It's Just NOT My Week

Ugh what a week, what a week...

My leg is still in a damn cast.  There is a new development though.  My big toe on the casted foot is now totally numb and has been for over a day now.  No idea why. It's not the swollen part of  my foot, that is by the pinky toe which is fine.  The toe is not turning blue, so circulation is still good.  It's just completely numb.  So annoying!  I tried to sleep with the cast off last night hoping it would make the numbness go away.  Not only did that not work at all, but my foot hurt even worse this morning.  So back in the cast I go.  Thank God Jeff only works 15 minutes away and can come home and take Dixie outside, because there is no way I can walk on this foot.  It's a good thing I only have to be like this for 2 weeks, because if I had broken my foot and had to have been like this for 6+ weeks, I would have gone freakin' insane!

Another thing that totally makes this NOT my week is waking up this morning and having FROST on the ground outside and the temperature be 0°C!  WHAT THE HELL?!  It's not even October yet!  Stupid Manitoba.  This is just what a person with Cold Urticaria does not need.  Oh and to make matters worse, my asshole landlord, who doesn't even live in this town so he doesn't care about anyone but his fat ass, has not turned the main heat on in our building.  So I am sitting here wearing one of Jeff's huge hoodies and I'm wrapped in a blanket.  I can actually see my breath in my own apartment, and all the windows are shut.  It's so cold, Dixie and Sampras are actually under the blanket too, and I didn't put them there, they climbed under it themselves.  I hate this building.  If I could move someone else right now, I would it a heartbeat.

I guess the only thing that I am looking forward to this week is a new set of makeup brushes I ordered from E.L.F.!  I ordered the 12 piece professional brush set.  Here is what they look like:

YAY!  This set sells for $12.00, a dollar a brush.  HOWEVER, this website has crazy ass deals.  I got this entire set, 12 brushes... for 50% off.  $6.00!!  AMAZING!  I read lots of reviews on them and apparently they are pretty good quality too.  They should be in the mail this week.  I know I already have my 15 piece brush set from Coastal Scents, but it's always good to have more that one set in case one is dirty or being cleaned or something.  Overall, good investment I say!  (Oh and I DID get a brush holder like the one I posted a pic of a few days ago, only mine looks way more awesome.  I'll post a pic when I can.)  Of course, if Canada Post takes their sweet ass time (which they usually do) and the brushes are not in this week, it will add to the NOT part of Just NOT My Week!

-Ashley

"Severe Torn Tendons"

Well Jeff came home around 1:30pm yesterday afternoon and took me to the emergency room.  After a total of 5 HOURS of waiting (slowest time I have ever had in a hospital, made worse by the extreme pain I was in) the doctor told me I have severe torn tendons in my left foot and ankle.  I am now in a cast from the bottoms of my toes to just below my knee and I am not allowed to put any pressure on it at all, so basically I can't walk.  Oh and to make matters ever more worse, the hospital only had crutches for people 6 feet and taller.  I am 5'1.  Yeah.  Great.

All is not lost though. Jeff and 2 of his friend, Yuri and Paul, got a little more than tipsy last night and made me some crutches out of 2 hockey sticks, a tree branch, and some foam padding from a sleeping pad used for camping.  I was extremely nervous at first to use them, I mean they WERE built buy 3 drunk guys, but actually they work pretty well.  Not as well as real crutches do, but they will do for now. 

I have to have this cast on for about 3-4 days, then I can take it off but I still am not supposed to walk on it for about 2 weeks.  Oh and also, I am supposed to ice it to make it heal faster but I can't because I am allergic to cold.  So it's going to talk longer to heal.  BOO!

-Ashley

Worst Pain Of My Life!

Holy hell.  I want to cut my foot off I swear to God. 

Last night when we got home from Winnipeg I was sitting down.  When I stood up, I kind of rolled my foot and ended up putting all my weight on the outer side of my left foot.  It hurt a little bit, but it was okay.  However, it has done nothing but get worse.  It is now to the point where I cannot put any pressure on it at all without having extreme pain.  I don't even have to put any  pressure on it at all to feel like hell.

I'm pretty sure I broke it or at least fractured it.  I put a tensor bandage on it to try to ease the pain, but it is not working at all.  It's not really swollen though, that's the thing.  There is definitely something wrong though.  Ugh, it's always something with me!

I'm going to the hospital this afternoon once Jeff gets home from some Toastmasters meeting in Winnipeg.  I'll update on how that goes. 

-Ashley

Anyone Wanna Do My School Work?

