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  • Seeking Beauty Advice

    If you have gotten married recently, or if you’re just really good with makeup, I’d like your help please. I’m not sure what to do about makeup for my wedding.

    First, let me tell you what I do now:

    Face: after washing my face and moisturizing, I apply a translucent powder and light foundation to my T-zone, just to even out my complexion. I have this blush by Nars in the shade of “Madly,” but I usually only put it on for special occasions.

    Eyes: I use a primer by Benefit called F.Y. Eye, then use this duo eyeshadow by Nars in the shade of “All About Eve.” It’s very natural looking. I apply the matte shade all over the lid, and the shimmery one to the corners. Then I add mascara.

    Lips: Mary Kay’s Satin Lips, or just chapstick.

    The whole look is very natural and subtle. Take this recent conversation between David and me:

    David: You look different today. What is it?
    Me: I’m not wearing makeup.
    David: Oh yeah, that’s it.
    Me: I’m going to look like this sometimes. You know that, right? Do you still think I’m pretty?
    David: I couldn’t even tell what it was that was missing! You always look the prettiest.
    Me: OK, thank you.

    David hasn’t asked for many things regarding the wedding, but one thing he has mentioned several times regarding my appearance is that he wants me to look like myself. The other week I went in to the spa and had a facial (because I’ve always wanted one and figured this was a good time to treat myself – and yes, it was very nice but I’d take a pedicure any day over another one of these) and while I was there I had a cosmetic application to see what I would look like if I had my makeup professionally done. Outcome: I looked fake. Did not like it at all. So, I’ll be doing my own makeup thank you very much.

    Any recommendations? If you’re married, what did you do for your wedding?

  • A Poem, A Prayer

    I’m not really into the whole poetry scene, but a certain style of it I do like, and this one touched me so I wanted to pass it along.

    Prayer
    beginning with four lines
    from Taha Muhammad Ali

    If, over this world, there’s a ruler
    who holds in his hand bestowal and seizure,

    I turn in prayer, asking him
    to decree for the hour of my demise

    that it be a morning on Lake Keowee,
    in early spring when the bloodroot

    and yellow violet are in bloom in the woods
    beyond us, a ghost of fog moving slowly,

    almost imperceptibly, across the grey water.

    And I ask that it be after a long trip,
    after I have seen my grandmother, my brother,

    after I have looked upon the face of a niece
    I’ve never seen, after I have said to my father

    what I need to say to my father, whatever
    that may be then, and on the morning on the lake,

    may I be on the dock with my beloved,
    tossing bits of biscuit to the fish, rising

    from the green depths like memories–and
    across the lake the sound of two geese

    calling to one another.

    Ed Madden

  • Answers

    Thank you to the three people who played my movie game. Here are the answers in case anyone is wondering:

    1. Tombstone
    2. Braveheart
    3. Moulin Rouge
    4. Pirates of the Caribbean
    5. Chocolat
    6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    7. Spanglish
    8. Spaceballs
    9. Chariots of Fire
    10. Best in Show

  • Guess the Movie

    Ready for some more mindless fun? Below I have posted quotes (retrieved from imdb.com) from ten of my favorite movies. Without looking any of them up, can you guess which movies they are from?

    1. “I have two guns; one for each of you.”

    2. “–He fights for something that I never had. And I took it from him, when I betrayed him. I saw it in his face on the battlefield and it’s tearing me apart.
    –All men betray. All lose heart.
    –I don’t want to lose heart! I want to believe as he does.”

    3. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”

    4. “You need to find yourself a girl, mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You’re not a eunuch are you?”

    5. “–Each time I tell myself it’s the last time, but then I get a whiff of her hot chocolate, or…
    –…Seashells. Chocolate seashells, so small, so plain, so innocent. I thought, oh, just one little taste, it can’t do any harm. But it turned out they were filled with rich, sinful…
    –…And it melts, God forgive me, it melts ever so slowly on your tongue, and tortures you with pleasure.”

    6. “I’ve already wasted my whole life. I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you. I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit.”

    7. “Flor! Look at this child! You could make a fortune doing surrogate pregnancy!”

    8. “Oh, you’re right. And when you’re right, you’re right. And you – you’re always right!”

    9. “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.”

    10. “I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, “Harlan Pepper, if you don’t stop naming nuts,” and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that’s what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she’d just start yelling. I’d say, “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.” That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She’d say, “Would you stop naming nuts!” And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn’t talk, but he’d go “rrrawr rrawr” and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.”

  • What Google Brings Me

    So, I’m finished with school now. For real this time, I think. Of course, I do still have to pass the board exam, but no matter what, I will have my bachelor’s of science in nursing! Most of my classmates were going to Rice Village to celebrate, but me? Nah. I had a brownie, cleaned my room, read a magazine, and I plan to use the rest of the day writing to my pen pal, researching new cars, and of course watching “Dancing with the Stars.” I like my way of celebrating much better.

    So to keep it light, because this is how I’m feeling right now, I have decided to share with you some snapshots of phrases people have used in search engines that have led them to this website. Probably my posts for the rest of the week will be similarly mindless because hello? I have been in college for eight years and I’m NOT anymore! I need at least a week to recover.

    So here you go:

    “My brother is hot” – Mine are too! Especially here and here.

    “Cracked and injured toenail coming off” – It has been over a year since I wrote about my toenail coming off, and I am still getting constant hits from that post. Maybe I should start a support group.

    “i am broke and i can’t pay my bills and i can’t eat” – I know how you feel, friend. My suggestion? Find yourself some clinical trials for healthy volunteers to participate in.

    “would breathing in bad smell harm unborn baby” – I don’t know but if so, be sure not to come anywhere close to the house where I pet-sit because those dogs have some serious intestinal hyperactivity.