Quick Post

He he, no my blog did not get marked as spam again, I just have been too busy to really post anything.  I've been working on my school work hardcore lately and our weekends have been really busy.  I'll try to make a bigger post soon to tell everyone whats been happening, but right now I am trying to do 10 things at once haha. 

-Ashley

Hello, I Love You (Won't You Tell Me Your Name!)

GLEE IS BACK TONIGHT!!

I'm in the middle of watching it and I am truly freakin' obsessed.  Hello, can Finn be any hotter?  Of course the answer is no!  I've already downloaded the songs from tonights episode. Thank God this show is back, I was getting so bored!  Holy crap, Sue Sylvester is voguing... YES!!

Anyways, we had such a busy weekend.  First on Friday we went to the Michelle Wright concert.  It was so amazing, she sounded so good!  Jeff and I got our pictures taken with her and I bought her book and got her to autograph it.  I was a really good night.

Saturday night our town held a social to raise money for our local skating arena.  It was really fun, there was a band and lots of dancing.  Lots of drinking too, but not on my part lol.  I just sat back and watched all the crazy drunk people make fools out of themselves.  Sometimes it's actually good not to drink because you are usually the only one who remembers everything and can use it to your advantage later on haha.  I think we stayed there from 7pm - 2:30am, so it was a pretty good night.

Sunday we went out for breakfast with some friends and decided on a road trip to Kenora for the day.  Nothing was really open in Kenora because they don't believe in Sunday shopping I guess, but it was still a really fun day.  We had dinner at Ho Ho's Chinese, good food as always.  By the time we got home though, we were completely exhausted.  I still don't think I've caught up on my sleep.

Jeff is having a games night tonight.  I'm so annoyed.  A certain someone showed up uninvited AGAIN.  Honestly.  Ugh, I'm just going to try to tune out... by listening to the Glee soundtrack!

-Ashley

Busy Weekend Coming Up!

Hmmm, it seems my blog has stopped being marked as spam.  Just wait, now that I've said that it'll freeze as soon as a I press the 'publish post' button.  That's just the kind of luck I have haha.  Don't block my blog Google! *fingers crossed*

We are going to have quite the busy weekend.  Tomorrow night we are going to see Michelle Wright in concert.  For those of you who don't know who Michelle Wright is, she is a country singer who was really big in the 90's but has simmered down a bit in recent years.  Some of her hits are "He Would Be 16", "Guitar Talk", and the more known "Your Love Is The Greatest Gift Of All".  She is coming to our town and we scooped up some tickets to attend.  I'm really excited, I grew up listening to her music.  It should be an amazing show!

On Saturday there is some fund raising social for our towns skating rink.  It needs more money because basically it's a piece of crap and it needs upgrades.  For those of you who don't know what a social is, it's what Manitoban's call parties.  Apparently they are called cabarets in Saskatchewan.  Weird I know lol.  Anyways, there is going to be a live band and stuff like that, so it should be fun!

-Ashley

MS Walk 2010

This year on April 25th I'm participating in the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada walk.  I don't really know anyone personally who has this disease, but it is really serious and I feel like I need to do something about it.  I've already raised $70, but more is needed.  If you would like to help save a life, PLEASE click on the link below and donate.  If you donate $25 or more, you will get a tax receipt mailed to you.  Any amount is good though.  It would be awesome if I could get more people to donate!

http://msofs.mssociety.ca/2010WALK/Sponsor.aspx?&PID=1193262&L=2

Happy Easter and A Quick Message!

Happy Easter everyone!

This is just a quick message to let everyone know why I haven't posted lately.  I don't know what is going on, but the last few posts I've done have been marked as spam and results in my blog being frozen.  It's probably going to happen after this one too (hopefully not, fingers crossed!).  I have to appeal each time to get my blog taken off the spam list because obviously I am not a spam bot, I'm a real person.  This can take up to 20 days to work, so I will not be able to post to my blog for 20 days which really REALLY sucks.  So if I don't post for awhile its because I'm trying to fight this stupid spamming crap.

Now, off to eat chocolate!

-Ashley

On The Mend!

