The price of beauty

Since becoming a housewife, I have realized that I no longer have an acceptable reason for my appearance to be untidy. When I worked, I could just say that I was too busy or that the children at school were just hectic. With school involved, my personal time diminished even more. Now I realize I need to spend a little time cleaning myself up. In the search for the perfect lipstick. I came across Nars Red Lizard. Now this is a really nice color. A true red. Also cost $24.00 Is it worth it? Yes. Is it too much money? Well I have paid this much for lipstick before. Lancome is just as expensive. I am interested in checking out M.A.C.'s red lipsticks as well.

I also noticed my teeth not being as white as I would prefer. I am guessing this is attributed to the increased coffee and red wine drinking of my new lifestyle. So I invested another $25.00 in a whitening pen.

The price to keep up the maintenance is amazing. The time for all of it is even more amazing. I have started a typical day with getting up and immediately grabbing a mirror and plucking my eyebrows. Followed by a basic top coat on the nails to keep the red color vibrant. I do research online to see what fashions are trending. Then I manage to get out of bed, and douse myself in Aveeno lotion before getting dressed. What a life...

Monday

Ah. I am so thankful that it is Monday and that I don't work. This past weekend was just hectic crazy. First of all, bad girlfriend that I am, I forgot that it was K's birthday on Sunday. Oops. Anyway, I took him to Best Buy and we purchased a computer game for him to play. I'm sure it will only take him a few days to complete the game, but at least he has a new one.

Also, I got off of my normal medication routine. So I felt pretty crappy all weekend. I got up at 6:00 am this morning and took my pills and went back to bed. The headache is much better now. Hopefully I will be able to eat something and I will be okay.

Since I'm not working, I have decided to get rid of my cell phone. Basically for the fact that since I'm not working, I have no way to pay for it. Bummer. However, I still have a Google number and can be reached there and send and receive text messages. Not too bad.

My father has invited K and I up for Christmas. K did a very silly thing back in September/October and now feels very embarrassed to be around my father. Well as far as I'm concerned it was his stupid mistake. My father understands this and doesn't hold it against K. But K refuses to see my father.

Every time I talk to my dad, he mentions the thought of a marriage. Apparently it has become common knowledge that K was thinking about it. I'm not sure if he still is. I haven't talked to him about it. But since he has his orders to leave for Afghanistan this year, we will just have to wait and see.

OCD is not always a blessing. I spent Friday with Erin and we ended up finding our way to St. Mary's Catholic Church on the Independence Square. We felt the need afterwards to find rosaries. Well turns out, rosaries are getting to be expensive. At the least the nice ones are. So, I decided to create my own. Would the typical five decade one be enough? No! How about the not so traditional fifteen decade one? No! I had to do the research and find out that rosaries are now twenty decades. So, K suggested we go bead shopping and we got the supplies for me to make a twenty decade rosary. I finished it in less than nine hours. Quite impressive. It turned out really nice. Of course my mother suggested that I make rosaries for everyone now. Ugh. I am not making twenty decade rosaries for my family. Nope. Not going to happen. But perhaps I will ponder making five decade ones for a few family members.

Well I am thinking I need a nap and the possibility of making deviled eggs and egg salad. I will be back later today I'm sure.

Just another manic Monday...

Okay. So I am in bed wrapping up my day. Pretty much nothing happened for the first half, but the second got fun and exciting. Well I suppose some would call it that.

I went to the gym. I spent 45 minutes on the elliptical. Then worked the arm muscles a bit, followed by abs. Whew. I can definitely feel the burn. I ended up going with my "step-brother", Andrew. We came back to my house for some warm tea and a light snack of gingersnaps and homemade chicken noodle soup. I did a bit of laundry, washed the dishes that piled up this weekend, collected the mail, and started the coffee for K.

I ended up making homemade meatballs again. They are so yummy. I did good with the carb thing. I didn't eat too much pasta, so it was all good. Afterwards, I spent the evening in the newly created family room with K surfing the computer and watching YouTube and Hulu. By the way, I find Community hilarious for the fact that the Spanish teacher is Asian.

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Ah yes, so Friday evening we had our first argument since I stopped working. K is having some life changing events occur right now with his jobs. So he is the only one bringing in an income and he isn't sure when that will be at the moment. (Side note. When other issues bother K, he always turns those toward money. So the issue isn't necessarily about money. He just says it is. And this is also coming from a very good source, my therapist). So of course he was upset about money, and in reality probably about the fact that he is now more responsible for me and feeling the pressure of possibly leaving the country for work and me being left alone. Plus, he did propose marriage. But who knows when that will be. Anyway, I blew him off to spend time with my friend Karima and her family on Saturday. That was an adventure in itself. Sunday he seemed to want to spend time with me and was remorseful. Again, today the same thing. Remorse, compliments, being huggy and wanting to cuddle. So I am guessing whatever issues he had in his head, he is now done dealing with.

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As for Karima, she is my friend from Sudan. She is from the African tribe of Dinka. She is very very tall. I have missed her and have not really seen her since I left my job. So I finally told her I would go over and spend time with her and her family. By the way, the woman has nine children. Whenever I spend time with Karima, I know it isn't just for a quick visit. It is always time consuming and takes pretty much all day. I headed over there around 1 pm and didn't get home until after 11:30 pm. Yes, very long day. We ate traditional African food, which comprised of asida (sort of like grits) and fried fish heads. Always something new to try with her. But we had a good time and I was even able to practice my hand at doing African hair.

Ketchup...

So I haven't been able to blog for a while. My internet was down. Long story. But I finally got it up and running and it is even faster than before.

So what is new in my world? Still doing the housewife thing. I rearranged furniture in the house. The master bedroom is now the family room/office. The family room is now the living room (no TV), the office is now the master bedroom. My office is now the guest room. I'm pondering painting my kitchen. Though I'm not sure what colors.

I have been reading quite a bit lately. My evenings are spent making dinner. Afterwards I sit on the comfy sofa with a glass of wine, a canister of Swedish gingersnaps, music of either Michael Buble or Norah Jones and reading a book. It isn't a bad way to end an evening.

I am finding that spending time with my working friends is very difficult. Their free time is not the same as mine. My time needed at home is in the evening. Balancing friends is hard! I am going to upload pictures of things I have done since I have been at home.

Whew!

So today was a tough day. I had a tough week of dealing with the dogs being sick and scrubbing sofas. So I thought I should just relax today. I started the day by picking up Erin, because no one should be pampered alone. We stopped at Starbucks and got some Caramela Brulee Lattes followed by a little light tanning to get some UV rays. We ran by the gym for a bit and then headed over to Jason's Deli for lunch. We stopped by Borders to pick up a book with a 30% off coupon. We didn't have a chance to finish our shopping since Erin needed to get back to pick up her children. We plan on finishing our shopping excursion tomorrow.

Hump day...

Well I am getting ready to embark on a eventful Wednesday. At least I have a feeling it will be busy. I am hoping to get to the gym today. However I am not sure when that may be. I am also wanting to get to the book store. Nothing in particular there, just to look around.

Already I have been busy. K has asked me to send him photos of the cat. He found someone who may be interested in the cat. But the person wants photos and wants to know how big the cat is. If they want the cat, they want the cat. Why am I required to send photos. This is ridiculous.

Great. The dogs just threw up and pooped all over the house. Yeah! I am really loving being a housewife. Now I have to go clean up the sofa that I just cleaned yesterday because a dog threw up on it. At least I am hoping it vomit...