New Moon

FINALLY, the day has come where I get to watch New Moon.  I have been waiting so long that it feels like forever....almost as long as it felt when Edward left Bella.....I am just glad I was able to enjoy it wholeheartedly with my coworkers who are all equally obsessed with Twilight, True Blood, and the like.  Now we all just want to kill ourselves since Eclipse is coming out so far away from now!!!!!  However, it just means we will be able to have another emo Twilight party where we watch Twilight and New Moon back to back while eating things that they eat in the movie (only humans and werewolves not vampires ....they don't eat real food)  I can go to sleep now knowing that I have fulfilled my duty as a girl to watch this movie and cry and be obsessed with things that don't exist....or do they?  Good night.

Fold Pro

Sometimes I have these sudden cleaning spurts where I just want to clean and tidy everything up in our place.  Mind you, this doesn't happen very often maybe once every other week....I know I am a dirty girl I'm lucky Ryan helps clean up after me.
Anyway, in my flurry of putting away clothes, washing dishes, scrubbing the shower, starting a new load of laundry, taking stuff out of the dryer...and lo and behold the dreaded fitted sheet.
How I used to hate the fitted sheet.  If you don't fold it right it just comes out all lumpy and then messes up the neatness of your linen closet, not like I have one, but still it can be very irritating.
A while back I looked up "how to fold a fitted sheet," on google (this is how I solve most of my life problems and questions by google) and came up with this nifty little video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHTyH2nuFAw  
So I tested it out, but I had to run back and forth from my laptop since I kept forgetting how to do the hands part....it's tricky!  After I accomplished folding my fitted sheet into a neat little square this is how I felt:

I wish I felt like this every day =)

Love Sephora

I finally spend enough to be a Very Important Beauty Insider at Sephora!  I really wanted to get the T3 evertwirl curling iron in pink but they didn't have it in store AND they were sold out online so I figure it wasn't meant to be.
Check out my new goodies and the free stuff they gave me:

Love Love Love Cosmedicine's Matte Bronzer I tried it as a sample and it just makes my skin and face look DAMN good. I think it also helps to reduce the oil in my face which is tres bien!  Also had to refill my diorshow mascara and lorac base

The next picture is a special request for a special friend that I miss and love (that's right it's that sweet hanging gift wrap organizer I bought from my co-worker's son's school fundraiser....it's for the children!)

Productivity

For some reason, my company has Veteran's day off even though a majority of people I know do not have this holiday.  I had, what I would consider, an extremely productive day.

• A long overdue haircut at W Salon and catchup session with Isabelle and Elaine
• Lunch with Mama and Papa who just came back from Hong Kong
• Trip to Ikea to finally get our "Guest Room" set up
• Half building a chair then getting Ryan to finish it for me =)
• Building a lamp
• Cleaning the bathrooms
• Organizing my gift wrap stuff with my new "hanging" gift wrap organizer
• Finding a place in the closet to put Ryan's skateboard
• Using my Groupon to finally eat Goat Hill Pizza with my brother and Fiance
• OH and I forgot the most important thing of all.  Pearl tea at Ten Ren 

Days like these I wish I was unemployed so I could get things done at home, but then again, I wouldn't have money to do any of the above items without a paycheck.

Oh dollar dollar I wish you wouldn't rule my life....

Shopping VIP

To show you how much of a shopping problem I have I received, in one week, VIP pass for Sephora, Bloomingdales, Gap/BR, and Urban Minx.

You're Invited... You're one of our best customers, so we want to offer you 30% off during our Friends & Family event. Plus, you can invite others and designate a non-profit to receive 5% of the amount you and your Friends & Family spend. Click here to pick your non-profit and invite your Friends & Family to save 30% In-store Barcode (For multiple uses) This offer is also good at Gap Outlet and Banana Republic Factory Store! I'm not supposed to be shopping any more even though I probably will this month....it's the holiday's I have to get started right?

Daily Plate and Daily Eats

Today I felt super bloated and gassy.  I really wanted to get a hot chocolate since it was cool out in the morning and I accompanied my co-worker to Soup Company only to discover they had POTATO LEEK SOUP.

I used to eat potato leek soup almost every day in London so not only did I have my milky hot chocolate but I also had this semi-creamy soup.  I felt cranky from being gassy and fat since I was bloated.

I've used Daily Plate before to look up calories for random things but then I noticed today that you can track what you eat in a day sort of as a food diary.  I figure, I'm challenging myself to budget wisely, why shouldn't I do the same with what I eat.....coincidentally 50% of my AMEX bill this month was spent on food =(  So eating less will help me save money too.

I also think their interface is pretty easy to use other than when you have meals you created that don't fall under any of the already created categories.  I guess I will have to figure how to use it more.  Try it out:

Fashion and Budgeting

So I suck at budgeting and stuff like that.  My plan so that I don't overspend on clothing items is to limit myself to purchasing only One clothing item and One accessory.

This month I was particularly tempted by ASOS's free shipping e-mail to get some cute little somethings if you're also persuaded to shop the offer is over at midnight.

clothing accessory for the month, I really like suede even though I know I will probably spill something on it I thought it looked better than just the plain black leather quilted version.

clothing accessory for the month, I really like suede even though I know I will probably spill something on it I thought it looked better than just the plain black leather quilted version. 

I think this might be a bad idea to do this budgeting thing during November since Black Friday is coming.  I may count that as a special circumstance for additional purchases =)