Huggy Huggy Squishy Squishy

Where do I even begin bloggy world? I’ve been super busy lately with it being premier week on TV and all. I just couldn’t rip myself away from the tv long enough to write a post. But don’t worry, I’m all caught up on my favorite shows and I’ve got two hours before I have to start getting ready for work so I am alllllll yours :)

 

Let’s get caught up. Last Thursday, Taylor and I had the day off, Hub had school AND class so we needed some mega all day entertainment and boy oh boy did we get it! After hearing about how terrible of a cousin I am we spent the day with Paige and the babies! It was so much fun. I got to cuddle with baby Porter all day.

And watch toddler small adult Preston be nearly drowned by a professional for 10 minutes. Talk about heart wrenching. You can watch for yourself here.  After watching this video it doesn’t even compare to what happened last week! She like grabs his head and rolls him around in the water and he has to flip himself over so he can breath. It gives me such an anxiety attack. And no, he does not stop crying. I’d have to say, the high light of the trip to swim lessons is when Taylor “got wet” smelled her hands, and announced Preston had peed on her! I think he was just nervous as soon as he saw the pool. He knew that his life was potentially coming to an end.

 

After this very traumatic experience we went back to the Cunningham’s and easily gained 10 lbs. There were fresh home grown tomatoes, a mega block of mozzarella cheese, and a few flats of raspberry’s! My FAVORITE! My ever so domestic Aunt Shelley was making homemade jam! After reading this post I have been craving to make it, but berry’s are so expensive at the store and there’s no self picking farms in Arizona… for good reason.

Masterpiece? Yes. Paige made this for dinner. Little did we know that there would be dinner AND a show later, so we will count this as an appetizer.

 

While all this goodness was going on, Taylor, Aunt Shelley and I got hard to work mashing raspberries, setting timers, and testing jam. There were a few instances that made it clear to all of us why Shelley doesn’t step food in the kitchen… spraying yourself in the face with the water? It takes talent folks.

A few hours later….

We wont admit that all these jars are a little sugary. It’s impossible to make some chuncky jam. The sugar doesn’t dissolve unless you actually crush all the raspberries, but I’m still eating it. I think the person that was the most impressed would be Taylor’s mom. She refused to believe that Taylor had actually slaved in the kitchen making her a surprise until I confirmed that it was, in fact, true. I knew I always liked her.

 

As we were just finishing up our last round of jars Carmen showed up with a true Mexican Fiesta. A Fiesta it was.

Sorry the picture is blurry, but I just had to show it off! Let’s see, salad, homemade Italian dressing from boyfriend #1 of the evening, enchiladas, spicy salsa, rice, and beans.  I left so bad for Hub that he was in class and couldn’t join us… but we pretty well devoured it. It was so nice to have a home cooked meal that consisted of more then 2 things. I would really like to quote the dinner conversation word for word… but it would just be Carmen saying something, and Uncle Bob’s response would be “TMI”. We did, however, make a short list of appropriate things that were said…

 

“He’s intelligent because he works at Intel”

“We just huggy huggy squishy squishy”

“He likes the boys”

“He makes me so mad I could pinch his neck”

 

Yes this is a list of things that were said about different men that Carmen is dating. Maybe not the “he likes the boys”, but the rest are. The night ended with discussion’s about what we would do on Tuesday, the next day that Taylor and I had off. But I guess you’ll just have to stay posted to hear about that. No one get’s peed on this time… rats.

 

Ps What are everyone’s favorite show’s going to be this fall? Obviously Modern Family, and the office are at the top of my list, but Whitney was pretty funny, and the one with the one girl roommate and three boys roommates…. what’s it called? Eh. You know the one. I really wanted to watch PanAm but I missed that for sure.

 

PSS Hub is at work, and I really don’t feel like rereading my post to proof read it so Taylor, eat your heart out with my bad grammar, spelling errors and run on sentences.

Essie Round Two

Where do I even begin. Well, you all know about this post right? The one where I went on and on about NAIL POLISH?! Get ready for round two, ladies and ladies, because it’s a doozy.

