That time of the Year again

So like the title says, it’s that time of the year again when work gets insanely busy and so does my personal life. The time of the year in which I realize I am getting old. The time in the year when I want to get so much accomplished and yet have no time to do anything.
Don’t get me wrong, March is one of my favourite months (not only because it is my birthday month), but right now I am just feeling a little overburdened and really want this month to be over so maybe, just maybe I will have time to myself.

One Minute Writer #58

Complete this thought: I usually forget...

a) anything I am trying to remember
Like a lot of people, I will leave a room with the clear intention of something specific. It may be going to pick something up, starting a new task, or looking into something I need an answer about. I will get to moving and halfway there I will forget what I was going to do or get. Sometimes I will have the clear intention of getting something from upstairs, decide along the way that I should go to the washroom and then forget to get or do the thing that made me go upstairs in the first place. It is very annoying.

b) my iPod before I head to bed
Almost every night, I listen to my iPod to fall asleep. This happens to be the same iPod I take to work with me on occasion and the one that goes with me to the gym to help me workout. 9 times out of 10, I will forget to take it upstairs with me and will get settled in bed only to have to get up and go back downstairs to get it from my purse or gym bag. Also very annoying.

OPI Spotlight#1 (and #2)

So I didn’t forget about this and instead have a one-two-punch as my first OPI nail polish spotlight.

The photo shows Kyoto Pearl with Red Shatter on top. This combo makes me think of candy canes, though having done this shortly after Christmas, the season might have had some influence on that opinion.
To be honest, when I bought Kyoto Pearl and tried it on its own, I wasn’t entirely happy with it as you could see the brush lines even after two coats. It covered well, but I really didn’t like those brush lines. That being said, it is the perfect undercoat for shatters!!
Shatters in general are really neat but as you have little to no control on how the shatter splits up, the overall look can go many ways. For example, I loved how this looked on my thumb (pictured above) but wasn’t entirely happy how it shattered on a few of my other fingers.
One downside to shatters, for me at least, is that the shatter results in a 3D effect on your nails. This sounds cool and was neat, but it left me with lots of little bits I could pick away at on my nails and as trying to not pick at my nails is one of the main reasons I use nail polish, this kind of defeated the purpose.

The Day the Honey Ran Out

Dave and I recently celebrated our 8-year anniversary. For the occasion I decided to make an extremely delicious strawberry shortcake dessert. To try to make things fit into our new lifestyle a little better, I decided to sweeten it with honey rather than white sugar. I managed to get enough honey for the dessert, but I had to decapitate my honey bear in order to get the very last bits of honey from the jar.

Dessert was delicious though (recipe will be posted later this week on Road to a Better Me).

A Colourful Addiction Part II

So Christmas has come and gone and my OPI addiction has been fed for the time being. An updated list is below of the colours I now own. Italics denotes a new colour.

OPI Name	General Description
Top Coat	N/A
Natural Nail Base Coat	N/A
Natural Nail Strengthener	N/A
Kyoto Pearl	a Sheen-like White
Give Me the Moon	Iridescent Light Purple
A Grape Fit	Medium Purple
Honk if you Love OPI	Dark Purple
Suzi Says Feng Shui	Medium Blue
Yoga-ta Get this Blue	Dark Sparkly Blue
Jade is the New Black	Medium Green
Steady as she Rose	Light Rose/Pink
Suzi & the Lifeguard	Medium-light Sparkly Pink
My Address is ‘Hollywood’	Medium Sparkly Pink
Bogata Blackberry	Dark Sparkly Burgundy
Malaga Wine	Dark Burgundy
Teenage Dreams	Glitter Pink
Black Shatter	N/A
Red Shatter	N/A
My Private Jet	sparkly black/bronze
Funny Bunny	plain white
Black Onyx	black
Over the Taupe	taupe
Otherwise Engaged	sheer pink
I Vant to be a Lone-Star	light sparkly blue
Stranger Tides	pale dusty green

 

As I now have so many, I am thinking of doing some photos and/or descriptive reviews of them now and then. Who knows though, there is a lot going on right now and I very well may forget about this.

I am looking forward to the release of OPI’s Spring collection called Holland. It has some sparkly colours, pale colours and more intense colours. A nice range of colours that I want to own.