mini haul: ulta and sally's

hey guys! so i had two coupons to use today; 20% off entire purchase at ulta, which included most (or all) prestige cosmetics; i don't remember.... and 15% off at sally's. anyway so i went ahead and got a few things. first, i got a too faced primed and poreless powder. i've been wanting one of these to try for a while now, and feel that ~$22 is more reasonable for this than $28 (ret. price). as well as getting @lilactinggirl an urban decay pistol eye shadow (not pictured) for ~$14 instead of $18. then over at sally's, they had the orly french manicure sets on sale for $9 (reg. $15), so now i have all three! that's all for now. later. ~L-c ^.~

 
polishes: after party, liquid vinyl, space cadet, witch's blue, shine

mini haul and giveaway win! & notd!

 

hey so i wanted to show you guys a few things... got urban decay's swf shadow, hits no olipio colection apolo polish from llarowe's birthday sale, and a bottle of floam from captivating claws' giveaway. floam is a clear-based polish with yellow-green and blue particles. dries textured, like a glitter polish. ~L-c ^.~

 
flash, bathroom lighting

 
apolo, floam; floam over for audrey

honeymoon part 2

so an update now that i'm at home..or rather, back at work. yay~ super excited i've got my old job back, not so much on the i'm-getting-another-degree part.. but whatever. if it'll get me in a better position than i was in this past semester, bring it.

so the sunday that i posted part one, we went to sea world. and i rode atlantis for the first time. a word from the wise: bring a ziplock to put your phones and wallets in. not that anything happened to ours, we had a ziplock on hand, but just make sure you do it. back to the ride: i didn't know that the huge plunge you see from outside the ride is STEP ONE of the ride.... nope. not the grand finale. you get soaked, then roller coaster. not the other way around. but it was cool. we dried off..eventually. san diego weather is cool right now, like 60s-70s. veryyy much in contrast to here. omg. 100's! anyway so yeah, it took us a couple hours to fully air dry. monday, we just hung around the resort, went to their little farmer's market day, and watched some of monster. tuesday, we went to phil's bbq and mission beach (don't bother with the boardwalk, it's kinda lame). followed by some yumm desserts as dinner due to our late lunch. one's a cheesecake cake and the other is fruit and cream on top of a meringue. wednesday was san diego zoo and balboa park's japanese friendship garden. followed by taste of little italy. little italy is basically the italian version of chinatown. so anyway; they have the taste once a year, where you pay a flat rate ($30?) for a passport card that lets you get samples/tapas from participating restaurants. this year, there were 30 sponsors, one of which was a car dealer. so of the 29 restaurants, we went to 27! @_@ the two we skipped were 7/11 slurpees and a coffee shop. most of the places we went to were pretty good. there were 4 pizza places--which none seemed all that special, two had gnocchi--one was better than the other's. see a mini review below the photo. then on thursday, we hung around the resort a little, checked out (a day) early, and drove back to anaheim area. we were concerned about san diego-anaheim traffic and missing our plane if we left sd on friday morning. the rental car was from anaheim and we had round-trip bus tickets for the disney express to and from santa ana airport, so we stayed at the courtyard mariott in cypress (which was near several corporate office buildings--including bandai, yamaha, vans, and mitsubishi). and friday, we flew back. ~L-c ^.~

i got's the goods!! (the closest trader joe's is in houston.......for now..)

 

 i go smoooshhhh into the glass! and we go splashhhh!

at mission beach

from extraordinary desserts

at the zoo.
 
at the japanese friendship garden in balboa park

1. we tried flan-diddly anders (the only one i liked), tower 20 iipa, red trolley, and windansea wheat hefeweizen
2. this salad impressed me a lot. it's so simple, no lettuce, exactly the ingredients they list!
3. it was really good. it was actually raw halibut, not cooked--slight turn off for me, but it was still very good
4. they had tortellini with pink sauce (aka. marinara)--yum!
5. omg these crepes were amazing! paul liked the nutella one the most, and the other two choices were sugar and lemon sugar. >w<
6. i can't completely remember, but i think i didn't like it..
7. this was really good too! it didn't sound like all of that would go well with ice cream--to me--but it was awesome!
8. meh, average pizza
9. this was pretty good, it was basically a cold dish, and kind of like salsa veggies (not sauce) and shrimp and scallops
10. soooo good!!! we got the beef ones.
11. i don't remember what the thing i had was called but it was interesting. i think it was a noodle similar to couscous mixed with some stuff, served cold.
12. pretty good, but wasn't warm
13. they served salad over roasted corn with some sort of italian liqueur mixed with club soda. didn't like the drink, salad/corn was normal
14. sangrias and bleu cheese stuffed dates wrapped in bacon. i'm not a huge bleu cheese fan, but it was pretty good, sangria was too strong for me
15. well..it's yogurtland.. same ole same ole.
16. average
17. skipped
18. gnocchi in a homemade marinara--delish. we were getting stuffed at this point and were sad to throw away most of it..but i mean, it's gnocchi..it's super heavy! only ate two pieces of it, but i'd definitely go get it again!
19. average
20. average
21. skipped
22. gnocchi wasn't as good as the other place
23. it was alright
24. i honestly don't remember...it was at the fuzzy, super full stage of the night. i think it was good, but i honestly don't remember it....... sorry!
25. it's not exactly an italian place...but it was ok. it was a little spicy for my taste, but if that's your thing, then you'd probably like it
26. not worth the hassle, bouncer was a retard. didn't even ask us straight up for our id's; he asked if we were 21 then answered a few of our questions, then stopped us from going in to see our id's
27. omg this steak was the best ever...or maybe it's just that i love steak!!
28. it was pretty good
29. i didn't eat mine; but paul thought it was definitely worth the walk (it's so far away from all the other places!)

