Products that I'm loving

I've been wanting to do a post on things that I am completely loving for awhile now.  Below you'll find something for just about every part of your body...including your stomach!!!

I'm a very low maintenance person when it comes to makeup.  And that's why this highlighter is absolutely fantastic and a much needed staple for every makeup bag.  This is a triple threat that can be used as a highlighter, eye shadow, and blush (when mixed with a color or without.)  I tend to go with minimal makeup but need something that's going to look like I spent a bunch of time getting ready in the morning.  (My coffee is more important than my makeup!)  I can just prime my eye lids with a primer (I switch between NYX eye pencil and Sumitra's brow bar) and on the lid place a heavy amount of Mary Lou Manizer.  Then do a gentle sweep up to the brow bone.  Throw on some black or brown eye liner and go!  Voila...makeup in practically seconds.  If I'm feeling really good and have more than a minute...I'll sweep some across my cheek bones for a high light of color and get a gel liner on  my eyes.  This product has helped me keep a minimal style and receive maximum compliments from coworkers and guests when they come to my work.  Definately worth getting for your make up bag.  But don't take my word for it...get one for your bag too!

 

Speaking of coffee...most of you have seen or heard about the new Keurigs right?  NO!  I MEAN HAVE YOU LIVED UNDER A ROCK???  Nah, just kidding...I really don't know of anyone who hasn't at least seen one.  Anywhoo...Keurigs come in all sizes and the brew all different things...including Iced Beverages!  And most of your K-Cups that have tea leaves or coffee grounds you can reuse!  I can make 3 cups of coffee from the same K-Cup!!!  And they even have a attachment that allows you to brew using your own coffee grounds.  Less waste, more savings, and I don't have to brew a whole pot of coffee....SCORE!!!!  And...for the time conscious of us...it takes literally like a minute to brew whatever your brewing.  Who doesn't like that?!  It can run pricey, but believe me my friends...save up for one...cause it is totally worth it!!!  (Incidentally the one pictured here is exactly like the one I have at home!!)


Next up is NYX Jumbo Eye Shadow Pencils.  These creamy beauties are used to layer under power eye shadow.  Or you can glide them on as their own shadow.  They come in colors to help make your powder POP!  Or I like to use them along the tear line on my lower lids.  It creates a pop of color that really opens up your eyes.  My favorite color to use is Gold and Cottage Cheese.  Really because I'm a shimmer girl, but if you want just a general base go with milk.  It really intensifies the colors of everything you put over it.












I am absolutely in love with Kiehl's Orange Blossom and Lychee Fruit Body Wash.  The smell is absolutely divine and it makes your shower feel like a tropical/citrus paradise!!  Bonus is it leaves your skin feeling absolutely divine!  I never had to moisturize after showering when I used this product.  For hard core moisturizers...they have a moisturizer too!!  It can be a bit expensive...for a larger bottle it's $28.  I'm telling you...it's totally worth it though!!  I keep an empty bottle in the shower and just crack it open and smell it....I have to say...it's my crack!  These can be purchased here.  And if anyone finds it somewhere else...let me know...I shall reward you handsomely!!!!


WEN!!!!!  ER MAH GERD!!!!!  This stuff is fantastic!  I have had a life long problem with what stylists used to refer to as dandruff.  But I'm here to tell you the flakes that I had coming off my scalp was not dandruff....I was either allergic or had reactions to just about every shampoo out there.  I had to constantly change my shampoo so my scalp didn't constantly feel like it was burning and I could keep the flakes and itching down to a minimum.  Wen...wow...where to start with Wen.  I have a love/hate relationship with it.  I love the product!  I've tried the original, the pumpkin spice (my fav) and the Tea Tree Oil.  I'm not particularly fond of the Tea Tree Oil and it's supposed to be the best for my scalp.  I do not recommend going through the actual Wen website.  They will set you up on a shipping plan and send you new shampoo every month (or just about.)  I use a bottle for about 4-6 months depending on how long my hair is.  I purchase from ebay and get it for just about the same price or a little cheaper.  And going this way... I can pick my own scent and if I don't like it afford to try another!  My next try is either going to be Lavendar or I'm going back to pumpkin spice.  (OH! BTW...my husband says the mix of my pumpkin spice shampoo and Orange Lychee body wash when I'm just out of shower is irrisistable...so buyer beware! ;D)


