It's me, Charity

I like makeup. I buy makeup. Too much of it at times. However I do not really know HOW to put on makeup. This is worsened by the fact that I don't like spending time getting ready. If makeup can't be applied in 5 minutes or less I want no part of it. I am a sucker for products. I bought Smart Lash from the Derm Store in hopes that it will grow me some eyelashes. I have very sparse lashes and they tend to have falling out issues. Every month and a half it seems like, they start hurting, I rub them, they fall out and I look like I've been thru Chemo or something equally horrific on the eyes. I tried Latisse a year or so ago and it was really expensive, and seemed to give my lashes really thick roots that HURT! So Smart Lash it is. The box says I can see results in 7 days, and full results by 30 so I'm really hoping! I made the BEST Tomato Pizza the other night! And it's super simple. I got a pizza crust from the grocery store, and the put a light coating of P...

I did my dishes for the first time in 3 weeks last night. Now before you think I'm slovenly I will say this is because my Mom has dropped by my apt the past two weeks and done them for me. I may have waited to do them until she came though in hopes that she would wash them for me. I had loaded mashed potatoes for a snack Tuesday. A 9:30 am snack. In my defense I need to grocery shop and it was that or tuna. I have on a white ruffle shirt with my Pink Cardigan today and I am so worried that I'm going to get food on it at lunch. I have a huge tendency to get lunch on myself. And no, I'm not 4, just that talented. Yup. Totally got tomato juice from my sandwich on my shirt. Attractive! And I just realized all of my confessions have to do with food. nice.

I know! I'm being all kinds of crazy and blogging on a Monday, with no pictures! Whoooo!!! Clearly I have went off the deep end. But I figured the 3 people who are still reading my blog might need a little shake up. Things are going well in Cherrybear-land. The weather is gorgeous, life is going fairly smoothly, and I'm learning to trust in God and his perfect timing. Well, trying to at least! I don't think I blogged about it, but I finally have a home to move to in July! My lease on my apt that I have been at for 4 1/2 years is up and since I'm basically disgusted with the management and bursting at the seams I decided to move. After much stress and duress I finally found a townhome that I really like that fits into my budget! YAYS!! The only thing it doesn't have is a garage, but for the price and the niceness of it, a garage I can live without!! So I am super excited about that and super relieved to be done home hunting. Talk about stress. Now th...

1. I am BEYOND thrilled that it is the weekend! I feel like this week has drug on forever and a day. I cannot wait to have two whole days with nothing but Church! Sleep-here I come!! 2. I have worn my glasses 3 days this week. That has to be a record. My eyes are so itchy from the pollen that is hugely abundant that contacts are just NOT going in. 3.  I have a new found love for Annie's Organic White Cheddar Macaroni. I love.it. mmm... It's become one of my safe foods I can eat when i'm having a health flare up. So very yummy!! 4. I put inserts in my shoes so my feet don't slip and slide all over and the inserts glue apparently did not stick. So now my inserts are sliding all over and it is driving.me.nuts!! 5. I can't wait to go home for Easter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 6. After the insanity yesterday my brain is utterly and completely fried. Thank goodness it's Friday! 7. In preparation of my move I'm cleaning out my apt...

  Have you noticed that I do really well at blogging when I have fun events to talk about, but I'm seriously struggling on the day to day blogging?  There is a lady in our parking lot that is a hoarder. like serious, hard core hoarder, if you opened the back of her vehicle stuff would fall out. I am slightly fascinated and horrified by this. As I got out of my vehicle today I looked into mine and realized if I don't clear it out soon there will be two of us here. I still have not gotten used to my new cell phone, so bless their hearts, my poor friends are getting all kinds of weird texts. It is not my fault! Samsung keyboards are alot different than my old keyboard! I still don't know why they need 5 arrows on it to go all over. It's not a word document people, just a text! While we're at it, I'm still having trouble answering my phone, Because I can't find the answer and the speaker button. I almost panic when someone calls me because I...

In preparation of my upcoming move I am deep cleaning my apt. Tonight I found a journal that I started in 1998!! (ack how am I that old??!!) and at the back of it was a lovely list of important standards that I felt my future husband should adhere to. So I'm copying word for awkward word, what I wrote back then. 1.  A solid walk with God.   Well we start off well at least! 2. A love of children. 3. Music lover, but not opera or metal! 4. Must be sensitive and be able to cry. 5. Must have short nails.  Pet Peeve, I still can't deal with men having any whites on their nails. 6. Has to wear decent clothes to church (i.e. no jeans)  Ohhh how the mighty have fallen.. 7. Has to have a steady job. One would think this would be oh, maybe #3?? 8. Has to have an active part and interest in church. 9. Can't have slicked back, greased up hair. 10. Good table manners. 11. Must be cute (to me) and half an inch taller (at least!) 12. Cannot snore! 13. Has to hav...

not even gonna lie, I found this absolutely hilarious and painfully true!!! -I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option. -Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk. -That's enough, Nickelback. -I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. -Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends...

 I've been trying to organize my pictures better and ran across these pics of sweet Madi. Where has the time gone? When did my Madadoodle grow up?  I ADORE this picture! One of my favorites of her!  She looks slightly scared here. I'd have paid good money to see what her Mommy was doing when she took this pic! HA!  Sweetness  Two of my favorite girls! Can't believe how much Bethy has grown either. She's practically leaving for college tomorrow! I just love this picture. LOVE. Sweet little Madi, all asleep, sucking her thumb. Oh so sweet! Makes me a little teary eyed!

