Oh ya, postage.

Kittens are great… but only during daylight hours, when night falls they turn into party monsters, the only thing that is missing seems to be the keg and disco ball. We adopted a kitten recently and although it was supposed to be my husband and kids kitty as well as mine, it has sort of attached itself to me. I have never experienced such a clingy kitten, it jumps on me at the drop of a hat, when it’s on the floor and im standing up it leaps into my arms… this is one talented feline. We have an older cat I have had for almost 14 years and the kitten has made me notice how old he really is, my poor old man has grown chunky and lazy, when did that happen? I have to put him on a diet because he is eating too much, I had a self dispensing food dish but ever since he had a couple bad teeth removed he has started packing on the ounces (that’s a lot for a small built kitty).

Snickers, our new kitten

I have not been doing as much in my back yard lately, I think the heat is one part of the problem but the rest is just the daily struggle with depression. My mood swings tapered off for a while but then a couple of days ago I became angry and anxious and there was nothing I could do to relieve these symptoms, it felt so uncomfortable that finally I just started balling like a baby and wouldn’t you know it, my symptoms the next day were almost entirely gone… I guess I just needed a good cry.

I have been trying to find the perfect yellow and green eyeshadow and I have been missing the mark because either the color turns out to have very little pigment or it is just to neutral of a shade… I am on a quest to find some better eyeshadow pallets… for now I have made a few cool looks with my newer colors.

Yellow and orange

Purple and silver

green, aqua, blue and orange

That’s all for me tonight, I am one tired cookie!

-Nicko

Weedle think’s Jeff Dunham is hot… like, Jalapeno hot.

The other day was my Weedle kitty’s vet appointment and im glad to say he is doing great, they cleaned his teeth and extracted two of them, he is eating (soft food) and drinking water. He came home with medication and he seems to be a bit wobbly but other than that he is my same love bug.

I got my new Avon books so I already have my fingers poised to circle the items I want/need/have to have. I am honestly a junky when it comes to beauty products, especially when they say “anti-aging”, the only real beef I have with Avon is that the kids stuff they sell are mostly for girls, I want to see more neutral and boy items in the kids section because lets face it, a lot of the people out there that buy from Avon have kids and grandkids so there bound to want to buy them something too. They have a little bedroom door name sign for girls in the new catalogue, I would love to get one for my daughter and my son to put outside of there bedrooms… but nooooooOoo, they don’t have one for boys and I do not want to get one child something and not the other, i want to be as fair as I can with my kids.

Big brother trying to pick up Little sister

Last night was pretty good, me and the hubby went to see Jeff Dunham live at the Stockton Arena, talk about some small seats and almost zero leg room for tall people (guess i cant whine since im short eh?). I for the most part enjoyed the show except there was no new material for Bubba J which to me is the funniest character besides Walter, so that was a little disappointing. Guitar Guy did a good job at making everyone laugh, especially when he was talking about his son who is a band member of avenged seven fold. All in all the night was good, I just wish they had more elbow room and maybe someone walking around taking drink orders lol… no booze for me 😦

Drinking beer and watching NASCAR!

been thinking about spending some of our tax return on a new dish washer because the old one always tells me he will do them tomorrow and the previous one before him doesn’t work so it’s either I bully the hubby to wash the dishes ASAP or continue to multitask while doing the dishes… sigh. The only thing that holds me back from getting a new one is price, I don’t want to get a cheap one because it has to last untill either I kick the bucket or untill we become millionaires (which do you think will happen first hmm?) so I have one I like in my wish list but I am still unsure if it’s the best in my price range *sigh* who would have thought I would be asking for divine intervention in choosing a dish washing machine. Or i can just hire this guy;

This guy can come wash my dishes any time!

Now hopefully the hubby doesn’t get his boxers in a wedge lol… anyways on a serious note, I like cake. a lot… la la la, ignoring the hot image and thinking of the hubby… and cake.

