Shopping and the Itchies

Every night I’ve been making a ‘To Do’ list for myself of things that I’d like to/should get done the next day. Unfortunately having a list doesn’t seem to be motivating me like it used to since I’ve barely completed any of the things that I wanted. The list just keeps getting carried over to the next day and added to so instead of getting smaller it seems to be growing by 1-2 items each day. But since now the weekend is over and today was Michael’s day off I have the rest of the week with relatively nothing to do; so there is no excuse for me to not get my list finished.

Today was relatively lazy seeing as I woke up much later than expected (around 2:00pm) which I guess is due to the fact that I didn’t get to sleep until around 4 in the morning. But once I got up and around, Michael picked me up and we headed to Elmira, NY to get dinner and do some shopping. We ate at TGI Friday’s so that I could get the burger I was craving, and I ended up trying their new Blackberry Long Island Iced Tea… It was absolutely TERRIBLE. I’d never order it again there even if someone paid me. The Ultimate Hawaiian Volcano drink on the other hand… YUM. Michael had steak so I also got to steal some of his mashed potatos (in my opinion, TGIF makes the best mashed potatoes and french fries of any restaurant I’ve been to). We also split one of their new Chips Ahoy sundaes which was also extremely good.

After dinner I finally got to go to the new Ulta store that got put in one of the new plazas. While it’s no MAC or Sephora, I’m still in love. I almost never get to visit Sephora or MAC because the nearest stores are hundreds of miles away, so it’s nice that there’s this great store so close by. They had a few of the brands that I really like (Urban Decay, Too Faced, Stila) as well as some that I’d never really heard about. Its basically just like Sephora, but sells a lot more of the moderately priced cosmetics. My eyes got to linger on the Chi Hair Straightener that I’ve wanted forever (but there’s no way I’m paying over $100 for a straightener) and a bunch of other stuff that I really want but can’t afford. I ended up picking up some shampoo that I had been looking for, two Urban Decay shadows (Adore [dark purple/blue] and Heat [red] just because I don’t really have those two colors in their basic form) and a new UD Primer Potion.

The whole reason I actually WENT to Ulta though was because I finally decided that it was time for me to try the Bare Minerals makeup. Tons of my friends and a couple family members use it and LOVE it. I’ve wanted to try it ever since I saw the infomercial years ago. So we talked to the girl and she did it for me to show me how it would look. It looked GREAT and felt really light/nice so I bought the starter kit with the promise that I could try it out on my own and if I didn’t like it I could take it back for either cash refund or store credit. Once we were done at Ulta we did some more shopping at Dicks and Barnes & Nobel before heading home.

About half way home I noticed that my face was starting to itch a bit around my right eye and along my jawline. I scratched and didn’t really think anything about it. But it just kept getting worse and worse and by the time we got home I literally ran in and washed my face to get the Bare Minerals off. My skin was all splotchy and itched like crazy. It’s been about 6 hours now since I took it off and my face still feels weird. Needless to say, tomorrow I’m heading back to Ulta and taking the starter kit back. Now I just have to resist the urge to buy more stuff with the money I get back.