I work for my sister as my niece's nanny. I'm usually also her holiday caterer/cook since she hates working in the kitchen. This means I get first dibs on any and all party leftovers.

The Christmas haul included 3 lbs of ham and its attendant glaze, 2 lbs of smoked turkey breast (bone-in) and -my personal favorite- 2 lbs of breaded chicken tenders. Hubby and I have been eating any and all of these all week.

Last night's creation was the diced chicken tenders, steamed carrots, shredded cabbage and some onion sauteed in the rendered ham fat, served over white rice. It was soooooo good! So very good, in fact, we ate it all before I could snap some pictures to share with you guys.

I saved most of the ham grease to cook the rest of the cabbage in this weekend. I may or may not use the rest of the ham with it. Maybe I'll use the turkey instead?

The 29th book in the series covers a series of murders done for revenge of of a lie. Once again the story is entertaining and there is also progress on the personal front of Eve's friends. I also read the newest short story in the collection Lost but didn't bother reading the rest of the stories. The short story is a twist on a locked room murder and this one is based on revenge but the difference is this is more of a righteous revenge killing.

Long-time readers of this journal know that I'm not much for year-end wrap-ups, nor do I do Resolutions as such. Long-time friends will also attest to the fact that, while I am always on time, my sense of the greater Time is fluid, and I'm far more likely to forget what month it is than to tick off the passing of a specific yet arbitrary date.

And yet, I love New Year's Eve/First Night. No matter how you observe -- surrounded by casual friends or thousands of strangers or gathered with only your nearest-and-dearest -- it's a powerful, simple celebration of change and survival and contemplation and anticipation.

Many people have decried 2009 as the worst year ever, and I won't deny there were a lot of downsides... but there were also moments of great joy and hope and pleasures. New friends and new experiences, old friends revisited, great things accomplished, and dreams realized and revised. I danced more this year than I did last, and if I cried, I cried on the shoulders of dear friends, and was there in turn when they needed my shoulder.

Occasionally I hear people say "Next year has to be better!" No, it doesn't. It doesn't have to be worse, either. It's just another 12 months to do things in. Go, do.


May the best of the past year
be the very worst you encounter in the new year
filled with the dreams you dared not hope for
and the songs you didn't know how to sing
And if you are still searching
may 2010 bring you at last
to the shores of where you need to be.


And happy birthday to matticrafts and ellen_datlow!

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[85] Firefly, Dollhouse, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel
[50] When Harry Met Sally, True Blood, Torchwood: Children of Earth, Van Helsing



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Greetings beauties!

I recently went from blonde to  'Marcia Cross Coppery-Red' hair. I do love it.

I have been struggling with eyeshadow though.
I used to wear a lot of golds, neutrals, bronzes as a blonde, and still do as a red head, but want to branch out.

With NYE fast approaching, I was thinking of doing something silver.
I have never done silver with red hair.
Does that even work well? Or am I better off sticking to the gold family?

My skin tone is a very generic medium beige... not too pink or too orange.
I've had hair ranging from black to blonde and am lucky that I manage to suite most eye shadow colours (when I had dark hair, I loved the cool tones and silvers etc).

With the coppery red hair, I have always been convinced that I can't wear silver, yet I love the look!

Any one have any tips or suggestions on wearing silver makeup as a red head?
Is there a shade or tone of silver should be looking for?

Thanks!

I feel like someone always asks this before the start of every year. I love reading them so... what are your beauty resolutions for the new year?

P.S. I hope everyone has a safe and fun time on New Year's Eve/Day! =)

There will NOT be a show on 12/31/2009 due to a conflict in the DJ's schedule. There will be a makeup show sometime during the weekend.

I apologize for any disappointment or inconvenience.

  This holiday season, I took a stab at making shortbreads, I've done it on many occasions in the past but since then, have made sugar cakes from 16-17th century sources.

I'd say because they have egg yolk, they really can't be shortbreads and they are also subject to rising a little, but otherwise, they do take on mould stamping/pressing quite well... at least I have had wonderful results.