I'm starting to feel better!  I don't think I've been this happy since I started my countdown to Christmas lol.  I actually ate a real meal yesterday.  We went out to a restaurant in the next town over called Jennifer's and I had the Shrimp Dill Soup and 10 Grilled Shrimp platter.  Yes, I love shrimp lol.  I often get that Seinfeld joke, "Hey Ashley, the ocean called, they're running out of shrimp!"  I can't help it though, it's so good and the chef at this restaurant is quite possibly the best chef in the world.  Plus, the meal was only $10, and you would not believe the large amounts of food you get.  I have to be careful though because I lost close to 10 pounds this week with not being able to eat and all and I really don't feel like gaining that all back.  It was just good to have a huge meal after only eating yucky jell-o and chocolate pudding all week.  I never want to see those products again!

Today Jeff and I are heading into a town about 30-45 minutes away for some shopping.  Well, first we have to go to the vet to pick up Dixie's heart worm pills for the season, then we are going grocery shopping and maybe some other shopping as well.  Who knows!  We were supposed to go to Subway for lunch because I am obsessed with their 3 grams of fat turkey breast on flat bread, but I think I might have overdone it last night a wee bit and my mouth is a little sore today.  So maybe we'll skip that. 

Ever get that feeling like someone is staring at you?  I just did and I looked behind me and my cat Sampras is sitting in the middle of the room just staring at me and not moving at all.  *Looks again*... he's still doing it.  CREEPY CAT!

-Ashley

So Hungry...

I never realized how much I depended on food until I had this wisdom teeth surgery.  I know that kind of sounds bad, but after eating only fat-free chocolate pudding and raspberry jell-o for 4 days, you can really start to miss your old favourites.  I can't actually believe I'm saying this, but I am beginning to HATE pudding!  I used to love it!  I guess when you are forced to eat nothing but for days though, you get really sick of it.  Oh how I wish I could chew!

Also, something else happened today with my damn mouth.  I went for a 2 hour nap, woke up, and the left side of my face was swollen so bad that part of my eye is shut.  This is a new thing.  Is this supposed to happen?  Ugh I just want all of this to go away, I am hungry, losing unhealthy amounts of weight in such a short period of time, and man oh man is that turkey breast on flat bread from Subway ever calling my name.

-Ashley

EDIT:  Okay now my eye looks like I've been in a boxing match, its all black and blue.  YAY *rolls eyes*.

In Pain

Well I got my 4 wisdom teeth out on Saturday.  Can I just say that this is the worst pain of my life?  I'm serious.  I've broken my wrist in 2 places, had a concussion, broken my foot, and had a needle in my back when I pinched my sciatic nerve, and all of that put together is like a happy dream compared to what I am feeling right now.  Ugh, I just wish it would go away!  I had no pain before this, the teeth were not hurting me at all!  Obviously this was so sort of money scam by the oral surgeon because I am certain that they didn't need to come out.  Once again, someone in the field of dentistry proving how loyal they are to the Devil!

It was so weird though.  I don't remember anything about the surgery, I don't even remember going to sleep.  The last thing I remember was a nurse guy telling me that my veins were small, then he said "okay, poke!" and I was gone.  The doctor told me before hand that I was not going to be put right out, that I was going to get the gas and be half awake during the whole procedure.  LIAR!  I was put right out, there was no gas at all.  I honestly think I should sue.  Doctors are NOT supposed to lie to their patients about what is going to be done to them.  Son of a bitch!

I'm on 3 medications.  Tylenol 3's (which aren't working for pain at all!), penicillin to make sure that no infection starts, and steroids to keep the swelling down.  Of course they only gave me 2 days worth of steroids so I'm finished them and my face is swelled up like a balloon.  *Sigh*, nothing is going right for me.

There is one slight upside to all this though.  Because my mouth feels like a thousand rusty nails are being hammered into it, I can't eat a whole lot because it's extremely painful and my mouth won't open wide enough to fit anything there.  I've been living off of Jell-o.  Anyways, the good thing is I've lost 6 pounds!  Yay me!  I still hate dentists though, and everyone who works in that field of work!