Okay now, where was I?

I saw a sexy looking recipe on TPW’s blog I am dying to try… basically you just take some  jalapeño’s, cut them in half, take out the seeds and the white membrane… stuff cream cheese in the jalapeño halves, wrap each one in a bacon slice… poke a toothpick through each  one to secure the bacon so the stuffing doesnt plop out and you bake it till its good’n cooked… sounds like a good time if you pair it with a strong bloody mary with some chips and dip. But seriously, look at this thing… im gonna call it a sinister bacon wrapped jalapeño popper with tude!

The Pioneer Woman is my muse and I would totally marry her if I wasnt married and streight

So I think im going to make some of these little things soon and post about my experience with them… and of course I need to take more pictures of my lashes soon so I can update y’all on my L’oreal lash serum trial run.

tomorrow is another day, and I hope I can get all my chores done… laundry is the bane of my existence. till then.

-Nicko

insomnia = sucky

Today was pretty busy and sleep did not happen last night so it was also stressful. I had to pick my mother in-law up from the hospital, she is finally better and able to be home once again. I am struggling pretty bad with insomnia, I have ambien to take but I try not to take it because I don’t want to be dependant on a medication all the time, little good that does me since I don’t sleep if I don’t take them so I can’t think streight, I have the attention span of a zombie and im overly moody right now. I am going to give in tonight. If I didn’t love sleep so much I would hate it.

I made some awesome burgers tonight for dinner, I mixed egg, BBQ sauce, shredded cheddar and chopped bacon into the meat before I cooked them… slap those puppies on some potato buns with a slice of american cheese and BAM! those are some sexy burgers. Deep fried some potato wedges and made a special sauce to pair it with, what an artery clogging match made in heaven.

Got some new Avon book’s so I will be browsing through those for a few days untill the pages start to look like toilet paper. I am almost feverishly looking for that elusive product that has not been invented yet, it is so mysterious that I dont even know what it is yet.

Things on my list to do this week are too numerous to count but one of the major things (at least for me) is I have to get my cat in to see the vet, his teeth are bugging him and I’m pretty sure one of his front fangs need to be extracted. I am so petrified of taking him in though, because they will have to put him under to clean his teeth and he is 13 years old so im worried he will not make it… it’s kind of dramatic to think that but I am naturally a worrier but I will do it, I have to think of what is best for him and I know I wouldn’t want my teeth to bother me all the time.

My weedle kitty

Well that’s all from me for tonight, I have to go play game’s on Facebook lol.

-Nicko

Diet’s, food and willpower oh my!

I can honestly say I do not think enough about what I put into my body. I will eat anything with cream filling and take any pill that promises energy (as long as it is legal) and I have no thought of “is this good for me?” and I wish I put half as much into my health as I did in finding the right make-up and anti-aging products.

I stopped making new years resolutions that involved the words health and food quite a few years ago and along the way I have learned that there really is no quick weight loss method and there is no such thing as a good diet of course there are healthier diets and real weight loss methods that work but that is only going to work if you want it to but nothing will work for me right now, not because im allergic to vitamins and low fat products, but because I am in love with food, head over heels crazy in love with it, it comforts me, occupies me and even takes some of the stress away.

So how am I supposed to throw a bond that deep away? Willpower! but guess what? I have no willpower, I am a quivering bowl of jelly in its presence and am rendered completely powerless… so ya, no aspirations of grandeur for me. All these things will probably tell you why I worship Paula Deen… yes, I said it, I worship, Paula Deen. If I could trade her for one of my grandparents I would (sorry Nanna, you have been chopped!)

Paula Deen in all her greatness!

In all seriousness though, I would love to have the willpower and the pure energy it would take to change but it is not my time right now. Until then I am just going to be me and try to steer my family away from the pitfall’s I have fell into, I do not allow my children soda (not that the baby would like it) and I watch what they eat, this is all I have to give.

