So basically we don’t follow the rules and we only have one tradition it started innocently enough with a Nuns Having Fun calendar, it was deemed Adam’s pick and then the next year brought forth a gift of a calendar making it technically my pick and then the calendar that changed everything, the calendar that meant war. Need I say more than Adam’s pick and Men with Buns? Oh and click this link now for some Men with Buns action, you want to trust me.
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Right now I am feeling like emotional crap. This doesn’t mean I am not still experimenting with this happy business it just means I’ve hit a glitch, a big one. [pertinent post coming]
I’m trying to take my mind off it and look at it from some more angles before I write on it or it will be a gong show. Granted avoiding dealing with my most recent issue is really only making it worse. It is family related I am SO done with any and all blog drama.
I’m known to be a pretty plain Jane. I do have a girly side I just grew up a sporty tom boy. I’m too lazy to wear much makeup and mascara doesn’t even make me happy anymore because false eyelashes are all the rage and I swear the funniest thing I ever got picked on for in high school was supposedly having fake lashes the teasing started in 1990. YES there are much worse things to be picked on for, trust me the bullies had me covered. 
I do get my lashes tinted on occasion because it makes me feel pretty. I find that because I have a face covered in peach fuzz that wearing any sort of cover up is literally impossible to get even on my skin. I also can not stand the feel of makeup and have probably eaten at least a tube of lipstick and I hardly ever wear it because I eat and pick my lip skin off constantly it is pretty disgusting but an interesting example of how when you make an effort to stop a compulsive behavior it often manifests itself into a different behavior and can take a while to accept that is all you have done and have to start over.
Shall I get to the point?
Due to the copious amounts of pot I have been smoking for years, more than I will admit to most people; though let us not forget that addictions are generally intensely private to the individual, I find myself with very dark circles under my eyes. I’m used to this, but it has become more obvious to me as of late. Extra water intake and extra moisturizing was not cutting it. Even if I were to quit smoking pot completely it takes approximately two months before your skin starts to lose the grayish tone that sinks in and only adds to the eye circles.
When it comes to products primarily marketed towards women and the refusal to let us age gracefully I rarely get sucked in. I exfoliate my face in the shower and my body using two different St. Ives products, they are inexpensive products that work. I use Olay moisturizer on my face because they are generally one of the only mid-price range lines of beauty products I have any interest or faith in; although I also use St. Ives body moisturizer because I have super sexy chicken scratch skin on the back of my arms and top of my legs.
I purchased Olay Regenerist Eye Lifting Serum hoping it would reduce my dark circles and it didn’t work, so I went into The Body Shop where years ago I bought this under eye gel one of my straight male friends used and so I had to try it and because it was gel it was cool and soothing. The novelty wore off fast I was twenty-young something and didn’t even have dark circles. But I explained my totally superficial insecure eye situation and they told me to put my Olay in the fridge. This made for soothing application but it kept not absorbing right and getting in my eyes and making them redder than they already are and it was pissing me off.
I recently started using Garnier’s Skin Renew, anti-puff eye roller because I fell pretty hard for the cool feeling of the Olay serum under my eyes I just didn’t want to lose my eyesight due to fire eyes. This Garnier eye roller had me pretty intrigued for someone who although writing a page plus post on a bloody eye serum doesn’t get excited about just any girly products. Nic’s Sticks by OPI were my last must have girl product and that took place in July and was egged on by my lust for Target and the exclusivity to Target anything because I am a sucker.
I’m going to go out on a completely uneducated limb here and admit that I highly doubt caffeine is good for your skin. But this eye roller works and it feels like you are at the spa for that six seconds it takes to apply. I noticed almost instant results my puffiness and dark circles have dramatically decreased and it is not just my imagination.
I am still skeptical because I used Proactiv Solution for years back when it still cost almost seventy dollars Canadian for a three month supply. Although this product was fantastic for helping clear up the adult acne I suffered through-out my twenties it was not without side effects and has left me with pock marks which are not flattering.
For now I am enjoying that girlish feeling I get when I know that no one even looks at my under eye skin or notices the bags I see but the bizarre permission I feel to act girly makes me hope the caffeine doesn’t make my skin shrivel up like raisins.
So I will go BULLETS on you.
- Every single time one of us sits at the computer Gus jumps straight onto a lap she has her head buried in my arm right now. She is the most adorably cute annoying cat in the world.
