One Month in One Day....

... because that's what I feel like...

I have no excuses for myself to not have posted ANYTHING in just over a month...  We have been knee deep in life and since I am not a person who gets paid for this, I have had no good reason TO post anything either.

Thing 1's softball season is in FULL swing and we have her coach from her first season back which is good.  The whole family is on board with her coaches which makes it easier to sit there and watch Thing 1...and the REST of the team because there are no favorites... getting talked at and talked to and told to run laps, to the fence and back, do calisthenics and what have you and do this extra because you messed up and blahblahblahblah... 

Thing 2...TEETH... oy-to-the-vay...  The first set of molars all came in at ONCE... now it's EYE TEETH!!  One at a time, and they're killing us ALL...  a week on and a week off and now 3 days on, 4 days off, 7 days on and vacation...  that's daddy's schedule... that's awesome....  the team had a winning streak on the road and it made it such a great vibe when he went back to work last night...  Practice runs LATE, games run LATE... it's ALL LATE... fine.. we signed up for it and it doesn't even last that long... one more month and that's it...that's IT!!  Amazing... I just got the softball team picture... Harley said she thinks her picture gets better and better every year...

Well who am I to argue??  Of course she's right...cause she's the most beautifullest thing in the world :) 

Work has kept me running ragged, on my toes and constant state of OHMYGODOHMYGOD!!  Another reason for the silence... of course it always seems that when I found a moment to myself to jot anything down, I got sidetracked... such is life.

C'est la vie...

Fine fine fine...  Things are good though... pretty darn sweet if you ask me. 

Choni has a possible partner in crime to work with on possible short film projects which is fantastic for him.  Might even get into his videography business...  still waiting and seeing on that.  Fine fine fine. 

We had a super busy fun family filled weekend that I can't believe just happened...  I'm tired from it...really...but it was super awesome :)    I used a gift card from Christmas which is always a great accomplishment..  I got home from work one day last week and Choni had the whole garage cleaned out...  and now everything minus the yuck is back in it and it's so clean you can walk around in there now!

I almost got internet at home, but Verizon kept that from happening.. bastards...

Probably a good thing because it's the one thing keeping me as the only person I know without a tablet.  Oddly enough something my almost-8-year-old likes to point out on an almost daily basis... Hard to raise children in this technobabble world...
Really...

So many things coming up and happening I can't wait.  CAN'T.WAIT!

My bestie, her woman, and my merry band of miscreants are planning an amazing trip to NY..  No city for us, I have gone enough for two lifetimes and my honey has seen and edited enough footage to last him... so we're good on that...  I want to lounge on Lake George...  if I can do that holding my main squeeze's hand with my kids splashing in crisp clean lake water... I'll be a happy camper!!

I have been forced to abandon the Nail Polish challenge for a short period of time.  As a result of my stressball-loseriness, I have chewed my nails to nubs and am in the process of de-uglifying them.  Until that has passed, no news on that front. 

There is a two day trek to the Emerald City on which we stop halfway and see some kin folk, a possible stay from Kid Sister, a possible stay from my niece...  but we'll see... still ALOT of summer to go.  Thing 1 just got out of school and she is already ready to go back...

And since our dog was put down, she has been asking for a low maintenance pet of somekind...so there is THAT to look forward to.  I am a little curious myself to see how that will play out...

Our little one has proven to be such an amazing addition to our family, she makes us laugh and smile everyday..sometimes, just sometimes, we want to pull our hair out. But that's MOSTLY to do with the damned teeth...DAMMIT!! 

Not a day, NOT ONE DAY, goes by where, if we are in public, someone comments on the cuteness of the wee one...and then immediately on the big sister... 

I got some answers on my foot pain and now that I know what it is and it has a name, the healing can begin... any time now... ANY TIME...  It's not going to fix itself over night, there are things I need to do to ease the pain and help correct it, but I have had more good days than bad days in three months, so I can't really complain...

I need to take Thing 1 to do the dentist this summer, and after I have been there and dropped way too much money on MY mouth, I am totally not going to forget to do that with her!!  damn teeth....

Allergies are rampant this year already... no sooner I read an article about how bad it's going to be I start to feel the beginnings of discomfort...I have already bought a new fresh bottle of Benadryl for Thing 1 and I to share. 

