Nail polish!

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Scotch tape manicure

Well, thanks to Pinterest, I'm obsessed with doing nails again.  Where was Pinterest when I was a nail tech?  Anyway, I did the sponge ombre gradient that's pretty popular, but I wasn't too happy with it.  I'm going to try to find different sponges next time.  My makeup sponge was a little too thick and heavy.

This time, I did the Scotch tape manicure, although I recommend doing it without tape.  Maybe I was using the wrong kind of tape?  I was definitely waiting long enough for my nails to dry (without waiting a day, that is) but taking the tape off really effed them up.  Especially after the second pink color; it pulled off both layers.  Unless you have a few days to kill (and even then, I'm not sure the tape wouldn't pull some polish off), I recommend just free-handing it.  I know for the OPI colors I used for the stripes, their professional wide brush made it super easy to get a nice line.  I'm not sure how it would work with other brands, but I'm sure after some practice it would be fine.  I've done free-hand French manicures for all of my nail technician career (and the years after) so I do have some practice.

I also picked up a brush to make a better line at the cuticle.  Seven or eight years ago when I was hired at some rinky-dink salon the nail tech there used a brush and I thought she was weird.  After using it the other night, though, it does make a better line at the cuticle than a orange wood stick and cotton.  Cotton on a stick works better for getting polish off the sides and tips of fingers, though (if you have short nails like me and overshoot the ends of your nails).

Essie Fiji [Essie Nail Polish - Pinks/Roses (Google Affiliate Ad)] at base, OPI Pinking of You for the first stripe, and OPI Kiss me on my Tulips for the second stripe.  I do love pink.  :)

Got my pink hair back!

A little peeved

At least four girls on my facebook friends list are pregnant.  I'm seriously considering deleting them.  I just can't handle it any more.  "Oops, look at this!  Ha ha, I'm pregnant!  I had no idea!  We weren't even trying!"  Vomit.

Don't listen to anyone who says that life is fair.  It's not.  There's good luck and bad luck.  Some people just end up on the bad luck end of things.

Tornado

I had a wonderful dream last night.  Why was it wonderful?  I'm not sure.  Me and a group of friends were at the beach and a hurricane was coming.  (Well, because it was the shore, it should've been a hurricane,) but in my dream I saw a twister.  We were standing really close to it and rain was pouring down, but people were still walking around and going about their business.  Just as the twister was going to hit us, it dissipated.  We started walking down the main street to a restaurant and we spotted another one.  Hurriedly, we rushed into the nearest eatery (which was full) and were seated.  I remember thinking, "The ocean is right at our back, we are in a lot of danger," but I wasn't scared.  My ex-best friend was there and she ordered a strawberry margarita.  I ordered one too (not to be out done) and the two other girls with us got ginger ale.  The owner of the restaurant waited on us and he asked for our I.D.  He made a comment that he was glad we were over 21 and not joking about the drinks because he'd have to go back to the kitchen and change the order and it gave them problems with their taxes (?).  But our two friends left before the drinks came because they wanted to get somewhere safer.  I looked around and saw everyone else eating normally in the restaurant and said, "We're safe here.  This is the safest place.  Everyone else is here because it's safe."  They left anyway and I was stuck wondering what I was going to talk to my ex-bff about.

I seem to have a lot of dreams about her, actually.  Where she'll call me up out of the blue and want to hang out.  That's happened before, when we had our smaller fights.  This dream was probably brought on by my seeing her facebook posts about being hungover and such...and she has a kid now.

I could punch someone.  There's just so many things not right with the world.  Everyone and their sister can get pregnant but me.

Touch of a cold

I have a touch of a cold...just a touch.  Stuffy/runny nose and my throat was a tad sore.  It's one of those things where it's hard to tell if it's a cold or really bad allergies.  For me, there's not too much of a difference.  I have been taking my generic Zyrtec, but I need to get to a pharmacy and pick up sudafed...the REAL stuff...that you have to swipe your I.D. to get.  That's the only thing that opens my nose besides a Breath Rite, but I used my last one of those last night.

This is my week to take Damian to school again, so I'm dead tired.  I had trouble getting him to go into the classroom today.  After calling my mom a few times and Damian talking to her on my phone, we eventually got out of him that he was scared of the student who was greeting the kids at the door (his preschool is part of a high school child care class).  I walked over to her, phone in hand, and asked her nicely to leave and let me give Damian the attendance stamp and just then these two official looking guys stopped me.  One said (in a way too serious tone), "Why were you on your cell phone?"  I was stupified.  I was pointing to Damian and stammering; the student was trying to explain what was going on.  Finally, the other guy with him was like, "Oh, are you a parent?"  I laughed.  They thought I was a student!  I said, "Well, I'm not a parent, but I'm dropping my nephew off."  They appologized, told me to take it as a compliment, and moved on.

Zomg...snore...

It's starting to rain.  I was wondering why my joints were fighting with me yesterday and today.  I'm so sleepy!  Perfect nap weather!  Plus, I haven't had any caffeine today.

The internet got shut off at our house.  Apparently, I forgot to pay it for two months!  Yay!  Chris gets paid tomorrow, so we'll get it turned back on then.  That + rent = not a lot of money left from his pay check.  My next check (the day after my birthday no less) will go mostly to my car payment, hooray.  Two more years.  Just two more years to pay on the car and I'm done!

I came to the horrible realization yesterday that not only did I not pay the internet bill, I think we're a month behind on the water, gas, and I totally forgot all about my student loan payments.  =|  I signed some petition going around online to forgive everyone their student loans and now I'm on some Liberal emailing list.  Oh well.

Don't even get me started on the medical bills I'm getting now.  I had labs drawn and got three bills in the mail for them.  Why do I even have health insurance?  Annoying. 

Thinking about doing my own Pinterest-image-do-it-yourself collage for painting your nails.  (While I normally hate the "instructional" photo collages, I think I can make one that makes sense.)  Some girls on there are posting pics of nail polish and they haven't even cleaned up around the cuticles.  So, I figured I'd make my DIY thing for painting and then cleaning up around the nail.

Still go back and forth about declaring bankruptcy.  I guess it takes like $900 (?) to do it.  Well, if I had $900, I could pay off two of my credit cards and then only one would be left.  Retarded.