books and polish, what more do i need?

smoke and ashes with electrify on top! Super rad

So if you have yet to read the hunger games, do it!  Its one of the most awesome trilogy’s ever, bold statement but its true!  I promise that if you read them you won’t feel like that was a waste of time and money.  Having said that there making a movie slated to be out in the end of March.  I am always terrified when they make a movie of books that I love, twilight once was something that I enjoyed so much.  Ruined by the whinny acting of Kristin Steward and Rob Pattinson, they were an awful Edward and BELLA!  Yet I digress, the best part when a movie comes out is all the cool products trying to cash in the popularity.  China Glaze has my money locked up already in a hunger games polish collection!  I think it looks Amazing!  The colors seem to really fit the story and are fierce on top of it!  (I’m super excited and you can tell by the over used of the exclamation mark!)  March 1^st I will hit the beauty supply and buy more then I need, and run straight home and paint my nails!

            I made the pilgrimage to the mother store, (Sephoa) to get the new D&G for the boyfriend, its sex in a bottle.  And I have to say that I’m ready for Christmas holiday crap to be over.  Bring on some bright eye shadow and sexy lipstick!  I love some dark polish, year long staple really.  But I need the hope of spring the way only pink and turquoise can bring.

            On another note, I can’t believe anyone has read my blogg!  I have 2 followers; I don’t know who they are but there too cool for words.  And I know my friends Lisa and Andi have read it.  How do I know you ask?  Lisa my super sweet friend got me the kick ass eye lashes that I wanted!! There beautiful and I can’t wait to wear them, Vegas anyone?  So I am going to get a camera this coming January and when I do photos of Bristol and lashes they are a coming!  So the moral of the story my friends are awesome, so there!

Happy Merry Christmas Kwanza-akua

While something’s change others stay the same.  I find that the holiday season can bring the best and worst out people.  Some people give generously of themselves to serve man kind.  I have no delusions that I am not really in that category, but I like to think that I can do something nice every now and again.  Some take the season as an excuse to be in a hurry and act like there the only ones who matter.  I habitually find I think of very little other then what’s right in front of my face. 

            I often don’t think what I do matters in the world other then to Suki, and she the only one at the end of the day I care what she thinks.  So no comments on the frivolity that I enjoy.  Today it’s that I am a very lucky mom.  She makes me a better human that I was on my own.  I love nothing more then singing the jem theme song with her.  Or painting her nails, the right way, “mama base coat, polish, top coat and then drip drops”.  I know I created a beauty addict in training.  She’s amazing, silly, stubborn and my baby.

For this I am grateful

The music made me do it!

This past few weeks have been if nothing else a shit storm of activity, some good most sad and or painful.  Having said that I have been trying to work on a gratitude list of sorts to help eliminate the funk in the air.  I am always lucky to have a funny monkey for a daughter, friends whom let me do my deal and love me along the way, and I like that boyfriend of mine too.  But sometimes the big things don’t seem to matter when depression knocks on your door.  I know all the love in the world sometimes seems too great to take in. 

            While rain drops on roses might work for some people, my favorite things are a little different.  Few things can make me as happy as the NKOTB (new kids on the block for you golden oldies) “summertime” video.  I know they still make videos, and at 5am you can see them on vh1.  So this is pure chicken soup for my soul!  It’s the most ridiculous song and the video is equally as silly, but the part that makes me laugh till I cry is the end.  It’s the original boy band ripping off the backstreet boys with there all while outfits and dancing in moonlit shallow water.  If that’s not enticing enough there is a throw back to the hanging tough dance that brings the magic full circle.  Watch it, its sooo awesome!

            Also I have to say I love the LMFAO.  I don’t care who knows it either!  I love pop music that knows what it is and refuses to take its self to seriously, and these boys are just hear to party rock and I love that.  So watch the “I'm sexy and I know it” video.  There is some amazing cameos, including but not limited too Mr. Ron Jeremy.  Men in Speedos that’s all I can say about it, it made me uncomfortable and giggly all at the same time.  Brilliant!

            So because I am on a music kick, why not talk about nail polish and music!  Because what do I love more then cosmetics?  (Answer: very few things lol)  Miss Katy Perry had a sweet collection with OPI that kicked the crackle polish off to mega proportions and some sweet glitters.  But I have to say I might be more jazzed about the Nicki Minaj collection, yes I need the sweet teal called fly with the super bass shatter on top!  Six awesome polishes that are not for you unadventurous types but mama likes.  Out this January also by OPI.

            So all in all a little break from life to enjoy the simple joys of youtube and OPI.com, not a bad break from the speed of life.  So with all my best wishes, Cheers!

