Mommin' It Up!

October 31, 2008

Beggar’s Night and a Brow Wax, Woo-hoo!

Tonight we had a great time as usual at Emily’s house for Beggar’s Night! Well, everyone but Sophie that is. She had to pull a few Diva tricks and act like she HATED wearing her chicken costume and HATED being in her stroller and ya da ya da, but we still managed to have fun! Since she was such a grump, this is the best picture I got of her last night in her chicken suit:

I promise you, she was totally adorable! But you’ll have to take my word for it! Joshua and Kate, however were ALL SMILES:

Sammy was the Poisoned Apple to Kate’s Snow White, and he was the most scrumptious apple ever!! I wanted to eat him up!

Ok, now on to the stuff you REALLY care about!! MY EYEBROWS!!

Well, I am pleased to announce that it hardly hurt at all! Seriously! It was NOTHING! I got all worked up over nothing, basically. So, I am dumb. But we all knew that already, so let’s move on and see thems BROWS, mmkay??? Here is the new, improved version:

You can see the before picture here. No more hairs underneath where they should be and no more creeping towards the middle! Yay! And here’s my new haircut:

Take a good look, as it will never look like that again, ’cause I CANNOT flatiron it like that. But I am VERY happy with the cut! Now everyone in the Dayton area, go visit my stylist Janelle and tell her I sent you! She is awesome! She totally kicked booty on the brow wax!

I have lots more great photos of Beggar’s Night that I’ll share on my Weekly Winners post this week. Have a great weekend!

October 29, 2008October 29, 2008

God Bless My Virgin Eyebrows

Tomorrow I am going to do something that I’ve said on many occasions that I would never do unless it was absolutely necessary.

I’m going to get my eyebrows waxed.

That’s right, I’m *cough* 31 years old and I’ve never had my eyebrows waxed. I’ve never even plucked or tweezed a single hair. Why? Because up until now, my eyebrows have been perfect specimens. (Are you buying that?? Cause it is not true.) The truth is, I am a major wimp. MAJOR. Low pain tolerance, scared of everything, just plain wimpy. So, I declared that I would never pluck, tweeze, or wax the ol’ brows until they became the ol’ BROW, singular. Even though my hairdresser tried to get me to let her wax them every time I got a haircut. I would not bow to the peer pressure.

Then last week, I looked in the mirror, and I saw this:

Those extra hairs sprouting out there towards the middle are NEW, and I don’t like them. And now, since I’m the editor at Blissful Style, and I have a reputation to uphold, and I need to at least fake like I’m fashionable, and since I have no desire to look like the Wolfman, I’M GETTING THESE BABIES RIPPED OFF!

And I’m TERRIFIED!! Seriously, are any of you available at 12:45 tomorrow to be there and hold my hand (AND/OR administer me an epidural?? Cause I really want one!) Emily won’t do it since she already blew off work yesterday. Talk about a fair-weather cousin. Sheesh.

While I am there, I am also going to get my hair cut, because I haven’t gotten it cut since, um, July, and as you can see in this picture, the too-long-too-thick-out-of-shape MOP look isn’t really working for me. (Although I think the goofy face really is.)

So there you have the “Before” pictures. As soon as the bleeding stops, the swelling goes down, and the stitches come out, I’ll be sure and post the “After” pics!

Pray for me!

October 25, 2008

I Love Coupons: the Musical

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve conducted two different coupon classes (one with a part 2 scheduled soon!) and I’ve been invited to do a third. Plus I’ve given one private lesson to my friend Elizabeth. What I’ve discovered through this is I LOVE TEACHING PEOPLE ABOUT COUPONING!! It’s really fun. I look forward to doing it again soon, but I think I may need to work on my presentation a little bit. I’m thinking maybe sequins and a few musical numbers should be involved? Anyone wanna jump in and help me write some coupon love songs? No? Oh well…

Anyhoo, here’s what I scored at CVS this week! I also went to Walgreens but my #@!& Register Rewards didn’t print, reminding me again why I hate Walgreens. So once again, I have resolved to just using Walgreens coupons at CVS, since my CVS takes competitor q’s!!

Just for Men $7.99
2 Brach’s Candy Corn $1.29 each
Excedrin $1.99
Powerade $1.69
2 Funlights $.99 each
Total = $16.23

Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$2 off Just for Men manu q
$2 off Excedrin manu q
$3 off Excedrin CRT
Total = $6.23
I paid with 5.29 in ECB and paid $1.11 cash and got back 14.24 ECB! 7.99 for Just for Men, 1.69 for Powerade, 1.98 for the funlights, and 2.58 for the candy corn! Plus I sent in for the full rebate for the Just for Men so I’ll get back a $7.99 check! YES!!

This one I just did to make the $$. 🙂
3 Pert Plus $3.99 each
1 Colgate scented toothbrush $2.99
Frappucino $1.99
Total = 16.95
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
3 $1 off Pert Plus manu q’s
3 $2.50 off Pert Plus Walgreens Easy Saver q’s (my store takes these)
$2 off Colgate toothbrush CRT
Total = $1.45
I paid $1.63 cash including tax, used zero ECB and got back 7 ECB!! 5 for the Pert and 2 for the toothbrush. HOLLA!!

Finally, my favorite steal of the week!

2 Huggies Jumbo packs $9.99 each
2 Huggies wipes $2.79 each
Total = $25.56

Coupons
$5/$20 Walgreens q (thanks for putting this out Friday, Wags!)
$2 off Huggies manu q (home mailer)
$1.50 off Huggies q (home mailer)
$3/2 Huggies wipes q (home mailer)
$3 off Huggies diapers and wipes Walgreens q (sent to me by a friend)
Total – $11.06
Paid with 10 ECB and paid $2.14 cash and got back 10 ECB! Now that, my friends is the way to buy diapers and wipes!!

Hope you all had fun with coupons this week! For more great savings, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!