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A beautiful day of catching up!

Christina Jones — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:29:00 +0000

I am going to sit here today until I am caught up. I have quite a few things that are time sensitive and have been hanging around here, and I have been too lazy/preoccupied/selfcentered/delusional to get them done. Call me out if you don’t see 4 posts from me come around today. There I have said it. Time to go to work.

Oh – guess what? Today is my one month non-smoking anniversary. I joined this group – QuitNet – and they sent me an email this morning to remind me of these things:

Your Quit Date is:Sunday, May 07, 2006 at 8:00:00 PM
Time Smoke-Free:30 days, 9 hours, 59 minutes and 7 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked:912
Lifetime Saved:6 days, 23 hours
Money Saved:$162.75

I am trying not to even really think about it, much less obsess about how long it has been down to the second – however, I do think I deserve a $162.75 prize. Don’t you honey??? LOL

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Routines make you beautiful!

Christina Jones — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:08:20 +0000

Do you have a routine? I usually do, but when school gets out for a break, it goes up like a trailer in a fire. I hate that. A routine makes me feel so much better about life – because everything gets done which frees me up for things that I love to do, like actually spending time with my kids in the summertime. I have mentioned Flylady before, but she always bears mentioning again, because if you, like me, have no inborn routine instinct, she will tell you how to do it, step by step, and it works. You can look good and have it together every day, you just need to know how to do it, so if that is a problem for you, be sure and check out Flylady. You won’t be sorry, I promise you that!

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Work it, Girl!

Christina Jones — Wed, 31 May 2006 10:50:34 +0000

This doesn’t have much to do with beauty, but my friend Gloria Gamat did an interview with me at ThePharmVoice if you want to see my titilating commentary about business and blogging.

Also, NailTechSecrets is featured on the front page of Glam.com today – so do go check that out, and click on me (hint – nail polish, bottom center) just cause you can!!

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Crossing a rickety non- smoking bridge

Christina Jones — Tue, 30 May 2006 03:11:30 +0000

I am now 22 days into this non smoking thing (lets just call a kettle what it is, ok?) and I feel like I have crossed some sort of a bridge – rickety as it may be – and I am a little ready to get back to some sort of normalcy around here. My husband was home this weekend for the first time in 2 weeks, and I could tell, really, how bitchy I was. I sort of feel like that ol’ laid back gal I once was is not coming back, and she is being replaced with this somewhat argumentative and “half-empty” person, which I truly am not (I hope). I catch myself doing it and can stop myself sometimes and laugh, but geesh. I don’t think I am being irrational, but if I disagree with you, I will most likely tell you now, even if it is a small thing. God forbid you really make me mad. I desperately hope to get back to myself soon, cause I don’t care for Miss Type-A. And I don’t think Marshall is overly into her either, even though he loves to argue. Ha.

I am sure you have no doubt noticed that I have been scraping by this last few weeks – doing the best I can, but nothing spectacular (I don’t ever get “too” spectacular anyway, but you know what I mean, I hope – LOL). This has held true with all parts of life – my house is just clean enough, the laundry is just done enough, my kids last couple of weeks of school were really unprepared (thank God they are out now) and I have generally just had a hard time planning things and doing the mundane every day routine (not that I love that and am great at that anyway). Did I mention when I quit smoking one time – my most successful time prior to this one – that I had to go on Prozac after about a month, as I sat around boo-hooing and just generally being miserable constantly. Like I really HAD lost my best friend. Ridiculous. I refuse to go there this time. That worked when I was 25 or so, but it isn’t going to fly at 37 with kids and responsibilities. Can you believe I have been trying to quit that long?

Anyway, if you have been thinking about quitting, I hope that at the very least you are still thinking about it – and if you are quitting too, please feel free to talk about it, it is a bit of a lonely thing to do, especially if, as most smokers are, all of your friends are smokers and you just can’t hang out with them right now. I understand, I really do.

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Happy Memorial Day!

