I take it back

I was telling brett that I wanted the flip camera, and he pointed out that the new nano takes video. I don't need another mp3 player, but 50 bucks more,and you can fit 8 hours of video instead of the 2 that the flip fits.... heck. And I can probably get it in orange. Yummy.

The problem with shopping for other people

I woke up this morning at 3.

This going to bed earlier thing is being very strange to me. I sleep about 6 hours instead of 9. I mean, I've heard that the sleep you get before midnight counts as double, but this is weird. Also, each day I want to go to bed earlier and earlier. Before you know it, I am going to be waking up at midnight... or I am going to be a grandpa. never sleeping, just taking hour long naps every 3 hours.

Anyhow. With nothing to do, after an hour of lying in bed, awake, I got up to see what 4 am had in store for me. I scoped all the black friday ads I could find online, and found myself thoroughly untempted. There goes entertaining myself driving from store to store.

So, I shopped amazon. Checking the gift lists I made on it (I love that you can make gift lists for people... Then I come back later and remember what things in the past I came across and thought someone would enjoy BUT I HATE THEIR FORMAT. They could make it much more user friendly). Anyhow, it is a shame, but some people are still gift-idea-less, while others have several prospects. ... so I went on the hunt.

And of course, I find cool things that iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii want.

And that is the problem with shopping for other people. It makes me lust for material things.

I'd love to share all the cool ideas I have for other people, but then they would read this and their surprise would be ruined. For me, this is the joy of gift giving. trying to come up with things people want, but don't expect... or didn't know they wanted. I enjoy the hunt.

Since I can't spoil all the surprises, I give you, my temptations, in no particular order.

1.
I want to buy it for myself while it is this cheep. How nice it would be to have a camera that didn't weigh 10 pounds. sometimes you don't need HD. you need blogging quality, and that is it. I cold make Brett buy it for me, but that t akes the fun out of christmas.



2. I want one of these... to can soups and chilis and other meaty suchs. That way when we make a big batch, we don't have to eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner. The thing is... I see it as too practicle and wrestle with weather or not I want it as a gift. Maybe I'd rather not have it at all so I can get something fun. I'm a brat I know.





3. I am always wanting tools. Such a girl. Most of the ones I want are several hundred dollars. This, is only 50.... ( not a cheep one, but a good one) but... A lady at work insists I can borrow hers if I get my own tip, and that is much more practical until I determine how often I will use it. I have some projects I want to do, but don't know if I will have enough time.




4. I've also wanted one of these for a while, though my desire to dable in the soldering arts has suppressing my desire to learn and play around with silk screening. I just love making things and learning knew "arts"

Desktop invadors

For thanksgiving, I drew this and tiled onto my mother-in-law's desktop. She said it was vile.

A few of my favorite things- Eye liner

Many years ago, I was frustrated with eyeliner, yet dependent on it because I had recently discovered it made a huge difference on my eyes... aka people thought I was old enough to drive (a good think when you are in your 3rd year of college). So I turned to a roommate putting on her make up and asked her "Do you know of an eye liner that is liquid but doesn't flake?" For whatever reason, at the time, I couldn't get a strait line with a pencil but figured out a way to get it strait with liquid.... but every liquid I had tried thus far ended up flaking throughout the day, so my strait line ended up missing chunks. Yuuuuummmmm.

To my surprise, without any hesitation, she handed me one of these powder eyeliners from clinique. you get the brush wet, and voila!. I wish they had a darker brown though... for now I use black. I was hesitant to buy it because it was 15 bucks, but they've all lasted me close to 2 full years, so whatever. My one complaint is that I am usually in a hurry to do a make up quicky, and to get this at the right darkness and thickness I like, I have to have patience, so I often use a pencil that just ends up smudging throughout the day instead. boo.

A few of my favorite things-Silpat

I used to put down wax paper when I made cookies because I hate cleaning cookie sheets. When I discovered this trick, it made my day.

Silpats retail about 20 bucks, depending o size. I found mine at a garage sale, opened but never used, FOR 50 CENTS!
I don't have to clean my pan, nothing really sticks to the silpat yet, so cleaning it is super easy. I've used it for pizzas and cookies, and I'm excited to use it for everything I can. DON"T CUT ANYTHING ON THE MAT THOUGH! It will ruin it.

a few of my favorite things- fancy cooking oils

OIL:
I found this out prop shopping at Ross or TJ Max or something. I thought Brett would have fun with it so I got it as a surprise.
I'm not a huge fan or walnuts, but I used it in some chocolate cake and brownies instead of vegetable oil, and even though I thought it was too strong in the batter, once baked, I was subtly addicted and ate leftovers all weekend.

A few of my favorite things- Mascara

I finally found a mascara I love. Tarte's 4 day lash stain. I insist on waterproof and I don't want thick clumpy lashes. I want natural lashes, only darker.
My last mascara would fade before the end of the day and I hated that. I paid $6 dollars for this Tarte 6 day mascara. it stays on all day, darkens my lashes so you can see their full length, and are not obnoxious tarantulas legs. As for the full 6 days, well, YOu aren't supposed to use any oil based makeups around it and probably can only use certain face washes. I don't pay attention to any of that, so it doesn't last 4 days, but I'm still happy.

I just discovered

I just discovered that I can schedule posts. and it makes my day. My work's blog has a scheduling future blogs feature, and I love it, and my boss told me that blogspot does it too, but I never actually saw the feature anywhere.
Now I am happy because I get to cut up one rediculously long post and make it into a series of smaller meaningless posts. AWESOME!

A few of my favorite things- tartar sauce.

I know you don't read this for the product reviews, but that is what I've been thinking about lately. Things I have recently discovered, love and would recommend. Then when a friend blogged about this humidity blocker for hair she loved, I figured "why not, I'm gunna rave about awesome things."



TARTAR SAUCE:
Brett and I have been in a fish stick grove lately. I'm pretty picky with fish, and fish sticks must have tartar sauce, So we tried a good 5 or so varieties as an comparison. This Beaver Tartar sauce is amazing. I think it is the capers they put in it.
On the other hand, stay away from this stuff below. it is Nasty.