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My Holiday Sales-Slash-Birthday Beauty Haul [Food Poisoning Edition]

I'm on day 4 of (what I believe to be) a bad case of food poisoning. My poor tummy. My poor plumbing system. My poor family. Anyway, because today is the first day since last week where I felt semi-human yet still suffering a bit (and out of blogspiration) — and because so many of you seem to like my beauty recommendations, I wanted to share with you my holiday sales (all the Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and numerous F&F sales) - slash - birthday present to myself haul! 1.  Banila Co It Radiant CC Melting Foundation, $36 I've been using the Laneige BB Cushion Pore Control ever since I ran out of the Innisfree Long Wear Cushion. (My thoughts after trying both? The Laneige cushion provides a marvelous...

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I Am Vincent van Beethoven

I've already shared this on Facebook and Twitter, but I found it so fascinating that I need to blog about it too! Map Your Mind is an online quiz created by GE neuroscientists and BrainMic which tells you which famous people's brains are most like your own. I know all personality tests — especially online ones! — should be taken with a grain of salt, but I was thoroughly impressed by this quiz's design, interactive interface, research, and the accuracy of the results from just 12 questions. The fact that each answer was accompanied by a short neuro-psychoanalysis totally gave me geekasms too. ;-) According to Map Your Mind, I am a #brainchild of Vincent van Gogh and Ludwig van Beethoven (hence the title of...

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Lightsabers

I'm still sick. Actually, I'm sicker, with a fever that reached 102.4° last night. The good news is that the girls are doing much better. Their fevers are down and the remaining symptoms are those that are typical of end-stage colds (runny noses and coughing). Since the progression of Aerin's illness so closely resembled that of Claire's — except two days behind — I'm hopeful that I'll feel better in a couple of days too. As is usually the case, this poor blog remains neglected while my family continues to recover. However, when I came across this Imgur gallery of lightsabers, I knew that I had to share it with my readers. Three things of note: This collection only seems to span the prequels (boo). The lightsaber...

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