And last, but most certainly not least...Miche.  I know many of you are purse lovers.  Chanel, Dior, Gucchi, Coach...in fact my last workplace was full of women who just couldn't keep their hands off Coach purses.  They got FANTASTIC deals on them, but the prices...I MEAN THE PRICES they paid for these things were....it just blew my mind, and my pocket book.  I was turned on to this company called Miche by a coworker at my last workplace and it's purses.  Or to be exact...shells for your purses.  You buy a base bag, which you then put all your
stuff in.  And then you change out the shells whenever you want.  Simple!  You go to work with one shell and when you want to switch cause your going out...slip the shell off and the other on.  That simple!!!!  Miche is currently selling their biggest shell (Prima..which is roughly the size of a diaper bag...it's also what I carry. :D) for about $39-$49.  I'm not exactly sure which.  They get smaller too...if your used to small hand bags..I'd spring for the classic.  And if you want something in between...go with the Demi.  Looking back...I probably could have gotten away with a demi, but...they didn't have as many pretty shells as the Prima's.  So check out Miche or if you want to get started on the cheap...go to ebay again and just search for Miche.  Oh and make sure when looking at the pictures...if their not in a bag, check the inside of the shell cause they always have their names in them!!!

This is the classic base and shell instructions.

These are just some things I'm crushing on right now...if y'all get a chance; go watch this video series from Craig Groeschel called From This Day Forward.  It's about relationships and how they need to be founded in God.  My church...MOmentum... is following this series right now.  It is fantastic and very informational.  Just make sure on week 3...if ya have kids...don't play it while their around.  Not that they will or should know what its talking about (cause it's PG) but...just in case. 

 

New Starts & Stale Farts

We are at T minus 30 minutes until I start a new chapter in my work life.  I've been wanting to get out of the hotel industry for some time now and never really tried to make that happen.  After some serious consideration and soul searching with my husband; I decided to just get my resume out there and see what happened.

Within a week I had an interview with a law office in Springdale, AR.  It was fun!  There was a timed test, which I was the only one that passed, and then a character profile.  All in all I spent 2 hours going through that process.  A week later they called me back and asked me to come in for another interview.  It went great again!  But this time they told me it would be almost three weeks before the office manager would get back from vacation and then I might get a call.

In the mean time I kept sending out resumes and not really getting any replies back.  Until last week...I got a call to come in for an interview with a local company here in town.  They were looking for an office assistant.  So I went in and met with the office manager who I could tell instantly liked me...or my skills...not sure which.  I think the only things that kept her from hiring me on the spot was she wanted someone who could start on Monday and she had another interview lined up for the next day.  Either way, she said she'd call me on Friday.  Well Thursday afternoon she called and offered me the job!  So I had two dilemmas to solve.  One...do I take the job and give my bosses basically three days notice?  And two...do I take the job and effectively turn down the legal job?  Russ and I decided that ultimately we didn't think we were in a place to have me commuting everyday to work.  I'd need a lot more money than we think they would be willing to pay me to make it even out and the stress of commuting and maybe not even seeing him for days...really freaked me out.  So this is my last day at the hotel.  I've offered to come back and work relief days for them if they need me...they just have to call.

As for the law office...this past week or this coming week is when I should be hearing if I got another interview...I thought about just calling up there and leaving a message that I got another job...but I think that's very presumptuous of me thinking I already had another interview...who knows...maybe I was supposed to hear last week and just never got that call?

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Yesterday, our friends Daniel & Laura decided to have a spur of the moment cookout.  It was super fun and kinda crazy, which they always are.  My husband has this knack of being able to fart on cue....so as soon as our friend Daniel bends over to pick something up...Russ runs up...points his back side and Daniels head and lets it rip!  This is the second friend, unfortunately, that he had fart on their heads.  

And if that wasn't crazy enough!  The boys have some of their friends over and decide they have to show off their toys!  My husband and Daniel have been going crazy over throwing knives and axes here lately.  They decide to go out back and light some torches and throw some knives.  Now mind you...it's dusk..their lighting torches to see clearly, but the longer their out there...the darker it gets!  All of a sudden Austin's (a FSPD friend of Daniels and Russ') daughter comes back and basically is like...Dad just tried to cut his foot off!  I mean this dude walks into the kitchen with a DEEEEEEP GASH in his leg!  I wasn't able to get close enough to the wound...the boys are trying to be doctory about it...but it was deep enough I'm pretty sure he cut through either some tendon or muscle cause it hurt for him to flex his foot and the range of motion was seriously impaired.  Haven't heard about it today...but Laura and I now have this saying that we keep nagging the boys with...."If you can't keep from breaking your toys/friends you don't get to have anymore toys/friends!"

That's all for now!  Have a good one folks!!!