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?

Elevation Polish Alphubel

My first post of the New Year has gone up.  My designer has messaged me so will have commenting system back shortly.  I have finished my house decluttering and cleaned the crap out of my fish tank yesterday.  Now I need to work on the outside.  Raking, cleaning etc. 

How about another work story for you? I know some of you out there live for them.  This is one that's months in the making and had just come to fruition. 

Back in time, not even a year ago, us navigators were interviewing someone new.  This person was from another state and was telling us how amazing the program was at her hospital.  She would not shut up about it.  On and on she went. My place does this, my place does that. 

I had decided I had heard enough.  I looked her dead in the eyes and said, do not come here, we don't have that and you will not be happy.  I suggest you stay where you are. 

Literally said that.  This is not a joke. 

A few weeks later, I heard she accepted the position and moved here.  She was to be over two different cancers and tumor boards.  She decided that she was going to become our boss, which makes me chuckle as she is a new nurse, fresh out of school and again, I've got the seniority.  So we all knew that wasn't going to happen.

Then whispers started.

She refused to do one of the cancers she was hired to do.  She refused to see people in clinic.  She refused a lot of things she was hired to do.  One of the doctors came to me asking if I was interested in picking up another cancer.  (I do three categories now.) This doctor asked if I could send him examples of my tumor board presentations to see which one he liked and wanted new girl to do. 

Next thing I know, someone else is telling me how she was talking smack behind my back.  Now I don't give a sh*t what people say about me cause I know I'm damn good at what I do.  I happened to have a meeting with my boss and mentioned it to her and it turns out that new chick thought that I decided what work she was to do when it was the doctor's idea and that she had refused to do it.

Next time I saw this chick, she tried to say something about it to me, trying to find out who had told me that she had been talking smack.  I just blew her off and refused to tell her and this of course made her mad as well. 

Right before Christmas, the rumor mill got all charged up and it's about her.  Seems that she has turned in her notice and quit.  Part of me feels bad because she moved here from afar, but part of me knows I told her to stay put and not move here.  Plus I know that she's not willing to work, to learn about how to be a nurse and refusing to do what she was hired to do so better off without her. 

I just love being right. 

All right.  Here is today's silly bottle shot.

This is Bettina Heavenly, Elevation Polish Alphubel and Konad stamping polish in Silver and Dark Blue.

I started with Alphubel.

This polish is a gorgeous baby blue with blue shimmer running through it.  I think it's awesome.

Next I ruined this gorgeous color but trying to double stamp and then schmeared it with top coat. I had forgotten the stamping rule.  This rule states to not go over the design more than once with the top coat brush or else it schmears.  I used a MoYou London Christmas plate.

Yes I did add my funky french with the Bettina trying to salvage this, but yeah.  It's just a huge fail.

Oh well.  Tomorrow is another day right? Also this can be fixed with acetone. 

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?

A England Ascalon and Tristam

I cannot believe that I have to tell you this.  Remember last post when I said there was no way that my boss would let my coworker have a special standy desk? Well I am eating my words people.  The boss and the boss's boss came in this past Friday talking to her about this and how things will need to be moved to make room for her sh*t.  She's even got a sheet on the floor and is sitting on the floor doing her work.

As I live and breathe, I continue my mantra that it's a pink world out there and the rest of the cancers just don't matter.

If you don't get that, you haven't been paying attention.

Sam is a lot better.  He is eating and stuff.  Still not sleeping with me.  Last night, he was in the middle of my get ready room in the dark by himself.  No idea why.  I weighed him yesterday and he hasn't lost any more weight. He's eating more crunchy food and I'm slowly going to cut back on the canned food.  He is still not pooping regular, but I'm afraid to increase the laxative too much.

He has what may be a bruise on his nose.  It's a discoloration, doesn't hurt him or anything, but it's there.  A friend said it looked like he has bumped his nose on something.  I'll keep an eye on it.

I got my coupon book for my car.  It's been a long time since I've seen a damn coupon book.  My last car loan, they sent me monthly bills, but I paid online.  I plan to do that this time too.  The funny thing is, I was looking at the last date and it was 2021 and I was joking with my mom about that.  The next day I got another coupon book.

I was like WTF?

Inside were more payments and I realized my real last payment is December 25, 2022.  I will be almost 55 years old.  Yes, to get payments I could afford, I took out a 66 month loan.  But my credit is so awesome that the interest is only 3.49%.  So I'm ok with that.

