For those of you geeky enough to love Back to the Future....

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Laura Mercier

So I shared my love of Sephora with my cousin (I would tell you her nickname, but she'd probably kill me since she reads my blog). I feel slightly guilty since now she probably has spent more money on make-up than she has her entire life.  She, in turn, shared her love of this kit:

Awesome.  I have acne-prone skin and this stuff is amazing.  It's all oil-free and it has a compact with two concealers,  one for under-eye and one for redness, both are some of the best I've used.

Now she and I have ruined you all :)

(On a side note:  My sister-in-law was over last night and I talked her ear off about make-up.  Sorry G,  I don't get a lot of 'girl-time'  if you can't tell!)

Swell Season

If you haven't seen Once , you should see it...very sweet. Swell Season, the 'band' (I put it in quotes because it's only two people) has a new album. Here is a video of them; long, but worth the watch:

Go to MOMA if you can.....

I have felt a connection to Tim Burton since forever. He has a collection at MOMA right now that I would love to see.

Following my childhood movie theme...

This was on of the most horrifying movies I ever saw as a child....I can't believe my mom let me watch it. The preview is totally misleading. DOES ANY ONE REMEMBER THIS DAMAGING movie?



Absolutely gave me nightmares.

High Cockalorum!

Water Babies was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. This is the best song from the movie, I used to sing it over and over again:





What are some of your favorite childhood movies?

Admittedly random.

Sorry it's been so long peeps-  I spent most of the last week in Florida and it was glorious! Beautiful wedding, beautiful weather, beautiful friends, and beautiful brother :)

This post may change some of you all's opinions about me, merely because of the fact I got excited about the following, but I'm willing to take that chance.

On two seperate occasions during my trip, I got to use the following hand dryer:

It is the ONLY hand dryer I've used that actually works.  It thoroughly dried my hands in like 5 seconds. I did my research (yay Google) and found out it is a Dyson Airblade.  Serously, I am impressed....I knew engineers were good for something.

Happy Birthday!

Today is Hello Kitty's 35th birthday!  Happy birthday old friend!

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Yummy Tortilla Soup Recipe

[link to recipe]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/accidentalhedonist/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I am a sucker for Tyler Florence's recipes.  Generally, I don't make them often because they usually aren't very good for you.  Anyone who has watched this show has heard him say things like: "I love bacon!" and "Now add a little butter, like half a stick."

His tortilla soup recipe is great (and healthy). The first time I made it I did not fry my own tortilla chips because I was lazy.  K-man made this last night and did fry his own tortilla chips and it was totally worth it--do NOT skip that step!  To make it super easy, he used store-bought organic chicken stock and shredded a roasted chicken for the meat.

*note: The picture is a 'representation' of the soup (via flckr), we ate our soup before I realized I wanted a picture! It did look like that, I swear :)

Wedding Outfit!

One of my best friends is getting married in a couple of weeks (yay!). What do you think of my planned outfit? Keep in mind it is a fall/winter wedding but it is also in Florida so it will also be pretty warm. These two facts presented quite a conundrum for me to be honest.

This also gives me a chance to tell you about one of my current time wasters that my sister in-law introduced me to: www.polyvore.com

I guess they flock together.

I was conflicted about this post because I don't want to give this guy anymore coverage than he's already gotten, but then I thought "Get over yourself! You have like four readers." lol

Anyway, here's a picture:

 Who's that guy on the left?  Balloon boy's father.  Who's that guy on the right?  Scott Stevens, P-town's beloved weatherman who quit a few years ago to pursue researching his theories that the Japanese are creating hurricanes using lasers and such. The two are research and business partners.

(image via: http://scottstevens.mevio.com/)

Sephora Friends and Family sale!

I know a few of you shop at Sephora.  What kind of friend would I be if I didn't tell you about this?

Shop and use promotion code FF2009 to save 20% on your entire purchase.

more makeup

So my most-viewed posts are the makeup reviews.  Here are some more of my favorite products:


As a habitual non-sleeper, I have dark circles under my eyes.  My go-to under eye concealer is Benefit Erase-Paste:

This pot will last you forever, literally.

My favorite mascara is Lash Blast by covergirl.  This mascara is all-encompassing (i.e. lengthening and thickening), will not flake, and is cheap to boot!  I love it

Snow!

I woke up today and it was snowing.  Needless to say I'm not too happy about it. As a consequence the house is cold and we had to turn on the heat.

Here is my cat Cayley:

I'm beginning to think she has the right idea.  She has been sacked out all day as close to the heating vent as she can get.  She is wedged between the wall and an end table.  What's that she's using as a pillow, you ask? A nice warm kitty bed......No, she won't actually get in the nice warm kitty bed, she just likes to use it as a pillow.