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ElvenEyes

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Thanks Lou! My stomach problems stretch back to most of my life, the worst being suddenly and out of the blue when I was 15 and an outpatient for 6 weeks, in pediatrics for 2 weeks, out of school for most of my Junior year and tutored, then again in 1986 which calmed down in a few months and again in 1991 which was horrible. Well, you get the picture. When it is anxiety most doctors immediately want to treat you for the anxiety, but in my case we have to catch the physical stuff first because I get very sick, very fast, and dropped to 63 pounds at age 15, 98 pounds at age 28, and so not too good!

I wish you lived next door, Lou! We would have such fun watching movies, playing games, romping with cats, going fun places, touring houses, museums, eating out, playing at Sephora. lol My neighbours are all so boring. All they do is revolve their lives around their kids and as the kids grow up and move away they don't know what to do with themselves! Get a hobby people, and immerse yourself in it at an early age so you have it waiting for you when life changes!

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My Paradise just arrived. Pretty and I love the gold. More like an MSF in some ways. I hope the gold runs deep!!
 

LMD84

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Thanks Lou! My stomach problems stretch back to most of my life, the worst being suddenly and out of the blue when I was 15 and an outpatient for 6 weeks, in pediatrics for 2 weeks, out of school for most of my Junior year and tutored, then again in 1986 which calmed down in a few months and again in 1991 which was horrible. Well, you get the picture. When it is anxiety most doctors immediately want to treat you for the anxiety, but in my case we have to catch the physical stuff first because I get very sick, very fast, and dropped to 63 pounds at age 15, 98 pounds at age 28, and so not too good!

I wish you lived next door, Lou! We would have such fun watching movies, playing games, romping with cats, going fun places, touring houses, museums, eating out, playing at Sephora. lol My neighbours are all so boring. All they do is revolve their lives around their kids and as the kids grow up and move away they don't know what to do with themselves! Get a hobby people, and immerse yourself in it at an early age so you have it waiting for you when life changes!

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My Paradise just arrived. Pretty and I love the gold. More like an MSF in some ways. I hope the gold runs deep!!
oh man. i know how it felt to have missed an entire year of school. i was in and out of school for my first year of 6th form (year 12) and it was horrible. i was in and out of hospital with issues with my throat which i won't go into. i too lost quite a bit of weight then because i couldn't actually eat anything solid. now i think i would kill to loose loads of weight like that! just not by being ill! :p and yeah it would actually be amazing to love next door to each other!! we could share all my pigments! you could share your nars blushers! it would be amazing! and of course we'd have to do an outing to a theme park of some sort! you are so right about people needing hobbies! many of my mums friends never know what to do now their kids have left home. my mum works full time but she also has taken to doing various zumba classes and reads so many books. and of course she likes to go for long walks with her dog. she is always busy!
 

ElvenEyes

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oh man. i know how it felt to have missed an entire year of school. i was in and out of school for my first year of 6th form (year 12) and it was horrible. i was in and out of hospital with issues with my throat which i won't go into. i too lost quite a bit of weight then because i couldn't actually eat anything solid. now i think i would kill to loose loads of weight like that! just not by being ill! :p and yeah it would actually be amazing to love next door to each other!! we could share all my pigments! you could share your nars blushers! it would be amazing! and of course we'd have to do an outing to a theme park of some sort! you are so right about people needing hobbies! many of my mums friends never know what to do now their kids have left home. my mum works full time but she also has taken to doing various zumba classes and reads so many books. and of course she likes to go for long walks with her dog. she is always busy!
Aw, Lou! ((()))) So sorry to hear you had such a rough time too. It is certainly hard and sets us back from our fellow students and friends who are healthy and going forward in life, not to mention trying to feel well, trying to understand what is happening to us and trying to keep up with studies. I have to admit that my High School and doctors did an amazing job working together to help me through it all and have me graduate with my class. Now you have to go to specialists and your regular physician doesn't want anything to do with it. No more team work.

Hey, I don't work, I don't have kids, I don't have pets. Yet I have so many interests and so much that always needs to get done or things I want to do that I never can get bored. I don't understand those that do! Eating and sleeping is sooo in the way sometimes! lol

OMG if we lived next to each other we would be playing all the time! Think of our nails! A different colour every day! Weeee! lol
 

WhatWouldJoanDo

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I hear you Lou! Thirty CAD here plus 13% tax ...

