Polishes, polishes, polishes!!!

I finally got feeling better, although I have a lingering cough that attacks me every.single.night. I'm trying my honey and lemon recipe to see if it goes away (yeah, I don't take my onion concoction, I'm not that brave).

As promised here is my humble nail polish collection, I believe as of today I have 58 (there is 2 free ones coming from Zoya and 2 more from Julep, YAY). So here is the recap...
I got this plastic shoe thingies @ Target, but they are the perfect size to store them under the bathroom sink



See? I have them all group together by brand, the empty spaces are due to a purge I did when my Mom was here, I sent them to my nieces...including one of my favs "For Audrey" by China Glaze, a Tiffany blue that I will replace with my next coupon.



As you can see Crest 3D white rocks {totally forgot to move it away}. I use Beauty Secret Ridge filler, Sally Hansen Miracle Thickener, and the best fast top coat ever: Seche Vite.




My Juleps so far: L2R- top coat, Jennifer, no idea since it was xmas special, Stefani, Vanessa, Demi- greates red ever.
Julep has promotions in which you can get their maven boxes (monthly Sub) for $5 including shipping, but If you are interested in signing up to become a Julep Maven, you can do so at The Nail Network. If you use the code NEWYEAR2012, you will get your first box for $0.01! That's right, one penny! If you are interested in purchasing any of these colors separately, they are currently available on Julep's website. (this Polishes retail for $14 ea)




Now to Essies,I'm not Crazy about their formula though...L2R: Dive Bar, Topless and Barefoot, Marshmallow, Tart Deco, Bubbling for baubles, I also included two L'Oreal- a everything base (meh) and Greycian Goddess.



Zoya! Ok, at first I was all pissy about their customer service, but now I love them. Sign up with them and they send you tons of coupons, they also run several annual promos. Last year I got 3 polishes for free, in January they run their FB promo: 2 more for free. So just sign up to score free products. Above L2R: Moxie, Jem, Karina, Laney, Faye, Tamsen, Noel (from Birchbox sub)


L2R:Codie (LOVE!), Pinta-the perfect purple cream, Caitlin-is actually light Lavender, Envy and Cynthia.




Now OPI, most of these where purchased when I was working. First set Swiss Collection and the second is Ulta Couture. These are minis.

Regular size L2R: Ski till we drop, Lincoln Park @ Midnight, Cuckoo for this color, Have you seen my limo, Saphire in the snow, Manicurist of Seville-I love this tomato red color, My Private Jet and Rumples Wigging.


My China Glaze got so small after that cleaned up: Wagon Trail (a fav for sure), Little Drummer boy, Cotton Candy, Naughty and Nice. I got these from 8ty8.com for about $3.


Sinful: Unicorn, Seaweed. Orly Kiss the Bride, and a regular black detail polish (free from Sally's Beauty membership).


Sally Hansen: Gunmetal, Mint Sorbet, Concrete,Grey Area-love how chic this looks, Haute Chocolate-which has been revamp in a new bottle, the rest I got in the sale bin and not sure about the names.

A word of advise: I tend to use coupons for some of the items, I sign up for most Nail polishes companies so I'm aware of their sales, I've also gotten a few in giveaways.

Doing my nails was my favorite to do in the world, it was my 2 hours for myself that I got pampered. Due to cutting cost in my co. (aka home) I have decided to do them at home- a challenge with a 2yr old. I do use some other tools to shape and file my nails, and I swear by Burts bee Cuticle balm which I use every night. I also put Kiehls Intense hand cream every night.

I hope you enjoy this little collection.

Over & out

I'm.DYING

UGH
Guess who is sick now and slowly dying?!
yeap, little old me. I've been in bed for 3 days now. It's currently 1:59am and cannot sleep because I can't breathe when I lay down. I made it to the computer on my way to get some water since all of nurses are asleep right now.
I'll be back with the polish collection when I recover.
On the positive side I've seen so many Hercule Poirot and Masterpiece Mystery while being cater by my men :) gotta take advantage somehow.

cough, cough, over & out

Updates...then makeup and nails

So far is Wednesday night and the Hubs and the little guy are finally feeling better. The Hubs opted to drink my concoction of honey and cebollin (a type of onion) but there was no way to getting the little guy to do it.

Now our oldest is sick and I have gone on two trips getting medication, Halls, Teraflu and things of the sorts.

I've feeling a little achy and my throat has been bothering me, but being the mommy I had not a chance to actually "feel" sick. Did I mentioned that our battery died and we could not find ONE place with the battery in stock? We ended up buying jumper cables until the weekend when we could go to other cities...crazy.

