I have never been one to wear a Maxi dress because I just never thought they were flattering on me. A. I’m a plus sized girl, and not necessarily a curvy one. I think they look super cute on curvy girls. B. I’m short, only 5’3, so they are usually to long. However, I tried on the cutest two dresses in Lane Bryant last week and I had to get them. Here is one of them (printed maxi tube dress w/a white linen shrug). It also made getting dressed for work easy peasy that morning!
I’m not wearing much on my face this morning, but I’m really into filling in my brows. I had never really done this before, and since my eyebrows aren’t really thin, I did not think this was something that I needed to do. Ohhh, have I been wrong. I really love it. It has taken a little time to get used to it because at first, I would fill them in a little to much and they would be really dark. ha. However, I’m getting the hang of it and loving it more and more so here is what I am wearing this morning.
Brows – Anastasia Brow Wiz (Granite) and Milani’s clear brow shaping wax
Lashes – Malley Volumizing Mascara (Black)
Lips – Bite lipstick (Palamino)
Reduced the shine on my face a little using my Mally evercolor poreless face defender. No blush which is rare for me because I’m usually a little obsessed with that, but I was running late this morning.
Have a great day.
Today would have been my mother’s 60th birthday. It has been a bitter sweet day. I thought of her the entire day and wondered what we would talk about if I could call her on the phone. Actually, I think I know what I would have talked about. I would have just rambled on about my job, school, her sisters, and just everything under the sun. She would have given me advice that I probably didn’t want to listen to even though it was right.
My mom had her opinions about everything, but most of the time she let me make my own way. There are bits of guidance that she gave me that still makes me laugh today…such as not messing up my credit or not dating “island men”. My mom was funny. She dedicated her life to giving me a good life. I honestly believe that most of the things that mom did in her adult life was to give me a better one than she had. I felt that my mom was proud of me when I moved from Wisconsin and got a decent job in Georgia. It’s true that the heart grows fonder when you are apart because coming home to my mom was so special after I moved away. I loved being with her even though she always did those annoying things that mom’s do, such as make you get up and do things for them when you really don’t want to. 🙂
My mom passed away just 4 months shy of her 50th birthday of Pulmonary Fibrosis and other illnesses related to it. I loved my mother. In everything I do, I wonder if she would be happy about it. I wonder if she would still be proud of the woman that I have become. I wonder if she would realize how much I am like her and how much she impacted my life. I wonder if she knew how much I love her. I didn’t get to say it enough. I hope you know how much you meant to me. I hope you know how much I miss you and wish that we could talk. So this post is just for my mom. Mommy, I love you. Happy Birthday. I wish you were here with me.
This morning, this is the makeup that I am using. I am trying to make more of an effort to use all of the makeup that I have, so I am finding that blogging about it is helping with that endeavor.
Marc Jacobs Starlet eyeshadow pallet (I used the darkest color this morning)
Mac’s Raizin blush
Rimmel’s Stay Matte Primer (sometimes I prefer to just use this instead of foundation.)
Cargo lip gloss (Sorry, I don’t remember the color)
Bath and Body works Paris In Bloom body spray
Viking’s won out on my Thursday night television dilemma. I was very impressed by Lagertha. So often in the movies, the women just take the crap they are handed. I was happy that she went her heart. She’s not willing to share her husband and I don’t blame her. Good for you!
I will be watching Scandal tonight, so I am hoping it is another premiere that will make me happy.
*photo courtesy of The History Channel’s website.
I have a dilemma for my Thursday night television watching schedule. For the last few years, I have watched Scandal at 10pm. Well, we are finally getting a new episode after what feels like an almost two month break. Here is the dilemma. My new addiction, Vikings, starts their new season tomorrow at 10pm as well. What to do, what to do? Yes, I will have to DVR one, but which one will I watch live? I’m equally excited for both.
Writing about these two shows has invoked another crazy morality question for me. Why don’t I have an issue with Fitz cheating on Mellie with Olivia, but I am completely upset with Ragnar cheating on Lagertha with Princess Aslaug? I’m such a hypocritical television viewer.
Talk to you all soon….
A couple of blogs ago, I mentioned that I had really become a fan of the show, Black Sails, on STARZ which is about pirates. I can’t believe that I only have three more episodes of this show to watch before the season ends and I have to wait a full year for the continuation. Well, this past weekend, I found something new to watch in the interim. As I was searching for something to watch while suffering from a nasty stomach virus, I came across Vikings on The History Channel. I watched the entire ten episodes of the first season in one day! I found this show just in time too as their new season starts this week! Now, while Vikings doesn’t have the eye candy that Black Sails offers me in the glorious form of Captain Vane, I’m still enthralled by all that heathen behavior! Besides, Ragnar and Rollo are still pretty decent, just not up to Captain Vane’s stature…but I digress.
Now, I can say that I struggled more with some of the violent things that the Vikings did as opposed to the Pirates on Black Sails, and I’m trying to figure out why. They are all murderers and rapists. I assume that it is because Vikings is trying to remain true to their ways? I mean after all, it is on The History Channel so they need to be more careful with accuracy, right?
Anyway, Vikings and Pirates were the main characters in many of the historical romance books that littered my youth, so I am enjoying them being on my television screen. All that testosterone is invading my dreams!
Talk to you soon…..
How do you handle stress? My doctor once told me that I didn’t handle stress well. She’s right. Most of the time when I have to much going on and to many demands on me, I want to just abandon everything. I used to go to a private area and cry for about ten minutes, but I have stopped doing that. It never worked anyway.
So, what to do? I usually just take a few breaths to try to calm myself down. I tell myself to stop over-reacting and just take a minute to do something unrelated to the thing that is causing me stress. Sometimes, I eat sweets (definitely not the best solution for me).
Anyway, it’s a work in process. I’m still trying to figure out how to become that calm, cool, and collected person that I would like to be. It’s right up there on my list to become extremely smart and successful.
Talk to you all soon……..
It has been a crazy week for me. I spent a day in a half stuck in the house because of the ice storm in Atlanta. The snow storm from two weeks ago really scared us crapless. I know I did not want another ten hour drive home and apparently no one else did either! Our streets were almost completely abandoned except for the news people who covered the weather non-stop. It was a little over kill on their behalf, but I appreciated the effort I think. Thank goodness for YouTube. I spent the time searching for new vloggers watch. Even though, I really should have been working on a blog post since I have been missing in action for about two weeks.
On top of the storm, I was preparing for a test for the last class I was in and writing a paper. Because of the storm though, the last class and test was cancelled. I can’t say that I was sad to hear that. Tests always stress me out.
In addition to finding a couple of new vloggers, I have become slightly addicted to the new series on STARZ, Black Sails! OK, now anyone who has been reading my blog knows that I love romance books. Historical romances can certainly romanticize pirates, and looking at the extremely sexy but dangerous Charles Vane has given my fantasies a very needed boost! Woah….long, dark hair, light eyes, scruffy beard, and a commanding presence is all that is needed to make me a happy viewer! He has filled the void that Game of Thrones left when they killed off my Khal Drogo! Thank you STARZ.
Talk to you all soon…..
This week I have been thinking about this saying. I have just realized that there is also a book based on this saying/theory. I have been trying to practice doing this during the week. There seems as if there is so much going on that I am just trying to concentrate on one thing at a time and don’t let the little things overwhelm me. I’m sure there will be huge hiccups in life that I will have to concentrate on more!
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