Weekend Collage

weekend collage by vanessanelson featuring Clinique

Hello!!!  How was your weekend?  Mine was fantastic!  I had the weekend off and the weather was GORGEOUS so of course I went shopping ;)

Some of my FAVORITE things of the weekend were the new Lash Power Feathering mascara by Clinique especially paired with my all time favorite eyeshadow palette "Neutral Territory 2" and Cheek Pop blush in "Berry Pop" also by Clinique!  I went and visited my favorite former co-worker Natalie (y'all should check out her blog too....she and her husband are INSANELY talented musicians) who now works for Laura Mercier and picked up one of my all time favorite lip glosses "Opal" and a new one called "Azaela" that I'm OBSESSED with :)  

I listened to Miguel's song "Simplethings" pretty much on repeat all weekend.  I'm so glad the weather is warming up and we could drive with the windows down, break out the maxi skirts, and SANDALS.

I hope the weather is nice where you are too :)

Hopefully I have time to post this week.  We are going into gift at the Clinique counter which, as my long-time readers know,  is the time my brain starts to malfunction, I live on Diet Coke and crackers, and I self-medicate with NyQuil sooooo basically.....it's the Hunger Games.  

But I love these crazies I work with so it makes it worth it!

Leave me a happy little note about your weekend :)

xoxo 

V

Weekend Collage

my weekend by vanessanelson featuring a bow skirt

I had a nice weekend....except for the shift at work that started at 6:45 am yeah.  How is that even a  legal time for people to be up??
Oh well...at least I got to see the lunar eclipse.  Did anyone see the show "Neverland" on SyFy?  Wasn't it so good?  Didn't it make you super obsessed with Peter Pan all week?  (anyone...?).
We also put up our Christmas tree and I started abusing NyQuil again.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

xoxo

A New Year Playlist

1. Tim McGraw- Felt Good On My Lips
2. The Decemberists - Down By the Water
3. Cage the Elephant - Around My Head
4. Daniel Powter - Love You Lately
5. Sugarland - Every Girl Like Me
6. Howie Day - Collide
7. Cartel - The Fortunate
8. Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Broadripple Is Burning
9. Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
10. Florence + The Machine - Howl
11. JJ Heller - Olivianna
12. Lykke Li - Little Bit
13. Sugarcult - Pretty Girl
14. Ingrid Michaelson - Parachute
15. The New Amsterdams- Hanging On For Hope

Hope you all are having a wonderful 2011 so far!  I've spent it in bed being sick for the last few days but when I'm feeling better I promise there WILL be a Christmas update (which I know you are all dying for!)

Also note to self: don't obsessively play Angry Birds while also taking NyQuil....it will trip you out and give you really weird dreams.

Christmas Eve, Chinese Curse, NyQuil Texts, Hay Truck, 500th Post

THIS IS MY 500TH POST!

Can you believe it?

Don't answer that. 

I can't even believe it's Christmas.  Work has literally sucked my life away. 

A couple weeks ago we had a free gift with purchase going on at my counter.  I had a Chinese woman come up to me and try to convince me that if she bought 2 things she deserved 3 gifts.  I went to 1st grade so I know that's not how things work.  Before she left she angrily said something to me in Chinese and then left.  I have since had the worst luck ever.  Now I'm no Chinese expert but I'm pretty convinced she cursed me.  

Some proof:

Saturday: Day of said curse- I work 2 hours over my shift after only having 1 1/2 hours of sleep and then proceed to have the strangest text conversation in my life that then lead to completely changing a friendship (not for the better).

Thursday: I don't get to close with my best friends

Saturday next: Find out some terrible information.  Terrible.  

Sunday: Colts, Peyton Manning, Interceptions, Sadness

My worst week of sales I've had in a long time.

Check my schedule for New Years Eve.  The store closes at 7pm.  I'm scheduled until 9:15.  Really?  Really!?

Sick with the flu the week before Christmas.  Really?  Really!?

Yep so there's that.  

My addiction to NyQuil has been back in full force and so has my need to send text messages.  Some examples.

To my friend Kathryn:

Me: Oh it's fine.  I just nurse complaubing as much as I CA.

Kathryn: Taken anything?

Me: Twag

Later....

Me: Or you know whatever....I hope your phone I'd on soleby so this doesn't bother you

Me again: Ok well one eye only stays ion so I girss ill just Talbot to you laater.  I live you!

