Maria!!!

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Magic Potions & Serums

So I am not saying that I don't occasionally get sucked into beauty product gimmicks and new products, but as I was flipping through my current issue of Flare it struck me that a lot of the ads were for lotions and creams (especially ones that claim to get rid of cellulite). I mean, fashion magazines are always mostly advertisements, but there seemed a lack of ads for really expensive designer jeans and god-awful perfumes and all of the other stuff that I usually see. I decided that I would flip through and note how many of these ads are for "beautifying creams"....

- Olay Anti-Aging Lip Treatment
- Olay Lifting Eye Serum
- Olay Smoothing Facial Serum
- L'Oreal Revitalift Double Eye Lift
- Olay Thermal Pedicure
- BioTherm Celluli Peel & Patch
- Olay Touch of Sun (several products listed)
- Dove Pro-age Neck and Chest Serum
- Jouviance EcoRemondeling Gel - Proactive Cellulite Treatment
- Neutrogena Dry Touch Sunblock
- Vichy Podexine Podiatric Care - Reconditioner for Dry Feet
- Vichy Lipo-Metric - Lipo Sculpting Cellulite Treatment
- St. Ives Healthy Brilliance Firm & Glow
- Roc CompleteLift
- Palmer's Cocoa Butter

Plus several others for razors, teeth whitening, hair color, and waxing.

Seems like overkill. Maybe it's just me.

Sticker Challenge Results

Definitely no where near as good as I had hoped. Meh. But a good idea nonetheless, so I plan to continue on the challenge for June and see how I do. Tomorrow I"m getting some better stickers though...these ones I had laying around just didn't cut it.

The challenge was to earn 3 stickers per day (staying on point food-wise, some form of exercise every day, taking vitamins every day) for a total of 93 stickers. I also challenged myself to attend all of my kickboxing classes for the month to earn myself an additional 7 stickers for a grand total of 100.

On-point = 16 (omg, I suck)
Exercise = 18 (apparently weekends are a problem time for me)
Vitamins = 19 (actually pretty impressed that I did this good here)
Kickboxing = 6 (only missed one class due to it being right before Arron left)

GRAND TOTAL = 59 stickers (Bad Bionic!!)

June Challenge the same, but with only 30 days in the month = 90 stickers + 8 for kb = 98

Go Bionic Go!

Canadian Flights Suck

Argh. Who knew it would be so hard to find a reasonably priced return ticket to visit DBF in Halifax this summer? Or to find a ticket for him to visit his son in Winnipeg. I am quickly learning that the airline monopoly here is stooooooooopid.

So I finally find a seat sale that works for my outbound flight, but of course there is no corresponding seat sale for the return flight. And DBF's flight has the opposite problem....he can fly back to Hali on the Wednesday, but of course has to pay full friggin pop for his ticket out in the first place.

Pretty damn annoying to pay almost $800 for tickets for a 12 day trip. Especially considering he's never paid that much to fly from Victoria to Winnipeg.

For me, I was going to head home after 14 days, but since for some dumb reason there isn't a seat sale on that particular Wednesday I guess I can stay a few extra days. If the flight is gonna ding me $433 anyway, I might as well pay the $453 for the weekend flight and enjoy a few extra evenings with my sweetie (even if he'll be back in training during the days by then).

So even with the seat sale, I'm looking at almost $1000.

This is ridiculous within our own damn country. Christ, we could both get round trip tickets to London, England for this price!! They had better show me some good goddamn movies!!!

Pineapple Martinis

My weekly video and a yummy summer drink all-in-one! Happy drinking everyone!!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/562889/pineapple_martinis/