Ps Andi and I are going to Yoga on sunday, its on the web now so shall it be.....LOL

Uncle John and fine ill be grateful but I won’t like it!

Well I have to say that the vigor I felt earlier in the week has been flattened out by the riggers of life.  I love my crazy uncle John; he’s one of my favorite humans.  I’m so UN bearably sad by the demise of his health.  I have cried so much that my eyes hurt and are so puffy I look kind of like a lizard.  This is one of the times my lack of power just sucks!  But in all fairness if I ran the world id mess it up for sure, so who am I to judge.

            Boo Boo is my favorite nickname, and its thanks to my uncle John.  He’s called me that for almost 31 years and it always makes me smile.  I have hundreds of funny stories about him, like the time when I was 16 and he told Carrie and I that if we were to ever drop acid that if we looked at linoleum it was really groovy.  I also enjoy that he calls it yo-plat yogurt instead of Yoplait.  Or “why do the call it pho when it’s said fa?”  “Umm well it’s in Vietnamese, so that might be why.”  “Yeah Boo Boo, that’s a good point.”  I love that guy.           

            So like any good Norwegian I'm a firm believer in avoidance and thinking about frivolity is fun.  So I’ve been dreaming of things I hope Santa puts under my tree. I really want to try this fancy Nails Inc, magnetic polish.  So cool, there’s magnetic partials that you hold the magnet up too and makes awesome patterns.  Also paper eyelashes by paperself are beyond epic, and I need them.  I think it would help if I was hip and went out more; all the same they are some of the most kick ass products to hit the beauty circuit in forever.  Both products are at Sephora, so if a gift card falls my way I’m sooo getting them.

            So on the healthy life front, the feeling of getting my act on track is even more importiant.  IV started a little vitamin detox biz; it’s too new to comment one way or another but so far so good.  And my tushi is still not crossed the threshold of a yoga studio, but maybe tomorrow.  But I’m going to spend some time in a standing forward bend tonight.  It’s a killer pose for the Bristol when I need to get mellowed out for beddy bye.  Also going to jam on some tea, cuz I like tea.

            So lastly its thanksgiving and people feel the need to be really grateful this month and that’s cool, I just want that attitude of gratitude all year. Not that I always do, however thats the goal.  And because of my inherent need to be a pain in the ass (I’m talking honesty people, truth bombs) I want to tell people to stop passive aggressively telling me to count my blessings.  I’ll do it if I wanna, and I don’t wanna.  But I have to say I am moved to say, my boyfriends sweatshirt makes me feel secure.  The people I love make me a better person, and no one embodies that more then Suki.  So despite it all I’m grateful…….there, happy?

To the start of something new

There is something about this time of year that so powerfully draws you to reflection.  I don’t get it, why when it gets cold is there this sudden need to reexamine your life?   I think all the early darkness is to give us time to really look into ourselves, or that’s what I am going with.  It sounds good at least.  IV spent the past year feeling rather unhappy, dissatisfied and over all a feeling of heavy.  While there have been some beautiful additions to my life and some habits broken, there has also been relapse in food, withdrawing and a connection to my body.

            So in the spirit of reflection and change I am going to evoke an eloquent marine phrase and just get “un-fucked”.  How am I to do said task?  To be utterly frank I am unsure, I'm weighing my options and trying to decide what’s best for me and my family.  I know that I have had a feeling of being stuck for so long and waiting that it has become part of my identity.  So I think I need to redefine who I am and what I want.

            So reconnection with people, places and things that matter.  That’s why I am blogging, hopping that it can help reconnect in a way that I’m unable to in my everyday life.  I get busy and I hate feeling like I only have ten minuets to call robin, so I don’t cuz I don’t want to be rushed.  And then months go by and we have not talked and that’s lame.  So I’m putting part of me out there in the world and hoping that I can be more open and available.

            I love yoga!  I lust over cosmetics!  I think about yoga and nail polish more then what’s considered normal.  I think I’m cosmetic and yoga obsessive and I’m totally ok with that.  The ironic part of all that is I don’t wear makeup daily or do yoga.  How is that a good thing?  I want to do more of what I love and feel that love every day.  I love the power of a new lipstick to change your day.  I long for the feeling of finding peace and strength you get from a yoga practice.  So use the cosmetics I covet and do at least one pose a day and get my ass to the studio!  I did chair pose, and it was awesome to feel my legs engage and burn.

            So this is the start, the rebirth the evolution of me.  (I can’t help being overly dramatic at times; it’s a blessing and a curse)  I want to be the change I want to see in this world one nail polish at a time.    

B