Buy me these, please!

A few bits and pieces of what I want for my birthday in 2.5 weeks:

1. A *jwj* necklace - preferably Toile or Sadie. Yes I can buy it myself but it is almost my birthday and I want someone else to buy it for me. :) When I was getting the original giveaway post ready, I very, very clearly too Florida to the *jwj* Etsy shop and pointed out incredibly carefully which ones I wanted for my birthday...we shall see if he listened (but I don't think he did, and you'll find out why at the bottom)

2.

L.L. Bean's Boat and Tote Zip-Top Bag, Large with Long Handles, Turquoise Sea.
{$31.00}

3.

J. Crew Critter Wedge Flip-Flops in Navy/White Fleur, size 5.
{$26.50 BUT 20% off when you order two}
(second choice = Grey & Pink Skulls)

4. A Vintage Dallas Cowboys fitted t-shirt. (Can't find any cute ones online just now...but I know they are out there.) Florida, listen up: I DO NOT WANT A JERSEY OR ANYTHING PINK!*

5. Sticky notes from Ashley Brooke Designs. A silly gift because I don't have a job where I use sticky notes...but that matters little to me. She had the idea of drawing me on the sticky notes with irises in my hair - cute, no? :)

Well, I suppose I've been selfish enough for this post, haven't I? My birthday is kinda a big deal (to me) and I expect everyone to fully relish in the fact that I was born 28 years + 347 days ago.

::GASP! That's right, I'll be turning 29!!::

This had better be a FAB birthday because it just might be the last one I celebrate!

Happy Tuesday, friends!

Cheers,

Sweet Bea

* Guess what Florida got me for my birthday? After I specifically told him before he ordered my gifts that I did NOT want a jersey because I want to be able to wear the shirt on non-game days? A JERSEY. Boys. Do. NOT. Listen.**

**Am I being harsh and mean, and shouldn't I be thankful I have an amazing boyfriend who even bought me a birthday present? Yes, I should. I know this. But at the same time, when I specifically tell you something that I DON'T want, and when you are ordering the gift next to me and saying "I don't think you'll like this..." shouldn't that be a sign that it's perhaps not the right thing to get??

This is going to be a Wearing Mascara-focused post...just so everyone knows. :)

1. WM has switched over to WordPress so make sure you updated your Google Reader or your list of blogs you follow...otherwise you won't be able to keep up! ALSO - you should check out her current post about blog plagiarism. It's pretty messed up (plagiarism, not her post, obvi!) and she offers tools to help protect your blog from a similar attack. I pity the fool who tried to plagiarize my words...mainly because who the heck would want to! :)

2. I have a cold. This is not WM focused, obvi, but I wanted to break up the theme a bit. I work in food service right now...having a cold is not only sucky, but kinda gross. If you come visit me I will not breathe on you or your food service products. :)

3. I am itchy. I have a scant sunburn/tan from Saturday's glorious weather and spending the day either at Jacob's Coffee around the corner from my house having breakfast with out-of-town friends, at Bagels and Baguettes meeting up with Bestie and her bf, gK, or back at Jacob's drinking sweet tea and doing the crossword with Florida. I literally soaked up the sun this weekend. :)

4. Back to WM. So remember how a while ago she posted a mascara review about Dior's DiorShow Mascara, and how it related to a certain wonderfully naughty man-bit. Well, the other morning during sleep v. 2.0 (I worked Sunday night and stayed at Florida's house for a romantic dinner and movie night...which was great except that we stay at my house during the week because he has to be at work at 7:00 a.m. and since he lives an hour away - versus my 20 minutes - means we are in the car at 5:45 a.m., which means we are up at 5:30 a.m., ugh.) I had the most RANDOM dream I think I have ever had. And I've had some really, really strange dreams.

But first, here's a side note that will help to explain the dream (I hope): Have you ever seen Superbad? Well, I've recently become OBSESSED with Forgetting Sarah Marshall and have loved every Apatow move I've seen (except Pineapple Express, which I was forced to watch during my weekend in Madison) so I really wanted to watch it, and Florida owns it. So, if you've seen Superbad you know about Seth's obsessive man-bits drawings, right? And if you haven't...well, Seth obsessively draws man-bits. (I didn't give anything away, I promise.)

