Yes, I did indeed get picked for the Spring Fever VoxBox. I was actually pretty excited for it once I received it in the mail about a month ago.
I have tried a few of the products thus far, and two of them I still need to try to work with.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Spring Fever VoxBox
Yes, I did indeed get picked for the Spring Fever VoxBox. I was actually pretty excited for it once I received it in the mail about a month ago.
I have tried a few of the products thus far, and two of them I still need to try to work with.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Negativity
So...I kind of had a freakout session on Friday night.
I have been stressing myself out to the max lately. I mean, really. I'm at work 80 hours a week, learning a new job basically 50% of the time, while trying to keep myself sane the other 50% of the time. I also am having tests...which I'm not going to lie, have NOT been turning out so great because I haven't had adequate time to study.
I finally lost it driving home on Friday night. Some of the girls I work with (and actually like) and I were going to go out. Well...I made it to the club after work and realized I had nobody's number. Mind you, this is a big club...like it has two stories to it. After having been up since 5:00am, I wasn't in the mood to walk into some club at 11:30 at night trying to find these girls. So...I just drove back home. But, I bawled my eyes out the entire way.
I'm probably going to lie on Monday and say I couldn't find my ID or something. Because really, even walking into a neighborhood bar that holds maybe 100 people by myself is intimidating for me. I panic about that crap so easily and I KNOW. I shouldn't be like that. It's embarrassing and a huge personality flaw for me. I am not the girl that can just walk into a place and make friends.
But anyhow. Crying in my car. Driving half an hour home on the interstate. I started questioning EVERYTHING. My relationship, my job, my friends, school, EVEN MY FREAKING CHOICE IN CAR (which I adore my car. It's a 2012 Honda Civic, so I'm not driving a Corvette or anything, but it's comfy and in my price range and drives well).
I've been having relationship problems for...well, awhile. It comes in spurts. It's been going well the past week or so, but I just lost it on Friday night. My job drives me insane and I was literally about to lose it at work on Friday because one of my coworkers is so damn abrasive it isn't even funny. And when I lose it at work, I disappear to the bathroom for 10-15 minutes and bawl because I get so frustrated. Yes, that's what I do when I get mad, is go cry. And this whole past week, I've just been so miserable because I see what it is that I'm dying to be doing to a living and yet I'm stuck in a place that is SO horrible for me mentally. My friends...I have a few friends I work with, but I've lost touch with most of my friends I had in college. And I miss a lot of them. Some of them I was only friends with for 2 years, some of them I was friends with for longer. I miss going out with them and seeing them and sitting on the porch until 5am talking and listening to music. I started missing that life I had so much, and even typing this out I'm tearing up. I had such a solid group of friends and a neighborhood bar and just...such a better mindset 3-5 years ago. I'm sitting here, typing this out more for my benefit, realizing that part of the reason I have become so bitter is the toxic environment that I work in and some of the relationships I hold with people. I'll always be a snarky bitch, that's just in my personality, but the way I am right now...I hate it.
So...in the coming months, I have a lot of choices to make. I have a couple of things I'm working toward, work-wise, that I am excited about but I can't be sure of if/when they'll happen. I have to make decisions about my relationship. I have to decide if I really want to stay here or move somewhere else. I should probably make the choice to reconnect with at least some of the friends that I've lost over the past 3 years.
I have been stressing myself out to the max lately. I mean, really. I'm at work 80 hours a week, learning a new job basically 50% of the time, while trying to keep myself sane the other 50% of the time. I also am having tests...which I'm not going to lie, have NOT been turning out so great because I haven't had adequate time to study.
I finally lost it driving home on Friday night. Some of the girls I work with (and actually like) and I were going to go out. Well...I made it to the club after work and realized I had nobody's number. Mind you, this is a big club...like it has two stories to it. After having been up since 5:00am, I wasn't in the mood to walk into some club at 11:30 at night trying to find these girls. So...I just drove back home. But, I bawled my eyes out the entire way.
I'm probably going to lie on Monday and say I couldn't find my ID or something. Because really, even walking into a neighborhood bar that holds maybe 100 people by myself is intimidating for me. I panic about that crap so easily and I KNOW. I shouldn't be like that. It's embarrassing and a huge personality flaw for me. I am not the girl that can just walk into a place and make friends.
But anyhow. Crying in my car. Driving half an hour home on the interstate. I started questioning EVERYTHING. My relationship, my job, my friends, school, EVEN MY FREAKING CHOICE IN CAR (which I adore my car. It's a 2012 Honda Civic, so I'm not driving a Corvette or anything, but it's comfy and in my price range and drives well).
