1) Do find yourself screaming at the automated system, close to tears, begging for a person to just to "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD...PICK UP AND HELP ME!" Well help may be here sister. I hear there is this site called Get Human and it is chock full of national customer service phone numbers with (wait for it) REAL LIVE HUMANS!
2) Since I'm a sucker for iPhone apps and the promise of streamlined home organization, I was a sucker for the Home Routines App. Based on the same principle as Flylady's cleaning zones, it offers repeat routines, a built- in 15 minute timer and it allows you to customize it to your needs. Not bad. Though I'm still holding out for the Motivated Moms iPhone app. I hope she comes up with it before 2011.
3) You have no idea how this super-dense Foam Roller hurts so good. When those bands of muscle fibers are ridiculously bunched up, causing knots, you need to use your body weight and roll on this bad boy and tough it out. Target sells this foam roller for $24.99 and it comes with an instructional DVD. Think of it as self-imposed Shiatsu.
4) If you are coming here from 2Peas, you are giving me the eye roll and thinking this is so last week. If you are visiting from my personal life you are going to think I am the harbinger of the smartest shopping news ever. This Monistat Chafing Relief Powder Gel apparently is the miracle beauty on the cheap hit of the moment.
Now please, for the love that is all and good and right, please pay close attention to the photo and DO NOT purchase and apply regular Monistat to your face! You Preparation H ladies know who I am talking to. When the commercial said "shrinks swollen tissue", they did NOT mean puffy eyes after you have eaten Chinese food!
Back to the beauty talk: I'm not sure if this can quality as budget shopping since purchasing this $5 chafing powder will not replace any $45 department store make up primer. I never used make up primer. Surely now that I look fabulous with my smaller pore and locked on foundation, it is clear that I should have!
5) This is seriously the CUTEST CUPCAKE BOOK EVER!!!! I took the girls to Borders, then to the grocery store, then finally to Michaels, and we loaded up on supplies and set out to complete our first project tonight. I will admit that the photo below is not ours. Our sunflowers are tightly packed away in airtight containers, but they are JUST as cute! This image is borrowed from someone's cupcake blog (got to love google):
Our idea is to create a new cupcake project from the book each time we set out to bake. The are fairly involved! The girls were desperate to make the puppies, all leashed with thin red licorice, but by the time I loaded up on the candy required for the pug, yorkie, schnauzer, and dalmation, it would have cost me a fortune! The sunflowers were a great first project!
