Wednesday Thoughts

#1- I rediscovered my clinique foundation last night and I really like it. I realized it's in color shade two, and that if I went to color shade one (which I'm not sure why the girl didn't give me the lightest a few years back when I bought it- because I'm really pale) it'd match really well. So I might purchase that sometime. However.. it's $23 dollars... so maybe I'll wait until my momma wants to buy me a present or something. :) (I am such a bad daughter)

 

This is the Clinique I am referring to by the way, "Perfectly Real Makeup- Shade One" 

Perfectly Real Makeup 

There's a link to the website. However- if you've never bought it before I'd go into your Clinique counter so you can make sure you get the right shade. But I do love, love, love this stuff. It's moderate coverage (not too light, not too heavy). 

#2- I just tried to sign up for a taste test- I'm not eligible for  any at the moment... bummer.

#3- We're supposed to get another 2-4 inches (that's what they're saying at the moment) of snow tonight. Not sure how I feel about it. It's supposed to go into tomorrow morning, so I mean... I guess I might miss one of my classes... but probably not both. And it'll just be so wet here again. Gross. Gross. Gross.

#4- My stomach is feeling better than it was last night but it keeps ggurgling :(.

#5- I think I might consider just doing the 5k instead of the 10 miler in the race I signed up for. . . I really want to do the 10 mile.. and I can run 6 or 7 miles.. but I'm just worried that on race day I won't be able to pull out all the stops and do the full 10 :(. It makes me kind of sad, but what can you do??

Snow Cream

Since two people, in the last ten minutes let me know that they'd never heard of or tried snow cream before I really thought I had to share the recipe. Since I've never paid attention to the proportions but made it by eye, I had to look up a recipe. The one I found that was most similar to mine was here

Mix about 1 gallon snow with 1 cup cream or milk (I've honestly always used milk and its tasted great), 1/2 a cup of sugar, and 1-2 tea spoons of vanilla extract. :)

I'm dying to make it myself but don't have the sugar! Let me know what you think if you try it!

Oh the weather outside is frightful!

There is no other way to say it! I've been thinking that this snow wasn't that big of a deal and it wasn't even half as much as we got last weekend but it turns out, it's almost as much, if not MORE than we got last weekend! Woops, guess having a window that over looks a parking lot leads to delusions. My bad! Anyway, here are some updated images!

I always think its a good idea to go out in the snow without shoes on, as you can see by my foot print in this picture. I don't know that I necessarely think it's a "good idea" but I just can't be bothered with putting shoes on. Unfortunately my feetsies went numb rather quickly, so I decided to come inside and put on my mamouth crocs (so fuzzy and warm!!)

PS- This is in the covered balcany area of my apartment!

 Out in front of the apartment, the parking lot. Do you see that like gray pool in the center of the parking lot?? That's where they plowed last night (but not today???). It was a pool of slush until about an hour ago. Now it's snow covered slush. That is going to freeze and be a BIG problem tomorrow!

This was really cool when I first saw it. I walked over and like a wave of snow went flying, it looked like ocean spray. Obviously it was the wind, but it was really cool looking.

The road and back spot behind my apartment building. Obviously its a little snowier than I realized.

The snow covered ground. This is pretty uninteresting I just thought it was a testimony to how well covered the ground is.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

:) Some snow fall pictures from the progress of this "record breaking" snow fall!

Kind of blurry, but this was my apartment complex a little bit before 7pm. It started snowing here around 1, but didn't start sticking til 4:30 or so. We probably had like 2 inches or so at this point

A little snow drift forming inside of the stairwell in the complex, maybe like 4-5 inches tall.

Behind the complex, keep in mind there was still snow on the ground from last weekends snow storm, but there is a fresh cost on top of it, and those foot prints are from earlier this evening. As you can see it's really starting to stick.

In front of the apartment complex, by the parking lot. The sidewalk was completely clean earlier, and it didn't start sticking until probably closer to five PM. It's kind of far out, but you can see accumulation on the picnic table

I do realize that the image quality is kind of low. However, since it's still snowing if I had used the flash to make the image more "clear" there would have been a million different flakes in these pictures and you wouldn't be able to see anything!!

