My Sugs

This is Bruce. He's a Cairn Terrier who likes to bites ankles, chew feet, & he heads up the neighborhood watch patrol. I guess he's an Elvis fan.

Soap & Glory: Scrub of Your Life

Hands down, the best ever scrub I have put on my body. I am unfortunate to have the bumpy red spots of the backs of my arms and on the outside of my thighs and I have tried for years to make my skin somewhat smooth. Well this product doesn't cure it, but after scrubbing it on in the shower, my arms and legs are baby butt touchable. It was $14.99 at Target so I was hesitant to get it, but...


Case-in-point: You got bumps? Get this scrub. Period. Exclamation point

Bumpy bumps
Target Bath & Body

Yum Yums: Oven Fries

Since I am on a diet I can't really have my favorite food item in the world: french fries :( But my nutritionist told me that I can make my own oven fries. They are so good and I love my recipe:

3 somewhat large potatoes (doesn't matter what kind)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil, or EVOO as Racheal Ray calls it
Tapitio Hot Sauce
Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Seasoning Blends-Meat Magic
Dried Rosemary
Salt

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Slice the potatoes in half length-wise. Then slice each half into thin (important: thinner slices make them crisper) strips. Pat the potato wedges dry with a paper towel and put them into a mixing bowl. Then pour, oh I don't know, eyeball it, a good amount of EVOO and depending on how spicy you want them, a few drops of Tapitio. I usually put a tablespoons worth. Mix the sauces with the potatoes with tongs and then pour them out onto a baking sheet covered with foil and that has been sprayed with non-stick spray. Once you have them on the tray, sprinkle liberally the Magic Seasoning, Rosemary, and a couple pinches of salt. Spread out the mixture and put them in the oven for about 30 minutes.

I like to dip mine in a mixture of fat free ranch and BBQ sauce :)

P.S. That picture isn't of my actual fries, but it's the closest one I could find.

Scary Movies

When I was a young lil sug, my parents used to make me watch horror movies like "Hellraiser", "Alien", "Phantasm" and "Poltergeist" with them. I think because of that I am sort of immune to them. Although for years I was terrified of Freddy Krueger...I still think of him, waiting for me fall asleep, but then I think of that Freddy vs. Jason movie and laugh. Douche. I have yet to see a movie lately (within the past few years) that has really made an impact on me to the point where I have been scared shitless. Ha, to think of it, I watched "No County for Old Men" and I was scared to go in my dark bedroom alone because I though Javier Bardiem was going to be in there with his air gun thing. Come to think of it, I would mind Javier waiting for me...

There are a couple movies coming out that I am excited to see. Hopefully they don't let me down.
First we have "The Strangers" with Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman

I think it looks kinda good, but similar to "Vacancy". I did like that movie though. Luke Wilson...

Then M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening" with Mark Walberg and Zooey Deschanel. I love Zooey, ever since her in "Elf" I have just adored her. Plus she sings beautifully: She & Him

I'm crossing my fingers it will have a good ending, unlike the other sappy endings M. has put in his other movies.

I love serial killers.

Any movie that has "Based on a true story" or something similar, I get into it. I'll prob wait til this is on DVD, but I'm waiting nonetheless.

Clinique Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief

I am NOT a lotion person, which will probably catch up to me when I get old, like 28 :P So last November when I was working as a visual merchandiser for Nordstrom, the makeup manager gave my department those free goody bags that Clinque gives out with purchases. Inside was a trial size of a jar of pink gel. My face is always dry so I decided to try it out. I do not like lotion because I don't like the feeling on my hands and fingers, weird but I can't help it. I dipped my pinky in the pot and immediately could feel the difference between this and normal face lotions. The name says it all, it really did quench my thirsty skin, it drank it right up. And I LOVE the fact that it even says that you can use it over makeup. As you know from my previous post I said I don't take off my eye makeup. Well I also rarely wash my face...sorry. Soon my trial portion was gone and I was trying to scape up the last bits stuck in the lid. Thankfully I received a gift card for Christmas and I used it to buy a 1.7 oz jar for $34.00. I could have just used my real money, but $34.oo is a lot to me. I wanted the 2.5 oz for $46.50, but times, they are a hard on me.

Case-in-point: BEST EVER! A little dab will do ya. It's perfect for dry skin, normal skin, whatever. Dry pimple? Put it on it to smooth out the peeling! Scent-free. When my supply runs out I won't wait around for another gift card, I'll actually buy it :)

Fiberwig Mascara

I was at Sephora in Downtown Disney looking for a Mother's Day gift and they had this display for this new mascara called Imju Fiberwig. I picked up the package which has the mascara in a red tube, a nifty small red glitter eyelash curler and an instructional DVD. The products says it contains tons of little fibers that adhere to your lashes to give you the appearance of false eyelashes. Anyone who has seen my lashes completely bare have been scarred for life by the sight of my albino-ish pale, short lashes. No matter what mascara I try, my lashes never curl, never grow, and the more mascara I swipe on, I always get clumps (which I secretly love to pick off). Nothing works for me. So anyway, back at Sephora I'm thinking, "Hmmm...this is from Japan...those Japanese make really good products...OK, I'll get it." And why is it at Sephora the least expensive products seem like a good deal, i.e. Imju Fiberwig was $22.00 which is fairly inexpensive at Sephora, but at somewhere else, say...Target or CVS, I flinch at paying $6.99 for foundation? I get home, put the instructional DVD in my laptop and am bored for about 5 minutes watching how to apply mascara. Uhhh, I know how to apply mascara. I know you wiggle at the roots. Who nowadays doesn't know that simple technique? I was expecting some innovative, cool, overseas, new way to use this mascara. Next morning I remove all my left over mascara (FYI I rarely take off my eye makeup. I know, I know...calm down) and open the new tube. It's a regular brush with what looks like thick globs of tiny hairs all over it. I was worried that it would get in and under my contacts but no problems occurred. First application-nothing major. My red/blonde lashes were at least coated black. Second pass-it's starting to build up. Third pass-I was expecting some dramatic long luxurious lashes, but no. My lashes were starting to clump and at the tips of my lashes I could see the "hair-like fibers" and they were bending at weird angles, almost perpendicular to my natural lashes. From their website:

"Fiberwig seals unto your individual lash separating and defining with zero clumping. Its film-coated formula neither smudges nor smears causing no more raccoon-eyes! "

Well I'll give the fact that it doesn't smear and it doesn't come off, but when I went to my parents house. My younger sister, who was blessed with looong dark lashes (I think she came from the mailman) looked at me and was disgusted by the visible fibers and pointedly told me that my lashes did NOT look longer.

Case-in-point: I'm still searching for the perfect mascara that will build, not clump, volumize, curl, and make my lashes stand out (in a good way)!!!

http://www.fiberwig.com/