I've been having relationship problems for...well, awhile. It comes in spurts. It's been going well the past week or so, but I just lost it on Friday night. My job drives me insane and I was literally about to lose it at work on Friday because one of my coworkers is so damn abrasive it isn't even funny. And when I lose it at work, I disappear to the bathroom for 10-15 minutes and bawl because I get so frustrated. Yes, that's what I do when I get mad, is go cry. And this whole past week, I've just been so miserable because I see what it is that I'm dying to be doing to a living and yet I'm stuck in a place that is SO horrible for me mentally. My friends...I have a few friends I work with, but I've lost touch with most of my friends I had in college. And I miss a lot of them. Some of them I was only friends with for 2 years, some of them I was friends with for longer. I miss going out with them and seeing them and sitting on the porch until 5am talking and listening to music. I started missing that life I had so much, and even typing this out I'm tearing up. I had such a solid group of friends and a neighborhood bar and just...such a better mindset 3-5 years ago. I'm sitting here, typing this out more for my benefit, realizing that part of the reason I have become so bitter is the toxic environment that I work in and some of the relationships I hold with people. I'll always be a snarky bitch, that's just in my personality, but the way I am right now...I hate it.
So...in the coming months, I have a lot of choices to make. I have a couple of things I'm working toward, work-wise, that I am excited about but I can't be sure of if/when they'll happen. I have to make decisions about my relationship. I have to decide if I really want to stay here or move somewhere else. I should probably make the choice to reconnect with at least some of the friends that I've lost over the past 3 years.
MIA but Returning Soon!
Yes, I'm fully aware I've been missing for 3 months.
I have a damn good excuse, that being school.
Yeah, I posted last in March. Yes, March y'all. Sorry. I had a crapton of finals and such, then I had to go out to classes for 3 weeks in April. Then, as soon as I got back (the last week of April), I started working/interning for 80 hours a week.
...No, no typo there. EIGHTY HOURS PER WEEK. I'm there from 6:45am until 11:15pm most days. Give or take a few minutes. Please mind you, I've also been working every other weekend, so I have two days per week that I'm only there for 8 hours. But I digress.
So, yes, I AM still alive and sort of kicking, given the circumstances.
This blog WILL be coming back, though it still won't be super frequent posting, simply because I don't have the mental energy to do it.
However, I'm currently scheduling 2 posts to be up within the next week or so. One of which will be published tomorrow because I need to get some crap out into cyberspace and I don't really have anyone to discuss it with in real life. Well, I do...but she has her own ish to be messing with/worrying about. And trust me, y'all aren't getting the full story because I don't know who's going to be reading this.
Anyhow. Today was my day completely off from work and internship, and I didn't get out of bed until I had been in bed for 12 hours and then I proceeded to watch YouTube videos, catch up on some blogs, watch Made of Honor/Keeping up with the Kardashians (which hello, how behind am I? Oh right, haven't had a chance to watch good trash in a few months...yes, first world problems right here), and eat.
Not going to lie. Working 16 hour days makes you lose weight. I'm not trying to scarf down food before work/on my way to work, oftentimes including Chick-fil-A or something worse...I'm maybe eating something light at 6:00 (or at 9:00, depending on how my stomach feels), then having a fairly light lunch, then a somewhat substantial dinner. I cut out my late-night-after-work eating, as well as my nearly-nightly beers. Plus, while stressing myself out, I've been giving myself GI problems. Yes, TMI, but when the food doesn't stay with you long, you can't absorb the calories. I've also been having issues from too much processed food...so uh...that's keeping me eating better.
Anyhow. Tomorrow (well, later today at this point) there will be another blog post up! Not quite as peppy as this one, but like I said...issues to get off my chest.
I have a damn good excuse, that being school.
Yeah, I posted last in March. Yes, March y'all. Sorry. I had a crapton of finals and such, then I had to go out to classes for 3 weeks in April. Then, as soon as I got back (the last week of April), I started working/interning for 80 hours a week.
...No, no typo there. EIGHTY HOURS PER WEEK. I'm there from 6:45am until 11:15pm most days. Give or take a few minutes. Please mind you, I've also been working every other weekend, so I have two days per week that I'm only there for 8 hours. But I digress.
So, yes, I AM still alive and sort of kicking, given the circumstances.
This blog WILL be coming back, though it still won't be super frequent posting, simply because I don't have the mental energy to do it.
However, I'm currently scheduling 2 posts to be up within the next week or so. One of which will be published tomorrow because I need to get some crap out into cyberspace and I don't really have anyone to discuss it with in real life. Well, I do...but she has her own ish to be messing with/worrying about. And trust me, y'all aren't getting the full story because I don't know who's going to be reading this.
Anyhow. Today was my day completely off from work and internship, and I didn't get out of bed until I had been in bed for 12 hours and then I proceeded to watch YouTube videos, catch up on some blogs, watch Made of Honor/Keeping up with the Kardashians (which hello, how behind am I? Oh right, haven't had a chance to watch good trash in a few months...yes, first world problems right here), and eat.
Not going to lie. Working 16 hour days makes you lose weight. I'm not trying to scarf down food before work/on my way to work, oftentimes including Chick-fil-A or something worse...I'm maybe eating something light at 6:00 (or at 9:00, depending on how my stomach feels), then having a fairly light lunch, then a somewhat substantial dinner. I cut out my late-night-after-work eating, as well as my nearly-nightly beers. Plus, while stressing myself out, I've been giving myself GI problems. Yes, TMI, but when the food doesn't stay with you long, you can't absorb the calories. I've also been having issues from too much processed food...so uh...that's keeping me eating better.
