Sugar, How You Get so Fly

It's Suzy Sunday with Catherine!! She came up to visit for a few hours after going to visit her mom for her birthday! It so lovely to see her ^__^ I can wait until we can meet up again!  We were able to go to Fresh to Order and get a Cupcake from Sweet by Good Golly Miss Holly. And then she met Peter and got to see why I love him. 

Today was another day off for me and I am really starting to get spoiled with them. I decided to look awesome today and do my makeup using my new Urban Decay XX Vice Limited Palette with some assistance from the Vice 2 and Kat Von D's Trooper eyeliner. I'm in love. 

After The Fall

As I begin writing this while watching The Holiday for the second time today, a commercial for a new mascara called full lash bloom by Covergirl comes on and the "packaging" of the commercial is enough to make me want to buy it so that it going to happen in the near future.

The day after the fall last year was rough. My foot was killing me and I was absolutely convinced that the boot they had given me was going to alter my walking pattern. This year's day after the fall wasn't quite as bad. My toe still hurts but not nearly as bad as yesterday. Walking is already easier. 

I knew that I had to get my note to work today so I made that a goal for the day along with going to Publix and getting Epsom salt to soak my foot in. My goal was also to get pie ingredients for mini pies to take to work but that didn't quite happen. Publix didn't have the ingredients I needed (WHO DOESN'T CARRY CANNED PUMPKIN PIE FILLING YEAR ROUND??) and we were in a time crunch so I just had to let it go. 

Now to sleep

Kicking Holiday Off

The last few Sundays have felt like Mondays, including today. I opening the store for what seemed like the first time in a long time and then I went home for 5 hours before going back to work for the holiday meeting. My purpose was to explain the fun parts of holiday to my team which mean trivia and candy and prizes! Wooo!

In those five hours between shifts however, I drove to Target, did my makeup, and made serious progress in the search for a place to live! I found this website where you can put up listing to be a roommate or reply to listings for roommates/places to live. I favorite-ed a property the other day and today they lady got back to me! It is further than I had planned but its only 490 dollars for everything which is FANTASTIC! It is a house and it allows pets! I really hope I can figure out a way to make it all work.

Second of Four

The great weekend off adventure continues! In this adventure and action packed filled episode I wake up at 2:30, do my make up (WHOA), go see Annabelle, and make a family tree for my Sims!

I was up until 3:30 yesterday because I was watching The Tribe and then I looked at the time and went "oh... I guess now is an appropriate time to sleep." I finally passed out to Top Gear and I slept fairly soundly until around noon. At noon the family got back from my nephew's walkathon and I just hoped that they would not wake me up to do something. Luckily, I was able to snooze for another two and half hours. When that time came I just watched a few more episode of The Tribe before calling my cousin and figuring out move plans.

Once that as all settled, I set off on the "lets do make up for the first time in a month" adventure which went okay. It wasn't anything extravagant but I am out of the routine so it took me longer than normal. We went to go see Annabelle with my sister. Dolls have always unnerved me a little bit. This is most likely due to the fact that my mother hoarded them when I was younger. The dolls had their own room but I didn't, that is how bad this was. I walked in to the movie expecting to leave some what frightened. I openly laughed multiple during that movie. There were some suspenseful parts and I did jump a few times but it wasn't scary. I wasn't really unnerved or scare at all.

When I got home, I tried on my grad school interview outfit which I think looks pretty good. Now I just have to fix the coat part as I found a small tear in the sleeves. I finished the day with the Sims and making a family tree for them, I'm so proud.

"It's a Metaphor"

Minus some setback in the earlier part of the day (I WILL HANG OUT WITH ALEXIS THIS WEEK I SWEAR TO GOD) the rest of the day went fairly okay. I was able to create a pretty awesome makeup look that would have been perfect for USF Football games had I accepted that as my college and not FSU. I also put on blush! I NEVER PUT ON BLUSH!

Why did I end up getting all dolled up? There was a group of us from work who were going to go see Guardians of the Galaxy and grab food items. Due to time constraints and rain only two of us showed up but we had a lovely time. We learned some innovative ways to play BINGO and I now know that the original Hairspray movie was terrible and had some interesting writing.

Then it was Guardians time but we had a little time before the movie started so we tested out this thing called a DBOX which is essentially where the seat moves with the screen. We were crying from laughing so hard. Very odd experience. Anyway the movie came on and I won't lie, I was a little nervous. I love the Avengers to the moon so trying to accept another group of superheroes has proven to be a little difficult for me.GUARDIANS IS SO FUNNY THOUGH! And Groot is just the most precious little thing ever! I'm not a Chris Pratt person but he didn't annoy me so good on him. I was way more focus on Batista playing a the uber literal Drax the Destroyer though. One of my favorite lines is depicted in the picture above. The gang mentioned that a metaphor went over his head and... we you get the picture. Over all it was a good movie and I am glad I went to see it.

Good Eyeliner Day

Top liner can be a little intimidating for most people when it comes to line thickness, straightness, and matching. Times that by like... 1500 and you get what it is like when you're blind in one eye. I used to not be able to do it at all and I had to just use bottom eyeliner. Liquid liner (only Kat Von D Tattoo liner though) changed  all of that and now it is the only kind that I do. I still struggle with it though. Getting the flick just right, making the lines the same shape and thickness. I don't understand how makeup artists can do this.

Today in general was a good make up day but today's eyeliner was on point minus a little dot on my right lid. I had three co-workers compliment me on today's makeup look and I love when that happens. It doesn't *have* to happen though. I do make up for me and when I do my makeup I tend to walk out of the house feeling pretty fabulous. If only I could transfer that ability to everything that I do.