Nail Polish Review

Hello Hello Hello! Everyone knows that I love painting my nails lately, so I thought I'd do a post on a product I bought earlier. I went to Walgreens with Z. because I was bummed I wouldn't be able to get my nails done. I purchased "Adoring Amethyst" by Sally Hansen which is part of the Maximum Growth Plus collection. I believe I paid $4.99 for it. Anyway, I love the color it's a very rich wine color and not matte and plain like a lot of nail polishes can be. However, I have one big complaint. The brushes in this collection are so thin, that you have to make about five strokes to cover your nail, which makes it hard to get an even layer, and hard not to mess up your nails! (I had a lot of trouble doing them neatly, so the next few images will be kind of icky.)

For the second coat I went ahead and took an OPI brush from a color I never used, soaked it in nail polish remover to lift the color off of it, and used that in the nail color. It did go on a bit nicer for the second coat.

Anyway, the color is gorgeous, and these pictures do not do it justice! It's very, very, very similar to red wine. It's a deep red with violet undertones and a little shimmer, but nothing glittery. All that being said here are some images!

Okay, so this last picture, if you're wondering is for a color reference. (By the way, if you love the coaster, like I do, compliment my sister. She picked these out a few years ago for me, and I love, love, love them!!) Anyway, if you look you can see that there are red blocks on them, and if you notice my nails are more purple than that. It's definitely not a color I would classify as "red" or "purple". It truly is a wine!

Good Morning Darlings!

Hello everyone and Good Mornin!

That's right, I'm updating my blog at 5:45AM, whatevs. So I'm up and awake and looking at the snow forecast wboc is saying that we'll get 6-12 inches of snow. I just checked accuweather and they're saying that we are going to get like 10+ inches of snow, 1.36 inches of rain, .3 inches of ice, and gusts of wind close to 59 miles per hour. PHEW. I'm not sure, I want to buy it, I really do but I'm just not sure. If you look at the weather map, it shows this HUGE front that is going to come over us, but I really just have a bad feeling its going to be an all rain event, or go just north of us, as always happens.


Argh, I'm trying not to but I'm really getting my hopes up about this :( I know we're going to have to go to school on Monday and I am just going to be so heart broken when that happens.

Anyway, you might be wondering WHY ON EARTH I'm up so early. I gotta hit the gym this morning before I have class at 9, because I have a bad feeling they won't open this weekend, and if they do, I probably won't want to venture over there. Since I ran so far yesterday I think I'm going to do a 30 minute run this morning, and then just bike for 20... I know it's pretty lame, but I just don't think I have running far in me this morning !

Alright, well it's way too early for me to have real thoughts, so I suppose I'll go!

Ta-ta-for-now!

Five Thoughts for Thursday

#1- I'm not sure how I feel about this snow. I really want another snow day so that I can have an exam next Friday and now the day after my birthday, but I'm kind of over the ice. I almost slipped like 7 times this morning. Not cool, *city I live in*, NOT COOL.

#2- I was going to get my nails/eyebrows done this weekend because I always pamper myself with that stuff right before my birthday, but considering we're supposed to get the aforementioned 6-12 inches of snow, I don't think I'll be making the trek across town in my little clown mobile.

#3-Since I'm going to be snowed in all weekend anyway, I think I might do my 3rd Grade Through the Years video. GET EXCITED!

#4- Bones starts in 8 minutes. So. So. So. So. So. EXCITED.

#5- I've been putting splenda (and lemon if available) in my water a lot lately, does that defeat the purpose of drinking water? It's allowed me to drink more water than soda and stuff, so that's good... right?

New Additions?!

Tuesday Thoughts!

#1- I watched a guy fall on campus earlier and I felt really bad for him because he looked really flustered and embarrassed. I wish I'd taken the tumble, I care less what other people think about me. Plus, I was walking with Z. and he would have helped me up :o)

#2- Everyone is hyping this impending snow (tonight's and this weekends) as if it's going to be 12 feet. I hate to break it to everyone... but usually when they call for the big stuff it ends up missing us completely. I really doubt we're going to get another 12 inches, or even 6. As for tonight, I'll be surprised if we get more than a dusting. Yes I'm being cynical, but it does allow for pleasant surprises.

#3- My horoscope told me that this month I'll have a "new addition" to my life... since I already have a best friend, and a fiance, and I know my momma isn't going to give me another sibling, I've decided that this new addition is most definitely the puppy that Z.'s been saying he'll get me "someday". Woo! I hope he's as cute as Teddy.

#4- I cut my nails last night, and as always, I cut one too short. I always do that! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to STOP doing that??

