Just hear me out.
So, I have a teeny, tiny beef with Fyrinnae.
No, it’s not the shipping/turn-around time – I placed an order last week and got it TODAY. BAM. No complaints there.
No, it’s not the products. Are you smoking crack? It’s FYRINNAE makeup, it is guaranteed to rule.
No, what I have beef with is a note on the packing slip: “Yeah, the bag is tacky. Sorry!”
This is the bag I got:
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1-That’s not tacky, that’s AWESOME.
2-Don’t apologize for it, because I LOVES it.
3-FYRINNAE goodies in the mail today! SQUEEE!
But seriously, this bag is so fucking cool, I’m not even sure what to do with it (because I’m not sure what’s worthy of being in it).
Excuse me while I go have the vapors.
Whew. I think my brain just exploded from a fangirlgasm: While devouring all the info I could find about the fourth Resident Evil movie over at IMDB, I learned that it’s going to be in 3D, and running in IMAX theaters, too. Fuck yes!!!!! Can’t wait.
Then I had to scour Milla Jovovich’s page, because 1-I don’t see that many movies in theaters, so I wanted to check which of her more recent films are out on dvd now, and 2-I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about her hair in the first RE movie. And I saw a mention of another movie in pre-production, set to film this summer, that caught my eye for some reason: The Winter Queen. So I checked that, and the synopsis intrigued me and it’s based on a novel, so then I popped over to wikipedia to scope out the novel. And…it sounds right up my alley. I didn’t read the whole plot summary, because I’m not feeling like spoilers right now, but I read enough to know I need this book. And probably the whole Erast Fandorin series. Check this out (from the wikipedia article):
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkartishvili, a Russian writer and academic who also worked as a translator of Japanese literature into Russian. Chkartishvili conceived of a series of detective novels demonstrating each of the genres of detective fiction, of which Chkartishvili found 16.
SWEET! I’m enough of a nerd that I find the idea of each novel in the series being in a different genre of detective fiction (or, to be annoyingly pedantic, should that really be “different subgenre”) alluring.
FOTD: Resident Evil (6/29/10)
I love the Resident Evil movies, I love Milla Jovovich, and I love, love, love Evil Shades Cosmetics! I placed an order late Wednesday, and got it yesterday (the following Monday). Awesome!
I got samples of all the lippies, because I couldn’t narrow it down from the online swatches. Now that they’re here – still having trouble narrowing it down. I think I may just have to get them *all*. Hm. 
I also got several eyeshadow samples, and when I saw Sweet Alice and Zombie, I knew 1-I had to use them together, and 2-that it would be Resident Evil-themed. So then I thought, why not push it more into zombie/infected territory, so I decided to try Neritic as a liner to see if I could make myself look sick. 
I like how it turned out – I did look kind of unwell in real life, from a distance. But up close, it was more wearable. (I would have liked to look even more sickly and gross, but I *did* have to go to work.) And, not surprisingly, I loved Zicke. The color, the consistency, its endurance, and especially its scent (some kind of heavenly, light coconut).
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FOTD: Actiniaria (6/23/10)
I wanted to wear Anemone, but I was feeling lazy so I didn’t pick any other eyeshadows. I thought Petals & Peacocks would be a good lipstick if I was just wearing Anemone, but…I’m not so sure. I like it, but I’m not crazy about it. (It did coordinate very nicely with my rad unicorn tshirt, though.) Anyway! I’m trying to get caught up on these, so I can post today’s look and get back to watching Leverage (love that show!) and waiting for the rain to start. So without further ado…
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Anniversary Flowers
On the *actual* day of our anniversary, Sunday, 6/6/10, Greg gave me these beautiful flowers. I love all the colors, and especially the fact that there are *two* types of Alstroemeria. (The Alstroemeria made it about two weeks; the yellow flowers – mums? and daisies? – are *still* going, and only just now starting to wilt.)
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Anniversary 2010: Great Smoky Mountain Railroad
For our fourth wedding anniversary, I gave Greg the first four seasons of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and he got me a train ride. I have been wanting to ride a train for AGES. It was AMAZING!
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(Lionel Anniversary Locomotive – because I never met a pun I didn’t like, no matter how weak.)
We drove up to Bryson City, NC that Friday (the 4th), and checked into the hotel. It is freaking lovely in the mountains. (Also, Greg kept telling me – and still does from time to time – “North Carolina has both mountains AND beaches – did you know that?” I think he maybe got it from a NC tourism commercial? It makes me chuckle for some reason.) We watched Comedy Central for a while before going to sleep. (We saw a couple comics – I remember we saw the guy from Cash Cab, Ben Bailey, who was actually pretty funny, and dirtier than I would have expected from the Cash Cab host; Aziz Ansari – I liked most of his stuff, but the Raaaaaaandy! shit kind of fell flat for me; and some comedienne who was just terrible and whose name I can’t remember.) Didn’t want to stay up too late, or party too hard, because we had to get up early the next morning to check out and go ride a train!
I scrolled down and…SNORT.
I love otters, and I love funny things, so this is a big snorting win for me:
superpoop.com
Thank you, Superpoop, you never disappoint.
