Enchanted Polish I'm Kind of a Big Deal and I'm Kind of a Bigger Deal

Got the tunes going.  Today's jam is the Doors Greatest Hits.  Hello I love you........

Just a quick update-my blog has been repaired.  Commenting system is back.  So please comment away.  Let me know if you see other issues.  Let me know you're still out there reading this.  I'd hate to just be talking to myself, even though I usually am just talking to myself!

Today's topic shall be the ever frustrating online dating. Yes people, I'm still at it.  Been since 2012ish?  Nowadays, it's more for kicks and content than me actually believing I will find someone real.

I realized this morning that I have been alone for ten years now.  Holy sh*t that depresses me.  But only a little.  I'm one of those people who actually enjoys being alone.  Just once in a while, a girl needs a man if you get my drift.

Sorry mom!

Damn the Doors are jamming.  Picture me sitting writing this, cat on my lap and chair dancing.  Current song is LA Woman.

Anywho, back to the story du jour.

I got a message the other day from a guy who I knew couldn't be real. Hot guys just don't go on POF you feel me? His profile said his second language was English.  Keep this in mind.

I forget the message he sent, but after all this time, you get a feeling you know? We sent a few messages back and forth and he tells me that he works for the UN and is currently working in Australia.  Now I'm no expert on the UN, but are there offices in Australia?

I then ask him where he's from right? His reply is Georgia.

Do you get where I'm going with this? So I say, what's your first language? Your profile says English is your second language.  If you are from Georgia, one would think that English is the first.  No reply came and his profile was deleted.

Score another scammer for me.

Next up is a really cute guy.  He messages me Friday and I'm intrigued, but highly doubtful he's real. But I play along.  He says he's looking for love.  That should have been my clue to his fakery, but damn he was cute.  I message along saying if those pictures of you are real, why are you on POF? I get a reply of a "new" photo of him holding a sheet of paper saying "Kyle is for real."

See now I'm thinking maybe, just maybe...........

I notice however, no today's date on it.  BUT, I keep going.  He says he wants to text but wants to use some app called Whatsapp.  I've no idea what this is and wonder why not just regular text.  BUT I play along, because just maybe.............

I download the app, create an account and he now has my number.  He messages me on the app and I reply what's your number, you have mine.  I'm thinking, here's where it ends right? Nope, a number replies right back.  So of course, I immediately look it up on Mr Number app.

It comes back as a no named landline in NYC.

I've also reverse searched his imaging on Google and surprisingly no results.  So I'm thinking just maybe..............

I reply on this app, NYC eh? He says, yup, I'm originally from NY, but now in Virginia Beach. I say cool, where in NY, as I grew up there as well.  No reply.  No reply for hours.  Next morning, I check it and he had replied hours later, "lovely, how are you?"

What the hell kind of reply is that? At this point, I go back to POF and yes indeedy, his profile has been deleted.  He never replies again.  Should have known from the get. No man says I'm looking for love.

I knew he was fake, from the jump, but yeah, I guess I'm still hoping one day just maybe..........

All right.  Here we have today's silly bottle shot.

This is Konad Green and Red with Enchanted Polish I'm Kind of a Big Deal and I'm Kind of a Bigger Deal.

Here we have the base mani.  See if you can tell which nail is different.

So what do you think? Which one is not like the others?  If you said the ring finger, you'd be correctamundo as the Fonz used to say.  The ringer is the original I'm Kind of a Big Deal.  The rest is a Bigger Deal and leans purple.

I next stamped with the red and green Konad using Cheeky jumbo plate 06 and Bundle Monster plate BM H03.

Not the greatest thing I've ever done. I know it.  I'm still waiting for my new stamping polish so I can show you my new haul and try my new clear stamper.  Although it scares me!

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Winter and Cherries Jubilee

I mentioned that I wasn't able to go home for Christmas this year.  I actually have been super busy decluttering and cleaning the crap out of my house.  I've been living here since 2002 and don't think I've ever cleaned and organized the way I have recently.

