Polish My Life Storm Clouds, Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas

Today is update day.  I have several.  I finally got my car insurance to approve the repairs to my bumper.  I am still waiting on the check however as the guy's office is in Florida and due to the Hurricane, didn't work on Friday.  I don't want to set up the repairs until I have the check in hand. It's going to suck to have to drive a rental, but they said it should only take four days to fix.

As you read this, I will have gone to the eye doctor for my annual exam.  I will be getting new glasses as I can tell my prescription has changed as I am blind as a bat! I've also been wearing the same pair for four years plus and it's just time.  I noticed big scratches on the lens the other day and it's just another reason to get a new pair.

Yes I've got bifocals people! I don't do contacts.  Just can't do it. And wouldn't you know, a patient complimented my glasses the other day and when I told them about getting new ones, they told me to keep these frames.

My back hurts hasn't been too annoying lately.  Sad to say.  She has finally been increasing her hours, not quite at full time yet, but working on it.  Her new side kick is a weird one and I'm still getting a handle on that one.

But Ms Princess has been a crying mess per usual.  One jag was warranted I think.  Remember she had officially applied for the job title that she is already doing.  They are adding a side clinic to her regular one and hired someone to do that already and didn't tell her! She found out through the gossip channels.  I have to admit, that is sh*tty indeed.  It's the same doctor she works with and I know if my doctor hired someone behind my back for my job, I'd be pissed.

The icing on her cake? They expect her to do this job, work out the kinks in a new computer program for this new person to take over.  So being the princess she is, told me that now she's doing the work of two people. I told her to stop, that she's still doing the same job, it didn't morph into two separate jobs.  It's hard to explain as I can't go to in depth here.

Then I'm in clinic Friday, busy as hell, and she waltzes in as she does, and gets in my face.  Picture a room with a long table with three computers in a row.  I'm at the right computer, another person is at the far left one with a unused computer in the middle.  She's standing on my right, talking to the person at the far left, right into my right ear.  I told her to go away and get out of my face.  Oh she didn't like that of course.  I told her to go over there and stop talking around me.

At this time, I'm on the phone trying to get someone to come fix my computer.  She doesn't know what the issue is, but offers her stupid two cents which is to tell me that the computer guy had come and fixed it yesterday and her doctor was using it with no issue.  Now you all know I'm a computer geek and everyone at work comes to me to fix their computer issues so do you really think I'd call the computer guy if the computer wasn't broken????

Even if it had been fixed the day before? So yeah I lost my sh*t on her and she walked off in a huff saying "you can't talk to me like that." So now she's not talking to me which is completely fine with me.  She completely got in my way and in my face and she's known me long enough to know better.

Oh and I'm still fighting the nail polish battle at work.

Today we have Polish My Life Storm Clouds with Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas.  Mismas is the last name of the person who does the blog "All Lacquered Up".  She created this color way back when.

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I just love this purple Mismas.  Haven't worn it in forever!  I next did a simple funky.  Please ignore the damn cat fur.  I didn't see it until I was just cropping the photos!

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I love these two colors together! Aren't they pretty!?

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Rescue Beauty Lounge Santa Fe Road

Holy sh*t people! The sun literally just came out.  It has been two weeks of nothing but rain.  First we got seven inches of rain and then Hurricane Mathew hit and more rain fell.  It's been way too long since I was able to wear a holo!! And I have five new EPs to show off!

So I think I spent over $50 downloading music from itunes yesterday.  No one told me that Green Day had a new album out and they are my #2 favorite band after the Violent Femmes as you all should know by now.

I also didn't realize Green Day had twelve albums so far.  So yeah, I downloaded the ones I don't have and at $10 an album, it adds up quicker than you think.  This will be however, the very first time that I simply downloaded the music and didn't buy the CD.  This is HUGE for me as I'm still old school and want to hold the CD and read the insert etc.  I did go on Amazon to buy the CD after I had downloaded it, but I stopped myself.

It's a proud moment for me people.

I will be buying the CD when Lady Gaga's comes out 10/21 however.  I can't just go cold turkey over night!

Just know as I'm writing this, new Green Day is playing on my laptop.

The other thing I did yesterday was pay off my iphone 6 plus so I officially own it.  What that means is, it's time to order the new 7 plus.  Which I have done officially as well.  My mom will get my 6 and I'll have the 7.  My current issue I'm struggling with is that I like to have my music on it's own iphone. Currently, I have all my music on my very old 3GS.  But after downloading all that music yesterday, I've hit my limit memory wise.

So unless I delete music off, I cannot add anymore.  So I ordered the 128gb 7 plus.  I will move all my music over so I will now carry one phone instead of two.  It's going to be weird to only have one phone to carry.  Don't try to understand people.  It's one of my many quirks.

I can't wait to get my new iphone! It looks to be very cool indeed.  I got the plain black one as it would ship faster than the jet black one.  I figure I'm going to put a case on it, so who cares what the color is??? I just can't do the light front so I can't do the gold or rose gold one.

All right.  Today we are still playing with Rescue Beauty Lounge.  This gorgeous one is Santa Fe Road and my kind of color.

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I die this is so pretty to me! It has the most subtle shimmer to it. Just love it!

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Rescue Beauty Lounge Aqualily

I've been on a RBL kick lately.  This one caused quite the uproar when it was released........

I'm about to tell you guys something I wasn't sure I was ever going to reveal.  But I got a comment from one of my long time readers who told me that her MS had been acting up and she had been getting infusions to fight it.

This made me realize that it was time to tell you my story.

