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Naturally Slim, Round 2

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When it’s time to get serious about Naturally Slim again. Plus I already have my walk in for the day. #icandothis #ididitonceicandoitagain #failureisnotanoption #facebookaccountability

Lunch!

20 minutes later

I posted the above on Facebook and within minutes, a friend suggested we support each other by checking in via text message. I knew a bunch of my friends were all wanting to reboot as well, so asked who would be interested and quite a few were so I decided to start a Facebook group where we can all post and commiserate and help each other out. I think by the end of the day we had maybe 25 people and a week later we are around 50!

Owen’s first soccer game at the park district!

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The wintery weather didn’t make for a very nice day (we were in winter coats, hats, and gloves) but everyone was excited!

Katie kept busy waiting for the game to start.

Unfortunately, I had a bit of a bad start as I decided to take a shortcut across a little grassy area to go look at a park map…and I ended up in inches deep swampy muck. I bet you can imagine how wonderful that felt in 35 weather not 15 minutes into our 1.5 hour stay.

Much to our surprise (honestly), Owen scored TWO goals!! Part of it was due to him getting better…but (honestly) part of it was due to the other team not being quite as good. But it was super exciting—and they ended up winning (I think) 4-1!

Owen really needs a haircut but he has so far refused.

Bingo night at a new school!

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Some background. I was at a PTO meeting awhile back (last year) and they were taking about potential fundraisers and I asked if they’d ever done a bingo night (our favorite event at Halley). They hadn’t, so I gave them the basics, then contacted the Halley PTA for their info so I could pass it on. They were happy to have the head start, and I assumed they’d contact me when they were ready to plan it so I could help…and then I forgot about it. And then at one PTO meeting about two months ago they announced a date for bingo! Well okay then!

We were excited but I honestly wasn’t expecting too much—the flier they sent home didn’t have too much information on it (and of course I was expecting something closer to what I’d given them as an example). There were no pre-paid family deals, they didn’t tell you what any of the prizes were, it said extra bingo cards were $1, it didn’t tell you how much food cost… So we figured it would be a total crap shoot.

We show up about 15 minutes early hoping it’s early enough to find a parking spot and…the lot was basically empty. Oh boy. And there were only about 10 of us waiting outside. Right then I had this feeling it was going to be a failure and I was already feeling horrible that the idea was a bust and I should have been more proactive in helping plan it… And I was worried about everything.

But then they let us in and wow. It was game on. Organized to the Nth degree. Tons of helpers. People selling 50/50 raffle tickets. Food set up in one gym (pizza slices, popcorn, water, and bundt cakes from the delicious local bundt place). A line to pick up your free bingo card and buy more. (It was here I ran into my neighbor who was very surprised when I told her bingo was my idea. She said she’d wished she’d known! I agreed!) The second gym was completely full with tables and chairs and balloons. The bingo screen was projected on two walls (they used Google sheets to keep track of games).

There was a huuuuuge line of prizes.

Runners walking around to check bingos. (They’d give you a ticket if you won, then you’d go up to pick your prize and turn in your ticket to the desk.) Bingo chips instead of daubers.

Crazy kids at the tables. 🙂

And it was fun and lots of people were winning. We weren’t, which of course was a bummer because we were all so close so many times. And then Tom won. And then on the very last card of the night I won, too. Yay!

Before we knew it the night was over. On our way out the PTO president thanked me again for the idea. I apologized for not following up and helping organize and she said not to worry about it—she basically gave them the idea and my notes and they ran with it! Yay!

We took our picture when we got home, though you can’t really see all our spoils (magic rocks, a Woodland sweatshirt, and a gift certificate to a sub place).

Momentary panic before school.

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Katie came in for me to brush her hair before school and I saw some fuzz in her hair so I went to pick it out and—NOOOOOOOOOO!!! OH NO OH NO OH NO. NO NO NO NO NO.

I hate ticks. I mean, no one likes them but they really freak me out. Thankfully I haven’t had to deal with them too often.

