Kiss and Makeup Giveaway-Closed

I promised a giveaway and it has arrived!  This giveaway was originally going to have two winners, but I thought I'd sweeten the deal a little bit and have four winners instead.  The rules are simple: to enter, you have to follow my blog and leave a comment on this post telling me what you like best about either fall or winter, as well as your email address, in case you're a winner.  For an extra entry, share my giveaway in one of your own blogposts and link to it in a comment, separate from your first comment.  I'll pick the first two winners using a random number generator, and they'll get to pick which prize they would like.  They also get to choose which two commenters on this post win the other prizes.  This giveaway ends December 5th, so there should be enough time to get more than just four people entering.  This giveaway is only for people in the US and Canada, because I am poor and that is where I can afford to mail the prizes to.

The prizes that the winners get to choose from are these.

One of these Personi lipsticks, color in picture is accurate except the pink is about two shades darker in real life, they are brand new and unopened and have Vitamin E and aloe which nourishes your lips, I wanted a good red lipstick and the 3-pack was such a good deal that I bought it and now I'm giving away the other two

this charm bracelet, I'm giving it away because I never really wear bracelets

this necklace, the butterfly looks and feels like jade but I don't think it is, I'm giving it away because it just doesn't go with my style ( I totally have a style, it's just eclectic and usually weird, and mainly consists of guitar shirts, don't judge me)

To summarize, this giveaway lasts until December 5th and is open only to residents of the US and Canada.  To enter, you MUST follow my blog and leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite thing about fall or winter and your email address.  To gain an extra optional entry, write about my giveaway on your blog and link to the post in a separate comment on this post.

Best of luck to everyone.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

With the changing of the seasons come changes to my blog. Did you see that nifty ad box in my blog's upper right corner? That's here to stay now.  And, depending on its success, more ad boxes might join it.  In other news, I'm going to start taking this "I'm a freelance graphic designer" thing seriously.  I ordered some business cards today, 100 of them.  There was this promotional deal where I got them for free and just had to pay shipping.  In hindsight, I should have probably made my company website first, but oh well.  So yeah, I run my own company now.  It's called Honeybee Designs and I plan to create my new website for free using Blogger, so you guys will be the first ones to know once that's up and running.  G and I are really starting to get into the holiday spirit.  Mainly because it's nearly freezing out lately, 40 degrees F.  So yesterday we bought pumpkin ice cream and ate it while cuddling under blankets watching movies.  Two movies we watched over the weekend that were both really good and are on Netflix, that you should totally watch, but I'm not going to review them properly right now, since this blogpost is going to be long enough without it, are Paper Man and Cherry.  Paper Man is one of my new favorite movies.  And Cherry is also pretty fantastic.  So watch those.

In football, the Washington Huskies got their butts thoroughly kicked by Stanford Cardinal this past weekend.  Let's just say we lost by over 30 points and leave it at that.  Seattle Seahawks and Cleveland Browns played a game of who sucks slightly less on Sunday.  Nobody scored a touchdown, but the Browns beat the Seahawks 6-3.  Truly pathetic.  Sidenote: in my mind, today is Monday.  Because G took the week off to work on his paper for his master's degree and I've been staying at his house until today.  I helped him transcribe his entire 48 minute long video for his paper.  It took me significantly longer than 48 minutes.

The other big news is that I am going to start reselling thrift store clothing and stuff on eBay in an attempt to make some extra money.  It was G's idea, since he always marvels at the things I find for so cheap at thrift stores, and he hasn't even seen the little black dress I got on my last trip yet.  So I plan to list all of the clothing I don't wear and use whatever money I make off of that as capital to buy more stuff to resell.  I'll blog about how that goes, of course.

In other news, I received my E.L.F. order today and I'm really excited about that.  Like I said, I'll review one product from that every once in a while on here, so you can expect to see lots more pictures of me in the future. 

And last of all, I have an announcement: in my next blogpost, I will be having a giveaway with two winners, who will each receive a tube of lipstick, so watch out for that.

I hope you are all staying warm and healthy, and I'll be back again soon.

Sick of Being Sick

Hey guys, I'm still sick.  Here's proof.

poor-quality picture of me laying in bed in my pajamas

I'm sick as a dog, a very sick dog.  This morning I woke up, and changed my pajamas for different pajamas that I didn't sleep in.  The only food we have right now is cereal, so I texted my roommate to see if she can get me some more instant oatmeal and cup o noodles.  She texted back that she's busy but she texted my other roommate.  I've received no reply.  So today I will continue my sick-day tradition of watching Gremlins at least one time while I am sick.  I also plan to watch Gremlins 2, which I haven't seen yet.  I don't know how this became my tradition but it seems fitting with Halloween coming up.