honeymoon update and haul

i know this is a little belated, since we're no longer in anaheim, but anyway.... i was excited to find out that there was a lush store in walking distance to our hotel!!! basically, our hotel (camelot inn) was across the street from disneyland--which was an awesome idea by the way.

so our trip thus far has been fun. we got a southern california city pass, which is a 3 day park hopper for disneyland/california adventure, 1 day at sea world, 1 day at either san diego zoo or safari park, and 1 day at universal stuidos (which, sadly, we're skipping...) all in a nice, package that is cheaper than buying each ticket separately--which is also why we're ok with skipping universal due to it being far out of the way and not having enough time.

anyway; we did a few fun things around anaheim, like going to cheesecake factory for the first time ever...twice! and bubba gump shrimp co--which, they have one in NO, but we've never been.. >.< went to disney tuesday and wednesday; went to the world of color "show" at california adventure, which is a water and laser type show, really neat--you have to see it! as well as fantasmic, which is in disneyland and has costumed characters and water/laser action too. then, wednesday evening, my knee started bothering me, so we went out in search for knee brace from cvs on thursday..which happened to be a 30 minute walk from our hotel. TT_TT yes, we could have taken the bus..but alas it all worked out. said cvs had a k-mart, big lots, and payless in the vicinity so it was a nice shopping trip. we got 3 pairs of shoes for ~$70, a nice and large collapsible igloo that should fold flat enough for our suitcase (we didn't check our bags for the airplanes), snacks, sunglasses, and of course, my knee brace...because i didn't pack mine from home. >.> afterward, we went over to downtown disney and did some major shopping at the disney store (the one that has all the merch that's inside the park). got some cute frames for ourselves and teh paul splurged on me, buying me a really nice disney jacket. friday, we spent part of the day at disney and the other part, got the rental car and drove down to san diego area to our resort and went to trader joe's for the first time. and that brings us to saturday, where we spent the day swabbing decks on the pirate ship adventure, and laughing the night away at the national comedy theatre. if you want to, call this number: (619) 224-4386 for a hilariously long automated menu for pirate ship adventures...might i add that it's a painstakingly long menu if you actually do need to talk to a real person--paul accidentally booked us for the wrong day and sat through the menus for about 15 minutes so to change it................. anyway; that's about all i've got for ya. another update to come later. ~Lin-chan ^.~

Blackberry and Heavanilli, we bought other stuff too, but these are the two new things i haven't tried yet.

 
right: reads "happily ever after" at the bottom

say "yes" to the dress

sorry guys! i forgot to adjust the time stamp for this post and all... so here's the final dress post...finally. to see previous dress posts, click here. ~L-c ^.~

initial try-ons of my dress (regular cut):

  
  

This is the color:

These are their dresses:

my actual dress (petite cut):

  

what a pleasant surprise!

 

got my theBalm package from hautelook* today, and was surprised to see a complimentary the art of shaving gift set (ret. $10) in there! it's the same set i gave paul last night as a little wedding gift (except this is unscented and i got him lavender). anyway; so that was kinda cool, except now he's got shaving products out the wazoo. he already had a lot before giving him these two sets and my dad's not a shaving cream person... so yeah. anyway! so i got the time balm in light and it seems to be a perfect match so i'm pretty excited about that. i'm not sure if this is a sign for something, but the concealer was sweating when i opened the package--louisiana heat and humidity and all.... (you can kinda see the "sweat" and where i dabbed it to swatch it) so we'll see how it holds up; paying half price is better than full price to try a full-sized product, right? ~L-c ^.~

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captivating claws nail polish giveaway! [ENDED]

update: hey just an update on this! i won the bottle of floam today! swatch photo soon if it comes before i go out of town! (if not, you'll have to wait til close to july)

May 21, 2012 1:46 PM enter to win one of six prizes from jodi & destany's polish giveaway!!! ~L-c ^.~

cooking with dog update

chef-san is slowly making her comeback after january's bicycle accident. gambattemasu!!! ~L-c ^.~

well that's fitting.

~Lin-chan ^.~