One thing I must say, after being spoiled with making up a cookie very much like a shortbread (but with yolks), it is that much more difficult making shortbreads (in a cold house none the less)!
+ I appear to have lost the mould I carved some few years ago... either I gave it away or the packers packed it up in some really weird place and it's still in one of the unopened boxes somewhere in the shed.

anyhow, in the end, just ended up cutting them into lozenges
next time, going with the sweet cakes with yolks, they even taste better :)

Jack Sprat
by Jim C. Hines

Jack Sprat will drink your blood.
His wife will eat your flesh.
And so betwixt the two of them
They never leave a mess.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.

My dream stuck with me so hard all day yesterday (despite spreading the wealth out to all of you) that after work, I went out to the local antiques mall to just relax a little (some people shop for clothes, I shop for vintage doll house bits).  In the middle of the store, one dealer had two of those Government-issued "Fallout Shelter" signs from the '60s that were unused, and pretty cool, but they made me look around and realize that the building I was in had no protection from a blast, and I was right by the flimsy roll-up doors to the loading dock, and...

Whoopsie, panic attack.

That hasn't happened in a very long time.  I mean, I get panic attacks all the time, it's part of my charm, but getting a panic attack from a dream association is very rare.  I think the last time it happened, I dreamt I was sitting on top of the St.Louis Arch, and a nuke went off, and I fell, and woke up just before I hit the ground, like you do.  I had such a strong panic attack I had to get up and watch the news channels for hours to assure myself that no attack was imminent.  That was almost eighteen years ago.

I had not discovered the wonders of Xanax then, so I had a pretty hard time of it.  Indeed, I didn't realize that what I was experiencing was panic attacks.  Later, when I started getting them almost constantly (as the end of my first marriage came closer), I recognized them as such, but the option of going to a doctor for treatment was out of the question.  My ex even accused me of getting them deliberately, in a bid for sympathy that he didn't think I deserved (usually after some imagined trangression on my part - I hate arguments, and I got yelled at a lot). 

Panic and I have a long relationship.  Most attacks are of the petit weird variety; a vague sense of impending doom that grows and makes me twitchy. Occasionally, I get the "large crowds freak me out" kind - that's what half a pill is for, and why I always keep a stash hidden in my purse.  The minor ones I've learned to control by distracting myself, but the ones I get when I'm trying to sleep need to be slapped around by drugs before they go away.

I hate those ones, because jerking awake with a feeling like I just realized I left the kettle on is exhausting, especially when it happens all night long.  So I love my little pills, though I don't take them very often (it goes in phases).  I love pharmecuticals, what can I say?  They make my life functional.

Anyway, I'm just saying, that even with taking one last night to help me sleep (and I did), I'm still a bit in the throes of a petit weirdness.  I'm actually wondering if the weirdness in due in part to revisiting the bad days of my first marriage, as I don't normally think about it much, but writing about it brought back the helpless and trapped feeling I had back then.  Who knows.  It doesn't normally bother me, but then I don't normally dwell on it, except to compare my current happiness and know I'm damned lucky to be where I am.

No matter what caused it, I might indulge myself and self-medicate with a trip to the thrift store this afternoon (my therapies are usually pretty cheap, assuming I don't find a ton of awesome stuff at the antique store).  If I find something good, I'll be sure to take pictures. 

If thrifting doesn't do the trick, I'm buying more glitter make-up for the party tomorrow.  I may be a fierce and progressive woman, but I loves me some glittery makeup (and high heels).

Oh, and I finished all the outlining on the jacket pieces last night.  700+ hours.  Now I start the fill.  *anticipation*

How can I soften my fondant? I bought the pre-colored Wilton stuff, used some, put some crisco on the rest and wrapped it in Saran wrap, and put it in aziplock baggie. Now it's really hard. Is it saveable? Is there a better way to store fondant?

and visit my new blog -- http://freshlywhipped.blogspot.com/ -- for more pictures and the recipe!