As delicious as boiling water is with honey, cinnamon, and pepper, I'd much rather be healthy and drinking hot cocoa.  At least I have lots of great blogs to read to occupy my time.  Thanks for being so entertaining, everyone.

And on that note, everyone say hi to my newest follower, Chio.  I just discovered her blog, Happy Dying Sun, and it's great so you should all go check it out.  I'm off to rest and drink plenty of fluids.

Also, these are some ridiculous Halloween costumes that actually exist: sexy rubber ducky, sexy pool table, sexy Hulk Hogan (complete with mustache), sexy Freddie Krueger, sexy woodchipper, sexy Scrabble board, sexy snowman, sexy Tin Man (from The Wizard of Oz), sexy Brian from Family Guy, and sexy George Washington.  The good news is there aren't any sexy Hitler costumes (that I can find anyway), but there are children's Hitler costumes.

Thoughts from a Feverish Brain

Guess what, everyone? I have a cold, once again. To make things worse, our house is almost out of food, and I don't think shopping is a thing I'll feel up to anytime soon. I only have one of each "sick day food/drink left", which means one cup o noodles, one packet of instant oatmeal, and the mix for one cup of russian tea (a super awesome drink for when you have a sore throat, which my amazing mother makes me the mix for and she's sending me more, and she totally unexpectedly sent me a check for this month's rent, because she's so ridiculously super awesome). So anyway, my death cough has returned and I'm trying to take it easy. Filling out job applications is totally taking it easy, right?! I did job applications yesterday and today I've been taking it easy for reals. Want proof? I finished watching all the shows in my Hulu queue, so I cleaned up my blogroll, then searched out new blogs to read/follow.

And then I got to thinking: there is probably some stuff you guys don't know about me that you would find interesting. So now it's sharing time!

1. I sing in the shower. I have only started doing this since I moved into this apartment and there's nobody here during the day. Some of my favorite songs to sing in the shower are I'm Yours by Jason Mraz, Love Song by Sara Bareilles, Bubbly by Taylor Swift, and Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri. The last one is super depressing but it's such a fun song to sing, in my opinion, if you ignore the lyrics.
2. My all-time favorite cheer up song is Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations. It's so bizarre because if you actually listen to the lyrics, it's not a happy song, but the piano part is just so cheery that you can't help but smile.
3. I can sneeze realistically on purpose. I'm not sure how/when I discovered this particular skill? talent?
4. I cannot lick my elbow, though I have attempted on numerous occasions.
5. I am super ridiculously awesome at keeping a hula hoop up, not doing any tricks, but I can keep it up for hours at a time, and have done so in the past, while either reading a book, playing my Nintendo DS, or doing my Rubik's cube, because after about 5 minutes hula hooping gets boring. I can also do the macarena while hula hooping.
6. I know some karate and could kill a person with my bare hands if I needed to, and they didn't have a gun or a knife.
7. I know how to cross stitch and it was one of my biggest hobbies in middle school and the first part of high school. It slowly became replaced by other things and I sort of forgot about it until today.
8. Not to brag or anything but I'm a pretty good flute player. I would probably play it a lot more if I could find where I put the sheet music I printed out for classic rock songs, as well as The Legend of Zelda and Mario. I may or may not have a Star Wars sheet music book and know how to play every song in it.
9. I can do handstand pushups, like against a wall.
10. I have never been trick-or-treating in my entire life, because my dad always called it "the devil's holiday" and Halloween was always the day my parents had a huge fight (just verbal but it still scars a kid), since my mom wanted us to go but my dad didn't. My dad always won.
11. I have this crazy wish to be a model, that I haven't told anyone until just now. But it's not so much to be a model as just to have pictures of me that are like model quality, and that I look really good in. I am not a photogenic person. Also, I want to be given a makeover.
12. I have just finished watching "My So-called Life", which is a show from the 90's so I might be using the word "like" a lot more than I ever should, at least for a while.

So that's some stuff I felt like sharing with you all. One more thing, I intend to design a proper blog layout sometime very soon, since it is something I haven't taken time out for, and it's really starting to bug me.