-Ashley

My ENTIRE Makeup Collection

I joined this makeup forum called Makeup Talk and there is a section in there where people post pictures of their makeup collections.  I thought this was a cool idea (plus I'm bored lol), so I decided to do it and post the pics here.  Okay, here goes!

This is where I store everything.  It's in a wall unit beside my desk in the the living room.

My 2 palettes from Coastal Scents: 78 Eye Shadow and Blush Combo Palette(left) and 88 Ultra Shimmer Eye Shadow Palette(right)

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Pigments that I put into better containers.  The jars they came in had such a small opening that not even a Q-tip could fit in!  I got these from Cherry Culture.  The 4 on the far right column are not NYX, they are miscellaneous.

The Large Makeup Collection from E.L.F.  I got this for my birthday last year.

The Mini Makeup Collection from E.L.F. and a palette that is half lip colours and half eye shadows from The Colour Workshop.  The Elf palette was free with a coupon code this site was having!

More stuff from E.L.F.!  4 creme eye shadow duos that I use as bases, 2 eye shadow duos, and 2 eye brightening quads.

This is just some random eye shadow that I picked up at Wal-Mart or something like that.  The Wet n' Wild palette is called "Vanity" and it has 3 matte and 3 shimmer shades.  WOW it is so pigmented!  Pretty good for only $6! 

My eye primers.  I can't put eye shadow on without an eye primer because my lids are so oily that my eye shadow creases and this helps with that.  On the top left I have an Eye Poxy 2 Primer from Coastal Scents, don't ever buy this.  It is so crappy, its hard as a rock!  Below that is a NYX eye shadow base from Cherry Culture.  It's really good.  In the middle I have 2 Aloette Heavenly Sheen eye primers (one in a box) that I just got from some lady in building who was having an Aloette party.  So far its pretty good.  Below that are 2 E.L.F. primers.  The black one is like a big concealer stick and the one below is a mineral one.  That's my all time favourite one!  On the right side in a Wet n' Wild Idol Eyes creme eyeshadow base pencil.  I got it at Wal-mart.

My mascaras.  The only ones I like here are the Covergirl Lash Blast Luxe, Lash Blast Volume, and Lash Blast Length.  They are awesome!  Especially the volume one, it's my favourite.  The Volume Exact clumps way to much, the Maybelline Colossal is CRAP, way too much product gets on the brush, and the E.L.F. one was a free gift and its too wet. 

Eyeliners.  Just a bunch of miscellaneous ones from Cherry Culture, E.L.F., and Wal-Mart. 

These are my face products.  I forgot to put my blush in there though, it's NYC Blush in Riverside Rose.  Here we have my Covergirl Trublend foundation in 405 Ivory, my Maybelline Dream Matte Powder in Medium Honey, my NYX Loose Powder in Translucent, and my Covergirl Invisible concealer.  All of this was bought at Wal-Mart.

Here are my lip sticks/glosses.  The bottom row is all NYC lipstick bought at Well.ca except for that blue one, that's a Covergirl.  The rest are gloss and lipsticks bought from Aloette, Ebay, Wal-Mart, and Cherry Culture.

Okay the last things are my brushes.  There is a full set from Coastal Scents and a full set from E.L.F.  I just use some glass containers and sand I got from Dollarama to keep them in place.

Well, that's about it for now.  I did just purchase a new 78 colour NYX eye shadow palette from Cherry Culture, but it just got shipped out today so it won't be here for another week or so.  I hope you all like my collection!

-Ashley

40 Beauty Questions

I love doing these, they such a great waste of time!
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Skincare
How many times do you wash your face daily?
Twice: Once in the morning when I shower and once at night before I go to bed
What skin type do you have? (dry,oily,combo)
Combination... I have an oily forehead and noise and dry cheeks
What is your current facial wash?
AcneFree Purifying Cleanser
Do you exfoliate?
Yes, but only on Monday's and Friday's because exfoliating too much can be damaging to your skin.
What brand do you use?
St. Ives Apricot Scrub
What moisturizer do you use?
Garnier Skin Naturals Lift with spf 16 for the morning and Garnier Skin Naturals Lift Night Creme for the night
Do you have freckles?
No
Do you use eye cream?
No, but I want to get some
Do you or did you have acne prone skin?
I do, but I am trying desperately to take care of it.  So far, it's a struggle but I think I am gaining some ground!
Did you ever have to use Pro-activ?
No, mostly because it's so damn expensive.  I use the AcneFree 3-step system.  It's the same as Pro-Activ, but way cheaper and you don't need to join a club or anything.

