More Nail Polish Custom Holos

Today we finally see what I wore for myself on Christmas Day.  I had most of these manis I've shown you done over Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year's break.  I still have seven stored ready to go, I just need to type the posts that go along with them.

I'm sure most of you know of More Nail Polish either via her blog or Instagram.  She has 110,000 or so followers on IG.  It's amazing for sure.  I'm quite jealous LOL.  Cathy if you're reading this, how often do you do your nails? Is it every day, several times a day? Inquiring minds want to know. 

Anywho, back when the make your own nail polish craze hit around 2013ish, Cathy asked me what color holos I would want should I be able to pick any colors I wanted.  You know the first color I said was chocolate brown.  If you didn't know that, you must be new here.

Hi my name is Fingers and brown is my favorite color.

The other colors were forest green, a burgundy and a couple of reds.  She had named them after different things from my blog.  For example the brown holo was named "Dust and Cat Hair." This because I had written about how I had vacuumed under my bed and it was tumbleweeds full of cat hair. 

I was so thrilled she made these for me and still love these five polish made just for me.  Sent all the way from Australia!

When you read this, I will have already been to the vet and back with Checkers.  Hoping that everything goes ok that day.  She once again got a roaring bladder infection.  She gets them once or twice a year.  It's a problem that can't be permanently fixed.  I had given her a week of antibiotics, that by the seventh day, it makes her sick to her stomach and she throws up.  She's already lost weight so I hate for her to throw up and not eat. 

Four days later, the infection was back with such a vengeance that I called the vet in a panic.  Oh and this was the same day that I had the flat tire I told you about.  So it certainly wasn't helping my day get better. 

She's back on her meds and has two days to go.  So the vet check is to make sure that the infection is gone, however Checkers hates the car so much that she pees and poops and pukes the whole way there and so there is never any pee left to test.  If I don't take her, they won't refill her medicines and knowing I'm going away for a week, I need to have her antibiotics for the sitter just in case. 

I'll update you in a later post. 

Here's what I did for my Christmas Day.

Aren't these freakin gorgeous?????? Now Cathy named the green one "He Said What?" and this red one is called "My Favorite Color Is Holo." Now there's truth in that name! 

Please go show her some love.  I linked her Instagram at the beginning of this post.  Cathy, I thank you all over again for making these for me.  I will always cherish them.

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

Chanel Cavaliere, Polish My Life Milk Chocolate Goodies

Today is one of those mani for me days.  One where I choose colors just for me.  Usually, I try to rotate shades and do holos if the sun is out.  This day I wanted my favorite color brown.

Yes I know it's weird I love brown.

I've officially found and hired what I hope to be a good petsitter who will be around for awhile.  She does this on the side, so not dependent on petsitting for income so hopefully won't stop doing it for a long time.  So Myrtle Beach in February here I come!

Yeah I know, I took a week off.  I started this post last weekend and just had nothing to talk about, nothing to say.  Listening to the new part one EP from Julia Michaels.  So love her music.  Been waiting months for this album to come out and it's a part one? Dude WTF? Anyway, am on the second listen so can't say how I feel yet.

Her first EP had the song Pink, Make It Up To You and all the rest BUT the song Issues.  I read yesterday that Issues was number eleven on the Top 100 BillBoard.  Huh.  It seems that every song I really like is never the one that the world likes.  Oh well.

Driving home from work last week, I had the tire low light come on.  It was like 20F at that time and I just figured I needed to add air as it didn't feel like I had a flat tire.  I made it to the gas station near my house thirty miles away on the highway and saw that I was actually driving on a very soft almost flat tire.

My first thought, well my second thought after I thought sh*t, was damn I hope I didn't ruin my rims. I was adding air to the tire and it did come up, but it was so cold and the air thing was metal and my hands were numb that I just couldn't hold the thing long enough to try to get it up to the forty pounds it needed to be.  All I wanted was to get home and warm my hands.

It held the air for me to get home and knew I would have to call the tow truck in the morning. Next day, it was back to flat.  Called the tow guy and he was able to put enough air in so I could get to the garage near my house.  Turns out I had run over a nail so it was a slow leak.  It was also near the outer rim in a place where it just made it legal to patch it.  Otherwise I would have had to buy a new tire.

Now I know I already need new tires this Spring as I'm hitting 50,000 miles on my car.  I just wasn't ready to buy one then. You feel me?

So $100 later, I was finally on my way to work.  It was one of those days.

All right, let's get to the silly bottle shot.

This is Polish My Life Milk Chocolate Goodies and Chanel Cavaliere.  Here is the base.

Notice I actually took the time to file my nails into a nice shape.  They have since split and broken back down to nubs.  The Milk Chocolate Goodies leans khaki to me.  You can see in the second photo there is holo in the bottle.  It's very subtle.  Cavaliere is a gorgeous deep brown with shimmer.  I love it. 

Next I just added dots and my funky.

You can see the shimmer in the Cavaliere in these pictures.  Still working on a pose. 

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

Liquid Sky Lacquer Pure Luxury

Did I tell you what I got myself for Christmas? I bought it during the Sephora Fall 20% off VIB sale. It's the Foreo (pronounced 4, 0h) UFO device.  I also got all the masks that go with it.  Let me just say that I love this thing and need to use it more often.  It's like I'm saving it for some reason.

