Boredom Creates Fun

Being bored can be a dangerous thing... For me it usually just leads to talking to myself WAY too much and doing things I don't normally do... Like paint my nails. I go through phases where I paint and repaint my nails all the time and then go for months without so much as looking at my vast collection of nail polish...

J is out of town for work until Thursday - I dropped him off at the airport Sunday... While doing laundry and watching bad movies (seriously - I watched "Don't Mess With the Zohan" SO bad... But made me giggle a few times...) I decided - during a conversation with myself - that I wanted to try a new way of doing my nails that I had seen on another website... I call it newsprint nails...

Please ignore the messy paint job and where I accidentally smudged the newsprint... it was a first try....

Slightly closer - this one turned out the best... Minus my messy polish... Oops....

It was really pretty easy once I got the hang of it. Next time it will turn out better... I used Sally Hansen Quick Nail Color pen in white. I LOVE the Sally Hansen nail polish pens - super easy to use and dries really fast. Once it is dry, you dip your nail in rubbing alcohol and hold a piece of news paper firmly on it for 30 seconds. Peel it off carefully and put on some clear top coat. (I found that using a liberal amount of the top coat helped minimize the smudging...)

I slowly flipped through the whole paper while trying to decide if there was something specific that I wanted to use for the newsprint - even though you won't be able to read it... You only get little snippets and they are backwards... I went with horoscopes! It made me crack up and I loved it. I cut each one out individually and used a different sign for each nail. Next time I think I am going to cut the pieces into the shape of each nail with a tab on the top to make it easier to ensure newsprint on the whole nail...

Other than that, I have been trying to go to bed early and doing weird paranoid things that I don't do when J is home - like locking our bedroom door. And by "trying" I mean that I've been going to bed early and then laying there reading my Kindle and getting absorbed in my book until I realize that I stayed up way later than I should have... Oh well - at least I mean well... haha

Thursday will be here before I know it and J will be back home to me from Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. And I can resume my normal levels of slightly less restless craziness.