To my friend Jenna:

Me: In siryh I an bot wirhyvd tonfight

Jenna: Whaaa?

Me: I went home early.  I've goes a fever.

Jenna: Ahh man you poor thing get some rest

Me: I will I Judy took nywyil.

To my friend Jack:

Me: Ah yes!  I want that so bad!  O could watch it NT feverish haze.

Me again: Sorry...that's didn't even make sense.

A&E......we have an intervention for you.

Also my friend Kathryn has this awesome truck that is so bad in snowy weather that they have to put hay in the bed to weigh it down.  We got ourselves quite the snowstorm on Monday.  I got to ride home in the hay truck.  We fishtailed.  I saw my life flash before my eyes.  It was awesome.  

Moving right along to preparing for Christmas!  I did some baking again this year. 

I don't know if you remember last year when I single handedly almost ruined Christmas.  Numerous times. 

We had no fatalities in the cookie department, no ruining of the Nativity, no house almost on fire (probably because I have a job this year so it kept me out of the house a lot.  The house is very grateful).  I did make some delicious treats and got to play in the snow with my dog.

Oh I almost forgot to tell you!

I was Mary in the Christmas program at church on Sunday.  It was pretty awesome.  

Whew.  The flu really took away from my posting time so I'm sorry this blog post is so long.  But it is my 500th!  Thanks for sticking around and maybe reading it?  I don't even know if there are any readers.  But whatever.  I'll post 500 more I'm sure.  

And if you don't like it...blame the Chinese curse.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Note to self

I should have gotten a flu shot.  Was in bed all day Monday and was sent home early from work Tuesday because of a delirium inducing fever.  Here's hoping that soup, NyQuil, my computer, and a movie marathon (consisting of Harry and the Hendersons, The Labyrinth, Sixteen Candles, and of course Breakfast At Tiffany's) will be the cure.
I do not want to be sick on Christmas.

*stay tuned for yet another post on why my phone privileges should be taken away from me when I've taken NyQuil.  It's a cautionary tale.

NyQuil and Cats

Last week I had a cold.  I couldn't sleep.  Took NyQuil.  Dreamt about cats.  All night.  Just cats. 

No more NyQuil.

And yes I've said this before.

And just because every post needs a picture here is a picture of some cats on a couch in some jaunty festive outfits

And the effects of NyQuil (I think these may be listed on the back of the bottle)

kicking the habit...

So while I was sick I started taking NyQuil because trying to sleep when you can't breathe is not an easy task. Well I was taking it every night and then even after I was able to breathe I wasn't able to sleep through the night without taking it. Umm hello "Intervention" anybody???
So this week I decided to finally kick the habit. I was starting to have trippy dreams some of which included (but not limited to):

- the cast of "Criminal Minds" looking for unsubs in trash cans
- my family adopting a 17 year old boy named Davey who may or may not have a fetish with starting fires
- me being 5 months pregnant and the father was not around (no more watching 16 and Pregnant or Teen Mom before bed) *this one felt so real I could not look at any one who was pregnant or pregnant mannequins for 2 days without having flashbacks
- the creepy guy from "Desperate Housewives" (who has always given me the skeeves) was some sort of criminal who beat his wife and I was the lead investigator on the case

(seriously creepiest guy ever)

- me being a contestant on "America's Next Top Model"

I also started sending text messages that I had no recollection of the next day. Some examples include (but are not limited to):

Night 1 to my sister:
Me: NYQUIL....roooi tordd foyer this to go ob
Me: vbcx
Me: and acme partridge I'm a prate treeu
Me: good nihhr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(notice she had the common sense to not respond to any of these)

Night 2 to my sister (again):
Me: Oh my gosh this movie is gonna make me TRIP OUT! Giant dogs and cats with Russian accents. OMG help.
Me: and ducks. In toilets.
Me: TALKING!!!!!
(notice she had the common sense to not respond to any of these either. Also the above mentioned "movie" was the movie "Cats and Dogs" which does not involve giant dogs, Russian cats OR ducks in toilets talking).

Night 3 to my mom:
Me: He's snoring when you come in will youvv :) turn rhw vilymr down on the Yvonne to like 10 or 9? Thanks

Good bye NyQuil. I'm gonna go for a natural high. (shoutout to anyone who remembers "Safety Kids")

(Public apologies go out to anyone who may have received a NyQuil text)