What started it all, was a YouTuber named Matt D'Avella.  Besides his being dreamy, he is a Minimalist.  He got rid of most of his stuff and only keeps cherished items.  I'm certainly not saying I'm converting, but, I am kind of trying to be better about stuff.  This year I want to really save more money and not buy as much.  I have gone through all my rooms and decluttered the crap out of them.  You'd be impressed.  I'll show a couple pics at the end of this post.

I started with my clothes closet.  I had stuff in there like my favorite dress from 1993.  However, I can no longer fit into said dress and it's just hanging there.  Away it went.  Actually, as I write this, I wish I had kept that one dress.  It meant a lot to me.  I should have taken a picture, which is what Matt says to do before getting rid of items.  I have pics of me in that dress somewhere, but not just of the dress.

Damn.  Now I'm depressed about it.

I took every single thing out of each closet.  Every single thing from under each sink cabinet.  I took out every single thing.  Went through each item and decided harshly what to keep and what had to go. I took literally garbage bags full of clothes, shoes, etc to Goodwill and garbage bags full of trash to the dump.  Christmas Eve, I finally finished the last room.  The room that almost killed me.

It was that bad.

My Honda Civic was loaded to the gills with trash.  Christmas Eve dump trip.  The trunk, the back seats, the front seats full of stuff.  Now all gone.  It's actually quite nice.  I have to go through three kitchen cabinets of food, and one or two shelves in my linen closet, but overall, it's decluttered to the max.

I have since bought a crap ton of new turtlenecks to replace the threadbare ones I threw out.  At least now I have the room in my closet for them!

I've also bought a new journal, renewed my membership in 10% Happier app, bought books on saving money and meditation to make myself more calm and wiser.  LOL.

I also have a haul from Mundo de Unas coming (stamping polish) and got new stamping plates and a clear jelly stamper to play with.  Those will be for another post.  The clear jelly stamper scares me though.

All right.  Here we start today's mani with the silly bottle shot.

This is Enchanted Polish Winter, Cherries Jubilee and Polish My Life White Ice.

I started with a layer of PML White Ice to try and get Winter to not lean grey.

And yes, it still leaned grey.  Oh but how gorgeous is this red holo??? Must do a full mani with it!

Next I did a simple jigsaw dotticure.

I did pictures in full sun and not so you can see how this red changes color.  I just love it!!!

Now here are a few pics of my decluttering of the room that almost killed me.

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

Yes it is quite impressive if I do say so myself.  This took me TWO days and I almost gave up, but I couldn't cause my room was a mess!!

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Football Season

Ah yes.  The time has come to finish the story of the nurse who could not convert centimeters to millimeters, nor could figure out how to Google such.

First, I shall start with the very good work news.  She is gone.

Dammit, I gave away the ending too soon!

No really, the good news is, after YEARS of working in a tiny airless, windowless basement office with too many other people, I finally have an office with a window!

Let's all pause while we revel in my joy.............

Oh yes people.  My boss came to me one day last August and led me to a vast room with only SIX large cubicles and two very large floor to ceiling windows and asked me which one I would like to have.  You see, I have been there the longest of anyone and the boss was rewarding me with first choice of cubicle.

You best believe I picked the far back right corner next to the window.  Can I just say, it is magical.  To have that window and light and a quiet place to work is a dream.  The work space is literally three times bigger than my basement desk. It won't last, but for now, I am loving it.  It's in a restricted area that you have to have special badge swipe privilege so random people can't just come and visit.  And it's locked with just the six of us having keys.

When this change took place, there were six other navigators besides the six in the new office. Can I just say the b*tching that went on and why don't I get the magic office? Sh*t man, when you've been there longer than a week, maybe you can earn that privilege. Until then, nope.  I told my boss how much I appreciated that I got to choose first.  Seniority doesn't always pay off, but it did here.

When the new building is done in 2020 or so, I shall lose this place.  But for now, I am living for it.

