Monday, December 30, 2013
Visiting Steph
Today, I went to Virginia to visit my friend Steph who was home for the holidays. It was only fair since she came to my place last year. The face-to-face interaction was very nice and it was great to finally meet her boyfriend that she's been dating for about 3 years.
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Loreal Infallible Eyeshadows
Per NouveauCheap's blog on the CVS winter clearance sale, I went to CVS today and noticed that there were several Loreal Infallible eyeshadows on clearance. The blog post said that they were going to be 50% off, which was already a great deal, but when the lady rang them up, they were discounted at 75%! Even though they had stickers on the other side that said 50% off.
Bah ha, whoo hoo!
I had my eye on Amber Rush because many of the YouTube makeup ladies recommended it, but I found the other colors just as pretty. I would never purchase these at $8.49, but they are totally worth a try at $2.12.
Bah ha, whoo hoo!
I had my eye on Amber Rush because many of the YouTube makeup ladies recommended it, but I found the other colors just as pretty. I would never purchase these at $8.49, but they are totally worth a try at $2.12.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Tinsel Manicure
This is the manicure that I've been sporting the past few days: two coats of Ulta's nail polish in Envy with 2 coats of Nicole by OPI's Stars at Night. It's festive because the glitter resembles tinsel, but I ended up returning this one and the other one that I bought last week on clearance. Maybe I've been around too many food safety folks at work, but the tinsel started looking like multiplying bacteria or lice. As for the other glitter polish, the glitter flakes began to peel off from the red polish. It was so weird. Sorry, CVS, I wanted my $4 back.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas!
The only real productive thing that I did today was do this puzzle that Julie got me for Christmas. Ahh, the holidays! :)
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Merry Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas Eve!
I went over to my parents' house for dinner with some last remaining presents in tow with the pumpkin cheesecake that I made last night. To conserve time and energy, my parents' ordered a take out dinner from Boston Market, complete with ham, turkey, mashed sweet potatoes and regular potatoes, and stuffing. That way, no one would be slaving away at dinner. My cousin Emily brought flan for everyone to share too.
The presents that I received this year can be summed up by saying "practical and smelly." As requested, I got a few Bath and Body Works products to make the house and car smell nice. I also got some postage stamps because I send a lot of fun snail mail (this also came in handy since postage is going up 3 cents early next year). Julie gave me a puzzle that I'll work on tomorrow. RJ got some heavy duty string as a chew toy. I got a Target gift card and Christmas money that I can spend on after Christmas sales. To round this out, I got a set of hoop earrings to replace the ones that I lost back in October.
Hope the blogosphere is having a great holiday! :)
I went over to my parents' house for dinner with some last remaining presents in tow with the pumpkin cheesecake that I made last night. To conserve time and energy, my parents' ordered a take out dinner from Boston Market, complete with ham, turkey, mashed sweet potatoes and regular potatoes, and stuffing. That way, no one would be slaving away at dinner. My cousin Emily brought flan for everyone to share too.
The presents that I received this year can be summed up by saying "practical and smelly." As requested, I got a few Bath and Body Works products to make the house and car smell nice. I also got some postage stamps because I send a lot of fun snail mail (this also came in handy since postage is going up 3 cents early next year). Julie gave me a puzzle that I'll work on tomorrow. RJ got some heavy duty string as a chew toy. I got a Target gift card and Christmas money that I can spend on after Christmas sales. To round this out, I got a set of hoop earrings to replace the ones that I lost back in October.
Hope the blogosphere is having a great holiday! :)
Monday, December 23, 2013
New Office Digs!
Whoa, baby! The day has arrived! Teleworking full-time has officially ended, and today was my first day back in the new office. I kinda had an idea of what to expect, but I was blown away by how nice everything looked.
First, you need to have a key card to even get off on our floor now because there is no lobby door. The elevator doors open and you're on our floor. The new mosaic glass tile that surrounded our elevator doors was very pretty. Some of my coworkers were already there when I got to the office and were unpacking all their belongings from the orange crates. For reference, here's what my old space looked like. All the directors get a hard walled office and those were all on the perimeter of the floor. The rest of us got these cubicles. I was surprised as to how low the cubicle walls were. If you don't angle the computer monitors, you'd be looking at your neighbor's face all day long. That could be a little awkward.