I was filing away my car paperwork, the sticker from the window when I noticed I had saved all my other car window stickers all the way back to my piece of crap Neon from 1999! That car died at 80,000 miles.  When the Neon first came out, I told my dad that one day I would own one.  I wanted the puke green one they made that first year, but when the time came for me to buy one, that color was no longer available.  I ended up with a champagne color.

It was also the last year that the Neon engines were crap.  The 2000 Neons engine was totally revamped, but I refused to by another one.  Come to think of it, I don't think they sell them anymore?

Oh and a heads up-I'm going to be doing a HUGE makeup brush and makeup sale July 4th weekend. I've got a new ringlight and two camera stands, tons of Morphe brushes, Zoeva brushes, Morphe palettes and Makeup Geek shadows.  I've come to realize there is something in the MUG shadows that I am allergic to-especially the bright colors.  I've got to sell off what I'm just not using.

Make me an offer ahead of time if you want!

Now, today's mani is the last one before I soaked them off and reapplied the EZ Dip gel.  Next post will be about that.

Here is the gorgeous Ascalon and Tristam.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Now I have proven in the past that if you don't point it out, people will never see the mistake. I'll give you a minute to look.

See my pinky? I was not paying attention and stamped with the wrong color and before I had taken these preview pictures.  As long as you use Seche Vite and then Non acetone, you can remove the stamp and go from there.  You'd never notice at the finished mani.

Next I stamped with Mundo de Unas Pastel Blue using Cici&Sisi plate 06 then did my funky with Tristam.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

I think this came out really cool.  I had planned on using a different blue to stamp with, but it was too dark.

I think I'll have my doctor write me a note saying I need a hospital bed in my office so I can do my work.  What do you think?

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Keep Watch and November 2014

Remember the fiasco that was the Mishko Enchanted Polish sale a few years back? I actually traded one of my original fatty bottles for the three in this set.  Do I regret it? Yes and no.  I do miss my Poison Apple, but it's nice to have these three as well.  Poison Apple was so close to March 2014, that that was the factor in my final decision.

I do know who owns it now.  It got traded around and I hope if that person ever wanted to get rid of it, they would ask me if I wanted it back first! HINT HINT.

A quick Sam update.  He is finally feeling better.  He lost about 1.5lbs from this episode.  I think the end reasoning was he was so constipated that he got blocked and an infection ensued.  He has since pooped and it was not normal looking.  So until he poops normal, he will continue to get a laxative. He is eating good again, was actually so hungry he was pushing my hand out of the way of his dish as I filled it.

He still isn't his normal self, but he's getting there.

I will be officially picking up my new Honda today.  I will do a future post on that with pictures. I've got Malice ready to go after I write this post.

Which leads me to a rant.

Have you seen the Summer 2016 Chanel polish colors?????  Green and Brown-yes my two favorite colors. Weird for summer, but I'm all for it.  I bought them both-Emeraude and Cavaliere.  They were to arrive this past Monday.

They didn't.

Instead I got a message from UPS stating the package arrived to them empty so therefore there is nothing to deliver to me.

Um WTF?

We all know how expensive Chanel polish is so I won't go there, but damn people who stole my polish from UPS? On top of that, Chanel is telling me I have to wait three to eight business days for a report from UPS before any resolution can be made.

Again WTF?

I wrote them back saying this isn't fair to me as I did nothing wrong.  They should send me a replacement and deal with UPS later.  I'm going to call them later to complain.  I had seen pictures of Emeraude in one of my magazines and at the time couldn't order it so I thought I had missed out on it.

I don't want this delay to cost  me my two polish.

I have to go say goodbye to my old car now.  It's been a good car and will be missed.  So let's see what I have on my nails for today.

Here is EP Keep Watch.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

This is almost two weeks of wear on the EZ Dip nails.  I will not need to do a fill.  I am going to go one more week, then soak these off and go again!  I will do posts on the removal and redo for you then.

Next I stamped using Cici&Sisi plate 04 using Mundo de Unas High Green, then my funky using EP November 2014.

Indoor Sun
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Indoor Sun

How freakin cool is this???  I actually really love this one.  Green and purple just go so well here don't they?

My all time favorite band, the Violent Femmes are in town tonight and I'm so sad I'm not going.  Not going to get into the reasons, but yeah I feel I should be there and want to be there.  Part of me is still thinking about going.

We shall see.

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish House of the Rising Sun and a Made for Me Green Holo

So many things going on in my life right now I've no idea where to even start.

Remember how I had said that my boss had been leaving me alone lately? Well that ain't true any more. Remember when I told you they had moved a bunch of people into my tiny office? Well it makes for a hotter environment with the more bodies and more equipment going on in there.

