flux

More pathetic days at work.  Shocker?  Not at all.

Spent money at Sephora.  My pretty much #1 favorite thing to do.  I love buying make up and beauty products.  I got a refill on my foundation.  I use Clinique "Even Better" Make up in Linen.  Because I'm pale.  And that foundation gives me some moisture without being greasy.  I like it.  Thank you Sephora sales associate that suggested it to me months ago.

I also got my #1 favorite mascara ever.  Lancome Hypnose.  Of course I like it.  I've used it before, but not recently because it is pretty expensive.  I bought it in a set this time with eye liner and eye lash primer. It was a killer deal.  The mascara by itself is $25.  The set of full size products was $30.  Could.  Not.  Say.  No.

It was nice retail therapy after another crap-tastic work day.

Today I got Corey his main Christmas present.  I really had no idea what to get him.  He has basically everything he wants, so I just settled for something I knew he would like.  Hope I'm right. :/

I have to find a present for my mom.  She wants a vintage/"not mainstream or published" cookbook.  We'll see how successful I am at finding that.

If you have not watched "Marry The Night" by Lady Gaga in music video form, you should.

If you do not keep up with "Epic Meal Time," you should.  It is a YouTube channel of people who make epic meals.

*steps on soapbox* You know what upsets me?  When people get worked up about their problems and take it out by being hateful to others who have nothing to do with it. *steps down from soapbox*


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"we were hoping for some romance, all we found was more despair"

i hate Christmas parties

Wow.  I have not posted in a month.  Not good.

I attribute it to getting cable and watching too much TV.  Which is a plausible explanation.  I watch Discovery Health all day.  Day after day of Trauma:  Life in the ER and I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant.

Or I go to work.  Which is even less exciting.  Staffing has been pathetic lately.  I just hope this weekend is better.

I have a couple Christmas presents bought and wrapped.  The other ones are sitting in the office of my apartment complex.  I am afraid I didn't get Corey enough :/  He is a hard one to buy for since he pretty much just gets whatever he wants.  I haven't thought of what to get him that he hasn't thought to get himself already yet.

On the other hand, Corey already got me exactly what I wanted for Christmas!  All I have wanted this year has been a Keurig coffee brewer.  He gave it to me early, because he knew I would find it and ruin the surprise.  So he ruined it for me :)  I'm not disappointed.  I have used it every day!  I love it just as much as I thought I would.  I have regular coffee, hot tea, and hot chocolate K-Cups so far.  And each cup really does come out absolutely perfect.

Other things that happened since I posted last:

Put up the Christmas tree

Went home for Thanksgiving

the shale pit near my Aunt's house

Dad and Ruby

Got a new couch

Yes, we tore the old couch to pieces

Very comfy!

There we are.  I will try to do a little better at posting this month.  Happy December!


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"a snowflake on your cheek would make this Christmas so beautiful"

99 red balloons

I guess I will never be satisfied with how this blog looks.

It's like getting a new handbag every time.  I just have to try something different.

This is probably how I will spend my afternoon.

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"floating in the summer sky"

17 magazine

Yesterday was my sweet little sister Ruby's birthday.  She turned seven!  I can't believe that child is already seven years old.  It makes me feel old.  I went home yesterday for her birthday.  We had cake and presents and lots of family.

I also got my hair done.  My cousin does the best hair.  She put the blond highlights back in, which I am thoroughly enjoying. :)

I look a little creepy, but you can at least see the highlights.

Today is, so far, the ideal rainy day (sort of).  I'm on stand by from work, so I'm getting some cleaning done since I can't really do anything else.  It's quiet and relaxing.  The "sort of" part of that is that Corey is home sick today from work.  He feels like it is a sinus infection.  No fever, but he feels really crummy.

Now I'm just waiting on that phone call saying, "Get your butt to work!"


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"I say, if you're asking me, love is sacred, love is sweet"

carry that weight

Things that are happening today.

Pretty sure my dog farted the nastiest fart ever today. It smelled so horrible. I don't even have a hospital-people-poop-smell to liken it to. As bad as C-Diff poop, but different. Oh, it was awful. And she just kept chewing away on her little rawhide bone. That used to not be so little, but she eats them, you see. Well, she finished it today. Gross.

