My Birchbox subscription has taught me a lot about the cosmetics industry. For example, a lot of women will apparently pay $18 an ounce for a “molecular mist” purported to do everything from keeping skin hydrated to protecting it from “ionizing radiation” emitted from the sun and cellphones. I thought it smelled like that one [...]
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Believe the hype about blinc mascara
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birchbox, blinc, blinc mascara, cosmetics, FeatherLash, L'Oreal, makeup, mascara, samples, smudgeproof mascara, waterproof mascara on January 25, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Views from my subconscious: snakes in a yard, water everywhere else
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anxiety, anxiety dreams, dreams, flooding, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, recurring dreams, snakes, snakes in dreams, stress, subconscious, water in dreams on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Since I was a little kid, my go-to anxiety dream involved snakes. In this recurring dream, I would step outside my house to find a yard filled with snakes, and I would have to walk carefully to avoid them. No matter what house I walked out of, the yard itself was inevitably the yard from [...]
Enough with retail panhandling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged charities, donations, grocery stores, retail, shopping on November 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’m tired of being hustled at the cash register. Cashiers at the two grocery stores where I shop at regularly have begun the holiday charity spiel early this year. The script literally says, “Would you like to give a dollar to help a family have a turkey for the holidays this year?” Yes. Yes. A [...]
Everybody back to school
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, education, graduate school, Rocket City Bloggers, time management on November 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Oddly, education is hindering my ability to write a post about education for the Rocket City Bloggers November blog carnival. In four weeks, I’ll wrap up my master’s degree in English. I never intended to pursue this degree, but it has been one of the more awesome things I’ve ever done. I think everybody should [...]
Early start yields exceptional breakfast
Posted in Eats, Photographs, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged alabama, bacon, Biloxi, Birmingham, breakfast, breakfast sandwich, chorizo, ciabatta bread, Culinard Cafe, grits, hashbrown pattie, loaded grits, mom, scrambled eggs on August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I spent last week in Biloxi with my mom and had every intention of blogging about my adventures. I quickly figured out that I’d rather be having said adventures than blogging about them, however, thus the weeklong absence of posts. Let’s start with the journey. Having discovered the amazing lunches at Birmingham’s Culinard Cafe a [...]
The hilarity of site stats
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alabama, blogging, search terms, site stats on July 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
My favorite part of blogging? Not the groupies (please tell me there are groupies) or the riotous after-parties (again, please let there be after-parties). It’s the site stats. Definitely the site stats. The myriad ways that people find this blog are simply fascinating and, sometimes, completely random. The most popular search terms aren’t the ones [...]
U2 in concert: just as epic as you would think
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bono, bucket list, concert, Nashville, U2 on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So if I had anything as organized as a bucket list, seeing U2 live would definitely be at the top of it. Check. More about this later. I’m still processing. And recovering.
Mailbox fun
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birchbox, Kate Spade Twirl, Laura Geller, makeup, postaday2011, samples on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Girly moment — I received my first Birchbox sample box today. If this collection is a good example of what they’ll be sending every month, then it’s totally worth the $10. It held a sample of Kate Spade Twirl (which, yes, I could have probably gotten at a department store, but then I’d have to [...]
Birthday surprise
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birthday, pinball, pinball machine, pinball parts, postaday2011 on June 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It seems I’m the kind of woman who gets pinball machine parts for her birthday. Awesome?
A proposal to remember
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged marriage proposal, postaday2011, proposals on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have to share two must-read accounts of a marriage proposal: his and hers. It’s my favorite kind of proposal — the kind that ends in laughter and taco sauce.
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