Now I'm 48, and not menopausal yet, but yeah, I run hot as does one of my coworkers.  The three of us are in the back of the room where the air conditioner fans just don't reach well.  The new people they added are all twenty somethings and run cold.  One of them literally has a leopard blanket she tucks on her lap while she's working.  Yeah, I said leopard................

WTF?

Before they were added, we had that room icy around 60-65F.  They kept cranking it up to 75F+! Every time I'd check, I'd put it right back down to 69F-70F.  Figuring that's a compromise.  No, I didn't have a conversation about it, but for a period of time, no one moved it.  Oh and by the way, not one will cop to who's actually cranking the heat.

The other day, I was stressed big time for reasons I will get into the next few posts and saw again, that someone had cranked the heat up again.  I admit I went off big time yelling that they were pissing me off and to stop messing with the thermostat.

There may have been an F bomb in there.  I've told you before, I swear like a sailor.  Not proud, just how it is.

I went on with my day when my boss called.  Since I've been "good" I had no idea what she could want.  Well it seems my twenty something coworkers went to my boss and complained about my rant and the boss called me on it.

Now what the f*ck people?  Do you really feel the need to go tattle to the boss like we're f*cking five years old? Do you feel good about yourself now? I mean I would never do that to them. If I have a problem with someone, I'm an adult-I talk to their face. I don't go behind someone's back to their boss.

Oh and get this, the boss took THEIR side and told me to get a fan (which I have) not that they could wear a sweater or anything like that.  I am so royally pissed, I haven't talked to them in two days.

If they're going to act like children, so be it.  Next time they need my help, it ain't happening.

I'm going to sound really old here, but that's the problem with the younger generation.  They were raised differently than I was.  So I'm back to putting my head down, doing my job, speaking to no one else and that's that.

All right.  Let's look at the beautiful polish for today.  This is EP House of the Rising Sun and a green holo made just for me by More Nail Polish.  It's not for sale-so don't ask!

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

How gorgeous is this????? I went back to 2013 on my blog and saw that I used to do fifteen pictures per post! Three different lighting shots and then close up and macro.  Damn!  Now I'm lucky I do four!

Next I stamped with my Cici&Sisi plate 08 and Mundo de Unas Brown.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Now I know these aren't colors for everyone, but they sure are my kind! I think I would have loved this more if I stamped with a brown holo.  I just didn't have one that would stamp this clearly.

Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Unipeg and Nail Art!!!

Yes people.  I have done nail art once again after a very long time.  Wasn't even sure I remembered how.  But I have to say, I did pretty damn good.

Still no Honda.  It's literally been 1.5 months.  My car salesman is useless.  He doesn't know anything.  When it's coming, when I'll get it, nothing.  It's starting to get just plain stupid.

Have to go and mow my yard today.  It'll be the third time I've done it now.  Hope I don't break a nail. These things are so thick, I don't think anything will break them! I wasn't planning on mowing today, but I looked at this weekend's forecast and it's going to be 78F today and 94F Saturday.  Hmmm, not much of a choice to make there eh?

Work has been extraordinarily busy the past two weeks or so.  I've no idea why, but the pace has been killing me.  These nails are not easy to type with, but I'm getting it done.  I keep thinking to myself, I'm busting my a** and I didn't get a raise this year.  Makes me resentful.

At least the boss has left me alone.  I can't say the same for my coworkers.  She stabbed another one in the back the other day. This is one that so far had been spared the knife.  Seems a fairly new nurse was b*tching about her and what our job entails.  This new chick has no idea what we do, she hasn't asked nor been there long enough to know.

Didn't stop her from going to the boss and complaining.

So that snowballed and now my coworker is crying and carrying on and I just kept telling her to remember who our boss is and this is what she does.  She'd just been spared up to this point in time. Not sure it helped, but I did my part.

Tuned up my computer even more.  Remember I went from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and back again with my laptop not loving the going back part.  I read up on msconfig and turned off a bunch of things that start up with the computer as that seriously slows things down.  No, I really had no idea what I was doing and trust that one thing I figured out was VERY bad to turn off and I lost all the icons on my desktop.

I didn't do that again.

Now it wakes up as it's supposed to, starts up fast and runs pretty well.  I also downloaded a program I thought would be good, but it's a glorified disk cleanup, which I already know how to do.  It's called CC Cleaner.  Don't bother.  I'm glad I didn't get the one you had to pay for!

