Luna TailAnxiety, Dogs, and Life

I am so excited, I got makeup samples yesterday from Leigh over on Eternal Flux. She sells Mary Kay and she’s helping me get starting in makeup.

Yeah yeah I know, 40 years old and just barely starting wearing makeup. Well, so, I’m late! And since I love my hair now, and it’s short and blonde and pretty… I really need to spruce up my face to match.

I do have some personal dilemma’s about makeup… most of my life I have fought it, too, because I really think women should be thought of as beautiful while they are natural. And makeup covers up a woman’s natural beauty.

But as I get older, and more confident in myself, I want to look pretty. And girly. And maybe makeup is just a part of that, just like a nice dress or a fancy hairdo.

Either way, I just don’t really care… lol because now makeup is being fun. And I just want to be happy. I won’t be wearing makeup when I’m at agility trials.. well, unless the mascara is really good and won’t smudge, my eyes are so light they just need to stand out!

Ooo I’m getting some Mary Kay Cosmetics to try and I’m so excited! LOL I probably should have been this excited when I was 14 and wanted to wear makeup… except when I was 14 I didn’t want to wear makeup. Never really did until now… at 40 years old. Oh well.

I’ve gone through stages where i did want to, got frustrated and angry and cried, and gave up. But now I have a friend to help me out… Leigh, of Eternal Flux. And she’s giving away Eye Shadow in her contest!

So I hope to win!

Wordless Wednesday

Monday I got my hair cut… bummer I don’t have a before picture. It was much longer and not so bright blond. My niece (my husband’s niece, still weird calling her my niece) does an excellent job with hair! I love it! I also went to Kirkams for some clothes shopping, this is my new outfit! I really like it, and nice bright colors for spring!

These are the pants I was talking about in my prior post.

When Size 8 is too big, is a very good day! I went shopping yesterday… to one of my favorite stores, Kirkhams, thanks to my Husband and my Sister at Christmas. I bought new pants and a couple shirts, and even shoes for agility, and I even had some money left over on the gift cards! Thanks so much!

I like to shop in the spring and the fall. Not much the rest of the year… but I gotta get new spring clothes. And I got a new spring haircut, too. Hopefully I’ll get a pic of me up soon.

So I grab the size 12 pants… too big. Size 10… still too big. Size 8? Well, yup, they fit in the store. I love them.. take them home, wear them… and now today at work they are a bit loose! LOL I love loose clothes. Makes me feel skinny even though I have gained a couple of pounds back in the last couple of weeks.

Dreading the time change for Tuesday which is my first work day of the week… I went home last night, settled in, played with HDMI switches on my HDTV, and then went to bed. And this morning.. yup, I was miserable. It’s gonna take me 2 or so weeks to adjust. Ugh.

Sometimes I don’t know how much stress I’m having until it’s gone. Whew… finally I think it’s gone and I’m slowing down. I get into such a rush. I rush on the computer, I rush in the house, I rush running errands. Rushing, to me, is a feeling I get inside where I must get things done. Must must must now now now.

I vented to my nail tech today about yesterday in the dog park. It really frazzled me more than I admitted to myself. And then work, too, not getting that to work. So finally today when I got home from having my nails done, I was able to relax again.

All is well. The dogs are healthy and happy. And I made a really yummy recipe from the Weight Watchers Cookbook my sister gave me for Christmas. Leek and Egg Casserole. Yummy! Lots of leeks, which I don’t like raw, but cooked they are good.

So now I’m going to bed Nice And Early today. It’s 8pm, I’m shutting down the laptop, and I’m going to get a good night sleep.

Happy New Year Again!

Wordless Wednesday

And so here it is! My friend at work and I went and had our navel’s pierced today during lunch. We have been planning on doing it for a while now but would forget or things would get in the way. Finally we are pierced!

I had mine pierced about 8 or so years ago and it never healed. I had it done with a gun, which is, I guess, a bad way to do it. And I had a loop inserted, another bad thing. I had it taken out after a year and it healed up just fine without the pierce. I sure hope that this time, having had a needled used, and having a bar in so it can breath better, maybe it will heal better.

I could have had a reaction to the metal as well, last time. So cross your fingers it heals up better this time and I can wear some fancy navel jewelry. So far it stings when I sit and fold my tummy on it (need a flatter tummy darnit). And it hurt way worse than getting the tattoo did. But now the pain is mostly over and the healing begins! No moving furniture for me for a while, and I got my mattress cover too to put on my new mattress. The husband is going to help me put it on in a bit. We won’t need any New York movers to help though!

So check it out! I got my nails done today, and they are orange. The acrylic is actually orange itself. So I don’t have to worry about polish color.

My sister recommended this nail lady, and she did a really good job. I’m tired of acrylic that yellows, an nails that have to be removed every other week. I have wanted someone affordable who will drill out when they fill, and this gal will do so. And she’s affordable!

So I’m back to acrylics. It’s one of the few girly things I like to do. And they are a bit long, but my typing is still doing okay. I remembered how to type with nails.

And if I had a dell laptop (which I don’t), I could buy some Dell Memory to upgrade it. Laptops always need more memory, especially running Vista!

Oh my, I have never in my life, and never do I want to again, been on a five hour shopping trip. I went running in the morning even, for about 40 minutes… (I’ve decided I’m not going to worry about miles anymore, they will come. I am going to go for time. I can approximate mileage) with Levi and Chase. Chase was so happy to go again, and even Levi had a good time.

Anyway I digress. I took my Mom to Ikea so I could look at buying a wardrobe or two. Our 1943 house is tiny (as you can see by prior pictures) and has little clothes storage space and closets. So I saw the Ikea catalogs with the big huge wardrobes and decided I needed one. So five hours and $600 later, I walked out with two 40″ by 93″ wardrobe’s and accessories. I would have paid more but Mom gave me $200 for a Christmas present. Thanks Mom!

Now the Husband and I get the big task of putting the things together. After we do, I’ll take some pics with the new camera.

It was a busy weekend, dog seminar.. but fun. But I still don’t feel too hot. I am starting to accept that, though. The mornings are the hardest. Saturday morning was worse than this morning. Last night I went to bed at 8:30 and figured if I got up at 6:30 that would give me a good solid 10 hours. I ended up waking up about 6, which was okay. I don’t like getting up so early but my body doesn’t quite want that much sleep.

I still wake up with a cough and a stuffy nose and feeling all phlegmy. Oh well… tomorrow is my day off, and I have to take Hudson to the vet at 8am, and then I’m getting my hair done at 2pm, and I hope I remember to get my tattoo touched up after my hair. So I won’t be able to stay home all day, but next weekend I have no plans but flyball, so I should have a nice easy weekend next weekend.

I’m going to have brown highlights put in my hair. My Husband tells me I should go brunette.. but that is too scary! I like being blond.