I would really appreciate It If you wouldn't take ALL the ornaments off the tree and leave them all over the floor. I mean I bought you so many toys to play with and you hardly touched them. Also Can you please not flip over all the boxes of pizzas and leave the pieces all over the kitchen floor half eaten, and tear holes In the bag of treats and eat them all.

Thank you!
I love you snuggle button
  Mommy <3

I absolutely cannot believe that this time in 1 week I will be in my Dungeon Honeymoon suite having my make-up and hair getting done and getting photographs taken :-)

I haven't really been on here much but here is my last progress post! There are no pictures of me as I was too worried that my FH would find them. But lots of info to be seen. I am having an intimate wedding of 13 people in a Scottish castle. This is followed by a honeymoon and a then 2 receptions, one in the UK and one in Jersey, where we live.


( wedding porn )

That's all I have time for as I am off to take the clients ice-skating. Not sure it's a good idea but ho hum!

Thanks for reading

x

so I got my first bell bill for the land line....244...ummm NO WAY IN HELL...if they say it is legit and that is about 100 more than it should be..I am cancelling. havent used land line in over a month. Not sure WHY I thought I would need it. sigh. grumble.

found an awesome used blanket..will meet up sat after work this week..it will fit mr destructo...lol, and only 100 bucks. I am off thurs friday and sunday this week..weird.

Horses are handling the cold well , especially with the heated water buckets. They are still getting hot beet pulp in the am and pm, but echo is eating more and more hay...definate signs of healing.

today is my friday..and no ot ..it was offered and I said no..lol.

Suni is doing well in the cold too..under the comforter in the bed ;)

That's what you see in the beagle puppy's eyes after you let him back into the house after he goes out into the sub-zero to go to the bathroom.

A lovely friend sent me a gift certificate to inspire hope for the holidays, and some of that hope arrived last night (Some came via Santa earlier) and so I had a lovely squee moment of book-y goodness: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, The Boleyn Inheritance and the Letters of E.B. White, all of which have been on sticky notes admonishing me to buy them FOREVER practically. So the morning was spent trying which one to read first; talk about a surplus of happy *grin* It will probably be the White; what better time to indulge my epistolaric voyeur tendencies than NOW?

Well, not right now. I technically should do some work, but we have company coming in t-minus not a lot of time and my house looks not unlike I was the mistress of this place, and that my attention was continually much diverted by literature and work and cooking and football and bitching about the weather. I was walking around this morning, briefly, and said, "Hmm. Squalor! I can haz it!"

But I am also taking a positive step today. I'm radically thinning the fabric collection and giving it to a friend who actually sews and makes lovely clothes for herself and her children. The girls and I spent over an hour yesterday weeding through the craft closet, and I kept those things that I could identify a project for that I'm actually able to do: some lovely soft brown fleece for winter housedresses for me, hunter green velvet for a poet shirt for Harmony, yellow checked ladybug cotton that Nadia wants a sundress out of, some placemat panels and one surprise gift project for my sister who reads my LJ. There's one large box of quite fine fabric I've held back for prom dresses, etc. And the rest? Is going away, if she wants it. Because if I haven't touched it in over 10 years, I'm likely not going to. And it gives me guilt to look at it; knowing there's so much to do and only me to do it. Over the years, I've spent a small fortune, been gifted a small fortune, in fabrics; realistically, when I do craft work for joy, it's seldom sewing. It's embroidery or crochet; all of that stuff I kept.

Because you know what? If there's a project I actually am going to do, am determined to do, must do, I can buy more fabric. It is okay. There will be money another day, too.

Only took me a year or so to be able to do that. Hee. Progress may be slow, but it is progress just the same.

And now I'm going to see how much I can accomplish in the 15 minutes before my first work call and then the short time before company arrives!

Onward, upward, forward. Hope to all that matters that it is warmer where you are than where I am!