You can definitely hear every conversation going on, so we'll have to learn how to use our inside voices and some of us (not me) will have to learn how to use their headsets so we don't hear conference calls going on all the time.
One new addition to the new space that I could really get used to is our new coffee machine. Not a Keurig. It's like a soda machine (big and fancy and tall and silver), but with coffee drinks instead. I went to visit the Human Resources lady to say hi and chat since I haven't seen her at spin class recently and I told her about the coffee machine. A few months ago, they gave this machine a test run at the office and everyone was thrilled (and caffeinated). I tried the cappuccino and thought it was really bitter. I don't remember it being that bitter before since I had some during the test run. I then realized after throwing it out and getting the vanilla cappuccino, that's the one that I got before. The HR lady was like "Coffee machine? What are you talking about? Are you talking about a Keurig?" Um, pish, no. What planet have you been living on?! How have you not heard of this awesome machine? "Tina, show me!" She loves coffee and was mentioning how much money she spends at Starbucks. I taught her how to use it and she was in complete awe. "Do I have to pay?" Nooo, it's free! "This tastes pretty good for free coffee!"
Yep. Well said.
Julie came over earlier to supervise me making pumpkin cheesecake for tomorrow night's dinner. We watched a lot of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
First, you need to have a key card to even get off on our floor now because there is no lobby door. The elevator doors open and you're on our floor. The new mosaic glass tile that surrounded our elevator doors was very pretty. Some of my coworkers were already there when I got to the office and were unpacking all their belongings from the orange crates. For reference, here's what my old space looked like. All the directors get a hard walled office and those were all on the perimeter of the floor. The rest of us got these cubicles. I was surprised as to how low the cubicle walls were. If you don't angle the computer monitors, you'd be looking at your neighbor's face all day long. That could be a little awkward.
You can definitely hear every conversation going on, so we'll have to learn how to use our inside voices and some of us (not me) will have to learn how to use their headsets so we don't hear conference calls going on all the time.
One new addition to the new space that I could really get used to is our new coffee machine. Not a Keurig. It's like a soda machine (big and fancy and tall and silver), but with coffee drinks instead. I went to visit the Human Resources lady to say hi and chat since I haven't seen her at spin class recently and I told her about the coffee machine. A few months ago, they gave this machine a test run at the office and everyone was thrilled (and caffeinated). I tried the cappuccino and thought it was really bitter. I don't remember it being that bitter before since I had some during the test run. I then realized after throwing it out and getting the vanilla cappuccino, that's the one that I got before. The HR lady was like "Coffee machine? What are you talking about? Are you talking about a Keurig?" Um, pish, no. What planet have you been living on?! How have you not heard of this awesome machine? "Tina, show me!" She loves coffee and was mentioning how much money she spends at Starbucks. I taught her how to use it and she was in complete awe. "Do I have to pay?" Nooo, it's free! "This tastes pretty good for free coffee!"
Yep. Well said.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Crazy December Weather
I had a wacky dream last night that I had a basement in my townhouse. That totally came from left field because I totally don't have one. In my sleepy fog this morning, I thought it was hailing outside, but really it was because the rain was coming down so hard. The weather funkiness continued as it reached 70-something degrees outside today. Hello, it's December! Totally not normal for winter around here.
I decided to skip out on spin class this morning because of the rain and opted to do a load of laundry and make some cookies for the office tomorrow (we're moving back to the office tomorrow, which means no more full-time teleworking). I went to the gym afterwards and also made a pitstop at Ulta to get some heat protectant for my hair. I made a batch of sweet potatoes in the oven when I got home and was a bum for the rest of the day.
I decided to skip out on spin class this morning because of the rain and opted to do a load of laundry and make some cookies for the office tomorrow (we're moving back to the office tomorrow, which means no more full-time teleworking). I went to the gym afterwards and also made a pitstop at Ulta to get some heat protectant for my hair. I made a batch of sweet potatoes in the oven when I got home and was a bum for the rest of the day.