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ooohh your little collection of the pencils sound amazing! over here they cost a whopping £17.50 each so i think i shall just have to get one for now :)
 

LMD84

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hee hee! oh yeah! i don't know what i'd do without you guys giving me suggestions! :)

i'm at work but i have the tvs on. there is a crazy show on right now. it's that Maury show which i used to watch when i was a teen but this episode is just plain stoopid! these people that used to be 'geeks' are now surprising their crushes with a sexy make over! sooo trashy but i can't tear my eyes away! lol!
 

ElvenEyes

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Lou~OMG, What a blast from the past. I remember changing channels and coming on to his show, seeing the strange topics like "Who is the real father of your child" etc. lol Ah, the drama and so set up! Didn't he get punched once? I know he always had tons of security on the stage for when the "announcement" came and everyone would start swearing and hitting each other. Yeehaw! Quality TV! lol

I know what you are saying with friends. When I first moved here I was so happy. I made several friends with other ladies in the neighbourhood and we would go for walks together or have coffee/tea at each others houses, never worrying about cleaning up or anything. But by the 5th year a few moved away because of their husband's jobs and one decided to play "Keep Up with the Joneses" which ultimately failed both financially and as friends for them, as they were not as rich as the new neighbours (who, BTW ended up moving to another neighbourhood in town!) Now I keep away from everyone and do my own thing. I would love a friend, but too many are busy with their kids or show-offs and only want to talk about their new car, their new pool, etc. I am not impressed with such things. Show me a 1st edition of Dickens and I will be drooling in envy, but other than that, I don't much care! My next door neighbour is always redoing their house. She cannot stand a summer without a major project. Gutting it out, putting new floors in again and again, new kitchens, new cars, ripping up perfectly nice brick walkway for a "different pattern and colour", replacing all the siding, replacing all the windows. This house was adorable once..she has ruined it. She is trying to make a mansion out of a colonial and it doesn't work! Anyhow, she had me over one day to show me here new kitchen and her "Sub-Zero" fridge. I looked at her blankly. A what? I had no idea what they were. (some upscale fridge with wooden panels on front). Anyhow, I saw her face drop as she tried to explain it to me and make me impressed. As long as my food is cold and I have a place to put my magnet collection, I don't care what my fridge looks like! I've never been asked over since. Hehehe.....

So life goes. Everyone I was friends with in High School (small circle) and college (big circle) have all gone their own way and no one has kept in touch with each other. And sadly when I tried to look up a friend/boss from a previous job back in the mid to late 80's I found out she died 3 years ago from ALS which still haunts me that she suffered so. So yeah, pretty quiet on the friends front. Everyone is so busy doing their own thing and life is so frazzled and busy these days that sadly catering to friendships seems to have gone out of style. :(

P.S.~I am dying to see your nails. I just painted mine last night so will try to put a picture up later. Zoya, too! But I have a pretty pearly coral one from Zoya that may be going on next, like in 5 days or something!! xo
 

Miss QQ

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^^ Zoya is the must have nail polish right now then! Thanks for your comments on the stomach issues and coping with stress. I should try listing out the list of stressful things and identify which are the ones I can do something and which are those I ignore and live with. It must be lonely and frightful when you have to go through them at such a young age. I think that's why you are so positive and living your life to the fullest now. Enjoy my paradise! It was sold out when i was at the counter yesterday and they even removed the tester. I didn't get to see it.

Lou - your summery nails must be so pretty. Perfect for the weekend! It's so sweet that you met Nick and were best friends in school. This is embarrassing but I never had a boyfriend in school, and sometimes I feel I'm missing out on the teenage romances that seem so fun and sweet. Oh well, I'm too old now lol. Thanks for your comments too. I shall learn to distract myself over small things that upset me, instead of dwelling on them because the more I think, the worse the senario gets. Enjoy your dinner, hope you go to the eat all you can place you want! I can't catch what people say if they aren't sitting next to me or opposite me so usually I just eat. But I eat and chew really slowly so I'm always the last to finish lol. Love your barbie look! Love everything about it, and the flower hairband is pretty. I love flowers on accessories!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend. We are in June now - almost halfway through the year!
 

ElvenEyes

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Miss QQ~I know! I can't believe how quickly the time is going. In late August I start decorating my house for fall because that is when the Mums and cornstalks are available, so only appropriate to turn the inside into something fun, too! The day after Halloween I start decorating for Christmas and keep it up for about 8-9 weeks! I can't wait. lol My favourite time of the year is between September 1st to Jan 1st! I am such a winter gal!
 