Anywho...so here is my dream: I walk into a Sephora-type facility looking for a new mascara. I remember Wearing Mascara's review of some Dior mascara, and ask the helpful lady to pull all of the Diors for my perusal.

And then I see it: the holy grail of mascara. The DiorShow, in all it's splendid glory. It's beauty is like nothing I've seen before - I swear I heard angels singing and a halo of sunlight appeared behind it as I lifted it from the shelf.

The mascara was large indeed, easily exceeding a full foot in length and quite hefty in the rotund department as well. But it's true exquisiteness lay not in it's size, no no, but in it's shape. One part Washington Monument, 2 parts Christmas ornament, composed entirely of the most magnificently cold stainless steel I've ever beholden.

At this point I am woken up to a text message from Florida telling me that he's changing his entire life-plan based on some info the Air Force finally got around to passing along to him, so I couldn't dwell in the WTF-ness of my dream.

So I thought I would share my lovely dream with you all. I hope it brightens up your Tuesday afternoon. :) I am off work today, and even though I have a cold I need to do laundry and clean my house (I got my feather bed dry-cleaned...the reason why is a completely separate post, trust me...and now there are little feathers all over my house!)

I can only assume 2 things about this dream:

1. I miss WM and my bloggy friends!! We haven't played together in a while :(

2. I clearly still had Superbad and the man-bit drawings on my mind when I went back to sleep at my house.

Regardless, it was a weird, WEIRD, dream that left in in absolute giggles when I replayed it in my head later (and when I told Florida about it too.)

Happy Tuesdays, sweet friends!

Cheers,

Sweet Bea

Oh (Rein) Dear...

Oh sweet friends, I must share with you what I just stumbled onto.

WARNING: Send the kiddies away :)

See, I've been looking for nude high heels for like 2 years now. I'm a size 5...so finding any shoes in my size that I like is a problem...but when I am very specific about what I want it gets even harder.

I basically want these, but they, of course, not available in my size at Zappos and I can't find any others that I like (suggestions welcome):


So I was searching around online for something like these, and I stumbled upon a wonderful gem, www.3wishes.com.

Oh Lordy, what fun did I have!

I want to share some of my, um, favorite finds with all of you! I hope you enjoy... :D

Because I support our troops!


For Lulu, Muffy, and all my other brides-to-be!

For Kate - I do hope you'll wear these tonight at our bloggy meetup!

Ok, ok, enough shoe fun! I moved on to the Clubwear page...because to be honest, I couldn't NOT check out their clubwear after viewing their shoes.

Ok, I'm confused...do you leave the mesh thing at coat check?


Ok, this would be kinda hot if you are are with a military man and wore it with the camo heels... JLC I'm looking at you for this!!!


My Inaugural Ball dress...HA!

YEEHAW! Ride em/me cowboy!
(My favorite part about this outfit is that in the, ahem, rear view, you can see just how long the chaps are!!!)

At this point, I'm about hysterical with these outfits...but I decide to check one just one...more...section...

The Christmas section.

I'm going to admit a fantasy of mine: I've always wanted a boyfriend that I could dress up and sing Santa Baby to. Preferably wearing this:

Santa baby...slip a sable under the tree, for me...been an awful good girl...

And this for the Santa Pub Crawl that BP's girlfriend and I are going to go on next year:

Ho, ho, ho, indeed! But it's got a hoodie...so it will be warm...right?

Hahaha I just couldn't help but share my wonderful finds!! :)

I hope you all enjoyed this installment of "Bea has a head injury and therefore is staying in on a Friday night and playing around on the interwebs!"

Cheers,

Sweet Bea

Sigh...confession time

I have a confession...and like with most confessions, I'm a wee bit embarrassed by it.

I'm running away this weekend to Madison, Wisconsin to see a boy.

