SORTA' GOLD

I've been an avid fan of typing since I was in 7th grade. Thinking of how long ago that is makes me want to puke. I took a required typing class that year, and I loved it. Like loved it to the point where I would go home, sit on the basement floor with my sister's crappy portable typewriter and practice. For hours. I'm pretty sure it was right about then that I really did decide that I wanted to be a secretary when I grew up.

The remaining years of my schooling included the taking of any class I could that involved office work. I excelled in all of them, and typing has always been my strong suit. When I applied for my current job, I had to do a typing test on an electric typewriter. I was literally too fast for the machine. I think at that point my typing test at the local employment place was 132 wpm. 

That being said, yesterday at work taught me something new. If you type non-stop for 7 hours with long nails, your fingers get sore. I think I was probably 5 hours in when I realized that my fingers were getting a bit sensitive. While I'm typing this, I'm paying attention to what part of my fingers hit the keys, and it's kind of a combination of nail and finger. All that tapping for so long got to me. Weird!!

I also learned something else on my first full work day Wednesday. Normally I'd be off, and then normally I would work until noon on Thursday at which point I would come home and clean the house. That would leave me with a nice clean house and nothing else important to do.  I decided I would work until 5 yesterday, come home and clean, and then have a full 4 day weekend with nothing else to do.

So what I learned is that if you go to bed at 1, get up at 6:20, work 8 hours, clean the entire house, make a late supper and then sit down to watch tv at 9'ish, you are asleep in the recliner before 11 p.m. Not a fan of being zonked out that early. From there I woke up around 1 and then watched 2 hours of tv.  I may have to make some adjustments in this Wednesday after work schedule.

I did this mani on Tuesday night. Is it just me, or do my nails seem shorter lately? I can't figure it out.

I really didn't know what I wanted to do. This Kleancolor Americano is kind of a weird gold with a brownish cast to it, and the Kleancolor Metallic Brown worked really well for the stamping. I only have a mini bottle of that brown. I may need to buy a full size at some point.  The design is from the Ali Express AP 21 stamp.

I still have this on now, and it held up very well throughout house cleaning. And I was doing some serious cleaning. After having the ceilings done, we cleaned really well, but for anyone who hasn't had ceiling or wall work done, the dust from it settles for quite awhile. So I was working it last night. I'm impressed that this gold didn't chip or wear at all.

My next goal for the weekend is laundry. I also have a party to attend and hopefully two of the pups are going to come over to play.

The laundry part doesn't sound very fun. Maybe I'll skip that part. I still have a drawer full of clean underwear.

SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT, DAMMIT

Have I mentioned recently that I hate Mondays? If not, let it be known; I hate Mondays.

It was such an uneventful weekend I don't have anything to either whine or woo-hoo about. I'm a boring soul.

I stared at my left hand for two days while pondering what to do about that turquoise mani. Leave it on? Take it off? It actually was starting to get on my nerves that I couldn't decide.

Suddenly yesterday afternoon I decided I was kind of tired of it, so off I went to grab a bunch of polish, striping tape and the new plates I got from Ali Express.

When I ordered them, I was a little concerned about the size of the designs, but I figured I'd give it a shot because they weren't super expensive. They are the round plates that are a little bit bigger than Konad, and a lot of them have designs that fill up 1/4th of the plate. I figured those images would be big enough, and I was right. This is the set, and I chose 12 of the 25.

Pardon the yellow hands, but it's what I apparently have to do in order to show something even resembling the China Glaze Agent Lavender and American Apparel Mount Royal that I used for this one.  The stamp is from the AP 21 plate, although I did see that other sellers have the same plates but with different numbers. Weirdsville.

While I do like the design, I wish I had used different colors.

Actually, what I really wish is that the striping tape mani that I started would have been turning out like it did in my head. I tried a couple of different things and then gave up. Sometimes I just don't have the patience to mess with striping tape. Maybe if I'd started earlier in the day I would have continued on with it. I should know better by now that to do stuff like that I need to play on a Saturday. That way if I get frustrated and only get part way done, I have Sunday to wrap it up.

Honestly, what I really wanted to do was a water marble but didn't want to bore anyone with yet another of those. 

It's still stuck in my head, though, so that might be what you end up seeing at some point this week, possibly tomorrow.

Looking down at my fingers as I type, I really wish I would have stuck with the turquoise. Someday I'll have to do that again, actually do both hands and then actually leave the house with it.

I think a lot of my mani's kind of go to waste now that I only work part-time. Well, other than the fact that I plaster them all over the interwebs.

Nobody appreciates them in real life like my interwebs nail peeps do anyway, which is why I appreciate all of you!