Eyes and Ears

After several trips to the eye doctor to get the prescription just right, my contact lenses are ready to be picked up (#28)!  So what next?  Get rid of the huge and horrible dark circles that my glasses had been masking.  Sephora was having one of their give aways with purchase of a box of deluxe samples, so this seemed like a perfect time to go by and get a make-up lesson (#88).  I was amazed at how well Sara was able to blend in the dark puffy areas.  I already loved Benefit's eye products, and now I have two more to love... Boi-ing and Lemon Aid!  The eye shadows were fun and geared toward more of a party look.  She used Urban Decay's Deluxe Shadow Box and a Laura Mercier liner pencil.  She was also able to recommend another Urban Decay product to help counteract the redness on the rest of my face, so it was a pretty productive trip!

Dark and sparkly eye shadows.  And wow do my lashes look great!



Not sure that I would actually do this again, but it gives me ideas to play around with.  And look... no dark circles!


Something else I've been focusing on lately has been music.  I really have been wanting to find new things to listen to (#45), I suppose partially because I have felt a little bored with what's on the radio all the time.  So my first plan has been to just be more conscious of what I'm hearing.  Things like movies and TV shows (thank you So You Think You Can Dance for including the artist and title for all the songs used on the show!) really help, so I've been making sure to write down when I find things I like.  Also, I discovered that Amazon.com has free daily song downloads and loads of $5 album downloads, so I've been keeping an eye on those and am slowly expanding my collection!  Which leads into getting all that music organized (#40).  I finally got all my CDs unpacked and organized, so now I'm working on getting them all downloaded to my computer.  Once that's all done the next order or business will be making sure to back it up on a jump drive or something else, so I don't accidentally lose it all!  I want to make some playlists... things I can take to work or put on my phone for travel.  I'm about half-way through all the CDs, so good progress there. 

But that does lead into the update on my phone.  I really do like my cell phone (it's an HTC Touch Pro 2), and I have been looking forward to figuring out all the ins and outs and really using it to its full potential (#70).  I've only had it for two years, after all.  (ha-ha!)  But starting at the beginning of July, it's been giving me fits, and I'm actually on my second replacement phone (the screen went out on the original, and the sound kept going out on the second one.  hopefully, third time's the charm).  But from everything the Sprint people keep telling me, these phones were only designed to last about two years, and I'm likely going to end up getting an entirely new phone sometime in the not too distant future.  So, unfortunately, this item will not exactly fulfill its original intent, but I promise to apply it to whatever phone I end up with.  I'm hoping to find one that uses a mini SD card, since that's what I bought to use with my current phone to hold all the music that I'm organizing!

One more week 'til I can drink pop!  Next time I do this, I am definitely not doing it during the summertime!!