloudy here, it's getting weaker. We have storm chances all the way to next Wednesday. I'm ready to just get out of the east coast, f'real, ha.

It's 90 here right now but the rest of the week we are suppose to drop down to low to mid 80's, yay. It was very humid yesterday. I haven't been to NC in a while. The last time was a couple of years ago when my hubby and I went to Ashville in June. It is such a cool town, very arty. We didn't know they were doing their annual art thing where you get to visit the studios and such. We enjoyed that. We stayed at the Grand Bohemian Hotel, beautiful place. We got a good discount rate but I don't think they do those anymore:(   I loved that whole area around it and walking around the shops and resturants.  .   And of course we love the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Stay safe.

The storm tailed it straight east around noon while it was still in the state above and now it's practically gone, haha. Nothing here! Which means I'm finally gonna mow the lawn and earn some $$$.

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That's great. I love fried food also but sweets are so tempting. I usually do ok with the sweets if I don't have them in the house because it is usually late at night that I crave them. Haha while typing this I have downed about a halk bag of Werther's hard candy. My hubby is bad to buy ice cream and chocolate and he knows that these tow items have me under a spell. He just tells me I need more will powder and self control. Men..

Ah, one of the benefits of being the primary chef in the house is that you have a lot of control over the food that enters it. He still has his ice cream every night, but I just try to avoid being in the room when he's eating. Even if I'm there, as long as he gives me a bite, I'm generally OK. So far, so good, although I do think it'll be easier when he's out of the house more...

Well, there wasn't enough gas so I couldn't do it. <.< No idea if there's gas now but I'm not gonna check until later since the air is crap.

Yeah, we got lucky with that storm. South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kansas didn't. >.> And maybe Texas, I only saw their name once. 2011 = Repeat of 1974 United States Tornado Outbreak except all spread out and not all at once, geez. Dear Grandpa, about that ticket to go back to Germany... aaaha. T_T

^^ Katred, have you tried drinking lots of water? Sometimes you get cramps if you're really dehydrated. Also make sure you're stretching before and after walking or working out - I know if I don't stretch out my legs, I get knee pain and calf cramps! Great excuse for a massage... :)

Hiya ladies! I haven't been around in ages, but work is finally slowing down so I thought I'd pop by to say hi! :)

fried. foods. good gawd how i love them. i lost my mind in japan, there were so many little random stands with something crispy and golden and i need to stop thinking about it. lol!

being a southerner doesn't help either, i wanted to smack somebody for a piece of fried chicken on the way home from work today.

I would like to say "in your face!" to mother nature since I got to mow the lawn today. :) Wh00t, 15$ for me! 

Also, a cold front is leaving us so we might actually be able to have a nice and quiet weekend. Still chances for tiny pop up storms, but they said that the crazy weather pattern we've been having recently should shut up. :) 

Now I'm trying to decide on a tinted moisturizer. I could either go back to the Sonia Kashuk one that I like (Although I can't decide if I should go with Linen again or go a shade lighter...or I could go with Hard Candy's since I used to like that one too and saves me more money, haha. YAY, DRUGSTORE TMS. But I do plan on going to Sephora at some point and finding a concealer. Concealer is harder to match than TMs. >.>

Ramble, ramble, ramble.

@ssaemblog .. try mixing your usual foundation into a bit of your usual moisturizer - you may find that you like it best.

Ohhh I finally found this place. yay <3

Hi guys!

Uh, my day... yesterday sucked. Work was long, and tiring, and then I spent most of the day alone. I took a chemistry test that I got a 7 out of 9 on ;--; not too bad, but could have done a bit better....

The highlight of my day was the fact that I spent 4 hours afterwards watching Glee because I had nothing else to do. Ah, the days when I used to snort at the idea of watching it. It's actually pretty great.

Work starts here in 25 minutes, and back to the daily grind.

Ugh. It started raining in our apartment yesterday. Somehow, the caulking has come loose from the balcony directly over our living room window and now water has started dripping in when it rains. Had the landlord and superintendent here this morning, so hopefully the problem is getting fixed (kind of hard to tell, since the work would have to be done in the place upstairs). I guess I'll know when it starts raining again.

Actually, I did an experiment with just powder and it actually lessens (is that the word?) my dark circles a bit, just like my regular foundation does. So now I'm probably just going to wear my rice powder and now I don't have to worry about whether I'm foundation colour blind or not, wh00t.

Uhm, today was good minus the fact that North Carolina had another freakin' tornado. It was about two hours from here, but still. No storms around my area though. Still waiting for it to be next Friday so that this entire more than a week of storm chances will just go the freakin' hell away. 

Went to Sephora and got the Urban Decay Feminine palette. I haven't actually used it on my eyes, but the swatches are pretty. :3

My recent video is also almost at 4,000 views and I just uploaded it on Tuesday. Crazy. YouTube even let me sign it up for revenue sharing or whatever. 

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Ugh. It started raining in our apartment yesterday. Somehow, the caulking has come loose from the balcony directly over our living room window and now water has started dripping in when it rains. Had the landlord and superintendent here this morning, so hopefully the problem is getting fixed (kind of hard to tell, since the work would have to be done in the place upstairs). I guess I'll know when it starts raining again.

That really sucks considering it looks like rain through until Saturday, hope he placed it high on his to do list.

As for my day:

I am currently watching/listening to the live feed of the Canada Post debate, fun times... I just want my packages that are stuck in the mail plz k thx.

Overall my day was pretty uneventful had to rush to shut all my windows when the rain started really coming down. Discovered how terrible of a top coat China Glaze's Patent Leather Top coat is, it took freaking over an hour to dry (totally f-ed up my right index finger) and on top of that it dried bubbly. Maybe I'm just spoiled after using Seche Vite.

Hey ladies.  My day was mostly miserable because my husband just left on his long deployment (8-9) months.  I already miss him!  I shopped a little (bought an iPhone) but it was only a temporary fix.  =/