So back to the topic.  This new navigator was so awful, she wouldn't see patients in clinics, wouldn't do anything other than surf the web.  However, she was making these horrible claims against her coworker doing the same cancer, who was training her.  She would go to the boss saying how she was being bullied and stuff.  It was insane.

I started listening while she worked making detailed notes about what she did and said to staff and patients. Believe me, I had damning sh*t.  When it got so bad, HR got involved and there were meetings and mediation.  I can't get into particulars here. It boiled down to the new chick saying she was being bullied when quite frankly, the new chick was the bully.

Finally, enough dirt was documented so the boss could remove the new chick from her position.  However, she could not be fired as of that moment. She had to be offered a job elsewhere in the department.  She was sent to a satellite office and there she did ONE set of vital signs on a patient and then complained that she hurt her back.  I kid you not.

So for weeks, she was milking the disability ilk and getting paid to sit at home.  This is a person who sucks the life out of everyone around her.  I think she is now gone for good and no longer can work for my hospital.  Although I need to confirm that!

All right.  Today we have a gorgeous color that is not for everyone.

Here is the silly bottle shot.

This is Konad stamping polish in Yellow and Enchanted Polish in Football Season.

Here is the gorgeous polish.

It's not a very strong linear holo, but to me, this is my kind of color! Kind of baby poop brown yellow. Like I said, it's not for everyone.

I next stamped using MoYou Mother Nature 01 plate and came up with this.

I think these two colors go great together! Yes I still need to work on my posing.  I just can't make it look good and can't figure out why!!!

Anywho, until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Mountain Lodge

I've got the tunes going, Avril Lavigne's new album, looks like it's just called Avril Lavigne.  So wish she would lose the raccoon eyeliner crap.  She's too old for that now.  If you haven't dabbled yet, listen to "Bitchin' Summer." It's an ear hook for sure.

As I write this, need to give you guys a heads up that there are a couple of glitches with my blog at the moment.  My Intense Debate commenting system is down as is the embedded Related Posts that you see on older posts.  I've messaged my designer to get it fixed.  If you want to comment and it's still not working, use my Message Me widget for the time being. It's weird though that these widgets sometimes work in preview mode just not in published mode.  I don't get it.

The reason is, all blogs had to change to an https from the old http.  I spent hours yesterday trying to fix the Intense Debate.  I just could not figure that sh*t out.  Just know I'm working on it! Let me know if you find any other issues.  I've fixed the links under my picture, but for Feedly.  Does anyone even use Feedly?

There is so much to catch you up on.  Have to finish the story from my last post from April.  Wow what a mess that turned out to be.  That deserves its own post.  So watch for that.

Did you all have a good holiday? Happy New Year by the way.  This year I was not able to go home for Christmas.  My two babies are having major health issues and I haven't been able to find a petsitter.  Checkers has neuropathy and needs gabapentin while Sam has insulinoma and if he doesn't get prednisone twice a day, his back legs stop working and poor thing can't walk.  It's the scariest thing to see ever.

I had a great sitter for my annual Canada fishing trip, but she went back to her regular job.  Since I live in the woods, I can't find anyone close enough willing to come twice a day.  I am going to Myrtle Beach in February as usual.  I did find someone willing to come for that week, but she's coming thirty minutes both ways and is basically just helping me out.

Both cats are old.  Checkers is 16 and Sam will be 16 in February.  So it comes with age.

My job still has the nail polish ban.  So I've pierced my ears and changed my hair dye to have deep purple roots.

What?? You didn't know about my ear piercings?

My last post, I mentioned I was turning 50 and didn't know what I was going to do to mark the occasion.  Well, here's what I did.

Mom was here for that week.  I drove her to a TATTOO parlor downtown and I got my ear cartilage area called Flat pierced.  My mom refused to hold my hand and even waited in the other room! She is sort of against this.  It was so funny.  I said to the piercer, "I brought my mommy if you need her permission." Even though it was my 50th birthday.  They all laughed.

