Hi! Thank you for hosting this :) i am in love with essie so i'm super excited!! Okay so, striping tape. I don't have it and always wondered why people love it...after seeing all these manis i already know what i'm buying next! Here are two cute ones! They have similar designs but the colors look cool on both! http://www.pinterest.com/qwerty19/tape-manis/ http://www.pinterest.com/qwerty19/tape-manis/
I love the colors in this one! It reminds me of fall! http://flightofwhimsy.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/lined-and-golden/ Ohmygosh pink and gold glitter! http://workplaypolish.com/2013/12/22/blogging-for-a-cause-chalkboard-nails-for-polished-girlz/
Ahem anyways, task two! Since i'm not old enough to own my own house i have no complaints yet...haha! Worst vacation was actually an exchange trip. I hosted a french girl for a few weeks, she hosted me in the summer. Sounds fun, yes? No. To get matched we filled out mini surveys, and if people had similar answers they would get paired! So obviously, this plan was foolproof and i would be paired with my other half, right? Also no. I got paired with a girl who supposedly loved to sing and dance and do her nails, like I did and do. Turns out, she didn't like any of those. So when she came over, we had nothing to do. I kept offering up ideas, from going to the mall to even taking a walk, but she rejected alllllll of them. She had this little journal to keep track of her trip, and everyday after coming home from school or whatever she did with thr group, she would sit and write. For the ENTIRE rest of the night, until she would sleep. Anytime i asked her to do something, she said after she wrote in the journal...so basically, we did nothing, and she ignored me the whole time she was here, pretending that she didnt understand a word i was saying to her. Needless to say, i was not exactly jumping with joy at the thought of seeing her again, but alas, i had to. I got to go to France! I should be grateful, which i am, but the trip was so horrible. I had a total of zero friends out of the group that was going...they all ignored me, so i sat on the bus everyday alone, and when we went on outings i was by myself. I remember one day on the bus that was the best bus trip. I was sitting alone up front, after walking around a little town. We were waiting on one boy who got lost, and he ran to the bus and the teacher told him to sit in the first seat he saw, so that was with me. His friends called out to him, asking who he was with. He turned to me and asked my name, and after hearing it, he told the people in the back
And they laughed. Yeah, i was outcasted by people my age, in my school...while in a foreign country. Luckily he was nice to me and we ended up talking and joking around...but that was the end of our friendship. The other issue About this trip was that it was my first time away from home for a big thing. I never went to sleepaway camp, or anything of the sort. So i called home every night crying, begging to come home early...obviously I couldn't. I was totally upset, i felt so uncomfortable and I had no one at all. My exchange family was nice...the mom was the only one who spoke english other than the girl my age. The girl would ignore me, only to be forced by her mom to hang out with me. I spoke very little french, so if i asked for anything in english and if the mom responded, the girl yelled at her mom for speAking in english to me. But if the mom spoke to me in french and the girl sensed that i was confused, she yelled at her mom for speaking french. I also got blamed by her for waking up too late to go to the beach, even though i asked if they would wake me up so we could go. By the end of the trip, i was better friends with this girls mother...we went shopping together, went to bakeries...i could tell she knew i was not having a good trip, so she did her best to make it better. My best memories of the trip are when we went shopping...the only exciting thing was me buying a fountain pen, so you can gauge how lovely this trip was if the highlight was a pen. So...thats my beautiful story...sorry for the essay. TL;DR Had a horrible vacation where my only joy was a fountain pen.
Cephalopod time! LOOK AT ITS BIG EYES! http://www.urlesque.com/2010/08/09/cutest-octopus-squid-cephalopods/ And this one reminds me of the last mani i posted soooo http://www.skyblue-pink.com/?p=4191 Wooooot!
Recipes! I decided to do one alcoholic and one thats not...to cover both preferences ;) Here is a yummy peach iced tea! It sounds so fresh! http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/peach-iced-tea-10000000456832/ And i was thinking a fresh berry drink would be suuuper yummy in the heat, so here is a great recipe! http://liquor.com/recipes/fresh-berry-delicious/
Hello Kitty is so cute! I don't know if you have this yet, but you should! http://www.amazon.com/Snuggie-SN177106-Hello-Kitty/dp/B00GH4JNRY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407515409&sr=8-1&keywords=Hello+kitty+snuggie Time to drive in STYLE! http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Kitty-Handle-cover-leopard/dp/B00F5TSPXA/ref=sr_1_43?ie=UTF8&qid=1407515505&sr=8-43&keywords=sanrio
Edit: LIST
Honey Bun
Really Red
Super Bossa Nova
Braziliant
Capri
Curveball
After Sex
Raspberry
Jam N' Jelly
Cocktail Hour
Watermelon
Jewel (I couldn't find a swatch but it sounds pretty...what is it?)
Thank you so so much for hosting! This is fun :)