Nevergirl's

We went to SM last Saturday to buy my sister presents. She was in Ayala with the boyfriend, and I didn’t want to risk running into her so we hightailed it to the farther mall to do our shopping. Surprise! SM was having a huge, huge sale and half of Cebu, it seemed, went there to do the buying. I wanted to faint! I’m not a fan of crowds – no, scratch that. I loathe crowds. They make me feel hemmed in and oxygen-deprived. I wanted to leave right there and then, but the sister’s presents have to be bought and I wasn’t up for another trip to another mall.

I’d have to say, though, there was one good thing about that SM jaunt. I found the Maybelline Volum’Express Cat Eyes Mascara. I’ve been using it for two days now, and I love it! Here’s what I love about this mascara:





1. It comes with a spiky comb brush that makes applications really easy! This is quite a feat because I’ve the world’s clumsiest hands. The fact that it took me only 10 minutes to put this mascara on is something! It usually takes me half an hour! Read more »

I’m drawing up this Monday love list because the day is almost over, and the fact that the sick feeling I always get in my stomach every Monday didn’t last the whole day deserves a little celebration. Yes, a celebration, in the form of this little love list.

Here are some of the things I love:

1. ipods, especially those in pretty colors
2. dorky secret names
3. the cream linens we have on the bed right now
4. sundresses
5. chocolate ice cream
6. junkfood
7. yawny stretches
8. Charlie’s yawny stretches
9. Alex’s fluency in English
10. steak
11. my new mascara
12. black dresses
13. waking up earlier than 8am, and getting to watch the sun rise (with the husband beside me, and pan de sal and piping hot coffee in front of us)
14. the egg-cheese omelette the hub whips up for me whenever I need a “happy” chow

What about you? What are some of the things you love?

If there’s anything I read with as much gusto as fat burner reviews (because I’ll never give up wanting to look lean as a plank), it would have to be cosmetics reviews. I’m no makeup maven. It takes me forever to slap on makeup – at least 30 minutes to pat on concealer around the eyes, for example, and another 30 minutes to put on mascara. This is why I always gape at Kaith in amazement every time she shows up with flawlessly applied makeup. I always get something wrong every time I put a little makeup on. If it’s not the foundation (I end up looking ghostly white in most cases), it’s the blush (I can’t find my cheek apples, so I end up with one clownish circle on each cheek) or the mascara (There are clumps a’plenty and I end up with raccoon eyes!).

Anyway, given my disastrous relationship with makeup, if I really ever have to limit myself to wearing only one facepaint to save time (and face), it would have to be the mascara. I don’t know about you, but I think the mascara is a must-have. It instantly adds drama to any face. I’ve short, wispy-thin lashes so I’m always on the lookout for the ultimate mascara that lets noobs add volume, length, and curl to their lashes minus the smudges. Oh, and this mascara has to be smudge-proof and water-proof, too, because I’m accident prone. Who knows when I’d get dunked in water or have water thrown at me?

But here’s the thing: I think I may have found THE ULTIMATE mascara. I’ll use it for two days more, and let you know if it is, indeed, The One.

So, the other day, the husband and I were stuck in the house with nothing to do but talk. We’re not big fans of television, we don’t have new books to read, and we couldn’t get online so we ended up talking about this and that for hours! It amused me how different our interests were and how, while discussing fast cars, he actually rolled his eyes at me after I confessed I think its the design, not Ferrari parts, that make a Ferrari a Ferrari.

The man of the house is a handyman. He’s a tinkerer. He loves to putter about with tools I can’t even name, and fix broken things. I mean broken in the most literal way, by the way. He can also fix the non-literal kind of broken, but let’s not go there for now.

Anyway, these were some of the more interesting snippets of our conversation:

1. Whatever we think we know, we still have a thousand more left to learn.

2. If your first response to what you just heard or saw is yell, go for a walk first. Unless thieves or rude neighbors (who are probably deaf because they say everything several decibels above what’s tolerable to the human ears) are involved. If they are, go right ahead.

3. Some people just can’t be morning people. The husband is one of them, and I don’t screw with this, especially not where his right to be a bitch until 10am is concerned.

4. Sleeping underneath the sky is simply the best way to feel the right kind of big… and the right kind of small.

5. If you value your time and your right to eat on time, never make a laidback person in charge of packing food for the picnic, cleaning a kitchen, or doing the groceries. Whatever it is you were hoping to happen won’t happen, trust me on this one!

On a completely unrelated note, it’s almost the weekend. Yay! I can’t wait. The two-day Internet disruption has made this the most nerve-wracking workweek ever. I can’t wait to end it!