Let's Talk Make Up

Okay, I'll be honest, I don't wear make up that often.  I mean I probably should, but I'm lazy, yes, lazy.  No, not even so much lazy as I don't like getting up early.  I get up for work at 6:30am and that is early enough for me thank you very much.  If I were to wear make up to work each day, I'd have to get up earlier than 6:30 and 6:30 is early enough.  I wear make up to work approximately 11 days a year.  I'm totally serious on that number.  If you really wanted to know, I could even tell you which 11 days I usually wear it.  This year I will wear it 12 days because my job is throwing me a bridal shower so I will likely get up a few minutes early and put make up on that day. By the way, when I say make up I mean like foundation and lipstick/gloss.  That's it.  I can't stand having stuff put on my eyes.  I'm weird, I know.  Aside from the 11 (or in the case of this year 12) days I wear make up to work, I will also wear it for weddings, parties, and other special events.  Oh, and I do dance so during the years when I participate in the yearly show, I am required to wear make up.  That's amusing.  A lady in my class tried to do my eyes once and I was in a back bend, I didn't even know I could do a back bend, but every time she came near my eyes I kept backing away and I was nearly in a back bend.  Anyway, the reason I bring all this is up is because I figure for my own wedding I should probably wear make up.  It would be nice if I could look good in the pictures.  And if I want to look good (or at least better than I do now), someone other than me should do my make up.  Um, do you have any idea how much it costs to get your make up done, especially if it's for your own wedding!  Holy cannoli!  Including a trial and day of application, many places wanted to charge $200!  For that price, they should be able to make me look good for a month!  I just hope the person who has to deal with me is patient and has good aim because when she comes near my eyes I may find I can do a back bend again... 

Weird Weather

So I don't know about where you live, but where I live we have had some wacky weather.  Of course I often think we have weird weather so that's probably not saying much.  A week or two ago it was near 80 degrees one day and back in the 40s two days later.  A friend of mine who lives in a much warmer climate kindly invited me to visit her--okay, let's be honest, I kind of invited myself--last year at this time of year and I had a lovely trip (you can scroll back a while and read blogs on it if you're interested).  We were joking that I should come again this year, but with trying to save for  a wedding and honeymoon, it just was not a realistic possibility.  Then a few days ago I woke up and there was SNOW, yes, SNOW on the ground.  I'd almost put out the patio furniture a day or two before that, good thing, I didn't.  Did I mention that two days before the snow came it was in the 70s? I told her I'd be buying a plane ticket that evening.  Unfortunately, I didn't play the lottery so I couldn't win hence no plane ticket, but good grief after this winter, it was sure tempting!  I will admit the snow was light, they didn't even have to plow and it was gone by the time I got home from work, but still, snow, now??!?  Once when I was in college, we had a few flakes in MAY. UGH!  I am on vacation this week and given that it's nearly May this should be a lovely week to be on vacation and enjoy the outdoor weather, but I guess Mother Nature didn't get the memo.  It'll probably be nice when I go back to work next week.  Sigh  :-(  The good thing about yucky weather is that it does cause one to get things done that one might otherwise procrastinate because one has time to do them.  It also allows a person time to catch up on blogging.  :-)  Nonetheless, I'm still hoping for sunshine and warm weather before the week is through.      

One Final (at least for this month) Post on Chocolate

So have you been wondering how I did with my (mostly) chocolate-free Lent?  Oh, yes, I'm "sure" you've been losing sleep waiting to hear the results.  Someone told me you can cheat on Sundays so I "might" have had a brownie one Sunday during Lent (but only one Sunday).  Other than that, I was successful.  You are fully aware that I cheated twice--St. Patrick's Day party food and wedding food tasting.  Otherwise, I was a good girl and mind you it was pretty darn hard on the last day.  The Saturday night before Easter, my fiancé and I went out.  He ordered dessert, which was a brownie sundae, which he could not finish.  He offered me some and given that Lent was ending in FOUR hours I was tempted.  I even tried to rationalize that in several time zones it was no longer Lent, but alas I was a good girl--close call, but I didn't eat the brownie.  I was so excited to eat chocolate on Easter (yes, I have problems, I know) that I had a slice of cookie cake and a brownie and sadly, they weren't that good.  (The brownie was a cute Easter brownie, thank you Pinterest).  I thought perhaps I'd made the recipe wrong--my fiancé would tell me if the brownies did not taste good--don 't get me wrong, he's a wonderful person, but he likes his brownies, if something were wrong, I'd know.  But he (and everyone else) enjoyed them just fine thank you.  Well, after six weeks of (mostly) no chocolate, chocolate just didn't taste as great to me as it used to.  In fact the sweet I enjoyed the most was the Monkey bread I put out with the appetizers--let's just say I didn't log my calories that day (yeah, I had a piece of Mom's non-chocolate bunny cake too--it's shaped like a bunny, don't go thinking I started eating bunnies and that was yummy as always).  Between Easter and the cake tasting the following day, I do believe I need to give up chocolate again to recover from those two days.   

