Everyday Beautiful

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Hello friends. In case some of you didn't know, I did pass my board exam. Weeee! Now I just have to wait to receive my pocket license and then all will be well.

The holidays have been fun and I have been pretty proud with my eating choices as I have attended functions. I do need to incorporate some workouts though. I am almost at that point of wanting to work out. Like tonight I feel 70% ready to just workout tomorrow and get it over with. It's just tough because there are things that I need to take care of and I somehow thing exercise will steal time away from me. Silly, I know. I wish I had a jump rope so I could just jump rope for like 20 minutes. Adriana Lima jump ropes to stay fit!

I have yet to start my Christmas shopping. I have to finish my son's shopping at least since tomorrow is my last opportunity to do so while I won't have him with me. he's off of school the next 2 weeks.

Ladies, we all know we shouldn't use other people's makeup right? Well, today I wanted to try out a new mascara my son's grandmother gave me. She said she tried it once and she didn't like it. So I put it on today and got ready for my luncheon. About 3 hours later my eyes started to feel all clogged up and they were gooping with discharge. i went home and completely washed off the makeup and flushed my eyes out with visine. 1 hour later they were gooping up a bit again and then proceeded to itch. I am pretty certain it is pink eye in BOTH eyes. I went to the drugstore and got some drops so I am hoping it clears up by tomorrow. Lesson be had: do not use other people's makeup...STILL!

holy crap it's been an entire month since I last posted. that's ridiculous. I haven't received my board exam results yet and I had a dental assistant from the office I last interned at call me up and ask me if I had received it yet because they need me to work a few days this month. I had to tell her no I hadn't received it yet. I'm still scheduled to work tomorrow for a few hours and then i work 2 days next week. I'm not complaining. I could use the extra cash especially with Christmas coming up.

I've totally blown my diet. I gained 5 pounds over the Thanksgiving Holiday so I am cutting back on my calories trying to drop at least that 5 before Christmas. I feel fat. I actually can see those 5 pounds on my belly. It's not a pretty site nor is it a good feeling.

I've been busy blogging away on my blog empire adventure. I'm getting much better at all of this niche blogging business. Check out my progress.

Sorry for the short update but I do need some sleep since I am working tomorrow. Busy busy!

I'm doing really really bad with eating. Tipping the scales at 196 this morning. That's 4 pounds more than I was 2 weeks ago. *le sigh* It's my own fault. I started counting calories again today, so hopefully I am down to 194 in the next 3 days or so.

I loved my makeup look last night. I went with pinks, although the photo looks like I did oranges. I swear it's all pinks.I took this photo after I returned from a dinner date. Only I threw on my comfy Goo Goo Dolls sweatshirt. lol

I love that I look like I am 12 years old in it. Haha! Go genes go!

11-5-08

I had a busy week last week. Sorry for leaving you all in the dark. It was a pretty amazing week, if I do say so myself.

For starters, I went on a date with an amazing man I met through yahoo personals.

I was absolutely thrilled to meet him when I discovered he was a Leo. Now, I am a Christian and I do not believe in astrology at all, but for some reason I feel Libras have been nothing but trouble for me. So one day I read up on matches for me (a Gemini) and I discovered that a Leo was the perfect match for me. The only problem is I had never encountered a Leo I was attracted to and when I narrowed my search on Yahoo; as far as men that had the criteria I was seeking, none would come up. I kid not, it would show a result of 0 men.

We have only been one one date so far but we text message over 50 times a day and we will be enjoying our second date tomorrow night. He wakes me every morning with the sweetest messages. He is seriously swooning me and I love it!

I also made my son's Halloween costume. He was Wall-E. Unfortunately the costume was sold out and there was no way I was going to pay $160.00 on eBay for it. So we got creative and made it out of a box. We painted it up good and I even made him some cool Wall-E arms. He looks good and he loved it most importantly.

I was Ugly Betty and I didn't look as ugly as expected. Oh well. It was a fun night. The only problem is the candy temptation. I have probably had 10 pieces of chocolate a day since the night before Halloween. My waistline is suffering the consequences too. I weighed in on Friday at 194.6 pounds (which was a 2 lb gain from the week before) and then I weighed myself yesterday and I was 195.2. I did workout yesterday but I didn't today. My son sorta ruined my plans by staying home form school today.

The good news is I have officially eaten every piece of chocolate in that bucket except for the few that my son loves which are the plain M&Ms. With all the good candy out of my site, I should be able to focus on getting back on track.

Here are some photos from Sunday. I really loved this look on me. It reminded me of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

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I haven't updated in about 3 weeks. My projects have been keeping me busy. I plan on starting up a "business" blog and then I will share with you all more details about those projects. I want to make sure I am successful at this before I let the cat out of the bag.

Weight loss has been a game of bouncing between 190-193 for the past 3 weeks. I am not upset about it since I have been much more relaxed on working out. I only did 2 days this week and 1 day last week. I am just happy to not see any alarming numbers such as 195.

As I am looking at this photo above, i think I should post the only picture of took of my eyes closed so you can see the lid colors. I absolutely loved this color combo on me. I used NYX Jumbo Pencil as a base on the lid and then I used my 88 palette bronze/browns on top of the jumbo pencil followed by 2 purple shades form the 88 palette. One was a dark purple on the outer v and then a lighter purple for the crease.

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I'm about 5 days off on my 365 day project. I have totally failed at taking photos of myself the past 5 days. These last two aren't even that spectacular. Meh, oh well. I gotta keep moving on. I am fully aware that day 71 pic is blurry but I snapped it right before bed. Yes I was actually naked in it. You know how beer goggles can make any woman look prettier? Well, I think it's pretty obvious to say that I look the same blurry as I do in focus. ha!