When I was fourteen years old, I started getting sick all the time.  I would get these horrble sores in my mouth. I would have horrible abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea.  Because I grew up in the sticks, I went for years not knowing what was wrong.

Finally when I was nineteen, it had gotten to the point where I was so sick I could only drink milkshakes.  I went to see a gastrointestinal specialist in the city an hour away and testing was done. A few days later, I got the phone call that I still remember all these years later like it was yesterday.

The doctor told me I had Crohn's disease.  My reply was to say you made that up as I'd never heard of it in 1987.  Crohn's disease is a disease that affects any part of the intestinal tract from mouth out. There is no cure and they don't know why it happens to some.  What actually happens is the lining of the intestine should look like wavy potato chips.  Crohn's makes the lining hard and like cobblestone so it's painful and hard to absorb nutrients.

This then may become infected and since there is no cure, the options are surgery to remove the bad parts and hook the good parts back together until the next flare up.  Since my diagnosis, I have had ten abdominal surgeries where all but six feet of small intestine are left.  I now have what's called short bowel syndrome as I don't have enough intestine to digest food to survive.

Because of this, I rely on IV nutrition called TPN as my food.  Since 2006, I have been hooking up to this IV every night for twelve hours while I sleep.  It is two liters of fluid and vitamins etc. So this means I get up about every two hours to pee so I don't get anything near good sleep.

I also have an ileostomy, which is a pouch that sticks to my abdomen and collects my poop.  Yup we are getting real here people.  I've had that since 1995.  It was either that or incontinence.  I had to convince the doctor at the time to give me this ostomy as at that time, I was in the bathroom every fifteen minutes and had no life. His reply to me was "who'd want to marry you with that?"

Really? That's what you base your criteria on? Yeah I have a TON of these type stories I could share with you if you guys want me to. I did get married and went back to that same doctor and said here you go, someone did marry me.

I used to spend a month at a time in the hospital before this IV happened.  I have had my lungs collapse four times, I have been septic and almost died twice-literally almost died. No joke there.

One good thing I've gotten from these IVs beside keeping me out of the hospital? My boobs. HAHHA.  Yup.  I was always flat as hell then I gained a bunch of weight with this IV nutrition and it literally all went to my boobs. Let me tell you, I'll take that for sure!

Because of this, I am not able to do much anymore.  I have no night life, I have no life really.  So this blog and my nail polish are keeping me sane and feeling connected to you guys out there. If my job takes that away from me, I just don't know if I can take it.

I've never held myself as a sick person.  I could easily have been on disability and welfare my whole life, but I refuse to let it beat me and keep me down.  I can no longer work full time as I used to, and one day I won't be able to work enough to support myself anymore and that scares me, but for now, I can and do.

What are your thoughts on this? I thought I can't be the only one out there with an illness that affects your life like mine does.  Wanted to open a dialogue so we can talk more about this stuff.

Let me know if you want to hear more stories like this.

Here is RBL Aqualily.

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 This has the prettiest pink purple shimmer in it that I just love.  What do you think?

Until next time.  Any thoughts out there?

Christian Louboutin Red

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a very important news bulletin.

The hospital I work for is seriously considering banning nail polish.

Shall I repeat what I just said???

The hospital I work for is seriously considering banning nail polish.

Dude WTF????

I looked at my boss clearly dumbfounded and asked her if she was serious.  She in fact was very serious. I looked at her and told her that this may very well be the tipping point for me to find another job. The mandatory flu shot last year almost did it for me, but not being able to wear nail polish is something I just don't want to do right now.

The policy now is no acrylics (they don't know about my gel dip) and no chipped nail polish. I said to my boss that I don't do any direct patient care.  I ride a desk and stay on the phone all day.  My clinics are no more interaction than you would get at a grocery store.  They would have to make the ban hospital wide, not just the inpatient nurses, but also the office workers etc who don't even touch patients.

One of the way high ups gets her nails done once a week.  She'd have to go without too. But who's going to enforce her?? My boss is such a by the book beeyotch that she was proud to tell me that hell yeah she'd enforce it of her nurses if this ban does indeed become policy.

Of course she would.

I just think I can't go without my nail polish.  Yes I do realize how incredibly stupid this is.  I'm not an idiot.  But there comes a time when all the little things and the big things add up to it just being time to move on.  I plan on fighting this the whole way up the chain as they do not have studies that prove directly that nail polish is the cause.  There are workers there whose nails are so long and nasty you know damn well they have cooties under them and yet those are going to be OK and my short polished nails that I wash with a nail brush aren't??

This will be like the riot I started in my high school when I was a senior.

The rule was you couldn't wear shorts to school, but you could wear crotch riding miniskirts.

I started a campaign putting posters up all over school showing miniskirts versus nice board shorts and how one was allowed and the other wasn't.  My principal hated me for this, but eventually the rule was changed and now shorts are allowed to this day at my school.

My niece was asking my mom about that as they were talking about how shorts weren't always allowed. Thanks to Auntie Fingers, she can now wear shorts!

Tell me your thoughts on this subject.  If nail polish is banned at my job and I don't quit, I'm not one to polish and take it right off.  I'd be back to my sad peeling nubs.  I would not have polish to post about on this blog.

Would you still want me to blog without the nail polish pictures?????

Now this day I was feeling like wearing a $50 polish.  Enter Louboutin Red.

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I hate flash shots, but the sun has not shown in over a week where I live.  Haven't had a holo on in days..............

But how damn sexy is this red? I'm sure it has a name other than Red, but I'm too lazy to go get the bottle to write it on here.

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?