Masque?

I just got this from Wal-Mart for 4.00. I love it. This is not a paid or sponsored post, but just a fan doing fanatic things such as writing about it.

The coolest thing about this mask is that when it dries, and you shove your little green face into the mirror, you can see these dark green spots of oil being collected. The lemon is the most powerful scent but lemon + skin = healthy like whoa!

You don't need a thick layer but it only costs 4$ so you could easily layer up and spend all day trying to make it dry if you wanted too..

So, I usually try to educate myself when I love something and here is my learnings.

Education Clay Masks 101

How it works? Basically, you cram it into your pores and dead skin. It is sticky. It dries on your face. You wash it off. While washing it off, you also wash the dirt, clogged pores, and dead dry skin. Underneath is beautiful clear skin. It has water in the clay so it also hydrates .. (not sure if I believe that one, I usually need tons of lotion after)

Make sure you use: Toner after washing it off. It re-balances your skin after stripping it.

Do it: 2x a week.

2012 Resolutions

Health
1. Ensure water is constantly in the fridge.
2. More veggies, fruits, nuts. Less chips, junkfood, etc.
3. No fastfood all year and if Vlado goes to one, its salad and water!

Wealth
1. Save up 3200.00 for my Serbia trip in January 2013.
2. Pay off my credit card by Christmas.
3. By the end of New Years 2012 - have 750.00 in savings.

Family
1. Spend more time with Bruce.
2. Help babysit the kids.
3. Arrange girls night once every two months.

Friends
1. Re-kindle friendship with childhood best friend.
2. Make more of an effort to be a better friend to the ones I have.
3. Less partying and being drunk and more friendship fun things to do around the city.

Culture
1. Read 20 books.
2. Make 5 different necklaces from beading.
3. Start learning Serbian :)

Giving Back
1. Give 3-5 Christmas presents to a single parent and her children.
2. Volunteer somewhere useful for 10 hours.
3. Donate, Donate, Donate!!!!

My Love
1. Do a huge surprise date sometime within 2012 for him.
2. Write a love letter, just because.
3. Learn more serbian recipes so he has home food.

{2011}

January-March was when my life wasn't happy.
Who knew? Who knew that in March, standing in a club, I would meet Vlado?
The way he glanced up and say, "Hey" and I just nodded. The smirk in his eyes when I said, "No" to him asking if he could buy me a drink. The way he pushed away my friend to dance with me. The way our eyes never left the others for the entire night. The fact that we were both sober in a club at midnight is beyond me.

The laughter in his eyes as he dropped me off at another club with my friends, only for me to march in, walk up to my DJ  boyfriend at the time, and promptly break up with him. We weren't happy. I knew that feeling of happiness now and I knew I had to get to know this guy better. The shock in that boyfriends face, the happiness in mine as I walked out. The next day, meeting Vlado in his cool car and getting to know him and laughing, touching, hugging, kissing.

Since March, I have been away from Vlado for exactly one day. You might pick me up and place me in the needy girlfriend pile, thats okay. I would too.

In 2011, I found my soulmate. My best friend, the love of my life. We moved in together. I can jump into his shower with all my clothes on and kiss him admidst his uncontrollable laughter. I lean over, "Night, sweet dreams, see you soon... in my dreams! Love you little Angel" and he rolls his eyes, kissing back. We make food together, we do everything together.

In 2011, my life finally felt complete. I spent 24 years wandering aimlessly around this earth always feeling like I wasn't good enough, or I was settling, or that group of girls wouldn't like me because I was weird and I had to control what came out of my mouth... and then he came into my life and sat back and watched me destruct his life into a masterpeiece.

...I wasn't scared anymore to be anyone but me.

and I can hold his hand in the middle of the store, look up at him and say, "... If an elephant came into our apartment, would it go through the floor because it was so large?"... and it never fails: He is going to laugh hysterically, cup my cheeks in his hands, and kiss my forehead. "This is why I love you Audge."

Thats why I love you too, Vlado.

Do you have a bread machine? I do too!

I have been wanting one since I was in University. Every birthday and Christmas - and nothing.

I'm not really Sally Homemaker. I'm more of a 25 year old adult who will randomly climb into a tree and sing to birds, pretending shes from Disney.

My mom had a hard time grasping the seriousness of me using a bread maker.

Well, I did it. I am making my first bread as we speak. I don't know why I am so petrified of failing - maybe because it is so expected. It came to the point where Vlado was walking around with my Black and Decker Bread Machine instruction manual, and I had a meltdown, grabbed it and ran away to bed.

The second the door clicked this morning signalling he left for work, I was up and racing towards the kitchen with my yeast and flour in hand.

We shall see... xox.

Breadmaker people? Here you go. Merry Christmas, belated.

Under the tree,

I found...

+5 wii games, 4 controllers, 250$ gift certificates, spa things, kitchen grater & kitchen glassware.

With our 100$ gift cert from my sister to winners/home sense, we went and purchased a gorgeous little cabinet. Then we went to pier1 and purchased a wine rack, wine charms, and an adorable wine carafe!

xox, I'm lucky. Were you???

Christmas

Happy Holidays!!

I finally have two days off so my to-do list is jam-packed with cleaning, organizing, and budgetting.
My house has had a mini earthquake run throughout it. When my house feels cluttered, my life feels out of control.

Vlado and I spent a beautiful holiday together. We ate amazing food, we slept over places, and we hosted parties of our own.

However, admidst our insane schedule, our house turned upside down. We trekked in and out with tons of gifts, dumped them in corners, threw dirty clothes on the floor instead of the hamper, animals were fed but plants weren't, our kitchen is a disaster, we haven't taken out the trash- stressed.

So, off I go to clean... xoxo

Cute :)

Usually, at bedtime, we lay in bed and talk for about ten minutes, kiss, and roll over so our backs are touching and fall asleep.

Yesterday, it was so hot in our condo, Vlado turned off the heat. Entirely.
He forgot to turn it back on.

Last night, we got home late from a friends house, and we both fell asleep. The house cooled off and at 4-5am, I woke up to find myself shivering. I dug into the blankets more and fell back asleep. At 5:30 I woke up again and was over-heating and felt trapped; like I couldn't move.. I realized Vlado must have been cold too as he had wrapped his entire body around me and was just hugging me to his body.

..Loved waking up this way.