- Adam hurt himself at work and has been off here and there and so I’ve had to carry some heavy shit and;
- it made me wonder how the hell I was ever as independent as I was
- someone held the back door to the apartment building open for me, I made it all the way up the stairs to my floor and swung the door open so I could let it hit me in the back to go through but I didn’t move far enough over and the door knob NAILED me so hard that it happened on Monday and I still have pain shooting in a couple of directions and a massive LUMP.
- COMING SOON!!! HUGE and I mean HUGE MOOOOO-VIE post. While we make monkeys we watch movies, mostly movies we’ve seen or I watch them twice or vise versa, some will be old and some will be new movies. I feel that my one liner-ish reviews are generally better than if I go all out anyway.
- Speaking of movies, and forgive me as I’ll probably repeat some of this somewhere down the road but I FINALLY got my hands on a copy of Into the Wild BUT now I’m afraid to watch it, WHY? Because see, I read the book in April 2005 [NERD ALERT/reminder: I date all of my books when I finish them] I have also read most of Jon Krakauer’s other books. The book Into the Wild is a 199 pages, with epilogue 203. I had this funny feeling having just watched two movies of perfect length so I looked at Into the Wild and saw that it is 143 minutes. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I’m now convinced that Krakauer and Penn are conspiring against all of man kind, how the HECK does a 199 page book become a 143 minute movie? Krakauer wrote Into the Wild before he became known for being an arrogant thinks he knows it all, extremely repetitive journalist [NOT SAYING HE HASN'T BEEN THROUGH A LOT re: Everest] but seriously is half this fucking movie going to be Penn and Krakauer masturbating their egos and Krakauer getting us back for writing such a short book in comparison? I guess I’ll see once I watch it.
- Also coming soon a very personal review of Dry, Augusten Burroughs, [who has a new book out on April 29 YAY!] and I wasn’t planning on reviewing it at all but I have a few things to say about The Last Days of Socrates, Plato. Once I start talking about the damn Socrates I can’t shut up now, I feel similar to how I felt after I read 1984.
- OUR CAMERA IS BROKEN!!!!!! On one hand I feel really lame getting so upset over a materialistic possession but our camera is not just a play toy for us anymore we NEED it for our business so we are pretty stressed about it or rather I am, Adam doesn’t really stress much about anything in life. I have a couple tricks up my sleeve to hopefully get some photos of two monkeys that will be done this weekend and HOPEFULLY by the time the Jedi one is done THAT IS RIGHT A JEDI ONE, the camera will be fixed. I don’t pray but if you do please say a prayer for our new business. All start ups have glitches. We’ve officially hit a glitch.
- I finally had the pleasure of meeting Raul over the last weekend at Tanya’s housewarming party. I am like the last blogger in Vancouver to meet him I think. He was everything he has been talked up to be and more! I was the one at the party with the sippy cup. I had every intention of joining y’all at Every Third Tuesday this month because the Hamburgler [Monica Hamburg] was the speaker, I call her a friend, she doesn’t read my blog, that is cool man, but she is rad, I heard she did a great job, sorry I missed it, been taking care of my dear husband yo.
- We now have our FOURTH coffee pot in less than two years. The first one I broke in a tantrum of mass destruction, although I was not TRYING to break the coffee pot I just forcefully put it under the tap and knocked it into something. THEN Sarah and Jack bought us a rad coffee pot for a wedding gift [can't find the post re: FUCKED archives] but even though we know at least four other couples/people who have that coffee pot and they ALL still have it ours broke!! WOOOOOOOOOOO! RIGHT after the warranty was done, probably the day after. I then bought a $24.99 twelve cup coffee pot, cheapest one I could find. Last week the heating plate went on it. Adam likes burnt coffee I blame him. SO I bought YET another coffee pot, and this one makes loud noises and I want to throw it out the window and I don’t have the box to take it back because I am a recycling freak and actually get excited about the amount of things I have to recycle and FUCK now I have to wait out this shit coffee pot, watch it last ten years, seriously.
Ps. Dr. Vegas is always a mentor to the Sock Monkeys, he always gives em’ some advice before they leave our infantry but this particular monkey the Dr. really took to. They had a pretty awesome jam session before he departed, Vegas has already shown off his guitar though so he took it off for the photo.
