my fountain of youth joke

going to bring work home for a second

so i've told some of you before that i go through 

phases of phrases

with my patients...

i don't even know where they come from, 

i don't make any conscious effort 

to start a new one per week or anything like that - 

they just happen and then i notice that i'm using the same phrase repeatedly 

throughout the day/week/months

until it phases itself out and a new one starts

you just told me your totally obscure job description:

"oh my gosh how interesting"

you just told me about some silly thing your granddaughter said/did:

"you've got to be kidding me!"

you just told me an inside joke with your family (aka you had to be there): 

"stop"

to the patients with wheelchairs/walkers/canes when i leave the room:

"don't go anywhere"

cue senile chuckles

to the teens/adolescents when i leave the room:

brb (pronounced 'birb')

cuz i'm hip like that

to the lil brats kids who say i look 34 when i ask them how old they think i am:

"get out of my room and don't come back"

just kidding  - that was fake, i don't actually say that

but they think i look 34?! shit.

moving on...

lately i've been making references to the fountain of youth

always on the very elderly patients

and it seems to be a crowd-pleaser.

example:

such an old woman came in and she had short-term memory loss,

we're talking dory from finding nemo

but she had IMMACULATE skin

(little bit of exaggeration but nonetheless, i'd take it at her age)

i asked her what creams she uses (of course i did)

surprise! she couldn't remember - how convenient.

so i said "are you sure you haven't found the fountain of youth 

and you're just not telling me"

she LOL'd. so did i.

fountain of youth?! really? 

and today:

i'm ultrasonic-ing an old man patient up on his front teeth

the water-mist is going everywhere on his face, like it always does

at an appropriate pause, he says

"is this water doing anything to help my face?"

that's a gimme, gotta reference the FOY, how could i not?

so i said

 "actually we pipe this water in from the fountain of youth, 

so when i sit you up you're gonna be like  benjamin button 

and have wrinkle-free baby skin"

i haven't even seen that movie. 

but he loved it, 

made him laugh and forget about the water-mist all over his face.

gotta love that FOY.

oilé

i'm having a really hard time 

not turning this blog into a beauty roundup

of the products i accumulate and test on myself

right now i'm so into oils 

and things in unlabeled jars, pots, and dropper bottles

just bought that josie maran argan oil - no opinion yet

i switch off cleaning my face with 

a half sweet almond/half castor oil (clear pump bottle)

and straight coconut oil (clear pot) 

depending on what i feel like at night, either pumpy or scoopy

my favorite part of the day is my night routine: 

taking off my makeup and putting on my night creams 

my second favorite is when 

i wake up 8 hours later and put my makeup on again

happy sunday, bring on another week!

the big M

who remembers this?

biked passed it everyday and 

it's the pic that shows up when my mom calls me

wednesday off hanging with my mom

ballister's ballers

last night i got to go to

 seamus' law school's formal dance,

ballister's ball

on a 3-decker yacht in marina del rey

basically seamus is the biggest baller at law school - 

two girls spent a good 5 minutes telling him how awesome he is

amidst breaking into katy perry's "eye of the tiger hear me roar" song:

second hand pride and second hand embarrassment all at once

and i got to wear the prettiest dress of my mom's too!

so pretty that when we got back i didn't want to take it off

so i snapped some pics in their bathroom

fun night, chill sunday

bring on monday

hawaii mani

got this mani when i went to hawaii

got it again this week for good time's sake

isn't it cool?

cheek kiss

got kissed on the cheek

 by a very gracious, very old woman at work today

there's always one thing like this per day 

that makes working hard all day 

and the sweet designer bags under my eyes

totally worth it

portrait of an old woman by louise de hem

wednesday off

album on repeat and cleaning stuff
1:51

never moving out!

cormac doing his best squints

eating dinner, reading into the gloss, when this happened

then we got hannah involved and threw it back to 2009

this photo was taken summer 2009

when i had 4 extra pounds stored in each cheek

(on my face, you sickos)

2013 - all cute and killin it

bella takes home trophy for longest tongue

chelo for biggest freak

sunday favorite day 

and possibly my favorite top shelf 

in a while

twins love it too because she is on their favorite show

H2O: just add water

which is about mermaids, of course

blisters on my sisters

i had a slew of bubbling blisters plaguing my heels

from all the walking i did in new york

 - spared you the pic of them - 

terrible.

i wanna say thanks to my feet for letting me do that to you, my kicks, 

and a big thanks to egyptian magic for the sweet relief.

generously (almost wastefully) slathered the cream on my heels overnight 

when i got back and i'm not kidding: magic!

heels nearly 100% healed

on this wednesday off i'm about to go get a mani pedi

and treat my tootsies to some "me time"

note: i've had my jar of egyptian magic 

since junior year of college at the polly pocket

it's not even half gone!

 totally would've gotten the 2 oz. had it been out

NY || NY

wildcat! wildcat! + MS MR @ webster hall

so hip i was in the shop and didn't even know i was in the shop

st. patrick's cathedral chapel

my favorite part: 9/11 memorial

later NY...

but LA is where it's at

my brothers

 

 

my brothers

seamus, liam, kieran, and declan

have been in a band together for a while

and recently pulled it together to make original songs 

that are really good, really catchy, great melodies, hottest drummer

played their first show a few weeks back with a surprising turnout

again, thank you to everyone who came out that night

and on saturday, played another quick show at a house party

where they were told by quite a few of the people

"definitely best of the night, straight up"

here's a YouTube link for more

also, let the record show:

 i named the band.