All right.  Let's show you where I started with EP Unipeg.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Ugh, macro just shows off all the bad doesn't it???? Ignore the thick mess that are my gel nails.  It was my first try!  But how pretty is this holo?  For a pink????

Next I decided I wanted to do what I used to love which was stamping.  I used my pink Mundo de Unas and plate SDP-L then added tips using OPI Alpine Snow.

Here are the very cool results.

Indoor Sun

Indoor Sun

Stamping covered up a multitude of sins regarding these nails! How beautiful is this? I am freakin proud of myself for doing this.  My stamping is perfect and lined up perfect.  Yeah, I'm bragging but it's been a long time and I've missed this.

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Christmas 2015

The last time I turned on my computer to write in this space was December 18.  Today is January 9.  I think that's the longest gap in time I've gone since I started this blog May 2011.

To be honest, I have not been in a good place.  Next weekend is the anniversary of my dad's death. I am no closer to being ok than I was this time last year.  It still feels like yesterday to me.  Christmas was hard without him there.  I drove to New York to be with my mom and my brother's family.  It was crazy warm and no snow, which for that area of New York is unheard of.  It was strange indeed.

I visited his grave alone and with mom while I was there.  Christmas day dinner was at his sister's house like it has been as long as I can remember.  The hardest part was sitting at that table, surrounded by his sisters who are all older than he was and not see him at the head of the table. I almost had to get up to walk away.  Instead, I just stared at my plate of food.  

I haven't felt like doing anything.  I haven't blogged, I haven't done my nails and I have been wondering if it's time to just end this blog.  These are the thoughts in my head.  

What I did want to share with you for this post are two things.  One is something that I've never seen on Christmas Eve ever.

Yup, that's two Santas on the golf course behind my brother's house on Christmas Eve.  Now normally there is a ton of snow and it's cold as sh*t that time of year.  I was totally looking forward to seeing the snow and was denied!

I was actually doing my niece's nails when we looked out the window and saw this.  She picked out the colors and the stamp designs. Some of you will remember I always show you her creations.

If you look closely, one hand is snowflakes, the other is Santa and his reindeer.  I used China Glaze Ruby Pumps and Emerald Sparkle. Two classics I only pull out at Christmas time.  The stamps are from MoYou London and my Mundo de Unos White.  

I just want to say that I do apologize to my readers who are frustrated or whatever feelings you may have since I changed some of my content here and for this big gap of time without posting.  I hope this post explains some of the why and I'll be doing more posts even if I need to make myself so I can get back in the swing.  

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

NCLA II

Remember when I told you I had spent three plus hours spraying the weeds in my driveway? Well this is the mani I did in between the first spray session and the second spray session.  It's also the first of the set of nudes by NCLA that I'm wearing.

The day this post goes up is actually my mom's birthday.  She will be in Canada at our camp like she always does.  I'm so jelly! I wish I could go more than once a year.  Anywho, she's already told me that she doesn't want to celebrate this year, same thing I felt for my birthday.  It's also a few days before we will actually be burying my dad.  I'll be headed up to NY on Wednesday for it.

It's going to be a very difficult day.

Yesterday at work was hell.  One of those days where you are so busy, you don't know if you're coming or going.  I didn't even get the work done that I normally have done.  One of the doctors I work with, wife passed away and we have cleared his patient list for two weeks.  Let's just say that when he got the call to come home, I was instantly back in January reliving the call about my dad.

So I was trying to be good and get these people new appointments etc while trying to hold my own sh*t together.

You all know that I flip people off all the time especially when I'm driving.  Well driving home from work, I flipped off the car in front of me not realizing the Man (cop) was right next to me in the next lane.  Dammit! My cop radar failed me that day.  Of course he had to get behind me and run my plates. Luckily, I have nothing on my record so he had no reason to pull me over.

Of course his being behind me meant I had to go the speed limit.

Damn I hate that!

All right, let's see the silly bottle shot.

This is NCLA II and Mundo Blue Navy.

I started with all NCLA.  Yes it's a pretty color, but damn the brush sucks big time.

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If this weren't a shimmer, this just may be my exact mannequin hands polish color!

Next I stamped with my favorite design using Bundle Monster BM306 and my Mundo.

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Now I did this days ago and am thinking this is actually a purple stamp called Violet, but hell, I'm getting to that age where I can't remember sh*t after about an hour! HAHAH!

You all know I love this design.  I love the swirls and intricacies and I love showing off that yes world I can stamp better than my fail a few posts ago!!!!!!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful Mom! I love you very much!

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?