Showing posts with label valentines day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentines day. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2009

FOTD - Valentines Day Feb 2009/Surprise Treat!

Ok Ok Ok, so I havent had a FOTD in a while. My bad. I have been giving my skin a break by just doing mascara, liner and a lip product. The last time I really did a full face of makeup was on Valentine's Day...oh the horror! My skin is much more happy though.

Here is a background on that day in case you care..."the sig" made reservations at Ruth's Chris for 9:45p *insert blank stare here* so we had a LOT of time to kill before then. Initially I wanted to attend the International Food and Wine Festival but you know money is TIGHT these days...so we opted to chill at the ESPN Zone. We get a table and are perusing the menu when out of nowhere this lady comes up to us and says she has tickets to a show up the street but its over at 6p so if we wanna go we need to leave now. She is closest to "the sig" so I couldnt see the tickets and she didnt say what the show was so I am giving her a mean side eye like ok what is this about? So finally "the sig" asks what the show is and she says the wine festival! OMG YAY!!! Two free tickets to the wine festival and it was only like 4:15p so we have a little under two hours left to partake and yes we were right up the street from it so we grabbed our coats and made our way over there. Random acts of kindness from complete strangers and it was so right on time. You gotta love it!

So we get to the Ronald Reagan Building and it was PACKED and I have to admit I was very intimidated. I love wine, dont get me wrong ("the sig" does not but he went anyway, gosh I love him!) but it was so much to take in and I am still learning so yeah. Anyway we grabbed our complimentary wine glasses and made our way around. We sampled quite a few but I fell in love with one red (Nero) and one white (Riesling). *I will have to update this later with the brands since I dont have the info at hand.*

They also had Tommy Bahama Rum there...brief intermission here - I couldnt understand why I kept seeing people who appeared to be drunk out of their minds. I mean its wine and yes wine can have an effect after a while but the tastings being given werent even a quarter of a glass, like you got a sip and that was it! These folks I saw were sloshed! We realized why once we saw the rum. LOL, ok back to the story...First of all the line to sample the two drinks they were making was hella long but of course we got in it anyway, of course. You talking about tasty? Mmm mmm mmm. One was called a frostbite and the other was a drink that had cider in it that you could also have warm (thats what the rep told me). That Frostbite was STRONG! There were these drunk folks who kept cutting the line and getting more and more...ok I admit i had a few...ok more than a few, but so did everyone else I swear!

Anyway, we really enjoyed ourselves at the Wine Fest and after we started feeling the effects of our sampling we stumbled on back to ESPN Zone to waste more time before dinner at Ruth's Chris. Here are a couple of pics of my look for that day. Sorry I dont have the product list either, I promise to be on point next time.




Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Truth About Life...

I tried to jump in head first to the world of blogging and the truth is...sometimes life throws you a curveball and you have to maneuver around it.

I have a job, its not in the beauty or fashion industry, but I enjoy coming to work and I enjoy my co-workers. Currently we are facing layoffs, so my job security is anything but secure at this time. Even if I come out of this unscathed, position still intact, it doesnt negate the fact that others will indeed be affected and that, for me, is a tough pill to swallow.

You see, I have never had to go through this before. I have never been fired (I take that back, I worked at Lerner's - yeah before they were NY & Co. back when Landover Mall was open and was doing well there, transferred to the mall near U.M.E.S. during my freshman year of college and was like ok why the hell am I working? College should be fun! So I kinda quit/kinda got fired from there) any time I left a position it was of my own free will. To have that power stripped away from you is quite frightening to say the least.

"The Sig" says we will be ok, and to an extent I know that, but I cant shake the feeling of impending dread, you know? I cant fathom not being able to do what I want to do, go where I wanna go, etc. because we cant afford it. We are far from rich, but we are in a comfortable place and I like that. *sigh*

I share all of this to say that I love my blog. Its my own little piece of cyberspace and I take great pride in it. I have lots of ideas that I want to implement and I have met great people because of it. I apologize for the lack of posts this week but I barely even have an appetite let alone the frame of mind to share my thoughts on beauty products and the like...

I leave you with this - as Valentine's Day approaches, a "holiday" that I dont fret over like others since I feel that the love you have for someone should be shown any day, every day, I reflect on the love that I have around me. The love of my crazy azz friends, the love of my family, the love that "the sig" and I share and the love of T&T kid and T&T baby, that unconditional love, cause I know that no matter what happens here at work, that love will be there regardless. There is beauty in that, and I hope you all have tried it for yourselves and know it to be the truth.

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