Ok, if you don’t care about makeup you might want to skip this blog.  You have been warned.

For people who have known me for almost any amount of time know that I have a hard time finding makeup that looks good with my skin tone, especially foundation.  I’ve tried the typical budget brands hoping to find something that’s suitable (or at least passable) and even tried higher end brands like Sephora.  Everything just had too much yellow in it for my complexion.  There’s a Riteaid across the street from me and they have a cosmetics guaranty, and there was a bogo for covergirl so I figured I really had nothing to loose.  I got the Trublend mineral powder foundation in Ivory (among other things) and was very happily surprised.  I was skeptical of it being a powder, but it’s lovely.  It’s so easy to customize how much you want where and you don’t see it!

The second product that I’m very happy with is the CG outlast double lipshine.  It’s a two step color/gloss so it takes a little extra tim, but it’s worth it.  It goes on very nicely and boy does it have staying power!  I put it on and not five minutes later took a drink not even thinking about it.  Lo and behold, no color on the glass.  I press my lips together a lot so I have to touch up the gloss now and then, but the color stays and stays and stays.  

You wanted it so you’ll get it. The married life/wedding blog.

The wedding was a bit spontaneous. We’d planned to go and get the license, but were looking for someone to do the ceremony. Fortunately they had someone there on hand to do the ceremony, so rather than look for someone else that was probably going to change an arm and a leg we decided to do it there. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and it wasn’t horribly muggy (very rare for Portsmouth) Because it was so nice rather than doing it in a hall inside there was a small unmanned lighthouse by the shore that we had the pleasure of using. The ‘marriage celebrate’ as they’re referred to in VA was a pleasant tiny woman who was about 4-6 inches shorter than me even in heels. The ceremony itself was short, sweet and to the point. Not a story book wedding, but fitting. We do plan on getting people together when we move pack to Oregon and including everyone in some kind of ceremony that everyone can enjoy (not sure what it’ll be yet, any thoughts are welcome)

Aside from the obvious *coughcough* things that come with marriage does life change? Surprisingly yes, yes it does. I’ll have to admit I wasn’t expecting much of a change because me and Jason have known each other for so long, but getting married has changed things. In my opinion for the better. Though it wasn’t something that I noticed until after the fact living in the same apartment with someone your in a relationship with and not being intimate is really stressful. So thankfully that’s one stress gone because in life who needs extra stress? Aside from that I’ve taken on more of the financial aspect of things, but some of that is unrelated to being married, it just happened to coincide.

It’s also much easier to pick Jason up from work, not to mention that the day doesn’t have to start at four in the morning, now it can start at four thirty

One of the more interesting experiences I’ve had is having to think of what my last name is before I sign something. It can be a little embarrassing, but oh well ^^;

Joking aside the biggest difference has been something that I wish I didn’t have to deal with in the first place. Being not only white, but a redhead to boot in a black community gets me the lovely experience of being hit on quite a bit. Before getting married mentioning my fiancé wasn’t much of a deterrent, now I can say either my husband or that I’m married (respective to the situation) people tend to leave me alone. Not the best aspect of marriage, but it’s definitely a big bonus.

So there you have it, the marriage/wedding blog.

First of all thank you to the advice I got even if things didn’t go quite as expected… 

Well it hath been cut. there was a bit of miscommunication between me and the hair stylist so it ended up not quite what I was wanting…Anyway I’ll get a pic up hopefully soon depending on file sizes and all of that good stuff, I do feel like I lost about 10 pounds off of my head though, very good considering how humid the weather has been lately. It has been a learning experience though, next time I want my hair cut, I think I’ll be doing it myself with the help of a second mirror.

Oh and no I wasn’t on something when I took the pic, I just look really goofy for some reason, then again self pics aren’t my best thing -_-

Well here I am, and that’s about all I can say in general. The last few days, weeks, I don’t know how long really have been grating on my nerves. The funny thing is that it’s nothing in particular that’s bothering me. If it were that might not be so bad, but no, no one thing has been getting me goat lately, but now I open my eyes and the entire flock is gone. When did all of this happen? I have no idea to be quite honest. The entire episode has left me a bit jaded though. I find myself asking what’s the point anymore? Is there a point? Depression I can understand, but it’s more than that. I feel like I’m at the end of my rope, and rather than a blissful red hot fury that I expected to find, I find questions, questions without answers. That being the case. Does anyone have some rose tinted glasses I could borrow for a while, I’ve misplaced mine.

Yes this is my first entry in my blog here. Between fighting with myspace and css/htm-’hell’ code I’m pretty wiped for the day. I have learned somethings so it’s not a waste of time. This entire site is going to be a work in progress so pardon the dust. >.> My big plumes of smoking dust.