Anyways, I was laughing seeing all the reactions to my little makeup pictures. I was cleaning my drawers one day months ago and decided to take a picture. It is really not that bad. If you don't believe me go to youtube, search for makeup collection (or this one: the biggest makeup collection) and you will see I don't have that much.

This was not bought on one day, it has taken me a while, some has been gifted by friends

the Hubs- this was from Christmas a year ago..


(Tarte Jewlery Box Palette)


and even a male coworker that lost a bet about the sex of my baby when I was pregnant, ended up getting me my set of Brushes from Arbone. (Mine is light sage green)


I made sure I follow sales and coupons and even ebay...


Then of course two of the Hubs cousins work a counters (Kiehls and Sephora) and I get TONS of samples :) don't hate.

However, I have not been buying anything lately. I think I have enough for now, plus I am trying to get in my head the difference between a NEEDS and a WANTS. See, I'm getting it.
So I've decided to do another post in regards to my Nail Polish collection...yes, I have a collection...and I'll tell you some tricks on how to score free nail polishes :) Ok? cool.

Until then, I still have to play Dinosaurs with my little guy, bathe him, get him to bed and THEN go pick up the Hubs at the train.

Over & out

Back to Friend Makin' Modays: Getting to know you

Yay for another FMM. Is going to be a great distraction from cleaning the bathroom and caring for the Hubs (he is still sick, and so is the little one). So here we go!

If you’ve taken part in FMM then you know the rules. If you’re new, please take a moment to answer this week’s question on your own blog then add your link in the comments section here at: www.alltheweigh.com so we can all see your FMM questions and answers.

FMM: Getting To Know You

1) What is one of your favorite ways to spend a Saturday? Lately I've been very lazy due to sleep deprivation issues. I would rather be going out to breakfast and then going to flea markets with the Hubs.

2) List your top three favorite TV shows. Anything on Discovery I.D (I know way too much about criminals and Serial Killers); How I met your Mother, watching reruns of Agatha Christie's on my local PBS. UPDATE: I forgot to include my two loves right now: Grimm and Once Upon a Time

3) Would you rather be in pictures or take them? both, depending who takes them. My hubs always takes horrible pics of me.

4) Why do you blog? I stated blogging after having the little one, as a way to document our lives, then now is just a nice place to connect to other women out there, learn a few things :)

5) Share five websites that you visit regularly…

-Facebook
-thenailnetwork (addictive for nail polish lovers)
-Youtube- I follow tons of Beauty Guru's such as makeupgeek, MakeupbyTiffanyD, nvmakeuplover.
-thirftydecorchic (a blog about home decor)
-many more blogs :)

6) If you could have lunch with one person from your Twitter list who would it be?…I don't tweet nearly as much (maybe once a month) so would probably pick one of the beauty gurus that I do follow, such as makeupgeek.

7) List a few of your favorite snacks. not many...grapes, popcorn, potato chips with sour cream (I know-bad), cheese...I love cheese.

8 ) Do you have a pet? If so, what kind? yes, right now only Queen Pearl the cat, who is 13 and rules the house. At one point I had a cat, a Lab/ Husky mix dog, an Umbrella Cockatoo, a red belly parrot and a red ear slider turtle.

9) Which three material possessions would you struggle to live without? I-mac, makeup, my car.

10) What’s your favorite drink? Coffee and Coke (terrible I know), I'm getting to drink much more water since I don't drink Juice or tea.

11) Do you enjoy cooking? yeap, which I would have never guess 20 yrs ago, I hated it then.

12) Do you have children? yes, 3. Our two boys and the Hubs bwahahahaha. and maybe more some day...

13) What are your favorite hobbies? I guess makeup is a hobby (see pictures below), crafting such a scrapbooks, photography, reading lots of fiction.

14) Would you consider yourself to be shy or outgoing? Way too outgoing. That's why I don't drink alcohol :)

15) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change? I’d change two things: being better with money and being healthier. I would have started exercising sooner and making better choices.

16) Who is your favorite actor/actress? I love Keanu Reeves. Seriously. Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls, Parenthood) is one of my favorite actresses. I adore David Suchet as Hercule Poirot .

17) What’s the coolest thing you’ve done this week? nothing exciting this week, we came from NYC after the 2nd and everyone has been sick.

18) Do you live near your family or far from them? My younger Sister lives 5 minutes from me. Cousin's, aunts, etc about 2-4 hours from us. The rest of my siblings and my parents are in another country.

19) List three of your talents. I'm a master of cleaning and organizing. I am a great friend and love helping people. I can dance like the best of them- Salsa, merengue, bachata, bring it on!

20) What is your greatest attribute? I am a pretty good listener and I don't tend to judge people.

I cannot wait to read the rest, is always interesting getting to know all of you.