A couple months later, I went back and got my Tragus pierced.  These are both on my right ear.  I already have triple piercings on both lobes.  I sleep on my left side, so yeah, trying not to pierce that side, although I want to do an Industrial on the left.  I need to get to the store and pick out earrings as I'm still wearing the piercing studs.  I want to add a Conch and either a Helix or Rook to the right.

All right.  Let's get to it.  First up, the silly bottle shot.

Even though polish is banned, it does not mean I have stopped buying it. Here is the new Enchanted Polish Mountain Lodge.  It's a gorgeous forest green holo.  Sadly, the sun was not cooperating this day.

Damn this new MAC is killing me.  When I formatted and watermarked my photos for TWELVE sets of manis, I saved as PSD files.  Apparently, Blogger doesn't like PSD files so I've had to go back and resave as JPG files.  UGH!

Anywho, this is much more gorgeous IRL I promise you.

Next I stamped using MoYou plate Christmas Collection 01 and Mundo de Unas White.

Looks cool eh? I haven't lost my stamping edge! Of course, I had to top this off with my funky french using OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.

I happen to love this big time.  It screams Christmas.

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Rainbow Relish

Holy sh*t people.  It's been close to a year since I wrote on my beloved blog.  I attempted to start a new blog, but it just wasn't the same.  I also saw that for some reason I got 3200 hits on Friday the 13th.  No idea why.  But hey-have at it.

So I got an email from a porn site wanting to advertise or some crap on here all based on my post entitled "Feelin Phallic." Obviously, they didn't read the post as they claim they did.  Otherwise, they would not be asking to advertise on a blog about nail polish!  I'll link that post for you as it was a good one from the first year I started this in 2011.

Also, I just found out that I can now run my blog over an https so I've turned that on hopefully to keep malicious crap from corrupting things here.  Let me know if anything funny pops up for you guys.

In 11 days I will officially turn 50 years old.  I didn't think it was going to bother me, but the closer it gets, the more I'm like f*ck dude I'm going to be 50!  When I turned 40, I flew back to St Louis and was sitting under the Arch for that day.  This year, I've got nothing.  I bought myself some expensive skin care, which if you guys want, I can review for you here.  My mom will be here for the week and of course, I've taken the day off as I NEVER work my birthday.  It's my own personal holiday.

I've done some home repairs the past week.  Well not me, I paid someone to do it.  My front porch ceiling since I bought my house in 2002 was a paint peeling mess.  Every single day I would look at it and just think how awful it looked.  Well this year, I did something about it.

Here is the before:

I also had cracks in my foundation from an earthquake a few years back:

And lastly, I had a back deck board replaced as it was messed up.

And now for the in between.  Dude took down all the old drywall stuff.  Here are my pretty rafters.

He then replaced the drywall with stuff called soffitt.  This stuff is maintenance free, you just wipe it off if it gets dirty, which in the woods with spiders? Of course it will get dirty.  It also is a floating mechanism so it will give and take with the heat and cold.  I like it.  It looks amazing. 

Are you ready???

How awesome is this?? I am beyond happy with how good it looks! I've been staring at it for days now just smiling! I've also ordered six new wind chimes to hang around the porch as mine were beyond bad and missing parts. 

All right.  Now let's get to the reason why you're here.  I finally felt like wearing polish.  It's been one full year since I last wore any polish.  Can you believe that??? Am I still buying polish? You bet! I haven't lost the love for Enchanted Polish holos.  I just have yet to wear them! Now that it's finally warming up and the sky is blue, the holos truly pop. 

Here is the awesome pickle green holo Enchanted Polish Rainbow Relish.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Now I know this color is not for everyone, but those who have been with me know that I love the puke colors! Also, this was taken with my iphone X and it's been so long, I had to relearn how to crop and watermark! You know I love me a good linear holo.  Sadly, I have to take this right off, as the ban is still on at work. 

And yes, I'm still the worst as posing pretty with my nails.  These however, are MY nails.  They've gotten quite healthy and long since I stopped using acetone all the time!

I'm not making any promises, but I'm going to at least try to post twice a week if I can. 

