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Bus advertisements

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These are pretty clever advertisements, plastered on city buses around the world. Boyfriend sent it to me in an e-mail. You can actually view more of them here. I kinda want to be the sales rep when these city buses are looking for automobile insurance quotes. “Can you please describe the vehicle in question to me, Sir?”. Oh yes, it runs on batteries. I mean … it’s drawn on. Ya, ya that’s it.


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Design, No Buy Month

My reward

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I will be making a trip to my sweet little Asian lady who has an aesthetic salon at her house, if I am successful with this No Buy Month. Way to go huh? Try and not spend money for a whole 31 days and then days after it’s over go out and spend a fifty. I’ve made my appointment for Saturday morning, April 4 for the following, regardless of the pointless No Buy Month:

Eyebrow Wax: $5 (!!!)
Pedicure: $20
Powder Gel Nails: $25

Not a bad deal, plus she’s super anal at getting everything done absolutely perfect, so there is never any flaws when she does your eyebrows/pedi’s. I haven’t had a pedi since I went home for Christmas, and I only removed the polish just a few days ago, mainly because it looked weird. But there wasn’t ONE chip in the polish. Eyebrows on the other hand are a bit unruly, and I’m plucking them, and flinching each time I do it because I hate causing myself pain trying to get every single hair. I’d rather just someone else RIP IF OFF in one go. But she also plucks some strays after she’s done. I’ve never actually had anything done by her besides the eyebrow wax and pedi. So I’ll be excited to see how my nails come out. As you can see, I’m super stoked about this haha.

I’ll be put to the test next Monday. I’ll be going over to the next city to get my retainer adjusted for some reason (usually every three months or so now). After my appointments I usually go out with my Mom’s cousin, and her mother for some dinner. But this time, I’m asking my Mom’s cousin to meet me at the mall, ’cause I want to check out the new Bath & Body Works store, as I’ve nevvvvvver been inside one before. My room mate has some amazing smelling stuff on, always … and most of the things she’s smells like (lol) is from BBW! Oh, tempting tempting, to break this rule of mine.

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Expensive taste, anyone?

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Clicking each shoe will bring you to the product page.

If I had all the money on the world to blow on colorful purses, and shoes I think I’d be the happiest girl in the world. I need to be on TLC’s — What Not To Wear, so I can blow five grand on fashionables.

L-R:

  1. ALDO — Stanaway, these gladiator style sandals are killer. What a steal at $40, now they look terrible in that color (in my opinion) but I’m going to try them on and pick up a pair in yellow (which unfortunately isn’t shown on their website) when they go on sale.
  2. Michael Kor’s — Westside Flats. Unfortunately, they don’t come in my size as they’re only $35.99. Guess I jumped on the train too late for these babies. I wear a lot of flats to work, usually. So this would definitely get a lot of wear, if they still had them in my size. Grr.
  3. Gucci — Pop Bamboo pumps. Who knew I liked Gucci shoes? I sure as heck don’t like their bags. I thought these shoes were super cute, especially for work as they’re not too high. But they have a little spunk to ’em, ya know with the pink AND black. So nice. I love them. I want them the most out of all of these shoes I think.
  4. Michael Kor’s — Romp flat. I guess I like an orange shoe designed by Michael Kors. Too bad Winners doesn’t sell these, har har. I like how it kinda looks like your average ballet flat, but it has a kick to it — I like the zipper thing. Normally, I don’t like a lot of ‘stuff’ on shoes. But this is well done.
  5. Pedro Garcia — Daimi pumps. I’ve never even heard of this designer before. I’d love to have these tan suede high heels for a night out somewhere. But you’d have to give me a piggy back if we’re outside anywhere. I wouldn’t be getting those shoes dirty, if I bought them!

Last but not least, this Linea Pelle — Dylan Patchwork clutch. Is that just not adorable? I found a $20 coupon code for this site with all of the shoes listed on it. I went to check out (because they DO ship to Canada, thankfully), however unfortunately the turquoise clutch is no longer in stock. Sigh. Guess it really is a wish list, huh!? I’ve actually had a lot of luck, purchasing shoes online. In fact these (good god those were hard to find on google when you forgot the name of the shoe) are a pair of shoes I purchased in 2007 online from Brown’s Store in Toronto. I practically wear them everyday during the summer, so they’re a bit raggedy now. A few months ago, I wanted another backup pair for when mine got too gross. So I took it upon myself to find the designer, emailed her about how much I loved them and told her I couldn’t find any more online in my size (8.5), and wondered if they still produced them. They were discontinued the year that I bought them. Ahhg.. anyway.

Moving along… It’s PANCAKE DAY!! We’re getting bacon, sausages, and pancakes at work today – then I’m heading to Boyfriend’s place and hopefully it will be warmer than our 41ºF house … I think our furnace broke (more on that later) and he’ll make moreeeeeeee pancakes!
Have a great day!
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