Links of London

Have I blogged about Links before? If I have let me just say love Links 💗
If I haven't...let me say love Links 💗
The husband went to the UK for a business trip mid February and didn't get me anything from Links 😞 so he must have felt bad as he took me to the nearest Links store and spent too much on me...I felt pretty guilty about it so I returned the too expensive item and got a signature sweetie necklace that I just love and a watch over me evil eye charm, that I've been wanting for like two years. Let's see if I can link to them hahaha Signature Sweetie Necklace
Evil Eye


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Sweet Anthem - Corrin

Spring limited edition

There is an undertone of sweetness in this scent, which it think is the ginger. I smell black tea.

This scent is a little strong for me, not a favorite.


Notes and Description from Sweet Anthem: #025 — Corrin
Black Tea, Civet, Cherry Blossom, Moroccan Rose, Myrrh, White Ginger

Hey, don't you wanna buy her candy? Fruity strawberries, a smoky rosy center, an old trade route tea and expensive resins in between.




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Sweet Anthem - Rowena

I think I like Rowena, I've worn her a couple times and I find her interesting. She starts out reminding me of the beach a little, and some citrus, then dries down cleanish.

Notes and description from Sweet Anthem: #054 — Rowena
Cassis, Cognac, Green Tea, Golden Champa, Lavender, Pink Grapefruit, White Champa

Hypnotic: white and golden champa, green tea infused with lavender, all adorned with a trio of quintessential citrus notes — cassis, cognac, and grapefruit.


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Putting it out there...part 2

This part is the hard one and the husband will probably hate that I'm putting it out there....but here goes...

Contrary to popular belief I'm not perfect I don't claim to be and my life isn't perfect now nor has it ever been perfect. It's pretty darn good, but not perfect. I don't live in an ivory tower and have servants waiting on me, oh how I wish.
Oh, and I'm not rich, I'm going to go back to my last post...we work hard for our stuff.

I've been to counseling for a crap load of stuff, starting with the fact that I'm adopted, to the mind games my mother played on me as a kid/teen, the difficulties we had conceiving, the shock when we did, and the emotional roller coaster of post partum. I'll say right here, I probably should go back to counseling and I'm sure I will at some point.

Every morning I wake up to a massive adrenaline rush that takes either a 3+ mile run to wear it off or several hours, I've been like that since June 2006. I laugh when I should be angry and I can't control the inappropriate reaction at all.

I love my husband and my daughter, and neither of them is perfect.

I'm not a perfect mother and I won't ever be, but my kid will be able to read a plane, train, or bus schedule, if I have any thing to say about it. She'll work hard for her stuff and she will never think that the world or society owes her anything.



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Sweet Anthem - Colin

From the back log...I'm pretty sure I got the halloween releases but didn't review them, since the app was out of commission during this time. And I can't seem the make it through the Lulu Beauty samples. I've sniffed them, and I think that they will be good to try now, more that when I originally received them.

The last of the fall LE's from Sweet Anthem is Colin, but have no fear Meredith did a Halloween release that I'm expecting to receive soon. I'm also going to be reviewing another Etsy shop I found Lulu Beauty.

So anyway on to Colin...first sniff was cinnamon and clove, now I'm not sure what the mid note is right now. So I got cinnamon and clove from the cardamom, which I also really love the scent of. I'm thinking the mid note is the benzoin.

This one is my favorite of these samples.

Here is the description...Thick air of cardamom, incense, and myrrh set the stage for many a-ghostly and storied song, and provides asylum for spice-laden spectors who steal sweet maidens into the dead of night. Amber, Benzoin, Cardamom, Frankincense, Honey, Myrrh


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Putting it all out there...

So one of the blogs I read quite frequently is Cup of Jo and I just love reading her posts about motherhood and life in general. Recently she posted about being real. It was a moving post and it's prompting me to do the same. I'll warn you that this will probably be long and all over the place but ahhh it will feel good.

I once had my mother say to me that I've had it easy, that I got lucky with much of what I do or have done...she thinks it's luck, apparently all the hard work I've done since I was a kid has some how gone unnoticed. I haven't asked for every thing to be handed to me. I've set goaIs and worked hard for them.

The summer between sophomore and junior years in high school I decided I wanted to go to college. I changed my entire class schedule and buckled down and worked hard to raise my GPA and I went to college. Also during that time I started working a part time job, only during the summer, but since then and up until November 2011 I've always had a job. In fact at one point I was working and finishing my bachelors degree, which isn't unusual for a lot of people and I'm not complaining, I'm just saying. I've also worked three part time jobs on several occasions to keep myself afloat. I've, also, been so sick and with out health insurance several times.

And I've done plenty of stupid stuff, like racked up credit card debt, and dated a**holes, so I guess you could say luck was in play when I met my husband. I'm also lucky that we have the girl, she is a gift...that occasionally makes me crazy, but a gift just the same.

Let me say it feels weird, disconcerting (is that the right word?) not to be working, but the husbands work/travel schedule and the girls schedule do not make it conducive for me to have any type of a job. So I'm dealing with it...

I see my bachelors degree languishing and fear that when I do want to go back to work I'll be unemployable. Having gone from a project manager, to an admin, to a nail tech, then stay at home mom. How's that for a blow to the self esteem.

So all that hard work is just luck, I guess...

This may not seem like me putting it out there, but there is more to come. This one just seemed to flow about this.

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Blanket apology for my social ineptness

Every so often I feel like I need to issue one of these. I frequently feel like I'm putting my foot in my mouth. Either that or I'm over analyzing my social interactions with other moms.

So if you're my friend or an aquantance and I do or say some thing totally stupid forgive me. I'm really not that dumb, I forget to engage brain before mouth sometimes. Or I just get on a roll and it all spews out good or bad.

Oh, and yes I'm opinionated.

I don't make friends easily. I'm an observer...I just take it all in.

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