Name and/or LJ userID: Amber (rawr_at_you)
Wedding Date: March 15, 2010 (yes, it's a monday)
Bride/Groom/Other (please specify): Bride
Age: 21, he is 26
City/State/Country you live in: Northern Alabama
City/State/Country you're getting married in (if different): Same, with an additional reception to follow later in the year in Hawaii
Your song/First Dance song: I have no idea
Wedding Colors: Rich Purple, Blue, Silver and Black
Formality: semi-dressy.
Theme (if you have one): hmm...not sure yet
Number of guests: 20-30
How'd you meet your fiance?: At a party I was invited to by a co-worker of mine at the time.
How long have you been together?: 4 years and...almost 10 months. Our wedding day will be our 5 year anniversary.
Do you have a personal wedding website?: Not a working one.
Have you read the community rules before posting this survey? Yes.
Anything else you'd like to tell us?: I'm kind of freaking out a bit. Originally we were planning a fall 2010 wedding, but I liked the idea of getting married on our anniversary, so we moved the wedding up. Now I have 10 weeks to plan this and no idea what I'm doing. I have my dress, and am about 99% sure on a venue. I have been looking at photographers, but have no idea where to start. Anyone out there live in Alabama and have any suggestions?
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Will the last one using the song "The Final Countdown" turn out the lights on this year/this decade?

So - what did you think of the Aughts? Highlights? Lowlights? Streetlights? People? Up and Down the Boulevard? Love Bites? Love Stinks? Heart Lights? Did it make a happy glow for all the world to see? Were Sunbeams made like you?

Are you heading out with a free topic in your heart:http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/285146.html or just coasting with the free time?

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Happy Birthday to *3* Idol alumni. Two who showed up this season (as well as others) and 1 who is MIA from LJ in general - but has the best chance of seeing this if she sees anything!)

Happy Birthday abbismom,velveteen_girl and controlld_chaos!!!

It's the end of December, which means its nearly New Year's, which means it's time for the Inauthentic Medivnyk recipe one more time.

Happy Holidays!

(Guess what I making today?)

Ukrainian Christmas Cake (sorta)

(Other versions are less fluffy, do not have the yeast, do not have the sour cream/yogurt, do not have the sugar, are less labor-intensive, add fruit or nuts....)

Ingredients:
1 pkg. dry granular yeast
3 tbsp. lukewarm water
1 cup honey (dark buckwheat honey is preferable)
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup sour cream (I use whole milk yogurt)
1/2 cup butter
4 eggs separated
3 cups sifted flour (I use half whole wheat and half unbleached)
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp. salt

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 300°F. Grease your pan--rectangular cake pan or loaf pan(s).

Proof the yeast. Bring the honey to a boil and cool it slightly. The honey should be warm.

Cream the butter and sugar together with a hand-held mixer until light and creamy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, and continue to beat until all is incorporated, then add the honey and sour cream and continue to mix. Add the yeast to the resultant batter; it's mostly for flavor. *g*

Beat the eggs whites to stiff peak. Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and salt. Fold the flour mixture and the egg whites, alternating, into the cake batter as gently as possible so you do not lose the loft of the meringue.

Slide the batter into the prepared loaf pans. Bake for 45 minutes-1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Give it a little while to set up, then invert pans on wire racks to remove cake and cool. But not too much; it's best warm.

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And now I really want to make piroshkis.

But neither they nor medivnyk are really On The Discipline, now are they? And I am, again.

La.

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Dear Seattlites:

A friend of mine is one of the folks involved in opening a new downtown late-night restaurant in your Fair City. Which debuts tonight! So hie thee to The Night Kitchen. Even though I've never been there, I am pretty sure I can vouch for the place.

Love, Bear

  When I was about 4-5, there was a TV show on ABC (Australia) where a magician- I think he called himself a mathmagician or something similar- who lived in a village did math problems based for older primary school/high school level students. I don't think it was made or produced in Australia, because sometimes he calculated things differently to the Australian curriculum. I have this show to thank for my exceptional algebra marks throughout my schooling and would like to find it for my cousins.