Over & out.

No goals, no resolutions, just life

I know this is the time when we all put our hearts out there and say all the things we are going to do (exercise, drink more water, save money) and the things we are NOT going to do (eat a Super Size Doughnut right before bed). In truth in my mind I've always had goals for the new year.

It feels like a new opportunity to start over and do better. However, I am not doing that this time; not because I don't want to but because I have different things going on for a while now that I've been trying to work on. So far I have this:

1. work on my marriage. Is not like we have major issues but I feel I have neglected my Hubs to be a better Mom. I've always put the kids first and him as sloppy third. It's sad to admit but is the truth. After a very horrible week moths ago, in which our argument escalated I realized I needed it to do better, and I am. Things are better, plans are being made for date nights. We cannot forget these guys are the ones we intend to spent the rest of our lives with, don't you want that life to be a wonderful one?




2. I want to be happy with who I am. I want to feel beautiful and KNOW in my heart that no matter what size I am, I am me. Yes, I am still trying to do better, eat better, exercise more and all that gits, but I am no longer going to punish myself for being the size I am. This body has created TWO human beans, Now that's a Super Power. And I get Mariah, Jennifer and Janet. you are trying to sell me that if I loose weight I will be happier, that after having kids I have to put down those pounds in 2 months and not the almost 10 that took to put it on.
I am doing it the other way around. I am going to be happy with ME, love ME and see where that takes me, and if I loose the weight even the more fun. (I should also mention that my goal weight has been readjusted to being instead a state of feel. I'll know I'll reach my goal when I can run/walk 5 miles instead of a number on a scale).

3.I am working on being a better person. Simple, right? NOPE
I want to not criticized others, to accept them once and for all. To be a better friend, daughter, mother and wife. To love people for who they are and not trying to change them. The most difficult task for me is forgiveness. There are things I cannot forget and those are making things difficult. But I am working on them.


These are just a few, we also have been talking about finances, new opportunities, maybe even moving...New York? uhm...maybe.

So I sincerely hope if you have goals and new years resolutions that they are all successful, that you reach everything you want. But most of all to know that no matter what, that is OK to be you, whatever that may be. Wanting to do better is wonderful, but if you had a bad day remember, there is always tomorrow.

I'm off my peeps. Sickness still around as the little one has caught a nasty cough and the Hubs has the flu. I should wear a nurse outfit with all the sickness around me in the last month.

Over & out

P.S. My SIL took this picture of me as a joke as we where heading out to the family New Years Eve party. Those heels and NYC do not get along :)
(there is another one of me with the same outfit wearing UGGS)

And we are off...

We made it. Here is to another New Year and hopefully a better more hopeful one.

Chirstmas was a little off, it all started with my Sister's family getting sick. Christmas eve she didn't feel well and my niece was throwing up. I had to go there and set up her table for her.

Then from then it got worse, her in-laws where arguing (MIL calling the kiddos "Shit") it was bad. Then they had to take my niece to the ER. We actually where the normal ones, took some time to hunt down some Christmas lights,




but then the Next day was my little guys turn, from 1am on he trowed up all over the bed, comforters, my Hubs, etc. Then my Hubs got sick too.

The piles of laundry where both huge and disgusting!



Thankfully we all got better by midweek, I had tons to do, errands to run, things to pay, problems with our oldest on's bank account, just CRAZY.

Finally we made it Friday night to NYC to see the Hubs family. That was a real blast. We took the kiddos to see the Tree and the Rockefeller Center, I found a Anthropology store and got 4 more of my obsession: latte bowls. That Night the party was on, we danced a lot and ate some more. Sadly I forgot the camera so there just a few shots we took with my SIL camera.

The next day was a Birthday party with ridiculous amount of tripe soup YUK! I don' t eat that even if you paid me but the Hubs loves it. Thankfully there was also Roasted pork for those of us picky eaters.

We did some Karaoke, laugh so much that I almost peed my pants and of course sickness followed us around because our nephew that had been sick with a terrible cough got worse, having to nebulized him and we ended up in the ER at the end of the night. I stayed there till 2am, then went home to take care of her 8 wk old so that her Hubs could join her. I stayed up till 4am. I tell you, never a boring moment. Even yesterday we where supposed to just pack, order empanadas and get ready to come home, people started stopping by so we didn't leave until 5pm.

Oh, but we did enjoy ourselves and had a blast, and I cannot wait to go back.
I hope you all had a blast in a glass and that this year brings you many more fantastic things!

Over & out

Stomach Virus + Vomit = Christmas

Yeap. We have been sick around these parts. Finally recuperating and doing the aftermath cleaning (so far 4 loads of laundry and not even close to being done).

I'll be back...

Over & out