China Glaze Prismatic Liquid Crystal

I didn't really have anything else in mind after removing the smiley mani, but decided to give Liquid Crystal a shot. It's a very pretty glitter polish! If you put it over a black base, the duo-chrome is more apparent, but I had no patience for that :P Plus I just about had it when I smudged it by accident.

It's not the best picture ever because it was with my phone's camera, so you can't see the details. And it's really chipped because it chipped the day after I put it on and at that time the lighting wasn't that good for picture :( I tried patching it up, but it kept chipping.

僕等がいた Bokura ga Ita

One of my all time favorite manga, Bokura ga Ita (English title: We Were There), has just ended in April's Betsucomi, I believe. It's a slice of life sort of manga, but I enjoyed it for its simplicity.

The start of high school life. To the girls, that also meant the start of their love lives. For brand new first year student, Takahashi Nanami (Nana for short), it was no different... She happens to end up in the same class as the incredibly popular Yano Motoharu, who rumors say that two thirds of all the girls are guaranteed to fall in love with. But will that hold true for Nana, who says that if she had to choose between like or dislike, she'd say she dislikes him!?

-- Hanashi

The rest of the story just revolves around their relationship and issues that arise. If you have time, you should definitely give it a shot. I enjoyed every bit of it.

Hunger Games & Nails

On Saturday I went to get my wisdom teeth removed, so now all of them are gone :o I don't even have any memory of the process.. I remember going into the room and getting hooked up to the IV.. then next thing I know I'm already on my way home and stumbling to bed to sleep off the anesthesia. They wouldn't let me keep my teeth though..something about it being a bio-hazard or whatever.. Dunno if you guys do it, but I keep all my teeth lol. My cheeks are a bit swollen, so I have like a square head right now :(

Later that night I did my nails... they're smiley themed!

The base color is Sally Hansen Yellow Kitty and the rest were with various other colors. It took me a while to realize that I drew my left thumb the wrong way lol. 

So I went to watch The Hunger Games yesterday. I thought it was pretty good, but I haven't read the book yet, so I don't know how it compares. I heard the book is pretty good though, so I was hoping to read it one day.. Someone actually told me a spoiler, so the whole time I was anticipating for it to happen, but it never did! Soo guess I believed it for nothing.

I also went to get some hair dye again since I was in the area and saw Opal One Minute Treatment for my hair, so I picked that up as well because I remember reading good things about it in the past. I haven't used it yet, but I'm hoping for good results! Last time I messed up with Prettia, so I'm hoping that I can do it right this time.

Prettia Custard Brown | Opal One Minute Treatment

Restaurant Week 2012

Soo I caved in and made an exception to my budgeting and went out to eat for restaurant week. I went to a seafood restaurant called Summer Shack. I dunno if other areas do it too, but it's pretty much two weeks in the year where restaurants try to promote their place with a 3 course meal (appetizer, entree, & dessert) at a certain price for light lunch, lunch, or dinner.

Anyways, to start off, here are the appetizers.

 "R.I. Style" Calamari; I expected just fried calamari.. so I was a bit disappointed. It wasn't that bad, but just not that crispy and it was sorta oily.

Sauteed P.E.I. Mussels; I wasn't a fan of the sauce that this was cooked with. It had some beer(?) flavor or something, which I don't like.

Native 1lb Chix Lobster; We weren't sure how big 1lb is.. but it's a pretty decent size. I thought it tasted sorta plain, but the bf enjoyed it so it's all good :D I was debating between this or what I got.. but since I don't really know how to eat a lobster if it's not pre-cut for me, I decided against it.

Grilled Florida Gulf Shrimp; Again, I thought this was sort of plain. The shrimp just tasted like any other shrimp to me and didn't have much of a flavor.

 Ice cream cake..yum! Can't go wrong with that.

Uhh.. apple crisp with vanilla ice cream?

Anyways, I was a bit disappointed because I sort of expected more from this.. and I actually thought that restaurant week was supposed to be cheaper since it was a flat ~$33 for a meal per person, but when I added up the prices on the menu, this meal was only worth $35.50, so I saved about $2 bucks. If that was the case, then I would've just eaten any other day instead of now..instead of going over my budget! Then again, it might just be this particular restaurant and others may offer better deals.

Budgeting

Super long post... and no pictures, sorry!

For the past few months, I have been spending way too much money, considering that I do not work that often so whatever I make is like pocket cash, but my spending has been gone overboard and I've spent everything that I earning last year during the year and in the summer. So this month I decided to enforce a budget for myself and it's making me miserable haha. I can't spend so freely anymore or go pick up a snack or drink when I need one; I would have to wait until I get home. There's still like a third of the month left and for the past few days I have been stuck with a remaining balance of 73 cents to spend D:

But speaking of grabbing some food every now and then, this budget sorta kills two birds with one stone. A week after returning from Canada, I started gaining weight and noticeably in in my tummy area..it just bulges out and I feel like I look almost pregnant or bloated 24/7. Ironically, I didn't gain weight during the trip, but after. Weird. But yeah I guess this way I can control my eating to a more reasonable level, just breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It worked for a week until I pigged out again at home last night LOL :( But yeah, hopefully it all works out :D I'm hoping to cut off snacks for a while too. I'll just finish off whatever I have at home (which is mostly chips -__-) and ban myself from snack shopping, which I used to go like every single week. This would save me lots of $$$ and be way healthier for me..

Anyways, I'll update again maybe at the end of this week or so. It's restaurant week this week and the next, so MAYBE I'll make an exception to the budget for this since I have never gone before (...giving into temptation.) I have to get my bottom two wisdom teeth pulled this Saturday and they said I can't have nail polish on..so no new mani until next week. I hope my cheeks don't swell up for weeks! It's a pretty deep removal, so it probably will :(

Have a nice rest of the week everyone!! Hope it's as nice whereever you live as it is here. Today it was like 80 degrees!

St. Patrick's Day Nail

Like a lot of other people, I did a green mani for St. Patrick's Day. It's something simple though. The nails are sorta messy because I took the pics before cleaning it up since there was good lighting. It was such a nice day out!

I tried doing a glittery gradient effect with this mani

I used: OPI Natural Nail Base Coat | Wet n Wild Craze Jade | Wet n Wild Spoiled Show Me The Money | Essie Good to Go Top Coat

 

Here it is cleaned up :P

China Glaze Magnetix Pull Me Close

 I finally tried a magetic nail polish! I wanted to get the Nails Inc. ones back when they first came out at Sephora, but they were too expensive and I don't think I would've used it that often. But lately there's been a lot more cheaper alternatives :)

Here's CG Pull Me Close.. after using it, I don't think magnetic polishes are really for me :( I'm so bad at it, so  for a lot of my nails, it would only cover half of it.. you can kinda see what I mean on my ring finger and it's more apparent in person. So I messed up A LOT trying to put these on and had to do each nail a couple of times.. so I probably used up a lot of the polish just from one mani.

Here's a tiny food spam :P

 Boneless buffalo chicken ! :D

Mochi