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/12/30/energy-efficiency-tax-credits-could-be-your-personal-government-bailout-package/

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/?p=7969

This is a guest post from Richard Barrington, a freelance writer and novelist who spent over 20 years as an investment industry executive.

There’s nothing like the holidays to make you think of cold weather — and your spending. If your wallet is as leaky as your windows, there’s a way to kill two birds with one stone. Making your home more energy efficient can pay for itself over time in the form of lower energy bills. And federal energy-efficiency tax credits, available until 31 December 2010, can significantly shorten the time it takes for these improvements to pay for themselves.

Smart financial moves are often talked about in terms of sacrifices: how a little short-term pain can lead to long-term gains. What’s refreshing about energy-efficiency tax credits is that they are a smart financial move that will actually make you feel more comfortable in the short term. Energy efficiency improvements can make your home warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. (They can even make you feel a warm glow about yourself when you realize you’ve reduced your carbon footprint!)

Energy-efficiency tax credits: Eligible projects
Many of the available tax credits award you 30% of the cost of certain energy-efficient home improvements made to your primary residence between now and 31 December 2010. What are examples of eligible improvements?

• Installation of biomass stoves
• Improvements to heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems
• Addition or replacement of insulation
• Replacement of metal and asphalt roofs
• Installation of non-solar water heaters
• Replacement windows and doors
• Geothermal heat pumps
• Residential wind turbines
• Solar energy systems
• Residential fuel cells

Different projects have different limitations on the total amount of the tax credit you can apply for, and expiration dates vary. You’ll have to go to the Energy Star website, jointly run by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, for details on what counts for a tax credit.

Financial rewards of energy efficiency
The federal tax credit reduces your immediate, upfront costs from the qualified energy efficiency improvements. How much can reduced energy bills further offset your costs? Let’s look at an example of replacement windows and doors.

If you are upgrading from single-pane windows and doors, energy-efficient replacement windows and doors can save a typical homeowner between $126 and $465 per year. (Why the big spread in savings? Local utility rates and climate vary a lot, as do the size of homes and the surface area of windows and doors.)

You might think it’s the chilly northern climates that could benefit the most from replacement windows and doors, but actually the southern Atlantic region — from Maryland to Georgia — is where homeowners are estimated to save the most from this upgrade. That’s because this region can experience both sub-freezing winter conditions and extreme heat in the summer.

This is just one example of a project that offers both an immediate financial benefit — through the tax credit — and ongoing utility savings. Imagine what your monthly utility bills could look like if you did several of the projects.

The Bottom Line
As always with tax issues, you may want to check with your tax advisor to make sure you can benefit. For most people, though, these energy efficiency tax credits are a tremendous gift from the federal government — they’re basically paying you to do something that can make your home more comfortable, allow you to feel better about your carbon footprint, and save you money over time.

If you’ve been wondering where your government bailout is, you can claim it in the form of an energy efficiency tax credit.

Barrington is a regular contributor at MoneyRates. Previously at GRS, he shared how to find the right CD or money-market account and tips for sound saving and investing.

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Related Articles at Get Rich Slowly:

• Energy Star: Saving Money Through Energy Efficiency
• Free Web-Based Home Energy Analyzer
• Save Money by Switching to Compact Fluorescents
• Another Frightening Show About the Economy
• Daily Links: Personal Bailout Edition

I made this needlebook yesterday for my mum (I won't be seeing her until February so I get a little more time to make her gifts!) from selvedges cut from the ridiculous amount of fabric I own. I love it, the only thing I wish I'd done differently is to have a opaque button instead of a transparent one.

If anyone's interested in making one of their own I posted a full tutorial here on my sewing/craft blog.