I am getting a cut AND a color before I got on vacation which I couldn't be MORE excited about if I tried because I never get to do both at once between MY schedule and the hair chicks' schedule... My new rule of thumb, if I can put my hair in a rubberband, it's too long!

The way things have gone lately, I'm just glad we have cars that run and a house... and food.  food is always good.  unless it's tofu... I fucking hate tofu...

Nail Polish Challenge Week 7 & 8

Well, helloooo...

Not that I forgot I was doing this, but I just haven't had the time what with the Single Parent Summer and all...

My latest nail polish awesomeness...

I wrote down the color...uhm...I forgot it...  I didn't want to keep putting this off, maybe I'll remember later and update.  But this was week 7.  I love this color.  It's more reddish than it appears and it looks way better on my nails when the nails are shorter as opposed to longer....

Right, right now, Week 8 is clean and crisp.  No polish.  Just clear.  A layer of base and the Sally Hansen Insta-Dry.  "I put that shit on everything...*

I'm looking at doing another color tonight...but we'll see how that goes... I'll 'splain in another post...  Meanwhile, all my nailpolishes are crying for a chance to be used.  It's almost not fair to them making them go up against eachother like this...

Nail Polish Challege, 4, 5, 6....

I know I'm so awesome at this, right?!?!

Week 4:

My absolute favorite of all my colors....  It's starting to goop and gunk and sludge.  So I did what my Ma taught me and I added just the eensiest teensiest bit of nail polish remover to fix it...and it did but it still made it light.  I wanted it to be smidge darker, but I don't like to do TOO many top coats of my nail polish.  So this is the result from Week 4.

Week 5:

This is Rimmel Torrid... I have the first bottle that came out, it doesn't look like this...
I also failed to get a picture because we have had a busy week of spring break awesomeness with the kidlets being home and a trip to Universal Studios on a Monday that made us all feel like we are onsome grand adventure to a place a whopping 95 miles away...  Basically, it just wasn't in the cards!  Plus, I couldn't take the picture with the lovely bottle as I have BEEN doing for the plain and simple reason that the bottle committed soboku and jumped off the night table to the abyss behind it.  I couldn't see it to stick my hand down there, so I am NOT sticking my hand down there... 

We redecorated our kids room on Saturday.  We started preliminary measures and I thought, "Why do my nails now, Friday night, when we are doing so much work tomorrow, Saturday... I should wait!"... And in waiting, I had my hands in moisture hell all day (forgot gloves like an ass) and after my shower I was supposed to sit down and do my manicure at 10pm... we did ALOT on Saturday.
After my shower my nails were so brittle and peely that I went to grab something and my thumb nail caught and boom... nails all had to be taken down...down...waaaaay down... and after I used the nail polish remover I came across a total DUH moment.

I used the nail polish remover to extend my goopy gunky junky nail polishes...  Both the Big Night Out and Torrid... Unfortunately, I failed to remember the critical rule in doing so... You MUST use a base coat before putting on the "Extended" nail polish ... or THIS happens...

Week 6:

The Clean(ish) Look...

Short funky nails on my now sausage looking fingers... Part of the reason why I try to keep length to my nails is to prevent the "sausage fingers" look...  Stained they are.  Not polished.  So now, I will be feeding them Vitamin E oil, buffing and polishing and for Next week's challenge, there will be color.  It probably also helps that because I am firm believer in waste not want not, I still have Prenatal Vitamins that I am taking... I almost never remember to take them on the weekends and I bought this bottle right before I had Marysu (at which time I ALWAYS remembered to take them)... so this bottle has lasted quite a long time as a result.  But when it's gone I'm going to find a good vitamin mix to take to help my nails cause they need a little extra OOMPF once in a while :)

Thing 1 just got softball signed up and ready to go... so the busy bee life will be in full swing and my Single Parent Summer starts all over again :)  This year a little different from last because the wee one is a Toddler in full swing!  I feel a lot of non-house cleaning nights coming on and more keep the children entertained and fed nights...  Awesome!

Nail Polish Challenge Week 3 or The One Where It's Friday But I Pretend It's Monday...

Something happened on the way to the Forum....

I have always like the different colored nail polishes...ALWAYS...and almost as soon as I woke up the next morning after applying my newest layer...Uhm...  I didn't like it... 