no posts for a week because i'm going to NYC!

for fun, to see friends, to spend money, 

and to instagram shots of the skyline like

"Wow, NYC, you never get old"

bathroom creatures

first three creature photos are from our house

last one is from the bathroom stall in the honolulu airport

they all make me smile and roll my eyes

probably not as much as i should

bringing work home with me for a second

"so what's your flossing like?    

no yeah i totally get it, starting that habit is so hard...

how many times a week would you say you do it?   ok so like every once in a while....

oh right those little picks? um they're better than nothing but you can't curve it that well...

well i just think that you have to try to do it at least every other night to start 

definitely try not to skip two nights in between 

because then that plaque just hardens and gives you gnarly DB* -

and you can't get if off, your toothbrush can't get it off, floss won't, 

just a professional cleaning will.

if you did it every night for a week, you'd see a huge difference, 

less bleeding, it wouldn't hurt, and then you just have to maintain it from there...

plus, you('re) ___________ so healing would happen really fast!

(insert young, seem like you're health-conscious, a cute-girl, etc)

my goal is to make progress every time you come in not just play catch-up"

literally say this 8 times a day and mean it

and they listen, i swear

* i just think this, i don't say it out loud

insane psycho freak

i've been copying my mom. 

in this case, wearing the same rose fragrance as her 

since last summer i think...

it's called

GUEN Beauty Fresh Rose Shower Cologne

and all of the important writing on the packaging is in korean

so i can't read it.

hannah bought it for her for her birthday last year

so i would sneak into her bathroom to "get something" or "weigh myself"

and spritz it on every morning.

finally i went down to the beauty supply to buy my own and

lo and behold, they don't have it anymore, they just have the sample.

so i made it a point to go in there once a week

and bug them to see if they had gotten it in.

no. no, we haven't. no, come back next week.

can i have the sellers contact info please? 

no.

and then one day:

"here just take the sample, you insane psycho freak"

! YES !

however, samples do not last forever.

so i started stalking google. 

literally could not get any search results on it

until this past weekend, when a store in san gabriel

known as "NAIL SUPPLY HOUSE" had it on their website.

went in there today and bought em out.

i gave it such a raving verbal review,

the lady asked me to spray some of my sample on her;

i happily obliged.

sidenote about NAIL SUPPLY HOUSE:

we're talking OPI nail polishes, regularly $8.50, for $5.50

we're talking essie, usually $7.50, for $4.75

we're talking floor-to-ceiling nail polish and nail polish smell - 

at one point i had the feeling i was going to faint 

and thought about stepping outside for a breath of fresh air

 but told myself to keep it together.

great place, might be my first yelp! experience, might not.

waking up at at 6am on sunday means

you have time to go to mass, go to the market for half & half, 

have coffee, hang out for an hour in the kitchen, 

then make leather pancakes, online shop for an hour, 

take a 2 hour nap, and it's only noon.

plus no sunday blues today

because i don't have work tomorrow!

don't know why but

don't

care

Vitamn C

could a diy vitamin c serum be taking the place of my la mer?

i think it is!

if you are curious to learn more, watch this video.

it's thirty minutes, i watched the entire thing twice.

la mer is $150 for the 1 oz

and the packaging is perfection

the color combo is perfection

and it works

but it's $150

buying all of the ingredients 

for the diy vitamin c serum is $15 tops

and it works, possibly even a little better than la mer

i know, i said it

but pores are shrinking, people!

skin is as soft as a baby's bottom!

sunspots are fading!

i've been using a 20% formula at night for 2 weeks, maybe 3

put it on straight outta the shower,

(oh for the love of God, it burns!) 

seal it in with CeraVe PM facial moisturizing lotion,

and there are definite results

on occasion i tap into the la mer 

primarily for the smell,

but secondarily because sometimes 

there are areas that need more help

i will continue to buy la mer 

but i will now have to purchase it less often...

this is called a win-win.

hawai'i

the royal hawaiian, wherest we stayed

wikky-wacky beach, too many peeps

alyssa and i are not being photo-bombed, 

that is kyle, alyssa's super rad, hysterical bro

miss you, bro

pic 10

men: meet kaipo&kaimi far left

if you are ever in a life rut

my advice is that you go to hawaii.

 i realize that not everyone is a "beach person"

(how people are not beach people is so weird to me, but ok)

so you may not like sitting on a beautiful beach all day in perfect weather

(again, what? why? how?)

in that case, "find your beach"

my other advice is do not take a full day tour

in which you are dropped off at the 

polynesian cultural center for SEVEN HOURS.

SEVEN HOURS!

an entire school day at the polynesian cultural center, i did it.

don't do it. it's not cool, it started out cool (kind of)

but after maybe less than 2 hours, you still have 5 more hours to go

and by 6pm literally, you will howl at the moon. 

we did. see pic 10 above.

let's talk men.

now i'm positive i met two of the most gentlemen men 

i've ever met in my life. they also were of football-player-size-stature.

we call this a win-win.

we also call it i am going to be single forever.

standards raised, and i don't say that for anyone.

still think about it daily, chivalry is not dead in hawaii.

this trip was about 4 weeks ago and

i'll be going back.

ever since i've returned and came out of the mini one-day depression

that i wasn't there anymore,

i have felt completely refreshed,

i have been so appreciative of family, work, play, friends, life.

sounds cheesy, but it's true.

thank you to jade, kaipo, and kaimi for making it such a memorable first trip,

we'll be seeing you real soon!