Huh, anyone?  Any takers?  Anyone at all? 

I'm sitting here waiting for my lunch to cook (mmmm, fish fillets!) and looking at my mound of school work I am in the middle of.  Accounting is harder than I though it would be that's for sure.  I mean, it's not really HARD work, its just it takes sooooooo long to write out what seems like a million Balance Sheets and Income Statements and Ledgers.  I know what I'm doing and it's easy stuff, my hand just feels like it's about to fall off.  However, I can't complain.  I am extremely happy that I am finally in college.  The 4 year break was a bit too  much.  I didn't have the means to go then though.  Jeff is paying for my college, but not for all of it hopefully.  I plan on getting a job after this first course, SOMEWHERE in this crap town.  They are opening a new retirement home soon and I am going to apply there.  I feel bad that Jeff is paying for this, but it really shows how much he loves me and I am so thankful that he is doing this for me.

Anyways my fish is almost done.  I have to scarf it down and then back to work!  BLAH!

-Ashley

Friday, Friday, Friday!

It's finally Friday!  Yippee!  I love weekends because Jeff is home and we can spend some time together.

Tonight we are heading into the shithole of Canada for some shopping.  That's right folks, Winnipeg.  Winnipeg is by far the WORST town in all of Canada.  The crime rate is so high it's insane, and it's not just crime committed on adults.  In the past month one woman kidnapped a baby and smashed its face into a sidewalk, and a man stabbed his own baby in the head with a knife!  What the hell is wrong with these sick people?  What could a baby possibly do to make some that angry.  It can't even talk yet!  People like this need to be in jail for life with no chance of parole ever.  I don't even know why parole exists really.  You are sentenced to a time, you should serve that full time.  If parole didn't exist, that Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped in the United States would never have been kidnapped.  GET RID OF PAROLE DAMMIT!  I hate the so called 'justice system' in both the United States AND in Canada.  The thing I hate most of all is that sham of a youth justice act we have here.  I mean, a person can kill someone at the age of 17 on purpose, confess to it, and only serve like a year in juvenile detention.  F that.  Send the bastard to jail for life!  Damn laws.  It just really upsets me.

Okay enough ranting lol.  I hope that when we go shopping tonight Jeff will let me buy a cabinet or something for all my makeup.  I have no room for it, it's cluttering up the desk I am supposed to be using for school.  I also need some type of container to hold all my brushes in.  I am looking for something similar to this:

It's really just a vase or glass jar with some filler to hold the brushes up.  I'm pretty sure I can get that all at Dollarama.  At least I hope I can.  Right now my brushes are squished into the leatherette brush roll they came with, and that's not really good for the bristles.  That roll is only supposed to be used for when I travel.  Plus I just ordered 12 new brushes a couple days ago and they don't come with a roll so I will have nothing to hold them.

Well I better get off the computer and start my day.  I have to take Dixie for a walk and then I have to force myself to get some school work done.  Self-directed correspondence is hard because you really have to self-discipline yourself.  It's like being on a diet and having your favourite cake sitting in front of you at all times lol.

I'll talk to you all later!  Bye!
-Ashley

Makeup Haul

I NEVER used to wear makeup before.  All through school I just never wore it.  My younger sisters did.  I guess I just never had the need, time, or money for it.  Now though, due to watching some YouTube makeup gurus, I am OBSESSED with makeup!  I have quite the collection too.

Today 2 boxes arrived for me, one from Well.ca and one from E.L.F. Cosmetics.  I am addicted to these websites.  Well.ca is based in Canada, so the shipping is FREE and almost everything on E.L.F. is $1.  I'm not even kidding.  They are full sized products too.  I'm going to show you some pics of what I got.  Some of the things in these pics I've already had, like the things from Coastal Scents.  I shop online a alot, it's a good way to find good bargains plus I live in middle of nowhere so it's easier.  By the way, this is NOT my full makeup collection.  Not even close lol.

Okay so first I have my Well.ca order that arrived today:

I got 3 N.Y.C. lipsticks.  They were only $0.99 each!  Some people say that N.Y.C. is a bad brand, but I have heard nothing but good things about these lipsticks, and I did my homework.  They colours look the same in the picture, but they are really different from each other.  They are "English Rose", "Flirty", and "Smooch".

Here is my ELF order.  Some things in this pic I already had, but I decided to put them all together.