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I watched The biggest Loser tonight and man, Jillian is horrible. I think she has major PMS this week. She went off on her team so much this week. They hardly showed Bob in his gym. The focus was mainly on Jillian's team. I haven't decided who I am rooting for yet. I like the purple team (Shellay and Amy) a lot but I really want the yellow team (Coleen -1 member) to win. She's cute and reminds me of Reese Witherspoon.

I'm still looking for a job but I have a feeling I won't get into the right office until after i receive my license. I just got my board exam schedule yesterday. I am so gonna pass this time!

I've been lazy with working out but I am still watching my diet. Frankly, I have just been so occupied with my "project" that I don't think about eating much these days. Distractions aren't always a bad thing. lol

I'm slowly learning CSS for my project and I have been working on it for the past week. I finally broke down and ordered this book today after already making up my mind I wouldn't. I went to Border's last Friday and say they wanted $40 for it! So then I made up my mind to find some tutorials online and learn for free online. The problem is I get too eager and get bored of all the explanations of why the rules apply here or there, that I end up skipping over information and then get completely lost and frustrated a lesson later. The book has some good reviews on Amazon and right now Amazon has it for $26 and I got free shipping.

Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

Charles Wyke-Smith

Day 68

Despite me looking like utter hell, I am very excited about my new little business venture. I won't comment too much on what it is at this point but when I become successful with it, I will share the knowledge; secret if you will.
It happens to be something I quite enjoy and always have but I just didn't really have the right tools or information to be successful at it. I briefly talked with Shanti once about this on one of her Youtube vlogs. Although I will have to share this with her soon since I am sure she has some advice that she could share with me. :)

Have faith my little friends. Have faith!

I really need to get a move on with getting dolled up with LOTD's. I haven't worn makeup since Thursday's working interview. Blah!

It's 1am and I still have more eBooks to read before bed. I should totally sleep but I am just too excited. Yea...I do that.

This day was so slow and dragged. It probably seemed so long since I was home alone and the house was quiet. I got an email from the office I had a working interview with on Monday; informing me that I didn't get the position but that she wants to keep my resume on file since she will be hiring a full time RDA soon.

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My son starts his soccer season tomorrow. I am so excited for him. He has been very excited about it all week. He's been counting the days until Saturday and he has been crossing out the days on a calender on the fridge. I'm thrilled that he is excited about going. That way I can sleep at night knowing I didn't pressure him to try this. As much as I feel it will be very good for him to develop healthy physical activity; I wouldn't want to push him into something he didn't want to do.

Eating sucked again and I didn't workout today. *sigh* I have got to get back on plan 100%. This whole job thing is stressing me out big time.

I'm sleepy. Sorry so short.

I am getting so frustrated with these job hunts. I went to a working interview today with a dentist that seemed very nice and wonderful in the interview last night. Today I discovered how cheap she was. There was an issue with gloves and me taking them off and grabbing a new pair even when the latex ones were wet. (Water breaks down latex gloves rather quickly.) She led me to believe I would occasionally do front office work when that was not the case. I would be handling front office work as well. Then there was the additional janitorial duties. She expected me to vacuum, mop and clean the bathroom. The final deal breaker was when she assumed I would be there all day to help her (a working interview in the dental field is about 3-4 hours and you are to be paid by the dentist.) She didn't pay me or even mention paying me for my time. As she started talking to me about the afternoon patients I pulled her aside and told her I assumed the working interview was only for half day. I made sure this was ok with her. She said it was fine. She somehow thought this meant I wanted to only observe the afternoon patients so I had to correct her and tell her that I was leaving at the lunch hour because I did not know she intended me to stay the entire day, so I did not arrange childcare for my son after school. It just turned out to be nothing I thought it would be like. I am glad for working interviews so I can see if the offices are a good fit.

Cheap dentists chap my hide! It's one thing to be money conscience but its another to expect others to work three times harder and doing three times the work at a cheaper rate. This dentist is in one of the nicest suburbs around here too. Soooo frustrating!

I decided to respond to an email request to do a market research project for 2 hours next week. I will be paid $150.00 for it. It's kinda cool that God is still helping me make it even with no job. I think this is God's way of dangling carrots to help me be patient and trust him that he has the right job for me. So darn scary! I am scared!

Day 66

I didn't think these job interviews and working interviews would be so stressful. I had another interview this evening with a dentist that I think I would really click with. Her office is nice and in a very nice location. She seems to treat her staff well and all that good stuff. The downside is, she will be paying me $3.00 less than my asking hourly wage. I will be picking up more hours at her office than the office I interviewed for on Monday. I have a working interview tomorrow with her.

I am still waiting to hear back from the first dentist but I don't know if that one will work out as well. Oh the stress of all of this. All of  the girls I went to school with that have jobs now, are making more than any of these dentists have been offering to pay me. I feel I am left behind.

Both offices are a bit slower paced which is really nice! I just dunno. Sooo stressful!

I went shopping for a new interview outfit this morning since my power was out for several hours. I should have taken a photo of me in it but I was too tired and hungry when I got back home tonight.

My makeup in the photo on the left is of pink eye shadows and the one on th right was after washing off the pink look to do a  natural look for my interview this evening.They kinda look the same. lol

I could TJ today but I did my  tear-out weight training routine from SELF. I noticed something fantastic! I can do a straight sit up from a laying down position without lifting my lower body. Hmm, I'll have to video record that for my Youtube update.

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