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Somewhere Under The Rainbow

Yes people, I have actually polished my nails.  The issue is, either I've forgotten how to take a damn picture with my camera or my camera is being a b*tch.  I could not get a good picture if my life depended on it.  I did get a halfway decent one using my iphone, so that's what I will use for today's post.

It seems I am flip flopping on whether to keep going with this blog or not.  Who the f*ck knows. If there's a post, rejoice, if not, maybe one is coming!

I did mention I have several EPs I haven't even worn yet so since the sun was out, I polished for the first time since May 1st.  My nails have been growing out the gel dip damage and I've finally stopped chewing the skin around my nails for the moment that I can actually show off my hands.

Issue is, my nails are all different lengths and shapes. For now, I'm just letting them be.  So no negative comments about the sh*t storm that are my nails at the moment.

Since I wanted to show you something else in this post, let's look at this new EP now.

Indoor Sun

I'm going to see if I can add the quick vid I took showing off the holo happiness of this polish.  Not the strongest in the polish world, but it shows you just why I love holos so much.  Now IRL, this polish is more purple than shown here.  I'm just happy I even polished! Sad that I have to take it right off though.........................let me know if you can see the vid or not.  It's my first time adding one.

Now, I've told you that I'm still a makeup junkie right? I actually found a rainbow highlight.  No it's not holo, but it's a rainbow on my face.  Yes you have to work really hard to get it to show just right. This is the only picture I have that shows it off very well.

Oh and warning, it's my face!

See the rainbow on the top of my cheekbone? There's also a bit in my inner eye as well.  It made my day when I caught this picture!

Let me know if you'd be interested in seeing my face with different makeup on schizz.

I'm off to watch the episodes of The Mist by Stephen King that I've missed.  And Spike it's not a novel, it's a novella.  Please correct that.  Drives me nuts.

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish June 2014

This is the last of the polish pics I had saved from before the ban.  I'm not sure how many posts I'm going to continue with.  Is anyone out there still reading these? I did get a couple of comments so thank you to those who did! My NexGen gel dip review is still my most popular post.  I still get at least 500 hits a day just to that post.  If you google NexGen, my blog pops up.

Which I guess is a cool thing, but people aren't staying to read other stuff, just that one post.  I also think I may be getting too lazy to keep up with this blog.  As much as I love it, it's s sh*t ton of work. People who don't blog have no idea just how much work it takes.

Have you heard that Kesha is coming out with a new album in August?  Yes I have already preordered.  I have listened to her single Praying that has been released.  I have only heard it once and my first impression is meh. I love the TikTok Ke$ha, not this cleaned up, totally obvious what the lyrics are about Kesha.  I so hope the rest of the CD is like the music we've known and loved.

I get she's been through a lot, but dayum people stop changing your sound.

It's like Lady Gaga.  Her first album is so different than her most recent one.  It's like she's gone from backdoor European club sounds to Country and I'm not about that.  I want Gaga to go back to her Bad Romance sound. That's my favorite from her so far.

I started reading the book, Thirteen Reasons Why.  I didn't realize it's a 'young adult' book. I figure it's going to wrap up with a nice cliche ending for all the tweens and teens that are reading it.  So far, it's not bad.  I don't always read popular books as I have specific taste in what I read.

If someone ain't murdered by page ten, I'm not interested! LOL.

I also had to change my ringtone back to Monty Python.  Every time my mom would call me, the damn Eminem ringtone would literally make me jump out of my skin.  It's just a jarring ringtone. But yes I'm still listening to it on repeat.

It's been hot as hell here.  They're calling for 99F by Wednesday.  Too bad I have to be out in it.  My car inspection is overdue.  Those who pay attention know that I do this every single year. I just can't get it done on time.  I just can't.

All right. Here is the old and still awesome EP June 2014.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Yeah, I miss my nails.............

Isn't this a gorgeous color? So many colors to be had in one polish.  They just don't make them like this anymore.  LOL! I wouldn't know as I don't pay attention to new polish releases anymore since I can't wear it I don't buy it.

So sad.

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?