I thought my favorite color was pink.

A few weeks ago, I picked up a cute little trio of polishes from Marshall's (Or Homegoods, or some place like that) that just looked lovely in their little box together.  There is a super deep navy, a shimmery steel, and a lovely light pink frosty/glittery shade.  So I decided I'd try on that pink last week because, HELLO, I love pink.



I can't put my finger on it, but as much as I love pink, this was just not doing it for me.  Don't get me wrong- I was going for a simple palate cleanser kind of thing.  But I was just looking at this and thinking, "Blah."  So I stamped it.



Much better!  I mean, I suck balls at stamping, but whatever.  Stockinette stitch on my nails!  This ended up being:

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Paula Dorf Pinch Me Pink x2
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Stamped with:
Klean Color Metalic Pink
Vivid Lacquer #004
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You kids, get offa my lawn!: Cell Phone Edition

I'm just gonna throw this out there.

I hate that smart phones are a thing.

Yes, they are useful.  Yes, they are convenient.  Yes, I use mine daily and it occasionally makes life easier.

But you know what?  A smart phone just does the jobs of 12 other things that we already had.  And now none of those things is working when I need them to work.

A list of the problems I've been having more and more often over the past month:

• Calls not going through.  For example, the other evening I tried to call my stepmother.  You know, place a phone call.  THE PURPOSE OF A CELL PHONE.  It just kind of sat there and wouldn't DO anything.  So I closed out all of the "apps" running (phone "app included- since when does the call function count as an app?  THAT SHOULD BE THE DEFAULT STAT OF A PHONE!) and went a step further, did a Task Killer thing to make sure nothing was running.  Called again, it went through.  So then the next day when I tried to place a call to Dear Boyfriend, my phone instead decided, "Oh, this is the time I should make that call you tried to make last night!"  Imagine my surprise when stepmother answered.  This happens on a regular basis and causes quite a lot of confusion.  
• Accelerometer (I assume) issues.  Over the pat few days, I've noticed that when I rotate my phone, pictures/pages I want to view in landscape do not follow me.  At first, I thought this was intended with the "updated" apps.  But no, nothing is turning.  Except for my stupid Google Maps, which brings us to...
• STUPID GOOGLE MAPS.  I don't know wtf they did, but it worked FINE until their last update a few months ago.  Now my directions freeze constantly.  I start to exit a highway and freak out because I have no idea which way to turn without prompts.  I'm about to bust out my Garmin again, this ish is getting ridiculous.  BUT AT LEAST IT GOES INTO LANDSCAPE WHEN I DON'T EVEN WANT IT TO.  
• My keyboard.  Every so often, I wouldn't get words prompted by Swype, which is annoying, but hey at least I can still spell on my own.  Now it occasionally just doesn't let me type anything.  I just... I don't even.  It's a cell phone.  Making phone calls and sending texts should be what it excels at.  I don't even.  
• Texting.  I've covered my gimp keyboard issues.  But frequently, I get notified that my sent text was not actually sent, would I like to send it again?  This can happen 3 or more times in a row.  And I'm like, "I don't want this not to have actually sent, even though I have my doubts!"  (I've had issues with that in the past)  And then it turns out that the text DID go through and the poor person on the other end of the line just got the same sentence from me 5 times.  That gets annoying for both parties.
• And this has been an ongoing issue with the handset itself- Want to turn on wifi?  GOOD LUCK, unless you've closed out everything, run task Killer, and even then on occasion it goes, NOPE.  At least when it's done restarting wifi in enabled, but seriously, that gets annoying.  

And there you have it.  You know, before this (my first) smart phone, I only had "dumb" phones.  But you know what?  They reliably called and texted people.  And everything worked and didn't have to load.  It just did what you told it to do.  

I get that technology is advancing and is great, but can we get things working reliably before moving on to the Next Big Thing?  I get that half the problem is just that apps and programming gets too complex for older handsets to handle.  But my phone is a year old and I bought it right when it was released.  And it frigging turns off when it feels like it.  Now I'm faced with the dilemma of purchasing a new one- do I go the route of hoping that more money will equal a better phone experience?  Maybe a fancier handset will be technically relevant for more than a year.  

I just wish we could all go back to when we loved our Nokias and thought T9 was the best thing ever.  

Also, we should get rid of cars and ride horses everywhere except for long trips, when we will all use trains and planes.  

Oh, look, work gets in the way of nail blogging.

We're all shocked, I know.  Whoda thunk that going from 0-60 when it comes to work would mean I'd have less time to properly photograph my hands and then write about them online?  I haven't looked yet, but I know I'm at least 3 manicures behind on blog posts.  I actually feel a bit guilty because the BF is doing this whole "Novemblog" thing (where he writes blogs all month to participate in NaNoWriMo instead of writing a novella) but sometimes ends up going on for 1,667 words about how he has nothing to write about, and here I am with manicures I told myself I'd post (because I gank them from here to post on TFIMP, which is REALLY the point).  I have naked nails, so after this I need to repaint them, but I swore I'd catch up online FIRST.

