Every once and awhile, it's a good thing to splurge on some more expensive make-up. I've been nosing around, picking up some things here and there, mainly to use for Hallowe'en - but also because I really don't own much, and I'd like to try new and pretty things. So I got some new colors of eyeshadow, some of the three-color sets from Max Factor, which I like quite well, I was long-overdue for owning some actual black eyeshadow. I've been keeping an eye out for lipstick; I have a nice iced pink that I sometimes wear normally, and a ridiculously bold bright red I picked up.. was it at the dollar store? NYC brand, anyway, which is nothing spectacular but I've had surprisingly good luck with given the price.

But I was over at Eckerd's, picking up a second videotape.. yeah, uhm, there's no little button or switch or anything on our vcr to adjust sp-lp-slp, and I don't even know if we ever had the remote (we inherited the vcr from Haruna). And it goes to sp by default. And a football game is like three hours. Sooo, second trip to Eckerd's, which was fine really, since I needed some stockings for Halloween, as well as a bag of candy in case we get any trick-or-treaters (which I doubt, but if we don't, wooo for a bag of mini Take 5s!). So I nosed around and nosed around, and found some lipgloss from Max that looked nice and glimmery, but it was around $10 for a stick so I decided to look at everything else first. And then I found a display of really fantastic looking products by Revlon - and I know advertising, ESPECIALLY fashion, photography is obviously over-done and retouched, these still looked fantastic. And the Midnight Swirl lip luster? Looked to create exaaactly the look I wanted - dark and glimmering and wet-looking.

$11.

But y'know what?

Sooooo totally worth it. I think this is the first non-cheap lip product I've ever owned, and it just feels so nice. Actually a bit sticky, but that goes away after awhile. And it really is gorgeously shiny. Not as much bold color as I'd hoped, but I put on a basecoat of my red stuff and it worked *fantastically*.

So then I played with the camera and things and took a few shots, most of which were crap because the lighting was poor and I'm miserable at taking pictures of myself, but, I did in fact get a decent Phisto shot.



And then of course, what could I do but bring it into photoshop? :D I was thinking of Mackie, that one shot in particular.. uhm, which google image search wasn't turning up a decent quality copy of, but, you know the one I mean. This one, only not cropped. (Though I have to say I adore what they did with it in this desktop! Verynice.)



Before Tom came home, I played up my eyes a bit more than I had already - I thought about picking up some of the eyeshadow designed for the smoky-eye look, but figured that could wait awhile.

But uhm.. his reaction was FAR beyond what I'd hoped for. omg. It was so cute! He was slaughtered! He saw my eyes and my lips, and I'm wearing a new burgandy little sweater-hoodie that fits beautifully and looks quite nice, and he looked back at my eyes and my lips and he got all weak and it was adorable. I gave him the littlest kiss and he turned to UTTER goop. It was GREAT. ^_________^

And then for dinner I tried making meatballs with spaghetti, and the meatballs kind of failed because while halving the recipe (in my good ol' red'n'white checked BHG cookbook), I forgot to half the number of eggs, so the meatball mixture was a liiiittle more goopy than it should have been, and they didn't really stay in a ball-shape, and half fell apart altogether. But it made the sauce basically a meat sauce, which was nice anyway, and holy crap Tom LOVED!!! When he'd eaten two big plates worth he told me that, no joke, that surpassed lasagna as his favorite meal. *bounces all over* I win!!! I so win.

...now if only I can remember how I made this. ^^;; Actually thankfully that'll be an easier task than it usually is - I really mostly followed the recipe this time, since I've never made meatballs from scratch before, and I figured I should err on the safe side. I did throw in some garlic salt and a bit of onion and some paprika and basil, but really how was basil not in the recipe in the first place?? So that'll be easy to remember. The sauce, I just threw in the usual, Italian spices and brown sugar and a bit of red pepper.

So even though I didn't do half the things I'd meant to on my day off (as usual), I still feel pretty darn content. I gave Tom a good day - which means a lot to me, especially after we'd had an odd week or so, just a bit.. oh I don't know, we were both exhausted from work and feeling bored and unchallenged and blah, and I've been a spazz and it was a lot of things. But we talked it through and are both working to fix things - again, just little things, but we want to work at them while they're still little. :)

Plus I got a lot of research done today, following wikipedia all over the place, and reading a bunch of chunks on fallen angels and all sorts of goodness, to give me background on my novel in a few days! I'm so excited, I reallyreally am. And I'm also gratified to know that it doesn't look like anyone's taken the direction I am with this - gazillions of things reference fallen angels, a handful the Nephilim, and a few even the Grigori, but they throw it around in much different ways than I'm going to.

I found a pdf of the Book of Enoch, which I'm going to throw on Tom's ebook and read through. :) Such, such good stuff. A summary from wiki:

God asked the "Watchers" (Grigori), a select group of angels, to assist the Archangels in the creation of Eden. Those Grigori who descended to Earth saw the daughters of men and became enchanted with them. Consequently, the Grigori began to reveal to man some of the secrets of Heaven, such as astrology and the vanity of enhancing the face and body with perfumes and cosmetics. The Grigori then fell in love with human women. According to the text, some of the Grigori even took wives and created offspring, giants known as the Nephilim. This made God so angry that he cursed those Grigori who had betrayed Him, threw them out of Heaven, made them mortal and transformed them into demons. God sent the Great Flood to cleanse the Earth of the wanton killing and destruction perpetrated by the Nephilim. Notable angels who fell in this account are Semyazza, Samael, and Azazel.


...is this not the perfect backstory for my Phistos? <33 Of course, some texts show it as humans having wanted sex with angels, not the other way around, and there are countless different theories about the Nephilim (who have a brief mention in Exodus), but I love that the Grigori taught mankind the art of cosmetics. Absofreakinglutely perfect.

And, oddly, unintentionally, that brings my post full-circle.