It's not Badger, though he is from Wisconsin, it's a boy I briefly mentioned here in this post (LBP)

As I mentioned then, LBP is a few things:

1) little brother of my good college friend BP (hence why he's called LBP - Little BP)

2) a good friend to one of my college ex-boyfriends (natch...)

3) my 2006 "locationship" for lack of a more PG-term...

So we've kept in touch for the 2+ years since I left Wisconsin and came back to DC, and he was supposed to come visit last April, but as Badger and I were dating, I called it off. He then rebooked for August (after his bro BP moved out here, to make it a little less awkward) and of course, I was in Cali on campaign. Long story short (too late!) it's been over 2 years since I've seen him.

And, well, let's just say that the last 2 years haven't been the nicest to your dear old Bea. I've gained quite a few pounds and frankly I've worked on Capitol Hill for 2 years for some of the toughest Members (which, for those of you not from DC, means I look like I've aged about 5 years, at least.)

Keep in mind that he's a spring chicken of 25 and of course in his prime...and I can only assume, still quite adorable.

So while I'm super excited to see him because we always had fun together...I'm really quite nervous.

For starters, I've had a dang cold since BEFORE New Year's and I still sound like a man going through puberty. I mean, I sound ridiculous.

Next comes the whole "what do I wear" issue? Since I don't really know what we're going to do, I'm not sure what to pack. And I don't want to overpack since I'm carrying-on my bag. And it's going to be F-ing COLD there. But I still want to look nice HOTT...so do I wear the cute little tops or big toasty sweaters?

Also, to Ugg or not to Ugg? I mean, they are the fugliest shoe-things I own...but they're soooooo damn warm!

And then, of course, there is what to do in, you know, *that* department...

See friends, I am soooooooooooooo not ready for this! Oh halp!

Here's my plan:

1) 2 new sweaters from Express (pretty cute, pretty warm, and thin to pack): dark grey and dark teal

2) Black J. Crew cable cashmere sweater from a few years ago

3) COH Jeans: one lighter for day, one dark for night

4) Black Lumiani knee-high boots

5) Black & white Banana Republic graphic dress OR purple Banana Republic graphic dress

6) Express T-back beaded top (dark grey)

7) White House/Black Market Black & white bateau top

8) Ann Taylor cashmere turtlenecks in black OR ivory

9) Old Navy long sleeve T-shirts in black & white (& possibly gray) to wear layered on the plane or just to layer throughout the weekend


Madison by Sweet Bea

See I'm trying to get away with only packing one pair of shoes (other than my Uggs, of course) - my black knee high boots, so everything is going to be in the black & white family or be worn with those shoes (assuming they come back from the shoe man all nice and water/snow/ice proof tomorrow!!!)

I *think* this will be a good plan...I hope! I'm getting my hair cut and straightened tomorrow AM...PLEASE keep good thoughts that it goes well (I don't do well when it comes to getting my hair done AT ALL) as I'm really freaking out that it will somehow be bleached and fall out and I'll have to cancel my trip!

Seriously...with all the stress I'm putting into this damn trip I'm going to NEED the massage LBP booked for me on Friday! Sheesh!!!

Until my next freakout (T-minus a few hours, I'm sure)...

Cheers,

Sweet Bea

HOORAY! J. Crew Promo: up to 30% off

Well color me tickled! I know I'm being silly, but I am thankful for pretty things at J. Crew that make me feel happy when I am feeling blue :(

J. Crew's new promo, giving up to 30% off (!!) ends tomorrow, Saturday November 29th.



I know I should be saving my money until I have a job, BUT I also think I deserve a little present for all my hard work on the campaign (I mean, we were the #2 target in the entire country and CRUSHED our opponent by 11 points.)

Here are some of the things I am considering:

Onyx Sequin Dress in Black
Wool Cashmere Plaza Coat with Thinsulate in Ivory (its COLD here in DC!)
Double Serge Pencil Skirt in Bronzed Ochre (I have in deep persimmon and I LOVE it!)
Golden roses Cherie Cami
Isabella Paisley Halter Dress (not on sale but I'm quite drawn to it)

J. Crew shopping bag 11.28 by Sweet Bea

Thoughts?