NYC Blushable Creme Stick

If you haven't tried these yet, you MUST. These are my favorite drugstore buy that I've come across in the last year. Plaza Pink on the cheeks - 2nd from right - looks peach-ish and does come off like NARS Orgasm on the cheeks.

These are $3-$5 depending on where you go. I have seen the best selection at Rite Aid but I know that varies by area / store. The color pay off is everything it should be, the texture is right - not too creamy/creasy, not dry. You can easily apply with fingers / sponge / or brush. I like the MAC 168 for cream blush. The darker colors would be fabulous on darker skinned ladies, who I think have a hard time finding high pigment items like these. Similar to a NARS multiple with out the price tag. And I actually think they are better.

These are a MUST BUY. There is not a huge price commitment and I have yet to hear of anyone who didn't LOVE them. Hard Candy makes something similar and well... you can pass on those. I will post a review on those also.

HOW YOU DOIN' ?!!

I don't watch Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, Survivor or any of that, but I WILL be watching my GIRL CRUSH ( sorry Paula Deen ) WENDY WILLIAMS - WIN HER WAY TO THE TOP on Dancing with the Stars. I have high hopes for my girl Wendy. I love her. She can do it. I wonder how much taller she is than her partner, hmmmm.. I see she is bending her legs quite a bit here in this pic, and I KNOW for a fact she weighs more than him. Wendy divulged her weight on her show a while ago, I think she said 185 - and guess what, at about 6 feet tall, I think thats just fine.

GO WENDY GO WENDY !! I will be calling in to vote also. We're going ALL THE WAY with this one !!!!

Review for Suave Dry Shampoo

I am a dry shampoo FANATIC. I have tried several. "THE ONE" is $25 a can, and doesn't last that long and goes by the name of FURTERER. The one really bad thing about this, is I've purchased 2 cans and have had had the product completely disappear w/o me even using it. How this is even possible, I don't know. But I want Furterer to explain it to me. When they do, I will advise ( Please let me know if this has happened to any of you ).

I have looked for this ever since I saw its name pop up on MUA - Make Up Alley, for those who don't know. I just got it at Target. Its ok. Its along the lines of Tresemme. Which I don't care for so much.

I have tried - FURTERER, OJON, BATISTE, OSCAR BIANDI, and TRESEMME.

Sadly SADLY Furterer makes your hair look like you just washed it, and you can go another 3 days or something. Since its this good, I should just use it, but with it magically disappearing out of the can ( TWICE ) I can't buy it anymore. Ojon is the next best so far.

I think TiGi makes one, and I just read about Victoria's secret making one. I don't know. I want Aveda to make once since I use all Aveda primarily anyway, but so far no luck.

Let me know if anyone has tried anything they love that I have not listed / hated above.

Hair 'feathers'

My daughter told me our hair salon offers something like this. I have not seen them yet. But I am intrigued. Has anyone tried these ? I'd love to hear from you. Its interesting to me that you can curl / straighten them like your own hair. If they are real feathers, it doesn't seem like that is possible.

I have a hair appointment 3/24, I am going to be looking at these. My salon sells them for $30, I see them MUCH cheaper on line, but I want to see theirs vs. what is on line... I want to see how you get them in your hair. I have not seen ANYONE with these, and I am probably too old for them, but since I am immature and inappropriate anyway ( hahahhaa ) I think it will be fine.

' Working Out '

Decided to do the thrice weekly 'work out' in the Great Outdoors today. Laguna Niguel Regional Park. I love this place. If you haul your cookies around it twice, I think its 6 miles ? its pretty flat so its not too much of a work out, some areas have hills. There are stop-off areas to work out, like to do pull ups and stuff like that. AS IF !! hahahaha. The walk is all I can handle. There were giant geese there as large as dogs, pooping as LARGE as dogs also, but I like this place.

Its clean. Its safe. You don't have to fight your way around cars / bikes. Mostly pedestrians, dog walkers, and stroller pushers. I put the Ipod on shuffle and discovered some new songs. I need to get a pedometer / heart rate monitor. I've had some recommendations made, still trying to decide. The BF's Ipod nano has a pedometer in it, and well, that is very compelling. Maybe I just need that.

So what did you all do today ? anyone anyone ? Yes walking around the mall counts as exercise !

CASA Volunteer

Today I start my 30 hours of training to be a CASA volunteer. I've wanted to do this for many years, I am so happy to be able to finally do this. I am want to work with 'emancipating teens', teenagers aging out of the system - turning 18. I guess in CA, the governor signed something where they can stay in until they are 21, I don't know what the criteria is. The CASA person I spoke to said a lot of them don't want to stay, they want to just get out and move on.

Working with Foster Kids is important to me. Its a really difficult situation for them for the most part, and I used be a foster parent back in the mid - 90's, so I kind of know how this works. It had a really big impact on me. I'd like to do more with CASA, but I have to get in and see how they run. This ought to be very interesting :D

My latest crush

I've 'crushed' on many people over the years. Tiger Woods ( boooo ), Tom Ford ( who knew we BOTH loved Hostess Donettes ), Paula Deen etc.. but the Daryl Hall fascination is out of control. I get giddy thinking about him. I dream about him, I talk about him like I know him. I caught a video of him on his website a year or so ago, 'livefromdarylshouse.com' and that was it.

Of course we recognize him from the 80's - Maneater comes to mind, but if anyone could get hotter with age, its him. I think he's 60+, my mom's age. I saw him in concert at the Pomona Fairgrounds last October ( SOLD OUT I might add. Hall and Oates is no joke ), and with that strawberry hair blowing in the wind, wearing sunglasses at night ( I forgive him ) being all tall and hot.. it was too much.

It is odd, I will note - that he and John Oates do not talk to each other on stage, don't look at each, converse, nothing. WEIRD. I've googled and googled to see if those 2 don't get along. I can't find anything.

Two weeks ago, in my sleep, I became Mrs. Daryl Hall. It was all you could ever imagine <3