Christina Jones — Mon, 29 May 2006 15:08:18 +0000

I hope everyone has a day off of work today!! I am going to take at least most of the day off today because Marshall is home until this evening, and has been gone working for the past 2 weeks, so am going to enjoy the day with him while I can. I will either see you tonight or without a doubt tommorrow morning. I hope you have a great day! Post from: eBeautyDaily

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A beautifully full plate!

Christina Jones — Wed, 24 May 2006 14:52:02 +0000

Just when you thought I was running out of responsibilities – I have sort of taken on another one, but not really. You might know I have been maintaining a website at MRSA Resources for a little over a year now – and have moved the newsy part of it over here to b5media, to MRSANotes.com, where it will be a little closer to me, and easier for me to work on. The part of the work that has actually increased is now I HAVE to write it or have Hsien on my butt.

So, I hope you never have to deal with MRSA (which is a very dangerous and antibiotic resistant Staph infection by the way), but regardless, it never hurts to know a little about it, as it is here and deadly and you can do a lot to keep from catching it, if only you are aware of its existance in the first place.

Now, go wash your hands.

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The Campaign to Eliminate Lip Wrinkles

Christina Jones — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:14:26 +0000

Oh, just an update here – I am still well on my campaign – 16 days and counting in fact. I would like to have a new lip wrinkle, but alas there are none around, and I am not going to buy a whole pack of lip wrinkles just for one. My creative juices are very lightly flowing, but I still feel nowhere near back to normal, and in addition, I can’t sleep at night to save my life. I have tried sleeping pills, exercise, reading, working SuDoku puzzles – everything I know – but still don’t sleep for more than about 2 hours at a time. Oh well, it will come, in the meantime I am taking about 4 naps a day. Ha.

Also, something to note, I really do think that Joey New York’s LipNIX did help a good bit with the cravings those first few days. I was skeptical, I really was, but I do know there is something to be said about aromatherapy, and Joey has it down pat. I am now using their lipFIT, which is aromatically designed to keep me out of the kitchen cabinets, and I can definitely say it works there too, however I need the aromatic metabolism booster, as I have gained 6 pounds in these 14 days and have exercised every single day and not eaten any more than usual. That was what kept me from quitting in the past, mostly. Joey New York – are you working on that one??

I have the lipFIT in the colored lip gloss, and it is really a pretty color, with sparkles, and is not sticky and nasty like a lot of lip glosses are. This is a fine lip gloss even without the extra benefits and can be purchased from the Joey web site or check out this killer palette from GreatSkin.com (there is also a similar palette to this one for the LipNIX). Who doesn’t need this? Well maybe Mary Kate Olsen and Nicole Ritchie – but everyone else, you bet they do!

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May Mascara Madness

Christina Jones — Mon, 15 May 2006 17:33:37 +0000

My friend Annie, over at BlogdorfGoodman has been talking about getting together on mascara reviews since working so hard on the unbelievable primer project, where poor Cavewoman tested 40 primers on her face in just about as many days (here is the chart with the final results – awesome project, again, ladies!). So while I sat and pouted and napped and mourned the loss of my best friend last week (ha ha), the beauty mavens were out testing testing testing mascaras and writing them up. So far, none of my favorites have been mentioned, so I will get to them right away this week – as well as finish up all that hair removal business. For now, I want to point you to BlogdorfGoodman’s mascara roundup from last week, which can be found here.

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I have survived!

Christina Jones — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:11:29 +0000

I am sure you will all be happy to know that I have survived. LOL I had a REALLY bad day yesterday, but somewhere around 7 or 8pm I came back to life. Stay tuned for yesterdays planned posts, and if you are thinking about quitting – it is a good time to give it a whirl. Once you get past the 3rd day, it is no problem (I can say this, cause this isn’t my first rodeo). But now I have to find a nice way to dump all of my smoking buddies, because the availability of cigarettes is what keeps me coming back. Ha!

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Day 3 Blahs

Christina Jones — Wed, 10 May 2006 12:43:09 +0000

I had big plans around here today in the way of posts, but I am on day 3 of the Campaign to Eliminate Lip Wrinkles, and it isn’t going so swell today. I am going back to bed for a little while, and hopefully when I wake up, I will feel better.

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