ElvenEyes

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Today ended up being a fun day! My cramps left just in time for me to play for the weekend!! We went out to a few bookstores and picked up books both for me and my father for Father's Day. We then zipped to the mall and I hauled a bit at a salon (nail polish) and Sephora. I didn't even step into MAC today, being a very good girl, in spite of it being right across from Sephora!! I love what I got, which includes some Aqua Creams, NARS lip pencil and 4 of the OPI Pirates collection. I had to go 45 minutes from my house to find a salon that sold them. Sheesh. And we had an interesting conversation. She loved my nails and asked what colour they were and I told her they were by Zoya. Then we chatted about how we both find Zoya lasts a lot longer than OPI and only buy selective OPI colours. Then she said between Butter brand and Zoya that rumour is OPI is hurting and might be why I am not seeing it very much or explain the low turnover. Sad, but true. I guess people are finding other brands are actually lasting longer and using Seche Vite instead of OPI top coat. It isn't first in line anymore. Anyhow, interesting chat, got to do a lot of swatching at Sephora which cut down a lot of items I thought I wanted and we brought Chinese food home for supper. Now I am in my jammies and we are going to watch TV, burn a candle and got to bed! I will put the haul up when I have more time to lay it out and mention colours, etc.
 

shadowaddict

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Lou--I finally got caught up on your videos. You're doing a great job and they are very helpful.

Thank you for the one with doing liner with pigments. I need to get the mixing medium gel for that. My store was out of it last time I went. I bought Heritage Rouge when I was the Vegas CCO. When I go back in late July with my sister we will also drive down to Primm which is very close. I usually find more stuff there as Vegas CCO gets hit by everyone. So it helps that my sister always gets a rental car there.

Your Barbie look is really pretty, love the colors.

Debi--I don't know if you've tried it but I'm really liking the Zoya Armor. It is topcoat as well as a UV blocker. I didn't know that until I was reading a Shape magazine today and saw the pic on the page with sunscreens and read what it said about it.

I still haven't made it to Sephora to pick up one of their eye pencils. They look just like the UD shadow pencils and I really want to try one.

I've been trying to kick this allergy thing I have. I started feeling sick last Saturday and it just kept getting worse. I started running a fever with it so I knew it had turned into an infection likely sinus. I had four days worth of antibiotics here so I took them. That will usually work for me. It helped some but I was still coughing all night and my throat and chest still hurt. So Wednesday I went to have it checked out and they said it was allergy induced asthma. I had never heard of that but my daughter-in-law was telling me one of her friends was sick and that her doctor said that’s what she had. So I have four different prescriptions. I’m feeling much better so I guess finally on the mend. I normally just have a bit of bothersome allergies but nothing much. But apparently everyone around here is getting slammed.

I hope you guys are staying well and having a great weekend.
 

LMD84

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Lou--I finally got caught up on your videos. You're doing a great job and they are very helpful.

Thank you for the one with doing liner with pigments. I need to get the mixing medium gel for that. My store was out of it last time I went. I bought Heritage Rouge when I was the Vegas CCO. When I go back in late July with my sister we will also drive down to Primm which is very close. I usually find more stuff there as Vegas CCO gets hit by everyone. So it helps that my sister always gets a rental car there.

Your Barbie look is really pretty, love the colors.

Debi--I don't know if you've tried it but I'm really liking the Zoya Armor. It is topcoat as well as a UV blocker. I didn't know that until I was reading a Shape magazine today and saw the pic on the page with sunscreens and read what it said about it.

I still haven't made it to Sephora to pick up one of their eye pencils. They look just like the UD shadow pencils and I really want to try one.

I've been trying to kick this allergy thing I have. I started feeling sick last Saturday and it just kept getting worse. I started running a fever with it so I knew it had turned into an infection likely sinus. I had four days worth of antibiotics here so I took them. That will usually work for me. It helped some but I was still coughing all night and my throat and chest still hurt. So Wednesday I went to have it checked out and they said it was allergy induced asthma. I had never heard of that but my daughter-in-law was telling me one of her friends was sick and that her doctor said that’s what she had. So I have four different prescriptions. I’m feeling much better so I guess finally on the mend. I normally just have a bit of bothersome allergies but nothing much. But apparently everyone around here is getting slammed.

I hope you guys are staying well and having a great weekend.
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i'm sorry that you are unwell right now. it doesn't sound pleasant at all and i really hope that some of your meds start to work very soon. coughing until your chest hurts is never good and your throat must be sore from it too. i'm sending you positive thoughts that you start to get better swiftly.

that's great that you find the video interesting and useful! :) heritage rouge is such a pretty colour! :) enjoy using it as a pigment too! if you happen to have chocolate brown pigment it looks great with that! :)

I’m ready to go to Disneyland now! - another video tutorial fro me on the specktra blog :)
 

Miss QQ

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shadow - I hope you have a speedy recovery. Good that the meds are finally working. Rest well! What is a UV blocker for nail? What does it do?

