Makeup Shopping...

Just a really quick random thought of mine...

How often do you shop for makeup?

Whether you work or live off the wealth of another, (no judgment here, I'll proudly do the same once the opportunity presents itself - hint hint - to someone named ANDY), how often would you say you go to the store to specifically purchase beauty products?

If I could, I'd shop every two weeks when I get paid. BUT since I'm married and my husband is metro (likes to "take care" of himself and shop too), I'd have to be fair and expect him to purchase something too. Which basically means, pay days would really be called broke days.

I don't shop high end products but we all know when you get enough products in your cart (even if it's "low end"), things will add up.

And besides having a YouTube beauty channel where it is naturally expected that one should be introducing beauty products and keeping up to date with the latest and greatest...

I just can't keep up with some of these girls on YouTube!

Kind of a downer when I am trying to shoot a makeup look and I find that I am always reaching for the same products. Or when it comes to the "monthly favorites" type of video, I am really close to running out of things to say are my favorite without sounding like a broken record.

But maybe that's something I should be keeping to myself. 

I mean, I don't need you getting all down and distracted during my videos and start to watch my videos to see just how much I use the same products over and over...

That would make me cry.

Well, not literally. I'd probably just slap myself.

That would be more deserving after posting something like this.

You know what? Maybe I should just delete this right now and act like I never uttered these disgraceful words.

No one would know and I can continue my YouTube beauty channel and just fake it till I make it.

Yeah, that sounds like a wiser choice.

But knowing myself, I'm just going to keep typing and then press PUBLISH...

Families are like brownies...

Ever feel like people just want you to go away?

To the point where they will play dead?

Or just straight out diss you by ignoring you right in front of your face?

Oh, yeah, me neither...

Ok, so this is me totally over exaggerating pictures of my family.

But I feel like that sometimes, you know.

And I know it's not hormones, people.

Even family can be down right rude.

But at least I know I can be rude right back to them and we'll be cool by sundown.

Explanation: Actually, the first picture is of my brother in law who is trying to hide his soon-to-be-famous face. He claims he won't give out any "freebies" before stardom strikes, not even us lowly family members.

The second picture is of my nephew, Junior. I just caught him in mid dying mode during an epic battle as Bumblebee the Transformer.

And last but certainly never least, is a picture of my parents. 

But unlike the pictures above them... they really were ignoring me. 

Explanation: We were waiting in the car for my grandpa, whom we were going to take to breakfast, and I was chit chatting away, looking out the window, when I noticed I wasn't getting any answers to my rhetorical questions. I turn around and lo and behold there they were, completely consumed by their smart phones. I decided to address this rude behavior and you know what my dad answers (while never even bothering to look up from his phone)?

"You're the one that got us hooked on these evil devices"

My mouth dropped open at that point.

Seriously, is time running backwards or something? Did I miss the memo that said kids are the new adults in town? Did my DAD just say I , his child, got him hooked on a device he considers to be so evil that even he himself cannot keep away from???

Hmm. Interesting.

Wonder if that'll work with his bank account. Muahaha!!!

Just  kidding.

Anywho, this is just my little blog of randomness. A look, really, into my oh so glamorous life and how I interact with those I most despise dislike loathe fear? tolerate LOVE.

That took a minute. hee hee

P.S. And if you want to know the cryptic ending to this blog title, it goes a little something like this...


"Families are like brownies... mostly sweet with a few nuts."

Until next time...

My humble return to blogging...

Geez Louise!!! It's been a hot minute since I last blogged.

And dare I point out that one of my last blogs stated to be prepared for the whirlwind of blogging I was going to do because of the holidays coming up??? 

I know, I know...

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

 So my reason for being so out of character is because the week right before Thanksgiving, I found out I am pregnant!!!

 Craziness, I know.

That was November 19th and I was about a few days away from being 2 months pregnant. 

Talk about not knowing your own body...

But since then I have been so completely exhausted that all my free time has been spent sleeping. No time for YouTube videos, not time for exercise (pff, like I really did that anyways) and certainly no time to blog.

The only thing that I could possibly do was sleep. I seriously wouldn't even want to watch TV or movies, nothing! Just peace and quiet so I could sleep.

Pretty rough time, I should say.

So, to make up for my blogging discrepancies, I decided to start where I left off. Which I believe was Thanksgiving. But before I blog about that I should back up a little more and talk about the Breaking Dawn party I attended with my bestie, Rachel.

It was at a friend of a friend's house named, Amy! :) And she had her backyard decorated for the event. I have to say the table decor was nice but did remind me a little more of how I'd decorate if I was throwing a Twilight party not a Breaking Dawn party.

To me, the epitome of a Breaking Dawn party would be to decorate the place like you were at an outdoor wedding. So lots of white, green, brown and flowers.

She decorated with red, black and candles. 

Not bad, but not exactly Breaking Dawn. Needless to say, it was nice to go to a party that someone else was throwing and the fact that it was celebrating Breaking Dawn was even better. So no complaints here.

BELOW: Here is a picture of the food (which was DELISH!!!)

BELOW: A pic of my dessert plate. hee hee

So as the bestie, Rachel, and I were enjoying the food and trying to mingle jingle, you can kind of tell the night was winding down.

For those of you that don't know. I, myself, have thrown a Twilight and a New Moon party, so I know a thing or two about themed parties. But the difference to this party and the ones I've thrown is that this is a pre-Breaking Dawn party and the parties I've thrown were thrown long after the movies came out (and even the DVD's actually).

So in my parties, I have a few games that we play and win prizes for, we eat, and then we play the movie and that gives anyone an opportunity to head home or just wind down.

Since this party was a pre-Breaking Dawn party, it was obvious the girls were there to eat and hang out till the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn. So no games and no winding down.

Rachel and I weren't planning on going to the midnight release showing - since we both had work the next day - so we were like the ones who were thinking, hmm, should we leave now, then?

To make an already long story not as long... we decided to thank the host graciously for inviting us and then proceeded to head to the nearest Starbucks to hang out by ourselves and warm up (it was a cold night for a backyard party).

BELOW: Rachel, moi, and Rachel's cousin, Janey (who invited us to her friend, Amy's, Breaking Dawn party)

And that's it, folks!!! Overall, it was a great party to be invited to. 

Thanks Amy! Thanks Janey! Thanks Rachel!

 Until then...