House of Chen won't deliver until 5.

House of Chen won't deliver until 5. I might die going to get my food. But I need to eat it.

I just called in to work.

I just called in to work.  I feel like I am being stabbed in the brain.  I am hungry.  I need a shower.  I haven't even cleaned up my ani-pals yet...

Oh my gosh, I need to brush my teeth.  I feel yucky.  I feel much worse than I did yesterday.  🙁

I think I am going to order some House of Chen.  I don't want to leave my house.

My THROAT hurts!

My THROAT hurts!  I really don't feel like being sick right now, but I think it's coming.  🙁  Yuck.

I had a super relaxing weekend away...

I had a super relaxing weekend away... yet now that I'm home I'm EXHAUSTED.  I really wanted to do my nails because it's been a while and they are chipping, but I just can't.  I am gonna drag myself to the shower and then to bed.  Just wow.  I can't even begin to explain this.  LOL

So... I didn't tell anyone...

So... I didn't tell anyone because it's not super smart to broadcast that you will be away from home for a few days... But I was.  😃  And now I'm back.  So no one try to rob me.

Me and the best Shaun ever had a weekend for just the two of us.  Despite not everything going as planned, we still had fun.

This photo is a sad one.  My new bike - the one I was SO LOOKING FORWARD TO RIDING THIS WEEKEND, is dead.  At least until Dick's fixes it up.  I had my riding shorts, my chamois butter, my new seat, and even a bottle holder and bottle all ready and set.  I rode for less than a mile when I geared down for a big hill and was nearly slung off as my gear or something was caught in the spoke of my wheel.  I have zero clue how or why that happened.  🙁

Anyway, the rest of the time was fun, although my butt hurts.  Not from anything exciting, though.  Shaun's kitten had diarrhea in her carrier on the way there, so we pulled over in the freezing cold at like, midnight, to clean her up.  I left the car door open so I could see what I was doing, but when I took a step back to get more paper towels, I rammed my ass cheek into the thin metal of the open door.  It hurt SO BAD.  And now I have a big black bruise and it hurts to sit.  And nope - I will not be posting a photo of that.  LOL

Anyway, glad to be home.  Ready to spend some time with my Shadow.  🙂

So... this paint job took some forethought. 😃

So... this paint job took some forethought. 😃

I found these cool UV color changing polishes online, and so I wanted to get a few - obviously. I thought it would be really cool to stamp with them if I could, so I got two metallic-looking colors (because those usually stamp ok). I also tried to buy colors that looked just like something I already had. That was a little harder to do, but I think I got close.

So... this is the result. Left photo is in the shade. You can kind of see the swirl pattern anyway, but indoors, you can't at all unless you are looking for it. The right photo was taken in sunlight, so now the stamped image is popping. HOW COOL IS THAT?!

All the way. That's how cool it is. 😃

So, I feel like I might want a few more of these. I bet this would be really awesome to try again in the summer, when the sun is out all over the place. I might try some of their non-metallic colors, because their metallics weren't smooth, which made the stamping a little crappy. Thankfully, I chose a pattern that didn't have a lot of straight and crisp edges. This one looks more like maybe a tornado from the top, so I think it's entirely appropriate that it's not "perfect".

Another note on these polishes - they are scented. This one is Cinnamon Bun, and I have another called Sweet Cream. Scented polishes seem to be really hit or miss - either they don't smell much, or they smell TOO MUCH. These are JUST RIGHT. You kind of have to get your hands close to your face, so it's not like you are perfuming the whole room with them. And the smells are actually really nice. This one does smell like cinnamon, and ohemgee, the Sweet Cream makes me want to eat my hands. 😳

These are by Ruby Wing. I also love their motto: "If nothing ever changed there'd be no butterflies!" I know that I probably sound like an advertisement, and I'm sorry for that. I just really like them. If you want some scented, color-changing polishes, they are available at rubywing.com.

I love this person. They are beautiful.

I love this person.  They are beautiful.

(Hope I said that right.  It sounds weird.)

I have been subscribed to this blog for years.  I'm not interested in the sexy kinky stuff, but I love the gender stuff.  I think I have gender issues.  That's how I found this blog in the first place.  This particular post is work safe, but others might not be.  Just FYI.

http://www.sugarbutch.net/2013/11/coming-out-genderqueer-an-open-letter-to-my-family-friends