Make-up deal

Yes, today was the wrap up for school year 2013-14.  It is done and my kids are off doing summery things and my room is packed and I came home grumpier than a poked bear (or tiger-whatever four legged cantankerous creature you think fits).  I am just not ready to handle filling my own day with stuff of my own choosing; I will get over this and break out the daily lists sooner rather than later (probably as soon as I finish this post and relocate to the cushy couch to watch some Office).  My husband is being super understanding and patient with my ranting and raving.  He walked with Big and me and allowed me to vent incessantly.  We later dined out and explored the world of retail by stopping at the mall.  I was just going to snag some of the Clinique liquidy stuff but guess what...

boom! Make-up freebies!  This really is a silly way to save my day, but sometimes you just need fancy make-up that comes with free stuff.  It is not technically free and I know this retail trick, but with fancy make-up, it totally brings me in.  I needed a good mascara anyway.  Lancome is really good at picking a must spend price.  Their lower price items are generally in the $25 family while higher price goods like powders/creams are usually $50+.  So you either get two of the lower price point items or one of the high ticket items.  Touche, Lancome; I applaud your pricing techniques!  So what did I get with my mascara and brown liner pencil (because, I like make-up...it's why I keep my hair short...so I can just do make-up and not stupid old hair!)?  Mousse Radiance Clarifying Self-Foaming Cleanser is a creamy face wash/make-up remover; it is luscious feeling and may be my shower face wash for a while.  Two items from the Renergie line: first there is a purple tube of cream that lifts/plumps.  And then there is a small purple container that has a day cream with SPF.  Lancome's stuff smells so nice.  Light and floral but not overpowering in a way that suggests that it is covering up something awful.  There was also a blush pink lipstick.  This may or not get used.  Lipstick is something I feel I should use more often or that I would like more often and I have a few, but I rarely have it on.  Something about its texture and that weird feature of my lips almost not going with my face when they are a different color.  Finally there was some more mascara which is just fine; I put that business on my face almost everyday.  And yes, when I got home from hitting the make-up counter, I tried almost all of my new stuff. 

Now I just need to have a reason to leave the house so I can put some make up on and show it off.  This may be my next move tonight.  List making at least to get me in the routine of the next few days of vacation.  I don't understand how people don't just want to send their children all year, because, honestly, I would feel better and more productive going into the building with some lesson plans and some children to teach.  However, I turned in my key so alas, I will just tough it out until they allow me back in the building to do productive things.  And I will crank out some academic smartness in the meantime.  Or just be a general pain in the ass to my professor over the online articles that are just somehow not available.  Rant for another time, perhaps.