This device is touted as a sheet mask done in ninety seconds.  It has red light, green light and blue light as well as heat, cooling and Tsonic pulsations.  So depending on which mask you choose, the combo of heat/light etc is programmed.

For example, yesterday I did the night mask.  This one used the red light, heat and Tsonic pulses.  I usually repeat the mask twice as there is so much serum left in the package I hate to waste it. The one for oil control is called the Matte Maniac.  This one does red light, blue light and cooling with the pulses.  I have no idea if the different lights actually do anything, but in my mind it does!

I just love this thing! If you're looking into this, do not get the mini.  Splurge for the full one as the mini does not have the blue light or the cooling feature.  If you're acne prone, you want this feature.

My skin care routine has been quite simple as of late.  I did try some different brands and different items, but my skin kept reacting and I was getting raised red bumps on my left cheek.  It's not acne, it's just reaction.  So right now, I am using Dr Sam's Flawless Cleanser and her Flawless Moisturizer with Differin Gel in between.  It's calmed the bumps and my skin has remained clear.

Currently I am talking to Directv for the bazillionth time.  I hate more than anything talking to f*cking computers.  I get what they call loyalty discounts that are good usually for six months and then all of a sudden your bill is $63 more and you have to call back in and get passed around to different people until you get to someone who maybe can help and then they say sorry there are no discounts so I then have to threaten to switch to DISH and all of a sudden discounts are there.  It's a pain in my butt and I hate having to go through this.  Why can't my bill just stay the same? I haven't changed anything??????

So dude says there are no discounts available, but he can lower my bill by adding more channels to my listing.  WTF? How are you going to lower my bill by adding more channels that I don't want or need  when I just want my discounts back? I threaten to leave and demand to talk to a supervisor and he says I can transfer you to our Loyalty Department.  Yes this is what I want, I shouldn't have to call and go through this crap multiple times since I've been using your service since 1998.  Am now on hold for that department.

I talk to that loyalty department and they can't help me so I get transferred to another loyalty department and the fifth person I've talked to now in the past 23 minutes of being on this call as well as trying the online chat.

It's now been a 38 minute call and all I got was a $63 credit for this month's bill as apparently, there are no loyalty discounts right now.  So I'm told to CALL BACK  as they pop up all the time.  I am so pissed off right now, you've no idea.  This whole game is a load of crap and I hate it.

So while I calm down, let's take a look at today's polish.

This is a gorgeous super holo in gold.  This was the original bottle from when LSL first started making polish.  I've no idea if they are even still around or making polish.  Does anyone know?

How do you keep your loyalty discounts with ATT/DirecTV? I'd love to know.

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

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?

Chaos and Crocodiles Stakeout

Today I am telling you the story of how I fixed my own leaky faucet.  Something my dad had showed me once how to do, but never got a chance to do it myself with his help.

So I turned to the ever faithful YouTube and looked for a how-to.  I actually found several that had the same exact faucet that I had.  For some reason, I was thinking that I wouldn't find the same set up.

Anywho, I watched the videos a couple of times, I went to Home Depot to get the supplies needed. Finally the time came for me to fix my own leaking faucet.  Something I had literally lived with for years.

Yes years people.

I told myself as long as I remember to turn the water off, all will be well.

I started with the leaking side.  I turned off the water and got to dismantling the faucet.  It was surprisingly easy.  I had the YouTube video going and it was spot on.  I replaced the washers and the main part of the hot side faucet.  After some fiddling, it was time to turn the water back on.  I tested the hot water and it worked!

Bolstered by my success, I turned off the water again and started in on the cold water side.  I replaced the washer and main part as I had on the hot side.  For some reason, this side gave me some issues.  I had to take it back apart.

This is where I forgot to turn off the water.

Imagine a super geyser of water shooting straight up out of the faucet to the ceiling and back down on your head.  Yes I was soaked, my bathroom ceiling was soaked and my floors were soaked.  I had forgotten the main rule.

Don't forget to turn off the water.

I was so mad at myself! I had to clean that all up and then finish what I started.  After I was done, the leaking was gone, but the water coming out was wonky. Somewhere in the fixing, I must have loosened some grit or something.  So I had to take off the end of the main faucet, bring it with me to make sure I bought the correct replacement.  I had no idea there are tiny numbers on the faucet screening having to do with aeration numbers and other things I don't get.

I went ahead and replaced that and now my faucets work great! The only thing I haven't gotten used to is when I brush my teeth and stick my head under the faucet to rinse (yes I do that), there is so much air mixed in the water flow that just makes it more difficult to rinse my teeth.

First world problems right?  I'll show you photos at the end of this post.

Now the polish for today is what's known as a super holo.  These are my all time favorite types of polish.  I rarely do art on top of polish like this.

Today, I give you Chaos and Crocodiles Stakeout.

This was an addition to the Secret Agent super holo set.  I'm glad I got it.  Can you see the rainbow goodness in this? I could stare for hours and usually do!

Here are faucet photos for you.

Just call me Ms Handyman!

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?