Last week I was so proud of myself that I had eaten my lunch and not gotten anything on my sweater. Until about 3 pm when I was in the restroom washing my hands. I looked at myself in the mirror, and thought, huh, what is in the cowl neck of my sweater? Lettuce. It was Lettuce people. I had been walking around for 3 1/2 hours with LETTUCE in my shirt. I love that it's warmer outside, and in the 70's this week, but I am not looking forward to having to shave my legs everyday again. I may or may not have purposely waited to do my dishes when I found out my Mom was coming to drop off something at my apt, because I was hoping she would do them for me. I totally ate my pierogies for Breakfast, instead of the lunch I was saving them for. I have a crying fest in my truck in the Menards parking lot the other day. I was out of tissues in my purse, and was so relieved to realize that I had a package of toilet paper in my back seat that I had been forgotten to , been to...

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I have evil friends. There I said it. But it's true!! Katie Marie made me this fabulous 3 tired chocolate cake, and then in her nefariousness made me cut the entire thing by myself. Now I should mention that two years ago, she and her hubs were at an Olive Garden Birthday dinner with me and we ordered the Birthday cake (that they make you PAY for, which I still think is ridiculous) and they deemed that I should cut it since I was the Birthday Girl. People. I cannot cut a round cake to save my life. And Katie Marie knows this as she has seen it first hand. So being the kind, loving friend that she is. She thought a repeat performance was in order.. I think this picture is jut precious. Love my Sam Sam! Please note what the cake looks like above. This is the face of confusion. I asked how to cut it. Katie said layer by layer. Clearly that counfounded me. Emboz said all at once. Stupidly, I listened to Emboz. Sam didn't mind though!   I...

We're going to start this post with the cute gift that Emboz gave to me and work our way down to Tyler's Epid Find.. She had this super cute card made with pics of the girls! Adorbs! I look slightly like a hyena when I laugh 30 Sucks!!! This is me slightly terrified to open Tyler's present Getting more terrified by the minute. But liking my pink bow! I peeked inside of it, like there was an animal about to jump out at me. Slammed it shut, Tyler! That had better NOT be what I think it is!!!!!! It was. The face says it all. Notice Tyler now laughing like his own Hyena. I'd like to apologize to the 80 year old Great Grandma who Tyler stole this toilet seat from. Family. And a toilet seat. If he wasn't my little brother I might have killed him.  Yes, Tyler bought me a toilet seat. Because in his words "IT'S PINK!!!" It also comes with free installation which Is more than I can say more most!

I had a three spray tan package at a local tanning place, so I decided to use one of them and go spray tanning Friday night before my partay on Saturday. I thought I get a nice glow and look super cute. What I did not plan on was the special experience. I got to wear the hat above, which made me feel like I was heading into surgery.  You get into this chamber (which was open thankfully) and get sprayed down head to toe, and then you turn and do different poses (as outlined in the picture I'm posing by in the first pic) One of them felt like I was doing a disco move. I kid you not. When it spray's you, I did not count on it TICKLING! oh my mercy it tickled SO BAD! I was going Wheewwwweeeiiii!! And shivering! Which made me laugh. It was so cold as well! I was literally doing a little dance inside of it. Mercy if anyone had seen me. I'd be so chawed. The drying down process was more of the same, it was not exactly warm air and it tickled like crazy again. All to get...

Joe and I, he was being a goon! But a cute goon! Bunna!! We pose so well together! Betharooski.. She loves me.. she really does! Family! Tyler my lil bro and his wife Meg! Sweet Baby Ben! Emboz! Katie Marie the fabulous host of my Partay! She'll forever be Jboz to me! Tyler- getting whooped by the under 7 crowd Meg and Jobz just chillin Apparently we have passed the age where getting your picture taken with Charity is cool Love this kid and this face!!

I am not a crafty person. I try to be. I try to make stuff and put things together but it somehow always ends rather badly. Case in point the Christmas Craft that I made for my mom this Christmas. You didn't see pictures, because, well, yeah. you're not seeing pictures. You know it's sad when your Mom says, well you tried!  Imagine my surprise when I attempted my latest Pinterest craft and not only was it easy but it actually turned out looking cute and not like a kindergartner had created it at Arts and Crafts, right before naptime. Behold- Flower Balls!! Awaiting being hung in place My Favorite So I hung it right above my desk! The view into our office from the doorway I thought this one was really pretty as well!

 I felt so spiffy the other day when I pulled up my blog on my cruz! Yes, I am sitting in my truck. If it's not too cold/hot outside I like to sit in my truck and read at lunchtime. Now I can surf the net! Lafayette Water Tower.. I think.. Katie and I have this thing.. this game if you will. If we spot one of the trucks from where we used to work together we have to take a picture and send it to the other. Bonus points for more than one a day! My flower balls ala Pinterest. We'll be hanging these from the ceiling at work to replace our snowflakes!  I found my Violin music and was practicing, or attempting to the other night. I am so rusty. Some of the songs I couldn't believe I was good enough to play back in the day. Some Jerk stole my last Klondike bar at work. I was ticked. So I left a note. I don't remember if I posted this before but it's just so funny! MWS whenever we say something GIRLY, he plugs his ears. hee hee hee