1. Does anyone else remember this television show for kids...it aired on Nick Jr., probably during the mid 90's, but I think the show itself was older than that. Anyways, I think it might have been like a Mr. Rogers type show, that took place in a castle/midievil town or city and followed the different inhabitants of the castle (who were all puppets, don't remember any people) and they managed to work reading, counting, etc. into the plotlines. The only thing I really remember was one part with two dragons (I think one was blue and one was pink?) and they wanted to eat worms or something and then it showed a bunch of multicolored worms on the screen and I think you were supposed to count them or something. Also I think there may have been parts where they showed animated shorts, I seem to remember one about a man finding a broken owl toy/statue in his garden and he took it inside and fixed it?


2. Does anyone know where any of these pictures are from?
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a few months ago, i saw a series of videos (webisodes?) on vimeo. the premise was that actors acted out real life (anonymous?) rants found, i think, on the internet. the videos were just of one person ranting on a white background, i think, and they were pretty well done/entertaining, imo :)

does anyone know what this is?

I'm looking for an old computer game. It starred a semi-anthropomorphic frog who was like a Knight? And you go to a castle and solve problems; one you had to "joust" but it would be little math problems and you had to choose the right answer to win, there was one about fractions. The thing that stuck with me though was the songs. One of them went something like "four squires sat in the dining hall. They had a big old pie, they all wanted it all." I have had this song stuck in my head on and off for like ten years. Someone please help me out! TIA.

EDIT: Found. Jump Start 2nd Grade Math.

So I was in Hollister's today when... you guessed it... a song came on that I'm dying to know the name of. The only lyric I remember went something like "if I ever see you again"; it was repeated often and definitely the premise of the song. There was both a male and female vocalist, and I'm pretty sure the gist of the song was them encountering one another at a club.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Also my roommate wants me to find a fanfiction for her now. It's HP, Marauder's Era, Sirius x Remus, multi-chaptered, very well-written, and she remembers them gettin' down in the Shrieking Shack. Apparently she did not read it on LJ or FFN, but more likely on someone's personal website.

Thanks again!

What's that commercial that has a little girl/preteen in a baseball shirt (like with raglan sleeves) and jean shorts jumping up and down on a couch? I think she's making a video of herself and she falls off the back of the couch? It's for like a cell phone service provider or cable/internet or something like that.

-solved by thenshesaidno-

It's a commercial for the new Canon Powershot!

sooooooooooooooo last night i was digging through the fridge, which i really needed to clean out, and found some broken cookies and cookie crumbs in a bag (which used to be cranberry-macadamia nut-white chocolate chip cookies courtesy of BF's step-grandma) so i put some in a bowl, put a knob of butter on top, nuked it for 30 seconds, added a spoonful of buttercream icing from the secret stash in the fridge, and mixed it up. i don't have pictures cause i ate it too fast and it also looked like barf.

tonight i made "potato soup" .. the recipe came from the back of the giant box of mashed potato flakes we got from the food pantry in like.. september that i decided it was time to use. it involved cooking onions and carrots in butter until soft, adding milk (and a can of green beans because i'm a member of 'i have to sneak vegetables into everything because i'm afraid my boyfriend will die of scurvy anonymous'), heating, removing from heat, and stirring in the potato flakes. then i decided it wasn't good enough and tore up SEVEN borden singles and nuked the whole thing for a minute or so and stirred it up to get the cheese product meltiness .. all mixed in.

our food stamps don't renew for a week or so.. i am going to make some strange dishes in the next couple of days, haha!

oh btw. we got like 246354 pounds of deer from the BF's dad's family.. so we've had fried deer nuggets twice since christmas, lololol. except all we have is house autry seafood breader so they remind me of weirdo fried oysters. but still delicious. deer is the best meat ever.

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I recently found a good shampoo & conditioner that makes my hair silky. Then on top of that I'm using a very small size of the CHI Iron Guard Thermal Protection Spray (<3). With all three combined my hair ends up so silky but my problem lies in my hair spray. I'm currently using Aussie products but my hair just ends up feeling likes straw. My hair will not stay straight all day because it's naturally wavy. I'd like to be able to straighten my hair, have it hold all day, but still have that silkiness to it. Are there any products you use that have great staying power while feeling silky (preferably under $15)? 

