I heart California

I am sure people that live there can complain about the not so warm temperatures and the heavy winds but as a Canadian from up north where I've already turned on my heater at night, California this time of year was amaze-balls.

First off shopping is amazing.  I stopped by the local CVS and bought my Revlon Whipped Foundation for $10 ($14 with a $4 off coupon) which is pretty darn amazing considering Shoppers has them for $19.99 at regular price.  Even with the sale, I wouldn't be able to get it for the same price as in the US.

Here are some pictures from the trip....

First off, did you know that they have ipads at the pearson airport waiting area!  You can even order food on there and have it delivered to your table!  Pretty darn sweet.

Next up is the view from our brunch spot, Schooner or Later.

This was our sweet ride for the weekend.  I've always wanted a mini cooper for a car.

However, the inside took a little getting used to.  I didn't like that the control for the window was not on the windows as expected!

This was the sweet view from our resort.  See that?  Yup, that's the beach within walking distance!

Last was a stop at the Rubys Diner at the end of the Balboa Pier.  Had a nice apple pie a la mode while we enjoyed the view.

NOTD --> First time doing an accent nail

Well folks, I did it!  I tried out a subtle accent nail and I like the look!  I think I like it because it's very subtle and a good way to ease into it without being overwhelmed by one nail looking drastically different than the rest.  Accent nail virgin no more!

I had to do two coats of L'Oreals The Sparklicious 803 to get the effect on the right.  I wonder if I can just buy glitter from Michaels and achieve the same thing.  I don't like that I can't control the placement of the shapes.  There's the control freak in me coming out.

Off to Cailfornia for the weekend!  Yay!  Here's hoping the mani survives the weekend.

October goals

Goal setting is supposed to somehow make you more productive in life or so they say.  I would actually have to agree because I remember when I would do my monthly spending budget on here and I would for the most part follow it.

So here is what I am trying to achieve for this month.

1. JOB -->  Apply to at least 2 jobs a day (including the weekend) which means I need to apply to at least 62 (31 days x 2) jobs this month. 
2. With that new nail polish post yesterday, I want to try out new things with my nails.  I want to take better care of it.  I have started becoming a bit of a slob because I think, hey you don't have a job, who are you getting pretty for.  Seriously, I am now wearing a tank top with holes in it!
3. Reach out to at least one person and say hi.  I am bad @ keeping in touch and want to improve in this area.
4. Keep spending on clothes to a min --> only allowed $50!  Eeek....not sure I can do this considering I am itching for a new winter coat but I shall try. 

L'oreal The Sparklicious Top Coat

This beauty right here was bought at Rexall for $5.  I haven't bought a new nail polish in a while seeing as how I am jobless but I couldn't resist at that price and how pretty it was.  I did do a quick swatch on my nail and found it wore thin as in only two sparkles made it onto my nail.  If you look at that picture of my thumb below, you will see that only two sparkles made it on with one coat.  It is definitely something I see myself applying several coats of to get to my desired level of sparkliness. 

I've always wanted to try that accent nail trend that everybody is rocking but I haven't been brave enough to do it.  I think with this, it is subtle enough for me to try.

I heart Aziz Ansari

I love Aziz Ansari.  I think he's hilarious and I bought tickets for his show this past Friday at the Sony Center in Toronto.  He did new material which was pretty exciting because we have seen his old bit but you could tell it was new material as it was a little rough around the edges.  He stuttered over some of his material but it was still pretty darn hilarious.  I wish he didn't focus so much on relationships and did other observations as well.  & what happened to his cousin!?

This picture right here is form my camera....If you've ever seen his show, you know he does a bit where he lets the audience take as many pictures of him as they want before he tells them to put it away.

Jobless and a little frustrated

I did this amazing thing last year -->  Took a year off and moved to the US to be with the hubby and now we're back.  I figured I am young, if there's a time to do this, this is it.  I thought when I came back, I would have no problem finding a job.  After all, I have experience, am smart and have a few networks.  Well let me tell you it's not panning out as expected.  I've applied to over a 100 jobs in the span of 2 months with only 2 call backs from companies.  The first one didn't pan out....I knew that during the interview, I didn't answer the questions well.  But I had one last week and I thought I knocked it out of the park.  Seriously looking back, there is nothing I would have done differently and I was expecting that they would call me back yesterday but nothing :(  I seriously never wear my emotions on my sleeve but I cried yesterday because I felt worthless.  I seriously spent hours just lying in bed wallowing and watching hours of beauty youtube videos.

Don't get me wrong, I loved my year off but now I am feeling depressed and getting discouraged.  I know the answer is to not be discouraged and just keep on trucking but man it's hard.  My goal is to at least apply to 2 jobs a day and spend time catering my cover letter and resume to the job but wondering if I just need to fire them out instead with a generic cover letter and resume.  I've also been told I need to network and I've networked with everybody I can.  & plus I am not that kind of social person!!!  So I've exhausted my network and don't know where else to go besides applying online.

/end bitchy jobless rant.

My negative GymPact experience - Stay Away

If you know me then you know I am a sucker for making a little beer money on the side.  So when I learned about GymPact I figured I had nothing to loose and everything to gain by signing up.  The idea behind GymPact is you essentially make a bet that you are going to workout X number of days of the week and each day you don't make it, you loose out on $5 or more and each day you make it, you gain from all the others that don't make it out there (their website says typically $0.30/workout).  Sure that's nothing but I figured it would add up and plus I don't have to do anything extra since I already work out.  Plus they emphasized on their website that they had runkeeper integration so I figured sweet since I walk so much now that we don't have a car there's no way I am going to miss my weekly pact. I typically walk an hour almost daily!

Well it's all great in theory but here is my experience with GymPact.  First week is apparently a try out week where you figure out the kinks of gympact and give 'er a try.  This would be great if I had known it was a try out week.  No where did it indicate this on the website.  I had to google and that's what the interwebs told me.  So can you imagine here I am doing my workouts for the week and nothing is really changing in my profile.  So anyways now it's on to week 2 and I am still doing my work outs regularly except for whatever reason my runkeeper isn't syncing with GymPact properly.  I send them an email to try and find out what's going on and nada.  I send a follow up email and still nada.  I eventually was able to get it to sync on the 3rd device I tried.  But get this, I get a notification saying my runkeeper workout didn't count with no explanation why even though it met all the criteria on the website.  And the worst part was I couldn't log another workout for the day to compensate.  Thankfully I set my pact to working out 6 days a week so my 1 day buffer was taken.  I sent an email to GymPact asking them why my runkeeper workout didn't count and are you surprised that there wasn't a response?  Well week 2 is over and now we're onto week 3!  Except no indication of any money being earned.  Another email off to GymPact saying if I don't hear from them soon I would cancel my account.  My email it seems fell on deaf ears.  And well I did what I said I would do which was try to cancel my account.  Their website doesn't let you cancel your account but it does let you take a break from your pact so that's what I did.

So if you're thinking of joining GymPact, NAY I say.  If you google, you'll find plenty of others complain about their lack of customer service.  However when you miss a workout, they are quick to debit that $5 from your credit card right away.  No thank you.