I hadn't used my Chi to style my hair in quite some time until yesterday. This has stemmed out of laziness, not dissatisfaction. I try to blow-dry my hair when I get out of the shower and make it look good, but after that, I am usually not motivated for Phase II styling which is, the Chi. Yesterday, I let the hair dry naturally to it's frizzy, weird-curly self. So it had to be straightened, and you can't blow-dry-style dry hair. Chi is faster and easier anyway. And my hair stays stick straight no matter what, it seems like. I slept awful weird last night and I'm pretty sure my neck got sweaty (usually leading to funny looking kinks in the hair in that area), but my hair stayed straight and smooth. It's like a dream. And to think, the crazy girl at the mall tried to tell me that her only-sold-at-the-mall-by-snake-oil-salesmen straightening iron was better than my hot pink shimmer Ultra Chi. Ha. Wrong. Nothing is better than this.

Nothing, I tell you.

I am having another unmotivated day.  I have to do a load of work-clothes laundry, though.  I work all weekend (bleh) and would rather not go in dirty clothes or naked.  I really hate doing housework.  It sucks a lot.

I have been playing Smurfs Village on my iPhone a lot lately.  A friend at work told me about it, and being a person who is always looking for a way to kill some time, I downloaded it.  I currently have a happy little village of farming smurfs who have a meth lab, a special bakery, the timber mill, the workshop, and a mine.  And an abundant field where they can grow "crops."  

Corey also made me start playing Family Feud.  I can't stop.

Also, as I'm sure any non-blind person can tell, I redid my blog.  I just needed something new to look at.  I found a website called ShabbyBlogs.com that has some very crafty looking designs on there.  I wish they had more tutorials.  What they do have is wonderful.  So after a combo of figuring out how to do some stuff on Blogger and fiddling with how to do the header in Photoshop, I got it how I want it.  I like the change.

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I wish I had more money.

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"you never give me your money, you only give me your funny papers"

princess of china

I can't stop saying how particularly unmotivated to write I have been lately.

First, I'll share a video I took of Corey torturing Abigail:

I got the newest Coldplay album.  Via iTunes pre-order :))  I really like it!

See what I mean?  Not too terribly much to talk about.  Work has been same old, same old with more bad days than good.  Bad staffing has made everyone hate our floor and look for the first opportunity to jump ship.  It's sad, because this job could be a really great one if we had enough people to be able to do our jobs well without wanting to shoot ourselves at the end of the day.

I'm thinking about re-designing my blog.  I like the font style finally, so I may look for different backgrounds and headers and whatever.  That might be my project today even though I should be doing laundry...

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"you're holding in your hands the two halves of my heart"

workin' for a livin'

Things lately have been borderline good and bad.  I'll only list off and talk about the good things, though. I never meant this blog to be a place where I complain about life.

1.  Well, Corey got a new car.  New to him.  It's a 2008 Mitsubishi Galant.  Certainly an upgrade from his truck.  He feels so great now having a reliable mode of transportation.  I have to say I'm jealous of the reliable transportation bit.  My car has been iffy for a long time, and I'm hoping it's my turn soon to get a new car.

2.  I upgraded to iOS 5.  It is totally awesome.  I like the new notifications.  I LOVE iCloud.  My favorite feature of iCloud is syncing my calendar.  That is such a beautiful thing.  iMessage is really fun.  Corey and I message each other across the apartment from my iPhone to his iPad.  I just love everything about it.  Now if I could only pair it with a new iPhone 4s with the awesome camera and Siri.  Wouldn't I love having a personal assistant to talk to and control my iPhone that way?  I'm way jealous of the folks getting that phone today.

3.  Work is still good and bad.  Good thing is, I'm starting to get to precept new nurses, so I make more money and have better days at work.  Love that.  Bad thing is, more nurses keep leaving, so we're more short-staffed.  That sucks majorly.  I'm scheduled to take the nurse preceptor class in January, though, so maybe I'll be assigned a regular orientee and keep that bigger hourly wage on a regular basis.  That would be fabulous.  And my clinical ladder bonus is coming up in January.  That will be a down payment on a new car for me.  I hope so, anyway.

I've had more and more days in between posting lately.  I'm not sure why (too busy?  unmotivated?  boring life?), but I am going to attempt to be more consistent.  I'll find some piece of new to discuss at least briefly.


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"some days won't end ever, some days pass on by"