I can't wait to try out the Highlighting Cream Blusher, the Grape Seed Age Protecting Lip Therapy, and the fancy Eye Emulsion. I'll keep y'all posted on how my skin looks.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
29 Cosmetics.
This morning I was delighted to receive a package from FedEx. I had forgotten that the company 29 Cosmetics was sending me samples after I wrote about them in a local magazine. Check out their website and facebook--pretty luxury stuff. Wow, am I a happy camper this morning!
I can't wait to try out the Highlighting Cream Blusher, the Grape Seed Age Protecting Lip Therapy, and the fancy Eye Emulsion. I'll keep y'all posted on how my skin looks.
I can't wait to try out the Highlighting Cream Blusher, the Grape Seed Age Protecting Lip Therapy, and the fancy Eye Emulsion. I'll keep y'all posted on how my skin looks.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Fortune Cookie Message.
I amused myself this afternoon by looking through one of my old journals from 1999--back when i still kept a daily diary. In it, I had taped an unusually relevant message from a fortune cookie. I even labeled it as such. It still applies, even now that I'm no longer that naive, 19-year-old college student.
Rest in Peace, Bin Laden.*
*If the title of this blog offends you, you may not want to read it. Just sayin'.
Thus far, I've not talked much about about politics or religion on this blog. I've kept it all fairly light-hearted, the way I like it.
But last night, the United States received the surprising news that Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the group Al Queda, is dead. Our country has been on the prowl for this individual since September 11th, 2001--ten years ago. I remember exactly where I was the morning we were attacked --getting out of bed for a college class, listening to my early-bird roommate fill me in on what had happened.
Now, a decade later, the man who supposedly devised our attack is finally dead. And my Facebook news feed is literally CLOGGED with the overjoyed crowing of my fellow Americans.
"Praise God!" they write. "Osama Bin Laden is dead! Justice is ours!"
It strikes me as a bit weird. I'm not saying I wanted this guy to go on terrorizing the lives of others, but the bloodthirsty remarks that I'm hearing via social media are a bit much. Do we REALLY think God had anything to do with this? Do we really think God would cheer us on, whisper in our ears that, yes, we ought to kill off another life? Hardly.
No matter what religious ideology we hold to be true, as Americans we pride ourselves on being more evolved than certain other countries in this world. Doesn't this heightened sense of ration include the knowledge that killing someone is always wrong? Sure, I might feel differently if I had a loved one who died in New York that morning. But should we always go on our emotions? I thought the idea of justice in the United States is built on reason, not emotion.
And let's say you're a Christian. Does that make any of this right? Love mankind no matter what--isn't that what Jesus said?
As my mama used to tell me, "Two wrongs don't make a right."
Thus far, I've not talked much about about politics or religion on this blog. I've kept it all fairly light-hearted, the way I like it.
But last night, the United States received the surprising news that Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the group Al Queda, is dead. Our country has been on the prowl for this individual since September 11th, 2001--ten years ago. I remember exactly where I was the morning we were attacked --getting out of bed for a college class, listening to my early-bird roommate fill me in on what had happened.
Now, a decade later, the man who supposedly devised our attack is finally dead. And my Facebook news feed is literally CLOGGED with the overjoyed crowing of my fellow Americans.
"Praise God!" they write. "Osama Bin Laden is dead! Justice is ours!"
It strikes me as a bit weird. I'm not saying I wanted this guy to go on terrorizing the lives of others, but the bloodthirsty remarks that I'm hearing via social media are a bit much. Do we REALLY think God had anything to do with this? Do we really think God would cheer us on, whisper in our ears that, yes, we ought to kill off another life? Hardly.
No matter what religious ideology we hold to be true, as Americans we pride ourselves on being more evolved than certain other countries in this world. Doesn't this heightened sense of ration include the knowledge that killing someone is always wrong? Sure, I might feel differently if I had a loved one who died in New York that morning. But should we always go on our emotions? I thought the idea of justice in the United States is built on reason, not emotion.
And let's say you're a Christian. Does that make any of this right? Love mankind no matter what--isn't that what Jesus said?
As my mama used to tell me, "Two wrongs don't make a right."
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