Makeup
What foundation do you use?
Covergirl Trublend in the colour 405: Ivory
How about concealer?
Covergirl Invisible Concealer in the colour Fair
Do you know your undertone color?
No
What do you think of fake eyelashes?
They are okay, but they seem to fall off me very easily.
Did you know that you are supposed to change your mascara every 3 months? 
Yes, if you don't you can get eye infections from all the bacteria that builds up in the tube.
What brand of mascara do you use?
Covergirl Lash Blast Volume in the BEST mascara in the universe!
Sephora or MAC?
Neither, way to to expensive for me and you can get just as good products or even better for way cheaper if you just know where to look ;)
Do you have a MAC Pro-card?
Nope
What makeup tools do you use in make up application?
Foundation brush, powder brush, blush brush, concealer brush, eye shader brush, eye contour brush, eye blending brush, eye liner brush, spoolie 
Do you use make-up base/primer for the eyes?
I would never wear eye shadow with a primer.  My favourite is the ELF Mineral Eye Primer, but I am running out so I just bought 2 Aloette Heavenly Sheen Eye Primers and I also have a NYX Eyeshadow Base.
For the face?
I just use my Garnier Skin Natural Lift with spf 16 as a primer.  Face moisturizers work the same as primers.
What is your favorite eyeshadow (color or shade)?
Probably NYX Ultra Pearl Mania pigment in "True Purple"
Do you use pencil or liquid eyeliner?
Pencil because my hand is not steady enough to use a liqud
How often do you poke your eyes with an eyeliner pencil?
Never
What do you think of pigment eyeshadows?
They are my favourite because they are so pigmented and pack with colour, but they are really messy to use.
Do you use mineral makeup?
I have never tried them, but I would like too.
What is your favourite lipstick?
NYX Round Lipstick in Harmonica
How about lip gloss?
Covergirl something... it's in my purse and I don't know where that is right now lol.  It's a really nice sparkle light pink
What is your favourite blush to use?
N.Y.C. Powder Blush in Riverside Rose or the light pink blush in my Coastal Scents 78 palette... it doesn't have name
Do you buy your makeup on ebay?
I bought a lip gloss on Ebay once and it was chunky and gross when I got it.  I would never buy from Ebay again.
Do you like drugstore makeup?
I LOVE drugstore makeup!  You can find some really good things if you look hard enough and the prices can't be beat!
Do you go to CCO's? (cosmetic company outlets)
I don't think there are any of those in Canada, I've searched lol
Did you ever consider taking make-up classes?
Maybe, but its not want I want to do for a living so maybe not
Are you clumsy in putting on makeup?
I was when I first started out.  Now I think I am pretty good.
Name a makeup crime that you hate?
Drawn on eyebrows lol.  Its GROSS and looks as fake as it really is!
Do you like colourful shades of makeup (lipstick,eyeshadow) or neutral ones?
Depends on the day.  If its a regular, lazy day, neutrals like brown, tan, and creme.  If it's a party night, bright bold colours like blue, green, and purple!
Which celebrity always has great make up?
I don't know, I don't pay attention to celebrities.
If you could leave the house using just ONE make up item, what would you use?
Probably foundation, so the imperfections on my face are covered up.
Could you ever leave the house without any makeup on?
Yes, I walk the dog without makeup and stuff like that.  When I am going to see people though, I put makeup on.
Do you think you look good even without any makeup on?
Sometimes, as long as I have a pair of earrings on.
In your opinion, what is the BEST makeup line?
NYX.
What do you think of Makeup??
I hated it when I was a teenager, but now I can't see myself without it!  I love it, it's so fun to play around with.