hula hoops and hampster wheels

I know you've probably heard of a bad hair day. Maybe a bad eyebrow day? Well today - I had a bad face day. Let me describe for you my issues,



1.

dark circles under my eyes: yes, this is an ongoing issue for me - since i turned the tender age of 10 really. It's genetic and I can't help it - but some days it looks like I beaten in some dark alley.

If I remember to smear on my VitaK before bed it's a little better but today was not that day.



2. pimples. I rarely get them but I've got three. One in the middle of my upper lip, one on my chin and one above my eyebrow. I tried a new cleanser recently and will discontinue use.



3. Dry patchy spots on my left side near my jaw bone



4. eyebrows - they were pretending to be centipede legs and wouldn't lay flat all day and no they are not in horrible shape I was waxed a week and a half ago... or was it a little longer - ok so I might have to remove a few strays but I'm not at the point where I need to wax them again.



5. the upper lip curse - this I know needs to be addressed - but due to the damn pimple I have dead center - I can't do anything with it but tweeze around it and I really don't feel like crying for an hour - getting half done and of course not as smooth and pretty as post wax (after the redness subsides that is)

So yes, I don't know if it's my horomones or if I slept funny but today was not a good face day for me. So now I'm off to get my beauty sleep. I hope to god it works since I see Clinton tomorrow.

So it might be that time in my life when I can't delusionally hope that 10-20 pounds will magically fall off. How did they get there. Well ok I admit it - I'm not the healthiest eater in the world,. I had a very strong addiction to king size kit kats for breakfast.

I've broken myself of that habit. But there are some things I will not sacrifice in the name of skinny jeans, like butter. I love my butter. I can eat buttered white bread (no, not toast- just bread) as a meal. I love the rich creamy goodness. I can pick out imposters with ease and I will not ever be a fan of anything but my sweet cream butter.

So since I won't give up butter or all chocolate - I've cut back the intake (minus of course this pms week from hell.) I tried drinking water - but I really need the bubbles - so maybe the next move is to bubble lightly flavored water.

I have cut back on McDonalds - this happened naturally I guess once my body hit the ripe old age of 27 I realized that McDonald's can only be consumed when in Rochester or LaCrosse or a once a year breakfast. The problem is probably eating out for date nights - it's not the easiest thing to do - but I have found a place that I will drag Clinton to - because it is both healthier and fun and you should check to see if you have one in your neighborhood. It's called Salad Creations. It's like subway for salads but has the one step up environment of a noodles or chipotle. I reacently had my first experience there and it was fun - and healthier than Arby's or at least more fiberous., Here's the link: http://www.saladcreations.net/

I'm just website woman today.

So I was an avid listener of ks95 for a couple years. But the morning show gal - is a little too self righteous for me and always banging her bible -- not exactly something I want to hear about on my hour long commute to work - (no this is not delilah that was ranting about earlier.)

So now - thanks to Jacque at work I have made the switch to 107.1Fm - It's hillarious talk radio.
It's great - so great in fact that I encourage you to take a listen or check out the website at least. I know I already put up a website for today - but if you are reading this you really must have 5 minutes to click here: it's a link to the afternoon show - which is a little more lively. But the morning show is a married couple and also entertaining since they are in two different studios.

Clinton doesn't particularily like Laurie and Julia but that's ok - we can listed to his radio station when he is in the car - and I can have funny talk radio for my 10+ hours of driving to and from work a week.

I don't know about you but sometimes I go into a store for 1 thing, usually under $20 - often under $10 and come out of said store spending over $40. Target is bad for this, so is any craft store.

The otherday I went to the grocery store to get : diet coke and a loaf of bread.

I came out with:
Diet Coke
Potato Chips
More Poato Chips
Vanilla Bean Icecream
Chocolate Fudge Sundae Icecream (yes, I know - I don't eat icecream - but I was craving it)
Loaf of bread
Chocolate frosted Cupcakes
White frosted cupcakes.
Gum
Candy bar

and $40.00 later I have satisfied all premenstural cravings.

Today was a little better - I was at work. I ate some heart healthy life cereal, some doritos were consumed to balance out the sweet of the cinnamon life and by lunch I was running a little low on diet coke - I luckilly made it out of the store for $12 - those chunky chips ahoy had my name on them - yes, two packages. Don't worry they are locked in my desk drawed for tomorrow.

I really hate it when I have to call some customer service center's toll free number - get put on hold and told that there are high volume calls and they reconmend I call back during a different time. I've called at various hours -- and they all seem to be high volume time. Grr.

I am a patient and understanding person most of the time. I however do not like it when I sign up online for a service but I can not cancel said service by clicking online - noooooooooo instead I have to talk to some english speaking person from India. Who is going by the name Kim or Tom or Dorothy.

Today I went to cancel my netzero dial up service. This subscription was to be a one month deal and today was the last day of the month - I being a procrastinator of course put this off. I only subscibed to netzero while I waited for my mother's preferred earthlink download disk to come in the mail. I really don't care, dial-up is dial-up - my mom likes earthlink, I like earthlinks format better, but really nothing is wrong with netzero either. I call the number - attempt to cancel the service with Customer Service Representative Kim. Kim is rude and curt from the get go but makes three attempts to convince me to stay with Netzero. I realize this is her job - I politely decline and state I would just like to cancel the service. She places me on hold. I listen to some bad elevator music. She comes back on said that it has been cancelled. I then proceed to request that my card which was prematurely charged be refunded. Kimmy must have had a bad day because she hung up on me.

I call back. Pissed off at Netzero. I go through the whole high volume bullshit - crappy music - and then I talk to Tom. I request a manager to report of course that Kim has hung up on me, get my refund and be done with Netzero. Tom is courteous and sympathetic to Kim's failure. He agrees to process my refund of $9.95 but the refund transaction to my card will take 2 billing cycles to appear on my account. I repeat back to him - "It will take 60 days for the $9.95 to be returned to my account?" Yes. "Is there any way to expidite that?" I can forward it to my superior. Ok. Please do. He gives me the confirmation number. Asks if I still need to speak with his manager about Kimmy. I go on hold for the manager. I get to speak to Dorothy next. Get the refund expidited to 48 hours. Complain about Kim and Praise Tom. But still I'm irritated with Netzero. I really didn't give two lumps about the $9.95 and probably would have just let it slide if Kimmy wasn't so rude, but after she hung up on me I went into the very rare bitch mode that of course is all powerful. So now I have to wait til Monday or Tuesday - check my account to see that the refund has been processed. Blah blah blah. Grr.

So in the land of this world wide web I've found a fun website to share.

http://www.divinecaroline.com/


It's fun, informative, check it out.