What's Your Philosophy ?

I guess i've never been one to pamper myself.  I'm pretty casual but I like girly things.  Since my beautiful son was born, I've noticed that I've become more and more "frumpy".  It is true that mom's forget about themselves when their children are born.  And don't get me wrong, that's not a terrible thing but it's not a great thing either.  For me, I stay in denial for an eternity before I finally figure something out.  When things come gradually, I don't notice them as much.  Especially when I'm dealing with a full time job, husband, child, cooking, cleaning, and trying to find time to relax in between.  ha ha

When I was trying to come up with some gift ideas for my birthday this year, I realized that I really needed some new clothes.  I might have got a few new tops and pants once or twice since I've been married..but it just hasn't been on the top of my priority list.  Once I started to notice that most of my clothes were old, worn out, had holes and tears in them, were stained, etc - it made me feel kinda like a bum.  I was wearing pants to work that needed to be safety pinned among other things, my PJ / Lounge pants have holes in them and are just plain worn out, about 95% of my shirts and tops are stained, or have holes and tears in them.  It's absolutely pathetic and unacceptable! When you wear things like this, it's kind of depressing! Especially looking back at it now.. I feel like such a low life!

I really want to do things for myself.  I want to make myself feel GOOD and GIRLY and REFRESHED.  I want to feel PRETTY.  As it is right now, I hardly ever wear makeup, I rarely fix my hair, it's been probably 8 months since I've even had a haircut, and I will go way over a week without shaving (which I know is absolutely gross.. but it's just like I don't care)  I always put myself last.. always. 

So.. with ALL that said I really want to try and do things for myself every once in a while!  I got my new clothes yesterday. YAY!!!  I'm wearing a new top and cardigan today.. and I it feels great to have nicer clothes on! ha ha!   The past two days I curled my hair before work.. I really need a haircut, so it looks kinda silly.  I didn't curl it today and I think it looks better.  ha ha!

The other day I went to the NEX (because we had a gift card) and I picked up some Philosophy skin care.  I've always wanted to try it and I've been wanting to do something for my poor neglected face.  I got this to try:

I have dry patches on my face and it's just "rough" feeling.  I've used this for a few days and already my skin feel SO much better! I ended up ordering the face wash by itself because I like it a LOT and I needed face wash.  The other two things will last me forever.. so I didn't need that right now.  I also ordered this:

This is a daily facial type stuff and I thought it would be great because my skin is so far gone.  It needs some major help!

I get so excited  to use my new face care stuff! ha ha! It's morning and i'm like "YAY - I get to WASH MY FACE!"  and then again before I go to bed "WAHOO - I GET TO WASH MY FACE!"  ha ha!  It's fun doing things for yourself, right?!

So all you beautiful mommas and workin' girls out there - what do you do for yourself?  Is there a certain product you SWEAR by?!  I could really use some help! I feel like I'm new at all this pampered girly type stuff! 

CALLING ALL COMPUTER GEEKS!

Okay – so I want to change the font on by blog. Sounds easy enough, right? WRONG – I want to use a font that is not listed on the “CUSTOMIZE” button on blogger. There is a tutorial on kevinandamanda.com on how to do it. I tried it, but I failed. I don’t understand the computer language! I was wondering if any of you have the secret to this. If you know html and would be willing to help me, PLEASE let me know. I’ll e-mail to tutorial to you and you can see if it’s even possible for YOU to help MY blog. You might have to actually download the font, I don’t know.


Anyways –

I hope everyone had a good weekend! Saturday Shelby and I got up and worked around the house. At noon a friend came over and then she and I went to PF Chang’s for lunch. It was absolutely delicious! It was so great having some girl time too – I really needed that! After lunch we walked around the shopping center we were at, hit Starbucks, and then headed back to my house. Shelby had to work that evening and she had to get back to her kiddos, so we didn’t stay out too late.

Sunday Shelby and I went to church in the morning. After church and lunch we came home and CRASHED! I was SO tired! Have you ever been SO asleep that when you woke up you were kinda still asleep? That’s the way I felt the rest of the evening. Ha ha

Today has been a good day. Very slow and uneventful – which is fine :) Shelby’s W-2 is here so I might do our taxes this evening. I can’t wait to have that money .. I can pay so many things OFF with that! During lunch I ran home and threw chili in the crock-pot. I usually make it on the stove, but I thought it might be nice to come home and have dinner DONE. Chili taste’s better when it’s been cooking a while anyways!

I hope everyone is having a great MONDAY! Tonight we are going to eat chili, relax, and watch a movie! Love my family!

HELP

PS - if I were going to blog about my 101 in 1001 days - what would be a cute title for that blog? I'm having a hard time coming up with something.  Ideas welcome!! :-)

Pictures

I'm wanting to find the best way to print pictures from my digital camera. I go to Wal-mart, but I feel like sometimes the pictures aren't very good quality. What do you use or suggest for good quality digital pictures? I was looking at SnapFish - but I've never used it before. HELP!!!