PURPLE. LOVE IT.

Well, I'm officially stuck at my house until Monday. There is so much snow there is just no way my car would ever make it out of the driveway. I keep going out and shoveling the damn deck, trying to keep a jump on it, but it just keeps filling up again. 

I went out at 3:00 a.m. to shovel before going to bed last night, and it was at that point I realized I was screwed.  And once again, I got up this morning to find another few inches. I shoveled again and hopefully the snow is done accumulating because my arm has had enough.

When I did my latest CNS request mani's, they asked for stripes. They didn't really specify so I decided to do something other than just a straight single stripe.

I actually really like how this looks. It's not often I do an accent nail, but I think it works well here.  The darker purple is a Color Club with no name on the bottle, and the lighter is China Glaze Harmony. 

I passed it along to NailIt Magazine, and they liked it so the tutorial will be showing up on the website sometime soon.

It seems I've been kind of striping tape crazy lately. If I can decide on colors, maybe I'll try something else this weekend. I do have an idea in mind so we'll see if I can actually do it.  Sometimes those things that look easy end up being difficult.

Possible frustration and excessive swearing in my future. lol

OH, YES...I DO HAVE A VOTD!

HUGE VOTD.  So is this post really late or really early? This is what should have showed up here last night. Don't blame me, blame Charter. Those of you that see my FB profile know that I am extremely disgusted with Charter Communications. Over the last few months our internet keeps stopping and then restarting; sometimes a ton of times during the day. Then we may have a stretch where it works fine. Then on other days it's off for huge sections of time. Like last night.

I'm on the verge of going down there and decking the first person I see.  We had problems a few months ago; bought a new router. That didn't fix it. Bought a new modem. That didn't fix it. Finally got the idiots out to the house where he did some messing around, saying that Kev needed to call in when he got the new router to get it set up.  He did call in, you a-hole.

He left after "supposedly" fixing it. No more than an hour later, down again. Um...really?

Longish story shortish, they've been out 3 times and still can't get it right. Everytime Kev calls they tell him to reset everything. Um...really? Is that what we should do? Like we haven't done that 8,000 times in the past four months?  Even my damn computer is smart enough to tell me it's an issue on their end, something to do with the DNS. My patience is gone. Well, it's actually been gone since the first time they came out and accomplished nothing. They don't seem to have any trouble accomplishing the removal of my money from my checking account every month, though...they are on their game there. I am not a person that is happy without internet. For realz. It makes me cranky, and trust me when I tell you, a cranky Diane is not a pleasant thing for anyone. Even me.

VOTD over. 

So that's why this post was not up last night. By the time my interwebs was working, it was way too late to do this. So I quickly uploaded my pic so I could do this from work today. Ya' know, because I work so hard.

I probs should clarify that I honestly DO work hard; I'm just fast and get caught up quickly. And for now, the bossman is off to another town for court which gives me at least 3 hours to play.

On to the mani!!  I was looking at my last post and thought to myself, time to use dark polish, woman. My growout is starting to annoy me, and I'm not ready to soak off my nails for a reapplication, so expect darker colors for at least a few days.

I was just kind of playing around with this. I painted my nails black and wanted to just add different brights to that. Decided I would grab a bunch of Kleancolor metallics and a striping brush, and 20 minutes later, this is what I had.  

Orly Liquid Vinyl is my black base, and then I just randomly striped on Kleancolor Metallics in Aqua, Pink, Yellow, Purple and China Glaze Riveting. 

It looks less murky in person than it does in this picture, but even in this pic, I do like it. It keeps catching my eye as I sit here, and I consider that a good thing. I'm kinda' glad it's not sunny out because I have a feeling this one might be hazardous while driving.

Not that I would ever even consider looking at nails or taking pics of nails while driving.......