You know what?  This blog isn't just supposed to be about polish.  I mean, I do other stuff.  I used to bake a LOT.  If I was doing that, I'd post about it.  And I knit.  Maybe I'll show off the bright blue cabled neck warmer I finished recently.  I've been spending a lot of time doing school-related stuff with aforementioned BF.  He likes to bake, maybe I'll see if he wants to make something on Veteran's Day or something.

Anyway, now that I have that off my chest, here we go into some non-polish stuff.

Work is kind of lovely.  I'm at a temporary folding table, and I can barely do anything functional due to waiting for clearances to come through, but all in all, it's working out, methinks.  This, of course, means that I have started back up on my apartment search.  I pretty much narrowed it down to one complex or anything downtown that opens up when I'm more ready to actually go through with a move that is decent and affordable.  I'm kind of psyched.

Speaking of psyched.  Psych.  I think it was on USA or something.  BF suggested we watch that on Netflix when we got home from a wine tasting last night.  I admit, I was pretty under-the-influence, and I don't typically dislike things in general, but I have issues with that show.  He is offended because he thinks it's amazing.  Maybe it improves over time, but there's this guy who is all "observant."  He sits at home, watches the news, and calls in tips to the popo based on how the person being interviewed is acting.

So on this evening in the show, he's like, "Oh, the owner of the store did it" by which he means the owner who is being interviewed on the news has been burgling his own store.  So the police are all, "Why don't you come on down to the station so we can reward you."

But really, the popo want to investigate this guy because HOW WOULD HE HAVE ALL OF THIS INSIDE INFORMATION IF HE WASN'T IN ON IT, HUH?!?!

Except, as far as the viewers know, all the guy did was call in and be all, "Yo, that guy seems suspicious.  Get on that."

So to get out of being prosecuted for all these crimes he calls in tips for (which, btw, people do all the time- have you not SEEN America's Most Wanted?), the guy is all, UHH, I HAVE THIS INFO BECAUSE I'M PSYCHIC... YEAH.

Anyway, the show is stupid.

At this point, I kind of went to sleep.  I couldn't be bothered to finish a television show set on such a shaky premise.  Plus, like I said, I was pretty drunk, and cranky, and BF was trying to write blog posts about nothing and therefore TOTALLY NEGLECTING ME.   Ok, kidding.  Except not.  Anyway.

Nails.  Let's see where I left off.

Ah, yes.  Two and a half weeks ago, right before starting the job that killed my desire to blog.  (This means I have no clue how many coats I did of any of these, so I'll just guess.)

Right before work started, I wanted to continue with another fun mani and knock out an untried- I ended up going with one of the Maybelline Color Show Polka Dots polishes.  Jelly sandwich in a bottle!



PVC glue base (basically, I painted Elmer's glue on my nails to facilitate removal of ALL THE GLITTER)
Maybelline Pretty in Polka x2
Gelous x2
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Then work started.  CUE OFFICE-APPROPRIATE NAIL POLISH!  Actually, by this time, I had several Halloween-themed things to do, so I started my job with bright red, to go with my Dorothy costume.  I don't think Judy Garland wore nail polish in the movie, but if she did, it would be this one:



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China Glaze Ruby Pumps x2
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(Later in the week, I did another layer of Ruby Pumps, Gelous, and SV and it was GLORIOUS.)

This wore like IRON, but after having it on for an entire freakin' week, I was dying to try out something new.  I had just picked up the two Zoyas I was drooling over and had to use one ASAP.  Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures until it started looking like crap, and also apparently I can no longer focus on anything, so we'll pretend the blur is intentional so the sparkles may be seen more easily.



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Zoya Payton (<3) x2
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Of course, this had to be followed immediately by her sister color (this was dear BF's choice.  Whenever I ask him what color I should do, he says blue.  My littlest sister always says, "Pink with sparkles."  They are predictable in their preferences.)



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Zoya Dream x2
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Payton and Dream were TO DIE FOR lovely.  They got a lot of compliments, too. :D

This brings us to what I wore the past few days.  Mother and Father Dearest sent me an Etsy gift certificate for my birthday, so I cashed it in on four thermal color changers from Pretty & Polished.  Cuttlefish was the one BF chose (again, his preference is evident!)



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Pretty & Polished Cuttlefish x2 (appropriate for an aquarium wine tasting event, don't you think?)
Gelous x2
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This one was fun in the office.  (Oh?  Conservative and office-appropriate?  Yeah, that kind of got thrown out the window...)  I could look at my hands and say, "Oh, my nails are blue!  I should put on my coat!"  Then later, they'd go back to white (with teal tips) and I knew it was okay to shed a layer.  My own personal thermometer.

Alrighty, I have nothing more to contribute this evening (except that my BOGO free Zoya order just arrived, DARE I PUT ON STORM AND HOLO ALL THE THINGS?!  Or maybe some Paloma?  DECISIONS, DECISIONS.  Or there's that new tectured yellow I got from Sinful Colors the other day...  How is a girl to decide?)

Actually, after all of these, I think I need a palate-cleansing creme or basic shimmer.