I'm Back

Oy, Sorry about being MIA, but it happens sometimes. I have been in the middle of a few life changes and it is not easy. Some of which you may here of soon, but for now. Let's talk about the waxing story for this month.

I walk in to see Denise after a long hard day at work and get my monthly torture treatment.

Denise: Hi Kiddo. You look beat.

Me: Hi, I am beat. I have to go to the company tailgating party tomorrow.

Denise: oh, will it be fun? (mean while she is apply wax to my brow)

Me: Yes. But awkward my boss is "dating" another woman in the office.

Denise: So she is literally working under him? (bah-dum, dum)

You may think this is dull but, it was stony silence for a full 3 seconds before my exhausted brain process, just as I start laughing she rips the hair off my lip. The laugh/scream was something akin to a fishercat noise. Not pretty.

She continues on to my eyebrows and the first thing she says is, "Have you been plucking these!"

Me: No...Umm well only the really bad ones I had a date last week and I couldn't get in to see you so I just got the hair the were so low they were practically on my eye lids.

Denise then when into a combination of laughter and grief over how I messed up my brows. I didn't think I did a bad job personally but that weird lighted magnifying glass she has show every. freaking. detail. I mean the light is SOOO bright I have to bring in my little sun bed goggles. Which means I actually get to use them because I stopped using tanning beds 2 years ago, but it also mean I walk out of her room with a swollen lip, red eyebrows, and blind as bat.

Oh well. The price we pay for beauty.

Movember

I meant to get this out on the 1st but life is busy. With work and with my volunteer work, and with family. So you'll just have to live with my belated post.

It's Movember, are you or anyone you know participating in Movember? Well, here is some inspiration!

Edgar Allen Poe

William Taft

Charlie Chaplin



Hulk Hogan

Dennis Gage

(for my father & any other classic car lovers)

Mike Ditka



Tom Selleck (my personal favorite 'stache)

Being female and fair haired I am unable to grow a mustache, but I thought about skipping the lip wax this month in support of the men who choose to celebrate this great month. Then I came to my senses. Stay tuned because tomorrow I will have another installment of "Adventures in Waxing"

Happy Halloween

Have an awesome weekend!

Flickr

Gym Accessories

So I have been going to the gym semi-regularly which is good. The result is that I have dropped 2 pants sizes since July despite my love for a good martini or three. The only problem is that I come home from the gym feeling guilty and not just for wasting my workout by having nachos for dinner, like I did yesterday.

No I feel guilty because I use bottled water. Yup, those little plastic containers made by the devil to ruin Heaven on Earth. Why? Because it is convenient, no other reason. I mean I am lucky because the gym recycles and I make sure to put my empty bottle in a handy recycling bin, but still you have to think about the whole carbon footprint thing. What does it take to make the bottle, fill the bottle, ship the bottle, bring the bottle home from the grocery store, blah, blah, blah.

I have a ton of reusable water bottles at home. But the problem is I don't really like them. They are all UGLY and then they get smelly after a few uses, and once you wash them they taste like soap forever. Even though they taste like soap and get smelly and scratched you don't want to toss them because they are reusable.

Well, I created this blog to talk about accessories, even if I do go off on tangents. I think I found my next exercise accessory on the Athleta website. I think if I could rock one of these I would want the effort of a reusable water bottle and the aluminium means they probably won't taste like soap after I wash them.

Gaiam $13.00

Circles $20.00

Sigg $25.00

Which should I buy? I think every other chic at the gym will be jealous of my water bottle if I have one of these. AND maybe all those crunchy granola heads will get off my back for driving Grand Am and not a Prius.

The issue of Dating

I am very busy today but I wanted to take a few minutes on my lunch break to discuss the issue of dating.

Having been in and out of the dating world the last few of years and their is something I have noticed. How come I am always attracted to the good looking blue collar boy, while my friends keep trying to set me up with the nerdy but successful white collared engineer or accountant?

Is it because my friends know what is best for me? I will admit my track record with men hasn't been great. My last long term relationship lasted 2 years and that was nearly 3 years ago. Since then I have been on a lot of first dates and some have actually made it to date number 3, but rarely beyond that.


But why an engineer or a accountant? Can't my girls at least find me a successful plumber or mechanic. Then at least he can fix something around the house.

Well...if the accountants looked like this I might think about it?

Happy Friday

HAPPY FRIDAY! I just found this on The Commons on Flickr, posted by The State Library and Archives of Florida.

WTF! Where does my day go?

Between my regular job & my volunteer work I haven't had much time to make jewelry but then I thought about it and I realized that I might have time on Monday nights if I didn't spend 2 hours watching Dancing with the Stars!

But then who can resist "DWTS" with such fashion statements like this!

Well, anyway. I have a few stones of inspiration I can't wait to put to work.

Smoky Quartz
Ice Flake Quartz

Crystal Quartz

For LiLu - Great minds think alike! On Friday, I actually had the cocktail you commented on. It is YUMMY, but definitely too sweet to be one of my regular drinks. It is kinda like a Kool-Aid version of a martini!