Lou - I need to catch up with your videos. Pleased that you are having fun doing them! I like italian food - I like carbo heehee. Did transdesign stop selling OPI? I ordered OPI there once with some people.

Debi - I'm living vicariously through you. I would love decorating my house for the holidays and different seasons. Over here no one really decorate the house for any occasions, except for the Chinese New Year but the efforts are very minimal, such as hanging some paper decorations that are mass printed. Thanks for sharing about the nail polishes story. It makes me excited because I hope Zoya and Butter will be sold here since they are very popular now.
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When you put your haul up, link us there!
 

ElvenEyes

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Shadowaddict~So sorry to hear you are feeling unwell and hope for a speedy recovery. I don't have Zoya Armour, but I do used Seche Vite, which I love. I also am curious about the UV protection and how that actually contributes to nail health, especially when we already have our nails painted! Is it so the colour won't fade as quickly if out in the sun?

Lou~Oh, that is super interesting about OPI. I had mentioned on their FB page that I felt they should sell from their website, how it is hard to find around here and how many of us choose to do our own nails rather than pay for a salon to do it. Places around here will use OPI to do your nails but they don't sell them. They want you to spend a fortune for something that chips two days later. And how no one can do as fine a job at home as the salons provide. They eventually removed the whole thread on their page (many people liked my suggestion) and so they have fallen even more from my grace. I got some polishes by them yesterday, but I will now be limiting how much I buy. They just ruined their reputation as far as I am concerned. :( I bet eventually we will see their brand in drugstores.

Miss QQ~I will be putting my haul up shortly in the haul section and my NOTD is already up in that section. I am trying to be good and post in the appropriate places! I love the holidays and have a friend in India who says the same as you.While they decorate a bit for their holidays (most of it is outside or in Mumbai Bay) they just have different traditions and ways of celebrating. She wanted to decorate for Halloween and Christmas, so I did send her a goody box of some fun things and now she lives in England and enjoying her first Christmas tree this past year. England doesn't have much for Halloween, either. I think it is predominantly an American tradition, like Thanksgiving, though Canada has a Harvest Day, just earlier! I will post pics when I decorate!! In the meantime, here is my Halloween altar that looks pretty much the same each year with maybe a few changes. It is fun! And come Halloween we put pictures of deceased relatives on it to honour them.

 

LMD84

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Shadowaddict~So sorry to hear you are feeling unwell and hope for a speedy recovery. I don't have Zoya Armour, but I do used Seche Vite, which I love. I also am curious about the UV protection and how that actually contributes to nail health, especially when we already have our nails painted! Is it so the colour won't fade as quickly if out in the sun?

Lou~Oh, that is super interesting about OPI. I had mentioned on their FB page that I felt they should sell from their website, how it is hard to find around here and how many of us choose to do our own nails rather than pay for a salon to do it. Places around here will use OPI to do your nails but they don't sell them. They want you to spend a fortune for something that chips two days later. And how no one can do as fine a job at home as the salons provide. They eventually removed the whole thread on their page (many people liked my suggestion) and so they have fallen even more from my grace. I got some polishes by them yesterday, but I will now be limiting how much I buy. They just ruined their reputation as far as I am concerned. :( I bet eventually we will see their brand in drugstores.

Miss QQ~I will be putting my haul up shortly in the haul section and my NOTD is already up in that section. I am trying to be good and post in the appropriate places! I love the holidays and have a friend in India who says the same as you.While they decorate a bit for their holidays (most of it is outside or in Mumbai Bay) they just have different traditions and ways of celebrating. She wanted to decorate for Halloween and Christmas, so I did send her a goody box of some fun things and now she lives in England and enjoying her first Christmas tree this past year. England doesn't have much for Halloween, either. I think it is predominantly an American tradition, like Thanksgiving, though Canada has a Harvest Day, just earlier! I will post pics when I decorate!! In the meantime, here is my Halloween altar that looks pretty much the same each year with maybe a few changes. It is fun! And come Halloween we put pictures of deceased relatives on it to honour them.

wow i can't believe they just removed your thread! i guess it backs up everything that i've said though. i know a coupe of popular nail polish bloggers who have been quite angered by them over the past year or so too. and it is silly because i feel that they are doing more harm than good. china glaze, zoya and nubar are my faves :) and i love your halloween alter! so cute and so much detail! you are right that nobody here in england really does anything for it. my neighbours go all out but they are the only people that i've ever seen that do!
 