Okay so from left to right we have : Nourishing Cuticle Pen, eyeshadow duo in Blueberry, eyeshadow duo in Butter Pecan, creme eyeshadow duo in Blueberry, creme eyeshadow duo in Olive, cream eyeshadow duo in Mocha Swirl, creme eyeshadow duo in Sugar Cookie, brightening eye quad in Pretty N' Pink, and brightening eye quad in Drama.   I only received the cuticle pen, the creme eyeshadow in Blueberry and the creme eyeshadow in Olive today.  The rest I already had.  Everything you see in this pic was only $1 each, and the colour and quality is outstanding.  This website is amazing!

Now THIS I also got today from ELF.  It was only $20!!  Jeff bought it for me for my birthday :).  I love him!

It comes in the case shown above...

And opens up and folds out to this:

AMAZING!!  I am in love with this palette!  Okay here it what comes in it:
-84 eyeshadow shades
-36 lip gloss shades
-6 blush shades
-4 concealers
-4 shimmer cream shades
-4 bronzer shades
-1 face brush
-1 lip brush
-1 duo eyeshadow applicator
And it was only $20.  I don't know about you, but that is a freaking awesome deal.  This website and I are going to have a beautiful future together.

I also have some things from Coastal Scents that I got a few months ago that I would like to share with you.
Here is this first:

This is my 78 Eyeshadow & Blush Combo Palette.  It has 60 eyeshadow shades, 12 highlight shades, and 6 blush shades.  This is my favourite thing I own.  The colours are so pigmented its crazy. You only need a tiny amount for a dramatic effect. This was $19.95.

The last thing is this:

This is my Coastal Scents cosmetic brush set.  (The white brush on the end is an eyeshadow brush from ELF, again $1)  Theses brushes are so soft and so easy to use.  Well, all except the fan brush, that white and black one in the middle.  Waste of space in there.  It is crap, doesn't work at all.  If you can find this set without the fan brush, buy that one.  This set with the leatherette roll was $15.95.

So yeah, that is a tour of about ½ my makeup collection.  I have like 6 mascaras and lots of eyeliners and stuff like that, but that doesn't really need to be shown.  Maybe I'll do a full makeup collection when I feel like I am done collecting.  I don't think I'm finished yet lol.  Hope you enjoyed this!  Talk to you all later!

-Ashley

First Blog!

Yay!  Okay I'm really excited about this.  I have a blog on MSN Live Spaces, but I needed a change of venue.  Plus I only updated that one every 6 months or so.  I plan on updating this one a lot more.

So right now I have a HUGE headache and I am really trying to push through this so I can say what I want to say.  I guess this is really  just going to be an introductory blog.

My name is Ashley Easton and I am 21 years old.  Soon to be 22 in October.  I was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia but I grew up in Bowmanville, Ontario.  I now live in Pinawa, Manitoba with my boyfriend Jeff.  We moved here 2 years ago when he got a new job after graduating university.  We also have 2 pets; a 2 year old West Highland White Terrier name Dixie and a 1 year old ½ Siamese, ½ Domestic Short Haired cat named Sampras.  Yes, he is named after the tennis player!

I am currently attending college, but I am doing it through correspondence because Pinawa is in the middle of nowhere and there is virtually no way for me to attend classes on campus.  I think it's better this way though because Jeff works during the day and this town is SO quiet, so I have a lot of time to myself to think.  I am working towards a certificate in Small Business Management so that one day I can open my own dog grooming business.  Right now I am in the middle of the first course in the program, which is Bookkeeping and Accounting for a Small Business.  It's okay I guess, kind of boring but that's to be expected.

Today is the first day of autumn, which is actually REALLY depressing for me.  I have something called Cold Urticaria.  I've only had for the past 3 years, but it's been 3 years of hell.  What it is is I am literally allergic to cold.  If anything cold comes into contact with my skin, including water or even air, I break out in hives all over my body.  It is extremely uncomfortable. Also, if I don't get warm within 5-10 minutes, my blood pressure drops really fast and I end up fainting.  Woo freakin' hoo.  I wouldn't wish this on anyone, I swear.  Allergy pills do not work for it, and there is no cure.  HOWEVER... I have read that if you get this in your young adult years (like me) it will only last for 5-10 years, not your whole life.  So I guess I have 2-7 years left of this.  Great.  I also read that only women get this and if I get pregnant while I have it and I get pregnant with a girl, she will have if for the rest of her life.  I'm not sure if that is true or not, but I hope it's not.  I want a kid before I'm 30 lol.

Okay well I guess that's all for now.  I need to go get something for this headache before I explode.  Talk to you all later!

-Ashley