Let's Talk About Cake

Hello Bloggers!  I'm back!  Yay!  Over the past couple of weeks when I've been slacking on my blog I thought of several things I wanted to blog about, but do you think now when I finally have time to blog that I can remember a single one of them? NO!  So we're just going to talk about cake today.  My fiancé and I did our cake tastings (yes, plural, the reception site sent us to two places).  Let's just say it's a good thing I scheduled these for AFTER Lent was over (you know since I wasn't eating chocolate).  Let's just say cake tasting is a bad idea if you're still trying to lose 10 more pounds before your wedding.  I've seen all the TV shows so I know you can do cool things with cakes.  I've been to enough weddings to know wedding cakes look beautiful.  I did not know how many decisions a person had to make when selecting a cake.  There are so many designs, flavors, fillings, frostings, etc.  It was deliciously overwhelming.  Lemon, strawberry, peanut butter, chocolate, cream cheese, raspberry, Bailey's, Amaretto, cherry, buttercream,--and those are just the fillings that I can remember!  Don't even get me started on flavors, frostings, mixing and matching, etc.  I mean there were a few flavors I knew I wouldn't like--I don't really like lemon, but flavors I thought I wouldn't like turned out to be quite tasty.  Let's just say I'm glad I blocked out a good chunk of time at the gym on each of the two cake tasting days. 

Hello Again and Good-bye Chocolate

I'm kind of looking forward to eating chocolate again.  I fully intend to eat some chocolate on Easter and the week after (we have our cake tasting that week and I have friends coming over for dinner on that Friday night who have all ready requested a chocolate dessert).  But after that, I'm going to try to go chocolate free again--well, semi-chocolate free--until the wedding.  I'm finally shedding a couple of pounds so if it takes limited chocolate to do it then bye bye chocolate.  That being said, I plan to eat dessert at my bachelorette party--um, the bakery with the second best cupcakes in the state are in the city where it's being held so clearly I need to have one, though truth be told, I may not have a chocolate one.  And our annual work party in June always comes with delicious chocolate treats so I'll make an exception for that.  I'm sure there'll be other festivities here and there between now and the wedding so while I won't be as good as I was for Lent, I plan to keep trying to eat healthier.  11 pounds to go!     

Excuses for Why I'm Lacking on the Blog Posts

So work is going to be BUSY for the next couple of weeks so I'm warning you now, I'll be slacking on the blog.  But hopefully, when I'm back I'll have wedding updates, more semi-funny stories (I have a few in mind), and knowing me a post or two about food.  Until then, try not to miss me too much.  And if I'm not back before then, keep an eye out for new posts at the end of the month.  Have a good one all! 

Quote 'Em On It

Funny quotes from the past couple of weeks:

It's my sister's birthday today.
Oh, nice, how old is she?
Um, she's either 13 or 100, I forget.


Well, when we show up to go over our results, I'm afraid they might not let us get married.
Why?
M accidentally checked off the box that says "Unsure" to the question"your partner has a problem with drugs."
WHAT?
He thought it said does not apply instead of unsure. (um, yeah, there may be a future blog post about this one). 


What's that thing on your chin?
A zit (she says as she turns bright red).
A zit?  Oh, well, are you going to do anything about that?
Um, maybe wear make up to work more than 11 days a year.  Hopefully, it'll go away in a few days.
I think my brother had a zit in his ear once.  He had it cut out.  Maybe you can just cut it off your chin.


What did you draw?
You.
Me?
Yes, it said to draw something heavy so I drew you.