I don't know what it's stemming from... Of course given my age and that I am an old married wife with kids I'm sitting here thinking "Oh no this is that moment they always warn you about about when you dont remember when it happened but you've lost your identity because you don't like the same things because you're old and you're not young and you're not 12 and you're not 25 and oh my god OH MY GOD!"

But then... I realize... No... I just don't like green nails cause it looks like fungus...and then I think of mushrooms, and then I think of toadstool and then I think of Princess Peach and I want to play Mario Bros.

So what do you think?  Fungus amongus?  Or perfectly fine??  I have no idea, all I know is I can't wait to get it off my nails!  And I'm thinking, maybe I put it into a pile of give away/re-gift xmas ideas or something cause DAMN... I am so over this...  Can't wait to see what I pick next!

Nail Polish Challenge Week 2...

Friday night I got me my fabulous five minute manicure...  It felt soooo good...  Cause I use that nummy Vitamin E Oil on my nail beds and they LOVE it.  I was thinking about clipping them because they were getting pretty long.  It was almost starting to get to where I would have to maybe think about cutting them to help my typing.  But I didn't...  Then Sunday we were taking the kids out of the car on the way home from Ma's... and I couldn't get Thing 2 out of her seat!  I was also fighting the time change so I didn't want to work the five point harness TOO hard since I wanted her to stay sleeping...  So I was freaking out a bit.  I had to use an implement to free her and that was when I realized if I couldn't do a quick-clip that night, I had to do one on my lunch yesterday.  And that's exactly what I did :)

Here are the results:



Dude, I should be a freakin Hand Model...  Not sure if you can still get that Cotton Candy Pop Sally Hansen, but it's really good stuff and I'm almost out of it ... hence the whole idea of this "Challenge"...

Good thing I did my manicure yesterday...today was dedicated to reading and eating and walking... My daily lunch routine stays pretty simple unless there's "something going on" then it slightly derails.  I usually like to get in 30 minutes of a walk outside then it's back to my desk for sandwich with tortilla chips and reading a book in between bites...  25-30 minutes of reading between bites doesn't get me far in my 900 page book, but that's ok :)  I never run out of books to read and I'm thinking of re-reading all my Stephen King books anyway.  Almost all of them are worth a second GO and my Mister isn't a reader, but he's a question asker...so I need to be a better quesiton answerer :) Now I'm going back to work and listening to my Pandora radio... LOVE Pandora!

Nail Polish Challenge...

I have set forth a challenge unto myself... and I thought I would share it if anyone cares...

I have a tool box that my Uncle made in woodshop and my mom swiped it for her nail stuff long ago...and it has made it's way into my hands and I still have it :)  I am proud of that fact so give me a reflective moment.....  and here's a look at my collection:

There you have it, all of my glorious colors!

This one's from my latest "Friday Night Manicure".  I have got it down a science at this point in the game.  I am able to do my nails in record time.  I have had enough practice after 7 years with Thing 1...Now that we have Thing 2, I'm a PRO!!  I let it go for a while and realized, "Hey, I actually LIKE doing this!"  So I picked it back up again... and now my nails and nail beds are happy for it!  That right there ^ is "Always Ascher"...  the bummer is that I am not about to go out and buy a bunch of NEW colors because the WHOLE reason for this challenge is so that I use up what I have.  I have a LOT already so why not right??  RIGHT! 

BUT

I WILL tell you ...

This color right here VVV

Is called "You Don't Know Jacques..."  By O.P.I. 

Mind you, that's an older picture and the nails didn't look like jungle vines...they won't for much longer though... getting less simple to do some tasks.  That's when they get trimmed!!

Personally I am surprised that I am able to do this and keep it up and I get compliments on my nails, nail beds, and hands all the time.  All I did was make sure I have this:

Great for the cuticles! 

You can get this at WalMart nice n cheap and they're essential for nail health:

I LOVE my Buffing Block and I even have one at work, too!  Sometimes you just don't know what to do with those pesky lunch hours and I always like to do something constructive!

And of course no manicure is complete without the proper tools!

I keep a manicure set in my purse backpack all the time because... you never know :)  I am hoping to remember to do this every week after I do a new color.  As I mentioned, the idea is not to ADD...the idea is not to WASTE and to get RID OF!