ElvenEyes

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All I can think of is that they are hurting in ways we don't see. With the economy less people have their nails done professionally or at least on a regular basis like they did back in the 90's. Less people wear acrylic nails and opt for natural ones. People have learned to keep nails shorter and healthy and that makes it easier to do your own manicure. We have tutorials on YouTube and numerous options for quality nail polish now. I've also noticed lately some of my polished by OPI seem watered down (and they are bought at salons). They are not as good as they used to be, so that is when I started using other brands and Sally Hanson lasted longer than OPI. Hmm... Anyhow, it is entirely up to them to make themselves a quality business and have quality customer service. If not, they fail on their own. Let's hope they get their act together. Let's hope someone around here starts selling Butter brand! But Zoya is my current absolute favourite!

I have a friend in Germany who said they "tried" Halloween and has stores selling decorations for a few years but the interest was too small so they stopped. She was really bummed out because she always holds a Halloween party and though she comes to the US every year it isn't when Halloween decorations are in the stores! I am lucky that we have all kinds of gift shops in the area that sell holiday decorations and fill their stores to the brim! This is from last year, too. I got her at a local nursery shop. We named her Winifred (from the movie Hocus Pocus, which I love!). She is sitting in a spare chair in the kitchen, watching over us with her Halloween Tarot. I love her! At Christmas we put a Santa and reindeer (Prancer) on the chair! And so it goes in our home! lol



And talking about fridges and magnets, here is our upper and lower one. We call it the gallery!! :)



 

LMD84

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oh i love your witch Debi! she's so cute!! and yes i think that years ago opi was the top polish brand. but now there are so many good quality brands they are struggling to stay on top. and their crappy pr attitude seems to be hurting them more.

your fridge is like an art gallery!! jeez! how do you cook anything? i'd be too busy looking at your magnets! i shall take a photo of our fridge when i get home! why not eh? i love your bird magnets the most i think - so sweet! :)
 

ElvenEyes

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oh i love your witch Debi! she's so cute!! and yes i think that years ago opi was the top polish brand. but now there are so many good quality brands they are struggling to stay on top. and their crappy pr attitude seems to be hurting them more.
your fridge is like an art gallery!! jeez! how do you cook anything? i'd be too busy looking at your magnets! i shall take a photo of our fridge when i get home! why not eh? i love your bird magnets the most i think - so sweet! :)
Isn't she cool? They only had two and I was trying so hard to figure out where to put her because under her clothes (ahem!) her bum is a round piece of wood so that she can sit evenly on something. Then I remembered the chair and snatched her up. Right now she is sitting on a box in our closet but I want to take her out!! lol I just love decorating with completely useless things! It makes our home very whimsical. The little table in our living room gets switched out to various things throughout the year, depending on the season or just my mood! I would love to see pictures of your fridge. Is it a Sub Zero????? Hehehehe...just kidding! lol I want to see your magnets and fun things! I love the birds, too, especially since we get all of those and much more at our feeders. The butterflies I bought last year so I wonder what I will get this year? Luckily my husband loves them just as much as I do! Right now the cornerof our living room is a little fairy village! lol
 

LMD84

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Isn't she cool? They only had two and I was trying so hard to figure out where to put her because under her clothes (ahem!) her bum is a round piece of wood so that she can sit evenly on something. Then I remembered the chair and snatched her up. Right now she is sitting on a box in our closet but I want to take her out!! lol I just love decorating with completely useless things! It makes our home very whimsical. The little table in our living room gets switched out to various things throughout the year, depending on the season or just my mood! I would love to see pictures of your fridge. Is it a Sub Zero????? Hehehehe...just kidding! lol I want to see your magnets and fun things! I love the birds, too, especially since we get all of those and much more at our feeders. The butterflies I bought last year so I wonder what I will get this year? Luckily my husband loves them just as much as I do! Right now the cornerof our living room is a little fairy village! lol
see i would love to have little displays of things like that around my house! it would make it look more homey rather than minimalistic! but you know the reason why i can't? dylan!! he is an absolute bugger for wrecking things! i wanted to have a nice coffee table and then have photo albums and a couple of disney books on it for people to look through, but he eats books so i can't!! if i make nice displays he jumps on them and knocks and breaks things. i caught him trying to eat the window frame the other day! where we have double glazing there is some thin black material between windows (hard to explain but every window has them!) he decided he wanted to claw at it and eat it! so i cant him with black bits all over the window sill! seriously he is a devil kitty!!
 
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