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Organization of the desk calendar

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october-2009-calendarAnyone who lives in South Western Ontario can vouch for me that yesterday was extremely beautiful outside, correct? It was 18ºC out there!! People were wearing tank tops and shorts. Of course we had to go out and enjoy the last bit of weather before the weather turns.

So, what does your month end calendar look like?

All my favorite people’s birthday are in October. Boyfriends, close friends and loved ones. I wonder if that means something? Do I flock towards them subconsciously?

Get this:

Boyfriend’s birthday: October 4
Best friend #1 birthday: October 22
Best friend #2 birthday: October 27
Nephew: October 31

That’s gotta mean something. haha. I always found that pretty interesting.

I hate messing up my calendar. I get paid on Friday’s, the purple $ sign you see scratched out was when I obviously couldn’t do my math right and got confused drawing every second Friday off as a pay day. Ugh. So I had to scratch it out. Unfortunately I do not get paid three times in October. Whatevs. It’ll be more exciting getting paid 3x a month come JANUARRRRRY.

November is looking pretty similar though too.

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Annnnyway, onto more organizing for the week. Here’s my menu plan. I really need to get rid of a lot of things in our freezer (it’s the type that’s attached to the refrigerator, so it’s JAM.PACKED with pork chops and other frozen stuff that was on sale.)

Monday: Macaroni and Cheese
Tuesday: Chicken, mashed potatoes, and carrots (we bought a 10lb bag of potatoes!!)
Wednesday: Pork tenderloin marinade (without the pork tenderloin, just reg. boneless chops), with roasted potatoes, and broccoli
Thursday: Chicken penne alla vodka (Haven’t made this in aaaages. It’s so high in fat. Any recommendations for a replacement of Whipping Cream? I’m also going to replace the penne pasta with large shell pasta that was something likr $0.75 for a huge monster bag)
Friday: Frozen pizza (also on sale. We have three in the freezer)
Saturday: Honey garlic pork stir fry. (I haven’t had honey garlic on anything but chicken before, so hopefully this will be edible.)

Most of these meals can be found on my recipe page. I also plan on making jube-jube cake this week. MMMM. My Mom’s (grandmas?) old recipe. I haven’t had it in years. But it’s super easy to make. I’m stoked!

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Freebies, Geek Speak, NaBloPoMo

Hatiras

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It’s been a while since I went to a live show with a DJ playing. I remember when I used to head to Liquid back home in Newfoundland when my favorite DJ was playing — DJ Dayhota. Now I’ve branched out and I’m currently obsessed with Hatiras. His music makes me want to run harder when I’m on the treadmill, start immediately dancing when I’m driving in my car, and all around puts me in a terrific mood.

I’m out of the loop lately for the last few years so i’m unaware as to what genre this is. I’m just going to classify it as house/techo right now.

If you want to know exactly what I’m talking about you can listen to a few one minute clips of his top downloads on Beatport. You can buy the songs individually for $2.49 as well. (Hint hint, I’d love this for Christmas!).

My personal fav’s:

  • Digital Doom
  • I Don’t Want it
  • Space Invader

I also love really chill ambient music. Stuff that you’d maybe hear in a hair salon, coffee house or whatever. I’m usually content with what music I have, but I haven’t gotten any new songs since 2006 when I was in the height of partying, going to school with some really awesome people who liked the kind of music I liked, and now I’m just getting bored of my music. I need some spiiiiiiice.

If you sign up with Beatport (it’s free), you get 10 free downloads. It’s too bad you don’t actually get to pick your favorite DJ or artist — because that would have been much better on my part.

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Fashion, NaBloPoMo, Photos

No Cake for You

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Nobody wants their face to look cakey after taking the time to put on foundation to cover up flaws. Am I right?

Even with liquid foundation, it sometimes looks as if I have a cake–face some mornings and I’m not sure why. (Sad face).

But fret not, I have a cure ladies! Remember when I posted here, and here about the wonderful lip balm and cream called Avène?  I decided to pick up some spray that is basically spring water that you spritz on your face to set your make up. A little less harsh than MAC’s Fix +,  which won’t let your pores breath, and will clog up those pore after multiple uses. Gross. All you do is apply foundation, bronzer if needed and spray on the Avène with the aerosol can and yes it will look like you drenched your face but just wait a bit for it to dry. Pat dry if needed, but I usually just get my 187 brush out from MAC and swirl it around my face and voila — dewy–ness achieved. Then, if I want to look a bit flushed I add some blush cream to my face for some wintery rosey cheeks.

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(Pardon the blank facial expression)

It works, trust me! You should seriously try it out.

What I need now, is some face moisturizer for winter. Right now I’m just using Neutrogena’s cream from the summer, and it’s probably not moisturizing enough for my soon to be eczema face in the upcoming dry months. :(  Any recommendations?


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