#5- It really bothers me when people have like full albums dedicated to close up pictures of them. You know what I mean, the "myspace pictures" that we all so fondly took back in 2006?  Yeah thoseeee pictures. It just seems like such an "id" thing to do. Yes, id! I'm using psychology! Id is the part of the personality (I think???) that controls selfish actions. (Id= childlike Ego=normalish Superego=selfless actions). Anyway, the id is what most psychologist use to describe adolescent behavior, and I just feel like the act of talking a million pictures of oneself making "kissy" and "pouty" and "muscle" poses is just very id-like. Okay rant over!

"OH MY GOD IT'S SNOWING!!"

I love being form the city I'm from. Everytime we get so much as a FLURRY everyone updates their facebook statuses. Those who like it say, "OH MY GOD IT'S SNOWING OH MY GOD IT'S SNOWING! IF YOU DON'T LIKE SNOW YOU STINK!!" And those who hate it say, "UGH STUPID SNOW STUPID SNOW STUPID SNOW STUPIDDD SNOWW" But literally, everyone has something to say about it.

I live in an area that generally gets more rain than snow in the winter, and normally you hear people ask, "Can you imagine if this were snow??" Well today, it was snow. We officially got "9" inches. However, this was at 7pm, and it's been snowing since then, and even then, there were readings closer to 11 inches. Drifts however, were probably ranging anywhere from 15-20 inches. Pretty big deal, considering the town will shut down for a dusting.

This is the street behind my apartment (a fairly busy side road on a normal day) at 5:30PM.

Here's another image without my flash on. The pictures a little bit blurry- but all and all you get the idea. This does no justice to the actual AMOUNT of snow we got.  Just how snowy the roads are.

This sould give you a better idea! That's my foot in the snow this afternoon. It hit up to my midcalf and I'm 5ft 7inchs :P

What do you think about snow? Love it? Hate it? My opinion today? Annoying. The snow has left me cooped up most of the day. And unforunately the college I go to hates to cancel classes (even though almost 75% of the students are commuters)... so it's likely that I'll spend all weekend cooped up only to have to go back to classes on Modnay. Not. A. Fan.

Friday Thoughts

#1- I wore a pair of tan wedges today that I got from Target this past fall. I love them, but they're an awkward color that doesn't match much. Also, they inconsistently give me blisters. Apparently today is one of those day they give me blisters. Guess I'll be  putting on my crocs when I get home.

#2- I hate whiney bloggers and people who post their whole lives "drama" on faceook. But there is someone in my life who no matter what they do just upsets me in some way lately.

#3- I am in such a bummed out mood today that all I want to do is go to bed when I get home. but I have so much stuff to do this weekend that I can't really afford to give myself a stress free day. Awesome. I can't wait for this semester to be over. I wasn't ready to come back for hte Fall semester after 3 months off, so I'm certainly not ready for this one after only one month off.

#4- Part of my stress is that I'm afraid there are things I just won't think to do for my BAM assignment. It's supposed to simulate a real life accountants work, and I'm  just afraid there will be stuff that I don't remember to do. Or things I just don't know how to do. I am really good at doing well on tests... but I just feel like when it comes to applying things I couldn't possibly ever succeed in the real world. Gee- I hope that my internship boss doesn't see this. I'm sure he'd be regretting his decision to take me as an intern.

#5- I have on a coral color sweater today, which I picked out because bright colors are supposed to make you happy. However, I don't think it's working. Whoever created this whole bright color = happiness theory may have neglected some pertinant variables.

#6- I didn't manage to get myself up at 5:30 like I wanted to this morning. My alarms went off on my phone, my computer alarm got off. I said oh I just want to shut my eyes a few more seconds.. and it was 7:15. I hate when I do that. I guess I'll just do my power yoga tomorrow morning.

#7- I'm not sure if I want it to snow tomorrow anymore. I have so much I want to get done, that I feel like it will impede things. I don't know. I feel like even if it doesn't snow that I don't have enough time to do everything I need to do. And I'm sure you're thinking "Well Emily, Stop blogging" but I'm only blogging because mymind needs to do something "mindless" for a while. I was just trying to read my business law text book, and I got so confused with all the sections of the SEC law that apply to accountants that I had to give up.

#8- Speaking of business law, I thought it would be about the laws that businesses have to comply with and all that other stuff. So far the chapter I'm reading is instructing me about all the millions of different ways and reasons I could potentially get sued. This is really rather frightening.

#9- I think I am going to paint my nails "It's all Greek to Me" by OPI this weekend.

#10- I am friends with way too many people that I don't actually like... does anyone else have that problem? I have no idea what to do about it, but it seems rude to just delete all the people I don't really like from my life... they might notice.. and then they wouldn't like me :P