Monday quickie

[clevermanka]

I'm up to my eyeballs, but briefly:

starstraf and Pooch are The Best Evar for finding me a hardbound copy of Nine Coaches Waiting. Finally! Yay! *happy dance*

Saturday was a Sneak Attack Gift for a Currently Anonymous recipient. I hope he likes his present. I have a ton of bruises on my legs from it. Weird. And painful. But worth it. I hope.

Sometimes I can stay out until 1:00 and do okay the next day. This weekend was not one of those times. Ugh. Sunday was lovely for the lazy but wow I felt like a crappy slug for most of it.

I am an official fan of the new OPI Designer Line. I have three of the colors (Shimmer, Vintage, and Ruby) and they're gorgeous. Expensive, but worth the occasional splurge for me. Even geeky boys noticed (and commented on) them this weekend. The polish looks like nothing else. 3D hologram fingernail polish, people!

For July, I'm aiming for a new health goal. I've been doing the wheat-free thing with great success for a month now. I've had only very rare transgressions (like using soy sauce at a restaurant since I refuse to cart around a bottle of my own wheat-free Tamari) and a few "oops, that had wheat in it?" episodes (Licorice--Who knew?), so I'm taking it further. Next month I'm going to cut out all carbs I don't cook. No more tortilla chips, no more rice cakes. I'll still make an occasional stir-fry or curry over rice noodles, but all easy-access carbs will be Off The Plate.

Tomorrow: Interesting content about a website I found. I'd hoped to write about it today, but Campbell Conference and Grad Student Orientation issues are nixing that.

Comments

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

Oooooo pretty OPI! That shimmer looks divine. And fantasy and elegance! Ooo lala.

No more tortilla chips? That will make Natalie sad.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I've got Shimmer on today if you wanna come see.

I'll resume eating chips when I'm down to my goal size--but there's some fat that's not budging right now and I want to be in as fit as I can be for faire this year. anerys is very effective at the "shame as a motivational tool" school of whipping a girl into shape.

In the meantime, we have a few more days for chip chowing. Email me if you want to schedule a dinner together soon.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

I love OPI enough that over half of my current collection is that brand. I think that I have Shimmer. I have a shade similar and it is by OPI. It is probably a sign that I have enough if I can't remember.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I love OPI enough that over half of my current collection is that brand.

Me, too. The few bottles of Essie I'm probably going to get rid of (it doesn't wear as well). I do have two Barbie pink colors by Revlon that I haven't seen duplicated by OPI. But yeah. I'd say 80% of my nail polish is OPI.

You know, if you ever want to use some of my collection, you'd be welcome to. Does anyone ever use all of a color before it gets too dried out? I certainly haven't.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

I know that I don't use all of mine before I throw it out.

I would love to borrow sometime. It would certainly cut down on the nail budget a tad. We could do a color swap.

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

I dunno - I've never had a problem with a bottle drying out. Heck, I have some crazy metallic green that I've had for 15 years and it's still fine.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

That sounds great! Let me know when/where you'd be interested in meeting for a color swap.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

After a couple years, I find mine get thick and a little gloppy. And thinner never works as well as I think it should...

[royal-spice.livejournal.com]

Dittoes on the bruises, and the hoping he likes it.

I enjoyed working on the sooper seekrit project with you! :) Cyndi Lauper harmony rocks.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Sorry to hear you've got the weird bruises, too.

Green Oil! Green Oil! Green Oil!