Popsicle Nails

Anyone who knows me, knows that I refuse to have plain jane nails.

Every time I paint them I strive for something different. Something unique. Something funky. Something that stands out from the crowd.

A while back I saw something on the internet that caught my attention and it seemed easy to do. The original idea was to create a color gradient on your nails using a makeup sponge.

Generally you want to grab three polishes of a similar color. Three blues, three greys, three purples, etc. But I didn’t feel like going through all of that, plus I would have had to purchase extra shades of polish to complete it. So I decide to create Popsicle Nails instead.

I call them popsicle nails because the end result reminds me of those giant popsicles kids get that have multiple colors. I chose a nice bright pink and bright blue for mine.

I do like how the effect turned out, it’s definitely eye catching but my one regret is that I put the pink on first. I misjudged my blue and thought it was brighter than it really was. Next time I’ll have to do the colors opposite or thin out the blue with some clear polish.

The process itself was very simple. Just take a flat edge of the makeup sponge, paint across it with one of your colors and sponge it onto your nails then repeat with the other color. I also like how the less precise you are, the neater the effect. It looks like a popsicle from a normal viewpoint and has a nice grunge effect upon closer inspection.

Now I’m just trying to decide whether or not I want to fix my toenails to match. 

*ponders* decisions, decisions.

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My Lovely Nanny

Going shopping with an 84 year old and their walker is always an interesting experience. And my trip to Wal*Mart earlier today with my Nanny was no exception.

She alwaysgets super frustrated when she has to go to the store and seems to think that it’s ‘too much trouble’ because of her walker.

As if a little thing like a walker is going to change any part of our minds about taking her any and all places she’d like to go, no matter where it is.

Needless to say she was in her ‘I’m going out’ funk. Mom always gets up in arms when Nanny puts on this attitude but the way I see it, she’s 84. She can bitch about whatever she wants to. I think she’s earned that right, so I always overlook it and just keep shopping with her.

Then we hit the  frozen dinner isle… The isle Nanny had been itching to get to… And that’s when it took everything I had to keep from giggling.

Every two or three freezer doors she’d stop her walker, point and say ‘What’s that? I want that one!’ 

The words and pointing weren’t what was striking me as funny. The funny part was that she’d neatly park herself and her walker in front of every freezer door she wanted me to open and dig a box out of so I’d have to take her by the elbow and say ‘Ok Nanny, but you gotta scoot over a lil bit!’

It took about 20 minutes to get all of her frozen dinners and mom just couldn’t figure out why I was stifling back my giggles.

84, fiesty and adorable. That’s my Grandmother in a nutshell and I love her to death. She never ceases to put a smile on my face!

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Nervous

Tomorrow I finally get to make a doctor’s appointment to: 

1. get medicine for this helacious code Drewbie contaminated me with.
2. set up another appointment at the hospital to have my back x-rayed so we can figure out what the hell is wrong with it.
3. hopefully get some help in the sleep department.

The x-ray set up really should be at the top of the list since it’s my first and main reason for going to the doctor but I already have it listed as b. so that’s where it’s going to stay…

It’s 5:36am. I’m tired. Don’t judge me.

My back has been hurting me off and on for years now but for the past three weeks I’ve been gripped with excruciating pain that nothing, and I do mean nothing, touches.

I’ve spend the past three weeks laying in bed on top of my heating pad.

I’ve tried hot baths, cold packs, hot creams, cold creams, medicated creams, stretching, exercise, ultram, vicodin, dilantin… and a whole slew of other stuff to make the pain go away but nothing touches it. Nothing even so much as puts a dent in it.

I’ve spent many nights curled into a ball, many nights crying and many.. many nights angry with frustration.

Part of me is really glad to be going to the doctor but another part of me is petrified of what it might be. I’m scared to death that the results of the x-rays will come back showing signs of degenerative bone disease. 