Side note: Birth Certificate has arrived and now all that is left is to reschedule (once again) and continue learning the material!

Thirteen Hours Asleep

After I finished drawing more of the Tarzan piece of the kite for work, I decided that Jane was pissing me off and I gave up for the night. My plan was to go upstairs and start researching for the Atlantis piece by watching the movie and looking at coloring pages. I got about an 1/8th of the way through the movie before I passed out.

Now, I can sleep like no one's business. It's a talent I assure you. My talent took me through four separate dreams in over thirteen hours of sleep. As 3 o' clock rolled around, I started getting ready for work and today I decided to be creative with my face and do a makeup day! Unfortunately, I did not photograph it. But I was was very happy with it and I'm counting it anyway! 

Work went pretty well minus the fact that five thousand people decided to rush the store before closing. They were all very nice guests and my adventure with all of them was very pleasant, just exhausting. Did I come home and sleep though? Nope. I came home and immediately sat down to finish Jane who, I must say, looks pretty good well. I will post pictures of the whole project when everything is finished. Tomorrow is going to be a busy drawing day during the early part of the day. I have to figure out exactly what my design for Atlantis is (I practiced a few things tonight and Princess Kida is much harder than I thought she would be), figure out how to fit it in the space I've given myself, and then draw it.

What Are Boundaries?

On a happier note, today consisted of lots of nephew time and new makeup which I will probably post about in depth within the next few days. I was able to snag the face products from the Katy Perry Covergirl Instaglam/ Ready Set Gorgeous collection which is supposed to be pretty neat. I'm really excited to try it!

Ab challenge is going to happen in a little bit and I'm hoping it goes okay.  I did exercise yesterday so I don't think my body is out of the routine but we shall see. Storyline line challenge for today is about boundaries/guardrails. I'm not actually sure I possess these to be honest with you. I don't really have personal boundaries until it comes to my nephew and crawling on me. There's nothing I won't talk about if I'm asked about it and I try to experience everything at least once. I guess my main boundary (if you even consider it one) is that I don't like to break social rules in front of people. I also don't like to break the law which I have been taunted for but that doesn't really bother me. Good choices get you good things, bad choices get you bad things. 

First of Four?

Besides ab challenge and the storyline challenge, July is also when I decided I would play with my make up and dress up and what not at least once a week. This is one of the dresses I bought with Ilana a couple weeks ago and I'm absolutely in love with it! I like how my makeup turned out but I wish that I was able to picture it better. My eyes are really hooded so its a little difficult to get a good picture of the eye makeup.

Also, I am visiting Amanda for the next two days!

Storyline challenge: 10 Likes and Dislikes

Likes:

1. I can dance

2. I tend to think before I speak

3. I can say the alphabet backwards

4. I want to help people

5. I've grown since high school

6. My relationship with my sister has gotten better

7. I believe in myself and others

8. My nose

9. I can kind of sing

10. The way I do my makeup

Dislikes:

1. I'm not better at doing my makeup

2. I'm 40 pounds heavier than I want to be

3. The way my neck and my chin meet

4. My handwriting

5. My lack of self-esteem about the way I look

6. I never feel like I take a good picture

7. I'm easy to sneak up on

8. I can be obnoxious 

9. I'm clumsy

10. I don't think I'll ever get married 

Figured It Out

Well, maybe.

I did some math and I found out that even if I put away half of my paycheck from now until December, I still won't have the number I want in the savings account. Next option? Add more money. How? Well, I could start selling my stuff or offering to babysit around the neighborhood. Or I can pick up another job. Of course, I won't actually apply until I talk to my current one but I did find a handful just walking out of work today. I'd still be at the mall so it would be pretty easy to do both. Decisions are hard. 

Another thing I think I have all figured out is a way to work on the photography challenge that I have given myself and the "doing things that make me happy" goal I made. I have SO MUCH MAKE UP and I like to do my makeup so for July I think I am going to try to do at least one makeup post a week. That would only end up being 4 posts for the month (minimum) and if I can handle that then we will go from there.

That's not all folks, absolutely not! I also want to start doing the really stupid hashtags on Twitter and Instagram. I try to do throwback Thursday whenever I remember it but I want to make a point of this for no other reason than I want to. It's something I want to do for the sake of doing.

ALSO LOOK AT BABY HAYES!!!! LOOK AT HIM!

I Love Makeup

ITS HEREEEEE!!! I discovered this palette years ago but I never thought that I would ever use it. Well, it is safe to say that I am a make up junkie and I really want to start doing more dramatic (if that's possible) looks . Sadly, all of the make up I have is either shitty, discontinued, OR REALLY REALLY EXPENSIVE so playing with it is something I tend not to do. Not anymore!! This palette was on sale for 10 dollars when its regularly 18 (still hella cheap) so I bought it as well as some more shadow brushes. I love eye makeup. I can't tell you why but I do and I'm not even that good at it. Some days my hands attempt to makeup on my face and I lookalike the creature from the black lagoon. Other days I look like a supermodel if supermodels were allowed to have round cheeks. 

Today 88 (87 if you don't count the broken one) ASTONISHING eye shadows entered my life and I cannot wait to see what all I can create with them!

Just Hanging Out

As spring break draws to a close I am actually starting to feel better which is fantastic!  Today I slept in, played with my nephews, and then I went to hang out with Alexis!

Her and I have been friends for a very *very* long time. Since third grade actually. We've been through many adventures and fun times so I'm excited that I got to see her. We watched Catching Fire and I did our make up. I'm actually hoping to submit the makeup look into a contest so wish me luck!!