Ok, I have been reading so many blogs about makeup and what people think about the different brands and such so I thought that I would take a stab at it myself.
For starters, for the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would want to pay exhorbitant amounts of money for name brand cosmetics. $50 for an Urban Decay Naked palette? Come on! That is insane to me. Especially in today's economy? There is nothing I can't stand more than a name brand snob. Just because it is pricey and has a well known name attached to it that makes it more valuable?? I say no way! But I guess to each his own. I am not trying to be hateful here. Myself, I buy mostly E.L.F. cosmetics. I enter contests to try and win name brand cosmetics but you won't find me paying full retail for anything MAC or Urban Decay. Ebay or swaps or giveaways are the only ways I'll get my hands on name brand cosmetics. I have thought of going to visit my local Ulta store just to see what they have. I just bought 6 NYX jumbo eye pencils on Ebay (can't wait to get 'em) and if I like them I might go and buy one at a time for $4 but no way could I afford 6 of them at that price.
I am also a bit addicted to YouTube. I watch makeup videos all the time! I watch tutorials, reviews, you name it. I have recently discovered Lacura cosmetics which is Aldi grocery store's brand from Germany. It's a good product! Check out your local Aldi and I'll bet the shelves are nearly bare. They were the last time I went so that much mean something. But going back to YouTube, I have some favorites that I like to watch. One of them is MickiLynn (I think that's how you spell her name). She is so pretty and down to earth but she does seem to be a bit of a makeup snob as she has alot of name brand stuff. But I do like watching her videos. Another is Hapamanda. This woman is gorgeous! She has an exotic look about her but she is so nice. She even responds to my facebook comments. She does giveaways all the time and I am hoping to win one some day.
Well, it's about time for me to go home now so I'll blog some more another time. Feel free to comment on anything I've said.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
A whole lotta fur
So, this is my first blog and my first post so bear with me as I learn the ways of blogging. I wanted to make one blog about my fur babies. I have 4 dogs and 1 cat. My dogs, from oldest to youngest, are Jack, Dempsey, Gizmo and Chiclet.
Jack is a 9 year old Papillon x Pomeranian. He was given to me out of the back of a pickup truck at a local gas station. Hubby and I were returning from a belated honeymoon when we stopped at a gas station close to home and I had noticed this little puppy in the back of a pickup truck. He just stole my heart and I told my husband that i wanted him. He then asked the guy that was driving the truck about the puppy. He asked if we wanted the puppy and I said "YES". He said we could have him! I was so excited. Jack was about 6 months old at that time. On our way home from picking up my daughter, Jack got car sick. I never saw or smelled anything so awful. It looked as though Jack was being fed some sort of skin, chicken maybe. It was so nasty and all over the floor board and back seat of the car. It was a good thing we took him. I don't think he was very well taken care of. He's a very good dog. He was so easy to housebreak and crate train. I wished I had taken more pictures of him when he was a puppy because he was so cute. He is getting old now and is quite a cranky dog. He doesn't like. little kids. He tends to want to nip at their feet, especially if they are running. He has developed this odd fear of grass. When he goes outside to do his business, he tries so hard to avoid the grass. He'll even poo on the street during walks. If the grass is wet he really doesn't like it.
Dempsey is the next oldest. He is a 3 year old brindle Boxer. Boxers are my favorite breed of all time. He is my 4th Boxer. My first one was a white female named Gypsy that I co-owned with an old boyfriend. She was an awesome dog. I had 2 other females after that, Jasmine and Blaze. I lost Jasmine through a very sad series of events that I wish hadn't happened. I bought Blaze a few years later. I had her for a couple of years and she contracted distemper and had to be put down. I had never had a male before Dempsey and I believe that the males are easier to train. He does have occasions where he will not get outside in time and he will "zig-zag" on the carpet but this is mostly the human's fault for not noticing the subtle signs that he has to go out. My 25 year old son has adopted Dempsey as his own and when he moves out he will more than likely take Dempsey with him. Once that happens, I will have 4 dogs left. That brings me to the next one...Abby.
Abby is the newest addition but she is almost 3 years old. My husband had been wanting a German Shepherd but I knew that we couldn't have a full sized pure bred GSD due to my housing situation. I was browsing Craigslist one day and found Abby. She is supposed to be a pure GSD but is very small at only 45 pounds. If she is a cross I have no idea what she is crossed with because she has the typical markings of the GSD as well as the big ol' bat ears. She is the best natured dog I have ever seen. She would make a great therapy dog. We might look into that.
Chiclet is a 2 year old female Chihuahua.
Jack is a 9 year old Papillon x Pomeranian. He was given to me out of the back of a pickup truck at a local gas station. Hubby and I were returning from a belated honeymoon when we stopped at a gas station close to home and I had noticed this little puppy in the back of a pickup truck. He just stole my heart and I told my husband that i wanted him. He then asked the guy that was driving the truck about the puppy. He asked if we wanted the puppy and I said "YES". He said we could have him! I was so excited. Jack was about 6 months old at that time. On our way home from picking up my daughter, Jack got car sick. I never saw or smelled anything so awful. It looked as though Jack was being fed some sort of skin, chicken maybe. It was so nasty and all over the floor board and back seat of the car. It was a good thing we took him. I don't think he was very well taken care of. He's a very good dog. He was so easy to housebreak and crate train. I wished I had taken more pictures of him when he was a puppy because he was so cute. He is getting old now and is quite a cranky dog. He doesn't like. little kids. He tends to want to nip at their feet, especially if they are running. He has developed this odd fear of grass. When he goes outside to do his business, he tries so hard to avoid the grass. He'll even poo on the street during walks. If the grass is wet he really doesn't like it.
Dempsey is the next oldest. He is a 3 year old brindle Boxer. Boxers are my favorite breed of all time. He is my 4th Boxer. My first one was a white female named Gypsy that I co-owned with an old boyfriend. She was an awesome dog. I had 2 other females after that, Jasmine and Blaze. I lost Jasmine through a very sad series of events that I wish hadn't happened. I bought Blaze a few years later. I had her for a couple of years and she contracted distemper and had to be put down. I had never had a male before Dempsey and I believe that the males are easier to train. He does have occasions where he will not get outside in time and he will "zig-zag" on the carpet but this is mostly the human's fault for not noticing the subtle signs that he has to go out. My 25 year old son has adopted Dempsey as his own and when he moves out he will more than likely take Dempsey with him. Once that happens, I will have 4 dogs left. That brings me to the next one...Abby.
Abby is the newest addition but she is almost 3 years old. My husband had been wanting a German Shepherd but I knew that we couldn't have a full sized pure bred GSD due to my housing situation. I was browsing Craigslist one day and found Abby. She is supposed to be a pure GSD but is very small at only 45 pounds. If she is a cross I have no idea what she is crossed with because she has the typical markings of the GSD as well as the big ol' bat ears. She is the best natured dog I have ever seen. She would make a great therapy dog. We might look into that.
Chiclet is a 2 year old female Chihuahua.
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