As for what degenerative bone disease is: it’s a disease where the cartilage between your bones deteriorates. Once that happens you get a nice bone rubbing against bone action which is what causes the excruciating pain. Cartilage is your friend, it’s a nice, squishy pillow that keeps your bones together but spaced apart just right… oh, and sharks are pretty much all cartilage. 

Another nice thing that happens to people with degenerative bone disease is the growth of spurs on bones. I don’t quite know what causes that but I know it looks scary. Mom had a spur removed from her spine as well as her foot so I know for a fact that, that is not a fun experience. 

But, on the plus side of life I found out this past Wednesday (4/23/12) that my disability was finally approved. 

I about dropped the phone when the lady told me the news and had to ask her to repeat herself three times. After which I was nice enough to throw in a very stunned ‘are you for real?!’ 

I’m pretty sure the woman thought I had far more mental issues than I really do but she shocked me.

I’m ecstatic that it finally went through. Now I can go the doctor when I need to. I can have my medicine called in and actually pick it up and I can get things for myself that I need instead of always going without.

It’s a Godsend, and to me, a miracle. 

Maybe now my life can get back on track and I can live a little easier.

*crosses fingers* 

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It’s almost 4am and I’m still wide awake.

Normally I’m used to this but I’m dog sick and I have an early therapy appointment in the morning.

An appointment I really don’t feel like showing up for in the first place.

Maybe if I spew out a good sneeze in my therapist’s face I’ll feel a little better… or at least partially satisfied.

And every time I lie down to try to get some sleep I get an awful itching in the back of my throat.

I really wish someone would tell the midgets in my throat to put away their feathers and go to sleep.

I just want to fall asleep and forget this awful plague of a cold has its claws in me. I don’t feel like that’s too much to ask but it’s not happening and it’s irritating the piss out of me.

Rawr I say!

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Hot Tea

Ugh, I feel like death won over… or however that saying goes. I’ve never been one close with the devil so if that line is wrong you’ll just have to overlook it.

After spending two weeks with excruciating back pain, I’ve moved into the third week with a helacious cold.. or maybe it’s a sinus infection? I don’t know quite what it is but it’s a complete drain.

I’ve taken all the different cold and sinus medications I could find around the house and my head is still pounding. 

And how does so much mucus come out of ones body? I’ve always wondered that. You go through life breathing just fine then when you’re sick, BAM, it’s mucus nation.

Now I know that mucus forms when your body is trying to defend itself against bugs but seriously.. how big can a cold bug really be? Does it really require that much mucus to fend it off??

Waking up with my eyes sealed shut was a nice surprise though. And standing blind in the bathroom trying to pry them open with a hot wash rag with an overly mouthy cat getting under my feet was fun too. I guess I can mark it down in my book of experiences that I’d rather not deal with again.

Right now I’m just trying to keep liquids in my body. Mainly in the form of hot tea but I’m sad that I can’t find any brown sugar in the house. Brown sugar in hot tea is a – delicious and b – soothes the throat like nobody’s business. For a substitute I dug out my bottle of agave nector but it just isn’t the same.

One good thing about me being sick is that I’ll get plenty of rest. It seems to be the only time I get any real sleep. So I definitely won’t complain about that part and with the way I’m feeling, I don’t think sleep is very far away.

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Rumors & Speculation

One of my biggest pet peeves is people who assume things about others without bothering to confirm their assumptions with the person they’re assuming against.

With kids it’s a little more tolerable, it seems to be a part of growing up (you know, the whole rumors in school thing) but when it comes to adults who go around assuming things about people (mostly people they don’t even know), I just want to powder my hand and slap them like a ho on the corner of twelfth and seven (does that corner even exist?)

It’s not that hard to go up to someone and say ‘Hey, I’ve been hearing some pretty weird stuff about you. I don’t know if it’s true but here’s what I’ve been hearing…’

Granted that’s not a perfectly direct route but I’ve learned that, that simple statement opens a big door of conversation.