So I've been growing my hair out and I'm trying to decide what to do with my part before I get it cut again or whatever.

Anyway I cut it really short into a pixie about 8 months ago and I was cutting my bangs straight across, but I want a change and I've been looking at side swept bangs. I just don't know if it looks ok, I mean its been so long since i changed my part i'm worried that it looks weird to me because its new or because it just looks weird.

So I'm here to ask your lovely ladies opinions.


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How far I've let my bangs grow out now.

I'm just not sure what I should do with it, so I'm here to ask you lovely ladies for help.

Thanks in advance, I'd really apreciate your comments.

this is my first post, so forgive me if i mess up somehow.

i'd love to know if anyone has used benefit's some kinda gorgeous AND/OR mac studio fix foundations. i'm making a trip to sephora and mac tomorrow, and i'm in the market for a new powder foundation. i've used studio fix before, but i'm considering skg- it seems like basically the same thing, no? can you compare them for me?

for reference, i prefer to keep my beauty routine VERY streamlined, i have combo skin that tends to get oily towards the end of the day, and i have used studio fix before (in NC25 if you care) but considered it a little too cakey when applied with a sponge. i also hate clogged pores like no other, so whichever is less pore cloggy is great!

p.s. i'm also getting benetint for my lips and cheeks, and hoping to find a triple barrel hair waver for a decent price... if anyone can recommend one that'd be great. benetint tips too.

an anonymouse has a request:

it was a song that reminded me of lacuna coil's style but idk if it's their song but the guy sang a lot and the girl did some screaming and singing and the chorus was the guy saying something like "i wish i didn't find you beautiful" while the girl was screaming "yeahhhh" or something

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIND THAT


CAN YOU HELP THEM?

My FH and I have booked our engagement photos for the end of June, 2010. I'm confused on what to buy for our engagement session as our photographer showed me pictures from her favorite photographers site and the girls looks fabulous in their engagement sessions but they're all wearing designer clothes, which I will never be able to afford. So the meaning behind this post is to ask you for a link to your engagement photos, or what you chose to wear to your sessions. Thanks in advance.

We have gotten to know it each other quite well, through the visits you have made to our kitty food outside. In fact, you are the reason I started that. Well, today, you got into the house. Fun. We couldn't find you, so we thought you got back out, you didn't. We were able to get you into a carrier, which you were very good for. I know living in our bathroom for a short time is not ideal, but unfortunately, we already have 3 cats, so you can't roam around :( You seem so starved for attention, I dearly want to pet you, but I can't, you have lived outside for too long, and I can't put my own kitties at risk. But, tomorrow, we are going to get you to a no-kill shelter, you are VERY adoptable, and you will find a good home. Unfortunately, it just can't be ours.

I am sorry!

xoxo,
ashley

Trying to remember what movie or tv show had a character named Gammerino(sp?). Can't remember what kind of character but I feel like maybe a grandparent. Any help? Thanks.

 RootBeer,

Please. I love you. STOP GOING OUTSIDE IN THE FREAKING MIDDLE OF WINTER AND RUNNING BACK IN! ...It is cold. You should have realized this after the first 3 or 4 times you went outside. The current temperature is 12 F. That is cold. You won't like it. I know you won't. Neither will I when I realize you've gotten out again because of your amazing paw ability to open doors, which isn't natural by the way, and I have to go and bring you inside again when you realize its cold but can't open the door to get back in so you are their crying.
XOXO

Lolo

I dug back and didn't see that anyone mentioned this particular jacket, and if someone has I apologize. But this was to good a find at Target on clearance to pass up!

( Warm Jacket/Coat )

I'm planning on adding some copper trim to it in order to make it more 'me.' And I fully intend on wearing it to see Sherlock Holmes this weekend. It's deliciously warm, and I'm always cold so that's something very impressive!

My friend elisem makes all manner of pretty shinies guaranteed to please your Inner Magpie.

Take a look here at what she's currently offering!