Anyhow. Tomorrow (well, later today at this point) there will be another blog post up! Not quite as peppy as this one, but like I said...issues to get off my chest.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Why I've Been Missing / Spring Break
Wow. I am so GOOD at disappearing from the blogging world.
I don't mean it, I promise! I've just...well, before my previous entry last week, I had been out of town for a week and half a whirlwind of a few weeks before/after that in terms of school mess. Tests, quizzes, assignments, and just listening to lectures! Plus working 40 hours a week. Oy. There was one point where I was awake for 40 hours straight. Yes, being awake that long makes you feel drunk.
Thankfully, next week is spring break, and while I still have schoolwork due this week, my number of lectures is dwindling. The week after spring break, as well. I do have a few assignments I need to work on over spring break, but...eh, whatever. They'll get done. I've already started on one of them.
In the meantime, I'm planning on cleaning the bajeezus out of my living quarters. I'm not gonna lie, besides just needing to be organized BIG TIME, I also need to actually clean. It's by no means the dirtiest place I've been (nor is it the dirtiest I've allowed my apartment to become), but I haven't cleaned in...awhile. My main motivation on this is I just got 2 Scentsy warmers and 9 sets of wax and they smell DIVINE. However, I do need a clearer countertop for my large warmer that I got...so starting as soon as I finish this post, I'll be doing some cleaning and organizing before bed.
Yes, it's 1:45am and I'm going to be doing housework and homework. Don't judge me. I get home from work around 11:45pm. I don't normally get up until 10am or so, which doesn't leave tons of time to get stuff done.
Coming up later this week will be some new posts - I promise! What kind of posts do you want to see? Let me know in the comments!
I don't mean it, I promise! I've just...well, before my previous entry last week, I had been out of town for a week and half a whirlwind of a few weeks before/after that in terms of school mess. Tests, quizzes, assignments, and just listening to lectures! Plus working 40 hours a week. Oy. There was one point where I was awake for 40 hours straight. Yes, being awake that long makes you feel drunk.
Thankfully, next week is spring break, and while I still have schoolwork due this week, my number of lectures is dwindling. The week after spring break, as well. I do have a few assignments I need to work on over spring break, but...eh, whatever. They'll get done. I've already started on one of them.
In the meantime, I'm planning on cleaning the bajeezus out of my living quarters. I'm not gonna lie, besides just needing to be organized BIG TIME, I also need to actually clean. It's by no means the dirtiest place I've been (nor is it the dirtiest I've allowed my apartment to become), but I haven't cleaned in...awhile. My main motivation on this is I just got 2 Scentsy warmers and 9 sets of wax and they smell DIVINE. However, I do need a clearer countertop for my large warmer that I got...so starting as soon as I finish this post, I'll be doing some cleaning and organizing before bed.
Yes, it's 1:45am and I'm going to be doing housework and homework. Don't judge me. I get home from work around 11:45pm. I don't normally get up until 10am or so, which doesn't leave tons of time to get stuff done.
Coming up later this week will be some new posts - I promise! What kind of posts do you want to see? Let me know in the comments!
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
e.l.f Shimmering Facial Whip - Review and How To!
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Okay guys, I'm not gonna lie. I saw this on Pinterest and of course...once you pin something on there you know you can never find it again when you need it. However, in the description for the e.l.f. Shimmering Facial Whip, it essentially said to use it for your dark undereye circles. So, I figured, for a dollar, let's try this out. I got the "Lilac Petal" shade, which is a slightly pink shimmer.None of these pictures were retouched/edited in any way. Hence, the fact that I look like I have lazy eyes, etc. The only thing on my face to start off with is lotion. Plain ol' CeraVe.
1. Completely bare face. Please note that I got literally NO sleep the night before I took these pictures.
2. The amount of facial whip I use per eye...very tiny amount. I'm not going to lie though...this stuff smells AMAZING. It smells like sugary goodness. I would probably wear a perfume scented like this. I only used this under one eye so you could see the difference between the two, since the lighting isn't the best.3. All blended in and my under eye area looks like a disco ball!
4. But wait. I'm adding concealer on top! I added it to both eyes just so you can see the difference between using the facial whip under the concealer and not. The eye that I put the facial whip on under had the more severe dark circle underneath it, and it looks better than the eye with just the concealer. I obviously balance it out a bit more and have foundation and such to even out the redness on a normal day, but there IS a big difference just from this.
Final verdict? A+. You really can't beat a dollar, and I could find a use for this in highlighting my brow bone, cheeks, etc.
Want some more reviewing goodness from me? Check out my Nail Polish Review to prove that not everything is all peaches and roses when I review it :) I also edited it with my final verdict after getting some wearing, so check that out!
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