Wednesday Manicures.

That doesn't make any sense. Maybe I should change it to Mondays. Lol. I wrote this post and it didn't get saved. It was long and I wasn't finished and... It disappeared. Sigh. I had weekly goals and I had my new birthday goals. Oh well. Maybe I'll redo it tonight after dinner. 

Here are the nails I'm wearing right now though.

It's Wet N Wild High Contact. J wanted me to buy it because it's green. It started wearing away though right away. I think my seche vite was a bad batch. Maybe what I bought the last time was a knock off. That would suck. I should look to see what sell I bought from and see the other sell I've used in the past and buy a bottle from a previous seller. Sigh. I have 3 bottles that I bought I'm using right now all from the same seller that I bought at the same time and they all seem to suck. They dry fast but my nails seem to wear faster than my other bottles ever did before. I don't know what the problem is this time. Sometimes I can get a few days without them away but this time they're even chipping on some nails. I need to try to redo them. Even if I just take the green off and put clear on! 

See ya later alligator.

I feel so bad that I haven't posted in over a week! But I have some pictures today at least. Yay. 

Here are some pictures of the alligator that is apparently living in the front pond out front!! I had no idea it was out there. There's some rocks out there and I was standing on them and I looked down and.... Aaaahhhh... ALLIGATOR!!! 

That's all I've got for today. I'll have pictures though for Wednesday and Thursday though. And I'm going to write a post of goals for the week. And for the year. Because it's my birthday. So it's a "new year". 

Blah.

I haven't posted photos or my Tuesday post. Maybe tonight I'll try to catch up. Sigh. 

Friday!

I don't want to write. We were supposed to go to Disney World with free tickets on Saturday but my friend told us Friday night after we were already in Orlando and after we already had our reservation that the weekends free tickets were blocked out. So uuumm... We weren't going to Disney world after all. Well that sucks now. We went to Ikea, Mall of Millenia, Downtown Disney and City Walk on Saturday. Went back to the hotel and watched tv. Woke up and left and came home. It was a pretty uneventful trip. We wanted to do more. We were going to buy tickets to Universal or Islands of Adventure but we thought it was going to rain. We're going to get year passes though for both parks this year though. I think I've pretty much talked about everything else this week? We had my car towed today to Dodge. It's going to be looked at tomorrow and hopefully they look at it tomorrow. I've gotta go to sleep.

I got my days mixed up.

I thought Wednesday was anxiety day and Thursday was nail day but it's the other way around. So this week only I'll switch it. Lol. I painted my nails on Sunday before we left the hotel. But the picture is from today. 

I have such dried skin around my nails. I used to never have dry skin. I guess I need to drink more water. I'm trying!! My base coat is OPI Nail Envy. The color is Maybelline Colorama Ice Princess and is a color that has been discontinued for a really long time and is a really big favorite of mine. I've gone through I think 2 bottles of it and have given 2 bottles of it away. I think this means I have 3 left? I might need to check and see if I need to buy some more! Top coat is seche vite. 

I've been using the nail envy now for a few weeks and I like it. I don't notice it making my nails grow faster but it seems to make them stronger. They're not flexible anymore so they're not breaking anymore like they did all the time before. That's the only difference I see but that is still a huge plus for me to keep buying it and using it. 

Seche vite. I also love it. It definitely makes my nail polish dry much quicker than they do with any other top coat I've ever used. I rarely have shrinking like some people do. I know that sometimes manicures don't last as long as people would like and I haven't quite figured out my favorite solution for this yet. But when I do, I'll type it up here. Most people though that use seche vite usually do their nails nearly every day anyways. So manicures that last for a week or longer isn't something that they're looking for. They're looking for a top coat that will allow them to do the nail art that they do for their blogs. In my opinion if you want a top coat that will dry fast and you know you're going to remove your nail polish in a few days then seche vite is definitely the way to go. Also it's not chipping that usually happens, it's shrinking that happens, where the nail polish is literally shrinking away from all sides of your nail. Typically your nail starts to grow and you have space between your polish and your cuticle, right? Well it's like that except on all 4 sides of your nails and I notice it more on the tip. Probably because that is the part that is getting the most wear and tear of your nails. I've also had manicures last for a really long time! Last July when J had his surgery I did my nails beforehand at some point and when the nurse was talking to me afterwards she stopped what she was talking about to ask me about my nails (like seriously? You couldn't wait?) but by then I think my manicure was 2 weeks old and then I went to the doctor and got another compliment and it was 3 weeks old by then. So you can get a long lasting manicure with seche vite. I have no idea what I did differently though. Maybe I didn't take a shower then since J couldn't take a shower. Lol. Just kidding. Or am I? 

Okay, wow, this turned into a really long post.