-Nicko

Updatedness

I woke up at 7am this morning and took 2 hydroxycut pills and they did absolutely nothing for me and was hardly able to keep my eyes open and weirdly it also did not help suppress my appetite… so it was a very stark contrast to yesterday but I took 2 more of the pills a little after dinner and BAM they worked again, so I have no clue what the deal is lol, im just going to go with it.

okay, so down to business, (or the lack thereof) I took some pictures of my eye lashes today and did not notice any difference between last weeks and this weeks pictures but I am still going to post the results of all three shots just to be consistent;

• Before

Before Lash Serum

• Week 1

1 Week After

• Week 2

2 Weeks After

I still have high hopes for the L’oreal Lash Serum so I will keep updating until I run out of the serum I bought, and most likely that will also be when I decide if this product is worth me purchasing more.

Lately I have been recording a lot on my DVR but sadly have not found the time to actually watch any of it and I probably have a good 12 hours of content saved up so far, I really hope I can get to it all soon… anyways, that’s all for tonight folks, I have to sleep sometime 🙂

-Nicko

Hazy morning and a poad

The view outside of my bedroom is fantastic sometimes, I can just stare out there while the kids play around on the floor in my room and I sort of just zone out a little… but this morning the view was stunning.

Here is how it looked outside my bedroom window when I woke up this morning;

the view outside my window

I did not want to really get out of bed when I woke up, but of course the sound of tiny human beings wailing for breakfast jettisoned me out of my state of slumber… at least the view was nice.

After making pancakes I finally got to try out the Hydroxycut advanced pills I bought and surprisingly they woke me up and motivated me to do more than sit here and drool on myself. I am going to make one observation about these pills, they are not, I repeat… NOT, for people sensitive to caffeine because if you take these they will probably make you develop the shakes and have a fierce headache. I read quite a few reviews on Hydroxycut and very few people could take the side effects and the ones that could had to remind themselves to eat… I did not have to remind myself to eat, but I did skip lunch though. By the time dinnertime rolled around I was starving and it was almost pure torture cooking, the food smelled so good! I made chicken fried steak 😉

In other news, I got my Valentines day gift early from my hubby, I took a pic of it right when I opened it;

sugar plum poad

In case your wondering what your looking at, this is a statue of a creature called a Poad, it’s creator is Melody Pena, she sculpts a wide range of fantasy creatures, you can check out more of her creations from her website http://www.windstoneeditions.com/

Anyways, im going to try to take pictures tomorrow of my lashes so I can make an update on the lash serum and hopefully at the end of the week I will be getting some more Avon products

-Nicko

The Perfect Apron

I am super stoked! Mostly because I have been wanting an apron to use while cooking for the longest time but have not bought one because I havent found one I liked… Until now!

Last night I was doing my usual nightly ritual of looking for miscellaneous items around the net when I just happened to stop by Etsy and clicked on the “pounce” link. I was just browsing around when lo and behold there it was! The perfect Apron!

It is so pretty it almost hurts my eyes!

I had to send the lady who makes them a message so I could make sure my size was available (even if they are 1 size fits all kinda things) since I am of the bigger breed of woman lol.

Anyways, so now that I will be getting my apron I am very content… and so are my shirts (no more food prep stains!)

-Nicko

Does the L’Oreal Double Extend Lash Boosting System work? I think so!

A little over a week ago I bought the new product called “L’Oreal Double Extend Lash Boosting System” and even though I have only been using it a week, my lashes feel a bit thicker and look a tad longer… so what im doing now is taking a picture every week to keep a record of the progress (if any) that take’s place. I am going to update every week (or near every week) with a picture to see how good this product really is.

Here is how my lashes looked right before using the product:

Before using lash serum

And here is how they look after 1 week of use:

After one week of use

So far these are my results and I have to say I am impressed… Both pictures were taken on the same settings with the same camera. Can’t wait to see my end results!

-Nicko