Day Twenty-Eight -- Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String

Okay so, very cool day today. So far at least, I’ve decided to try typing a bit through the day and then putting it all together and editing it for the blog in the evening.  So back to the cool day… first thing this morning, I wake up with this idea in my head for a scarf pin made of wire and bead. It was cool because I remember waking up in the very early morning with the image/idea in my head but I fell back asleep but when I woke up again, it was still there. Hours later, after cleaning the turtle tank and doing other things through the day, I still had it so I just drew it on paper. Looking at it, I realize that it could also adapt it as a hair um, thingy. I don’t remember what they call those things where you twist your hair, put this cover thing on it and then push a stick through two holes to hold it to your hair. If anyone can remember the name of it, or even if you just have your own name for it, please tell me in the comments below. Until then, it’s “hair thingy”.

There have been things that I’ve been waiting to get in the mail. A few prescription refills, some beads I ordered over TWO weeks ago, and something I forgot all about even though I ordered it less than 5 days ago. That is the thing that came in the mail today and I’m very excited about it! My Seche products came! Seche means dry in French. The first product of theirs I bought was their Seche Vite top coat. It makes nail polish dry fast… super-fast! It works WAY better than Out The Door, but then, I think that OTD changed their formula or something because I remember it working better last time I had some, and now… meh. Anyway, back to my Seche stuff. One of the things I got was Seche Restore, it is a “thinner” for Seche Vite. SV dries quickly so Restore just adds the ingredients to it that evaporates out of it. I tried to use it on my old bottle of SV but the bottle top of it was a bit loose and I noticed that it had a lot less in it than the last time I tried to use it. I tried putting some Restore in it but I fear it’s too late for my old bottle. This is not a problem though because I also just got a Seche Vite Professional Kit.

This has a regular size bottle of SV, 0.5 oz., as well as a 4oz. refill bottle! So basically I have the equivalent of 9 bottles of SV for the cost of two regular 0.5 oz. bottles if I were to get them at Sally’s or another beauty supply store. I’m not running out of this stuff for quite a long time! I will, unless I get a wild hair and decide to change my nail color every other day. Even then, I’ll probably have this stuff a couple of years before needing more.  The last treat in this package is a bottle of Seche Rebuild. Hopefully this stuff will help build my nail strength so that they won’t break or tear so easily anymore. I read a LOT of reviews for this stuff and I have great hopes for it. There really isn’t any reason you can’t get plenty of reviews when buying things today for an informed decision.

I got a letter in the mail saying that it’s been a year since I got my glasses. Has it really? Wow. This time when I go to get my eyes checked, I’m going to tell them that I often have to take my glasses off when I work on my beadwork and does that mean I need bifocals. But maybe I should just try some magnifying lenses. I hope my prescription hasn't changed all that much because then I can get another pair of really cool glasses and switch it up depending on my mood. I know a woman who has a pair of glasses to go with almost every outfit. I’m not going to go that crazy though. Though I suppose I would if I could…

Tonight was also rather productive. We went to Starbucks where I tried the Blonde Roast coffee and I liked it very much. I even drank some of it after it had cooled down quite a bit without gagging. That NEVER happens with most coffee. I got two bracelets finished faster than usual, I think because my base beads were 6s instead of 8s. I have to remember that for the future. Oh, and just now, I came up with another design for hair thingies! Still don't know what to call them...

late night Mani-bloggi

It's rather late at night and I'm up blogging? Why? Because I'm also doing my nails and I find that typing is the one thing I can do that keeps me out of the kind of trouble that usually messes them up. I bought new nail polish today... at the dollar tree. It was a purely frivolous purchase because I haven't bought anything like that for myself in quite a long time, due to having very little money. I needed something fun so I bought three colors: gold, black and a dark blue, all for less than the price of a single nail polish I was hoping to buy at Sally's. I decided to go with black tonight because I'm feeling a bit edgy. I don't have the highest hope for it because I've never used a black nail polish, of any brand, that didn't chip almost immediately. If this stuff lasts more than a day I will be totally shocked. It's okay though because according to an article I read a while back, chipped nail polish is in, especially if it's black.

Okay, I need to stop talking about nail polish now, but I did all that because I needed to warm up my brain for getting out the rest of my thoughts. I can't believe I waited this long to make a second entry to this new blog. Yes I can believe it. It's my M.O. really. It's also a habit I would like to grow out of. Consistency hasn't exactly been a keyword in my life so far and I'm turning forty this year. Maybe it's about time. Yes, I've let myself be at the mercy of outside forces, the main cause of the chaos I find myself in regularly and It would be nice to not let that happen anymore. It's going to take a lot of work but I'm not sure if I can do it this late in life. Ugh, I don't like using that term for myself. It makes me sound really old. Sometimes my body feels pretty old, but when it comes down to it, emotionally and mentally, I'm barely out of adolescence and tend to revert to toddlerhood now and then... a toddler with a VERY bad mouth :-D

Turns out I'm doing a couple of things right now to make major changes in my life. For almost a week and a half now, I've been on the Optifast program. It's a liquid diet that I hope will only be the jump-start to a new healthier lifestyle that I need to adopt. I really want to get off of all my medication, have my knees stop hurting so much and to be able to do so many things and maybe above all, be able to be judged by the type of person I am instead of on how I look first (says the girl with the bright red hair). I didn't really want to tell anyone about the diet because the last thing I need is for a bunch of people to feel the need to become the food police where I am concerned. I understand some people mean well, but they can really just fuck off. I have enough stress and issues with food that I don't need it coming from outside sources on top of it. That being said, so far I'm having an easy time of it. I haven't been feeling awfully hungry. I've also been getting in a good amount of exercise done with my Wii but I'd really like to find other exercises that I can enjoy to add to that. It will help me stick to it. I really want to and I know that trying to do it all strictly by will power doesn't work. I suppose I can write about it here because I feel like no one will be reading this blog anyway... at least not for a while.

Another thing I'm about to do is to finally start selling some of my jewelry online. I'm going to put some of the flower pins that I make on eBay to see if I can get a bit of money from them. I don't see why they shouldn't. They are beautiful. But I've always been a very reluctant salesperson and also worried about will I do things right when it comes to taxes and stuff. I need to just “woman up” and do it. I'm also going to check out other sites besides etsy like Artfire and this other site whose name escapes me at the moment. I would SO love to make an actual career out of my jewelry making. I want it to be my day job. It's the one thing that I'm most happy doing that could also make me money. I really do believe my work is good enough, more so now than ever.

On that note, I'm going to go to bed. My nails are dry, well, dry enough. They might be a hot, smushy mess by the time I wake up in the morning, but I'm really tired, so I can live with that.