My mind was instantly racing. I know we have a tick removal device but I couldn’t think where it was right off hand. We only had 20 minutes before we had to leave for the bus. I knew I couldn’t rip it out. Do I text Tom? (Yes.) Take a picture? (Yes.) Google how to remove a tick? (I didn’t, because I thought I remembered how to use a Q-tip to remove it and I had one handy so I did that.) It didn’t take too long, but Katie was kinda panicky because I had been kinda panicky (I typically handle these types of situations well specifically so they don’t panic but I just hate ticks so much that it got the better of me).

So then I was trying to think what the hell do I do to the house? It obviously was inside the house because she took a bath the night before and there was no tick. So it attached itself sometime overnight. Which means it was likely in her room. /shudder

I washed her bedding and all her dirty clothes and checked all the animals (clean) so am hoping it was just a bizarre one-time event.

Now excuse me while I go burn the house down.

Behind the scenes of Living Lippy!

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Have you ever wanted to see behind the scenes? Well here you go! Today I was trying a new lipstick color (Samon) and decided to try and take some selfies with my beloved margaritas. 🍹(Side question: how on earth is there not a real margarita emoji?!)

So here are just 12 of the probably 75 I took trying to get some cool shots. As you can see, I started with freshly washed/wavy hair. Then I decided to straighten it and pull out the margarita glasses (I had to go in the very depths of the basement to get them because they are too big to store in my regular cabinets!).

Then I was chatting with a friend who lovingly chastised me for not having a full glass for realism so at 10:30 in the morning I was opening a bottle of Kirkland margaritas. See what I do for this business?! 😂 And let me tell y’all—my margarita glasses are glass and heavy and huge! As you can see from the scale—3 pounds once it’s full (I still can’t believe I didn’t spill any on myself while taking these selfies!).

And of course this morning it was windy as all hell so it was a big challenge to get a picture without any hair in my face. So now I am about to add some ice and dig into that margarita that has been tempting me since 10:30 this morning…and go out on the patio and read my book!

Cheers!

It’s my Sene-versary!

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It’s my one-year Sene-versary! I had a long drawn out post but decided to just cut to the chase and say thank you to all my friends and customers over the past year. You have made this experience more than I could have hoped for and I hope it will continue throughout the years to come.

The business is doing well and I’m still having fun and am hoping to now take it to the next level! I’m rebranding and relaunching soon—its been a lot of work but I know it will all be worth it! I have been crazy busy behind the scenes trying to get my relaunch ready for this anniversary date but I didn’t quite make it. It’s waaaay more work then I’d imagined…and it doesn’t help that I also decided to participate in two huge training sessions, start using an online customer management and follow-up website, new domain and email, new shipping system, and get a logo designed all at the same time. Oh, and try to start new accounts on Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram! Phew! Any normal person would have done those things over a span of six months or so but I didn’t think any of them were that huge…so figured 1.5 months was plenty. But when added all together (and when you factor in all the minutae that pops up and problems that occur and researching errors and waiting for customer support to get back with you), I was working 8-12 hour days and staying up until 2-3am. Me, Queen of Lazy! 🙂

I’ve slowed the pace somewhat because I actually made myself sick from exhaustion—so the launch is coming, just a bit later than planned! Watch for the announcement soon! Thanks to all who have made my first year a success! 💗

When a friend asks if she can come over and play with makeup, you always say yes.

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Heidi and I always manage to have a good time, and this was no different!

She’s wearing:

✨Base:
· Climate Control
· Dry Daytime Moisturizer
· SeneSerum-C

✨Face:
· Light Concealer
· Color Correcting Tinted Moisturizer Medium
· Fawn Advanced Anti-aging Foundation
· Natural Translucent Loose Power

✨Eyes:
· Moca Java Shimmer ShadowSense
· Sandstone Pearl ShadowSense
· Smoked Topaz ShadowSense (eyes and brows)
· Denim ShadowSense as liner
· Black LashSense
· EyeLuminator

✨Cheeks: Bronze BlushSense

✨Lips:
· Fleur de Lisa LipSense
· Silver Glitter Gloss

And then some KILLER fake lashes that I tried but were just absolutely insane on me.