Halloween Manicures

A holiday combined with co-owning a 230 piece nail polish collection is pretty cool.  Jerbs and I both had fun doing Halloween manicures this year and I thought I'd share mine.  Since they're, y'know, awesome.  I'm kinda sad Halloween's over now but I already have ideas for next year's Halloween nails!

Frankenstein inspired nails.
Jerbs did the stitches on my right hand
since I'm right handed.

Blood spatter!
Done by using a narrow straw to blow red polish
over a white base.   Sadly, these ones chipped
off after a few days, so I had to redo them.

Round 2 of the blood spatter.
I bought a new red polish for it, because I didn't
want to use all my Christmas red on Halloween nails.
I didn't like the accent nail I did on the first blood nails,
so I did a different one this time.

This one is the least artistic, but I love it.
Just a strong black base with this amazing glitter on top.
The glitter is mostly orange with flecks of purple and green.
It's called Glitter Goblin, and is part of China Glaze's
new Halloween collection.  It is SO sparkly.

Wednesday + Thursday

Yesterday was another good day at work.  Seriously, two in a row?  What are the odds?

I'm not complaining, I'm just surprised.

So yesterday, at work, I was scheduled 9:00 AM--12:15 PM.  I was really looking forward to the short day, and I was definitely going to come home and take a nap afterwards.  But the girl who was supposed to come in from noon to 5:00 called in with a migraine and without even thinking about it, I agreed to stay late.  And I did end up there until about 5:00, and we had a great day.  It was just myself and one of the TL's up front and we goofed around the whole day.  It flew by and by the time it was 5:00, even though I'd been there for 8 hours, I definitely didn't feel like it.

Here's why this is significant: Normally, I do not work extra hours.  I very rarely agree to cover shifts for people (seriously, I only do it if the co-worker asking is someone I really like).  I am especially disagreeable if I end up having to work extra hours when I'm not expecting it and my plans change because of it.  I just absolutely hate being asked to work when I'm not supposed to.  But yesterday I felt none of that.  I was glad to stay and help (seriously, I was) and I had a good time being there.  And I think that's, at least in part, a result of me getting better mental health wise, and it's good to know that getting better is having a positive effect on my life.  Because yesterday, I helped out my co-workers, I got an extra 4 hours of pay, and I got to meet up with Jerbs for dinner since she was getting off at four.  And it's nice to have a big reminder that the medication is helping and all that . . . it makes me feel a little better about the expensive doctor's appointment on Tuesday.  Plus after dinner we went to JoAnn's, where all the Halloween stuff was 60% off . . . Jerbs bought me 5 pairs of Halloween socks!!

Then today was pay day, and my check was bigger than I expected--which is always awesome!  Plus I was off, and so was Jerbs, so we went out and hit PetSmart, Sally's, JoAnn's, Burrito Fiesta, Hastings, and Target.  We bought nail polish at Sally's (go figure, right?) and then played with kitties at PetSmart.  Then we went across the street to JoAnns, because we didn't buy enough Halloween stuff yesterday; Jerbs got black feather wings and I got 6 more pairs of socks.  (Yes, I have a sock problem, and I love it!).  After JoAnn's we had dinner at Burritos Fiesta, this amazing Mexican fast food type place (incidentally, also where we ate last night).  It is so.effing.good.  And cheap, too, which is always nice.  We popped into Hastings and bought a few things (Jerbs likes to take advantage of my employee discount when she can), then went to Target, where we mostly looked at clothes.

And now we're home, relaxing and stuff.  All in all, a great day.

I work tomorrow so hopefully it goes as well as my past two shifts have!

Obsession Meets Organization

So Jerbs and I have a minor nail polish obsession.  And by minor I mean that combined we have about 215 polishes.  And last night we organized them.

It's a shoe hanger thingy.  The polishes are sorted by color and I made color labels for the pockets.  Isn't it brilliant?  I love it!

Here's a close up.

Yep.  We're pretty cool.

And actually this isn't even all of the polishes, there are a few that Jenny's stockpiled on her desk that I haven't put up yet.