Did well today. Late last night I ended up making some dark chocolate chip pumpkin bread, which I honestly didn't like but the rest of the family did. That tends to happen a lot. I'm a "eat to live" while the rest of the family is "live to eat" and it causes us to have much different tastes at times. But I like making them things, so I'll keep trying new recipes.
Fridays, my father-in-law and I have a standing "date" where I run him to his Diabetes Dr. followed by lunch. Had some nice chatting time with him and then we hit Popeye's Chicken afterwards for lunch. I tried the new Hushpuppy shrimp on his recommendation but wasn't really a fan. I don't like fried food, but every once in awhile I'll eat it. Fried shrimp and hushpuppies are both a nice liking of mine, but I didn't like the combination.
I also got out into my garden today. A couple of weeks ago, I planted green cabbage, garlic, broccoli, radishes, spinach and basil in a raised bed. I lost a few broccoli plants and one of my cabbages is struggling but other than that, it's growing! I seriously have a black thumb so I'm surprised it's lasted this long. I'm doing exceptionally well at growing clover. If Lucky Charms ever runs out, I can help! Pink hearts, orange stars, yellow moons, green clovers, ya know? This afternoon, I thinned my radishes and spinach and pulled all the little tiny clover patches. In half the garden anyway. The mosquitoes chased me inside before I could finish.
Sabrina and I also received our favorite shipment of the month: Ipsy! Below is my haul. The Warm Love is a pumpkin exfoliate mask. The Indie Lee is a facial cleanser. I also received a Tattooed eyeliner in black, Starlooks lip gloss and Rose Berry hand cream in Fig and Rouge. The eyeliner was full size. I plan on reviewing them eventually.
Sabrina's haul included Ayres Body Butter, Epice Facial cleanser, the same lip gloss by StarLooks, Volumeyes mascara and Nicole Opi nail polish in On A Gilt Trip. Both the mascara and nail polish were full size.
I received my monthly Birchbox as well which included: Vasanti Brighten Up facial exfoliating cleanser, Ellovi butter in vanilla (for body and hair), Ojon Hair Oil Therapy, Jouer Matte Moisture Tint and ModelCo Powerlash mascara. I'll be reviewing these as well and seeing if I can get Sabrina to review hers.
This evening, it was just me, Sabrina and Zakk in the house. As a lot of ten year old boys do, Stitches has stinky feet. So I jumped on the "girl's night +1" bit and did a pedicure on him. Started with an eucalyptus and spearmint foot soak. Normally he clips his own toenails, but he's a boy and hates doing it so they always look horrible. I clipped those, pushed his cuticles slightly back then scrubbed them down with a pumice stone. I then followed with a peppermint and plum foot scrub. After he was all rinsed off, I gave him a nice foot massage with Burt's Bees Almond Milk cream, tossed on a clean pair of socks and told him to keep them on til morning. Zakk has always loved foot rubs so he ate up all the attention big time!
I also finally picked up my used iPhone 4 from my sister-in-law. I've been fighting getting a touch screen phone and she bought a new one, so handed me her old phone. I happily accepted it mostly because of the better photos I could get with it, lol. So, I've been having a little fun playing with it and of course, all pictures in this post were taken with the new phone. Still don't know if I'll ever turn into an Apple person but we'll have to see. All in all we had a really nice day.
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