No one likes to have people talking negatively about them so when faced with someone who’s saying ‘hey, someone is spreading shit about you like a Kentucky farmer in July’ they tend to want to set the record straight and will generally start talking.

So while you haven’t asked any point blank questions you’ll more than likely get the answers you need to stop assuming everything you see and hear.

So if someone if saying ‘oh, such and such is such a ho. she broke up with so and so a week ago and she’s already dating again. I bet she was cheating with him!’… Um, no… just… no.

Such and Such could potentially be a ho like you think she is but she also might not be.

Maybe she met someone in an unexpected place and they had a connection. Maybe her ex cheated on  her which helped her to get over him quicker than usual.

You don’t know. So quit assuming. Quit spreading rumors to your friends and any one else who will listen and be an adult. Find out the facts before you open your  trap or do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.

Personally I’d much rather ‘gossip’ about the truth rather than hearsay. I find rumors and speculation against people you or I don’t know to be annoying, stupid and pointless. There’s no excuse for it and it just makes you look like an ass, so why do it to begin with?

Are you jealous? Are you overly curious? Are you angry because you think this person has wronged you in some way? Or are you just a busy body who can’t be bothered to ask questions?

Take a look in the mirror and take a good long look before you start piping against another. Karma is a bitch and it overlooks no one so keep that in mind!

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Rilakkuma Sleeping

I hate over sleeping, and by over sleeping I don’t mean missing the alarm (my hip hop chicken alarm on my phone scares the shit out of me) but sleeping longer than I need to.

This doesn’t happen too often with me, it generally only happens after a crash sleep.

A crash sleep is the term I use for the sleep I get after I haven’t slept in a few days. It’s not a good, restful sleep but quite literally a ‘crash’ where I pass the fuck out and am dead to the world for a good amount of time.

Since a crash doesn’t include the restful sleep that people need to rejuvenate themselves I always wake up from them feeling far worse than when I passed out. Ringing ears, splitting headaches, blurred (goggle) vision, jello legs, druken coordination… are the main side effects when waking up after a crash sleep.

But other days I wake up from a crash sleep with severe lower back pain which forces me to be strapped into my heating pad and hooked into the wall for an hour or two before I can move anywhere.

I don’t know the exact cause of the back pain after a crash sleep but my theory is that it’s caused from me laying on my side for an extended amount of time which puts pressure on my hip and thus causes said back pain.

I don’t know if that’s the real reason but that’s my theory and regaurdless of whether or not I’m right, it sucks ass and I hate every minute of it. It’s close to the pain I get from my pmdd except instead of taking over my entire back it’s localized to the part of my back that merges with my ass.

That’s how I woke up today and I hated every second of it. Being strapped to a heating pad and stuck in one place while I’m plugged into the wall is not my idea of a good time.

I really do need to invest in a cordless heating pad…

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Restaurant City & The Sims Social Freebies

Everyone likes to get free stuff for the games they play and those that play Restaurant City and The Sims Social on Facebook are very dedicated.

Finding links for free items within these games can be a tedious and very annoying adventure.

After sifting through hundreds of dud links I’ve found a few that really do give you free items for Restaurant City and The Sims Social and, yes, two of the links are the games main Facebook pages. They work and shouldn’t be overlooked so don’t judge me.

For Some of these free items you will need to add James Lejah as a friend on Facebook.

Go ahead and do that now.

Now on to the linkage:

1. Restaurant City Freebies & More
2. RC Ingedient Links (group)
3. Restaurant City (official page)
4. The Sims Social Freebies
5. The Sims Social (official page)

The easiest way to keep up with these links so you can check for freebies every day that you play is to visit and like: Links for Free stuff in Restaurant City & The Sims Social.

This is a small Facebook page that I created to keep tabs on these links for myself and I will be adding more links to the page as I find them.

Know of any links that I’ve missed? Comment and let me know!

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