Today, the best thing that could have happened to me, happened. We were over staffed at work, and my assistant manager kindly let me and another girl know that someone could go home early. Early as in, like now, early. So I took her up on that offer, stayed until my appointment was over and left before 11:00. That’s right peeps, I wasn’t off until 5:00 but I left at 11:00!! So I called hub, set up a lunch date, and got my bootay out of there.

After my amazing lunch date with Hub (Thanks hub), I headed over to Taylor’s house to pick her up so we could do some damage. What damage? Essie damage. Duh. Thanks To Miss Amy (isn’t she amazing?) we knew where to find the best Essie nail polish, at the best price. To be honest, I was scared because this is what her comment said:

“There is a nail supply shop in the Lee Lee's (asian grocery store) on Dobson and Warner. It's on the side of the shopping complex (to the right of Lee Lee's) on the Warner Rd. entrance. You can get ANY OPI or Essie nail polish there. OPI is $4 credit card, $3.50 cash. Essie is $3.50 credit card, $3 cash. AMAZING. They have the nail salon quality everything there. Best acetone ever too. Have fun and fyi, you WILL be overwhelmed! ;)” 

The warning at the end wasn’t enough for me. I needed someone screaming in my ear while bright red flashing lights were going off in my face to prepare me for how overwhelmed I’d actually be. This man alone should have been enough of a warning….

And this is what we saw when we walked up…

If this doesn’t scream sketchy, I really don’t know what does. Don’t worry everyone, outside of Hollywood Nail Supply they just have like half their inventory just chillin’. It’s really NBD.

Warning, these next pictures are very very exciting. I get butterflies just thinking about them :) sigh….

They seriously had boxes and boxes and boxes of nail polish EVERYWHERE! It was stacked on top of each other on the floor, shelves, outside, literally everywhere they could find a place, there was nail polish. I’ve never been somewhere so insane in my life. They had millions of colors, I’m pretty sure at one point I stopped breathing, not because of the smell of nail polish (and it was strong after we tried on aprox. 100000 different kinds) but because I could die I was so happy. I’m pretty sure they had 99.9% of colors Essie ever made… except Turquoise and Caicos! Can you believe it!? I would have even settled for something remotely close, but there was nothing! Tay, can we share custody of yours? Pretty, pretty please? I’ll buy you a Coke Zero with infinity limes (if you turn me down I don’t think we can be friends).

I was so excited that after looking around I even bought some super duper top coat. It’s the legit stuff that they use at nail places and I will tell you what, I have never been happier! It’s thick, but not bulkey, and it dries in record time. After going to this place, I may just start my own nail services. If anyone needs me to do their nails I would be more than happy to, as I’m sure Taylor is as well.
 
And to top it off, they don’t care if you try on a million different colors. Really, we covered both of Tay’s hands in nail polish and they never said one word. AND when we were checking out, the man was super nice and I felt right at home as if I was actually getting a pedicure, not just doing my own.

Left to right, Bottom Row	Left to right, Nordstrom Colorized Order
Merino Cool	Merino Cool
Boat House	Soiree Mauve
Sew Psyched	Sew Psyched
Super Duper Top Coat	Baubing for Baubles

Aren’t those the best names?

Then I saw it it. A display that was just as amazing as the Essie display (and you know that was just sick), they had GEL NAILS!!! (the crowd whispers) “What? They had gel nails? Is that even possible?” Yes folks, it is. The following conversation took place…

Me: “Tay, we seriously could do our own nails. I’m over paying people to do this. I want to try the gels”.
T: “You have to like take classes for that stuff”.
Nice Asian Man: “You don’t take class”.
Me: “See, you don’t have to take a class. How do you do it?”
Nice Asian Man: “You watch youtube video”.

That’s how it’s done people. All this time you thought you were getting your nails done by a professional, think again. They just watch youtube. So get excited, I’m ready to head back and get me some jell nails!


PS. I got these picture messages about an hour after I got home



Amazing right? I’m loving the ring finger painted another color. When I got home I painted my toes Boat House and my fingers Sew Psyched, because I’m sew psyched!

What did everyone think about their Essie Nail Polish now that you’ve tried it? Amazing, yah? I’ll never go back. What other amazing beauty products do you swear by?

Ps, I love that cousin Paige sent me this picture at Target, $7.79. We LOVE Target, and we LOVE LOVE Essie