Rain Day In

Somedays, when it's rainy and you're broke, it's nice to just lounge around at home. So, that's what I did on this particular rainy day, and I thought you might want to spend it with me.

Let's start with a brief get ready with me!

So, since I was just lounging at home, I kept today's look pretty simple. Here it is start to finish. As you can see, I went with a pretty neutral eye and lip, and I did a simple fishtail braid with bangs for my hair. Here's the makeup I used:

• ALMAY Smart Shade Perfect & Correct Primer
• ALMAY Smart Shade CC Cream
• NYX HD Photogenic Concealer
• Physicians Formula Mineral Blush
• Physicians Formula Mineral Wear "Illuminating Veil" (seriously idk what's up with that name?)
• Zum Kiss Stick in Lemon-Ginger
• NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Tokyo

Since I was just staying in, I used a bit of concealer and powder on my eyelids, but I didn't bother with eye shadow or mascara or whatever.

Anyway! Outfit-wise, I rocked this stellar button-down and leggings and socks I stole from Renee look:

Haha. Such a natural pose, right? I just was trying to figure out how to get my socks into the picture. Yikes. You can check out the fashion blog post for it here! 

Now, after I got all ready, I settled down with some good lounge-around-work: Scrapbooking! 

After I graduated high school, I made a "high school scrapbook" and I collaged the cover. So! Now that I've graduated college, I decided to make a "college scrapbook" which is what you see all collaged to the left of the picture. I'm ALMOST finished with it, but I have a few more pictures to work on.

Around lunchtime, I made myself a DELICIOUS hardboiled egg wrap. I seriously love egg wraps. 

This one was made of: 

• One whole wheat tortilla
• One hardboiled egg
• A bit of mayonnaise
• Some cheddar cheese

Actually, it's a whole lot like this recipe! I mean, not exactly like that recipe but still really similar. 

Then I had some chocolate chip cookies and milk for dessert: 

Usually when I make chocolate chip cookies, they turn out kind of flat. But this time, they turned out pretty well! It's on my list to make a batch of perfect chocolate chip cookies, and thanks to some advice from friends and family, it looks like I'm on my way to achieving that one!

Anyway. While I was on half of the table eating cookies and scrapbooking, my brother was taking up the other half of the table with TWO laptops. Seriously. TWO! Who is he? Wade from Kim Possible???

Anyway, I'm sure I did more than just scrapbook and eat cookies throughout the bulk of the day, but I guess it wasn't interesting enough for me to take pictures.

So jump forward a bit. I ended the day hanging out with my family, watching Star Trek The Next Generation and playing Kim Kardashian Hollywood. (It would have been way more appropriate if I'd been playing Kim Cardassian Hollywood. Eh? Eh? Eh? That's not my joke, really. It's just the joke of everyone whose ever watched any post-Next Gen-Trek and also heard of the Kardashians.)

This is Picard's imitation of that one time Worf's childhood Klingon Pet materialized on the bridge.

Making reeeeeal good use of my Nook HD+ right therrrre. 

Anyway, while we were watching Star Trek, Nash was hanging out with his bird and I was taking super close up pictures of my cat:

He's mad because I was trying to take a picture of him acting sweet. He hates that. He's sweetness is a secret. 

 I'm not sure why Zoey doesn't like me more. I only OCCASIONALLY stick a camera really close to her face.

Once it got a little bit later, and I got a little tired of being around people, I retreated to my room to read Landline. Actually, if you follow me on other social media outlets, this might give you a pretty good idea of when this particular Rainy Day In was. After all, I tweeted about it and posted my shelfari review in early August. Plus, it was featured in one of my mid-August fashion blog posts! Anyway, point is, I decided to wind down by hanging out alone reading a book by my favorite author. 

Let's be real, I made my bed before taking this picture. I didn't even seriously make my bed. I just made it enough so that you wouldn't know how much of a slob I really am.

And then I went to sleep. So that's the end of my Rainy Day In but before I end this blogpost, I should tell you a secret about that day. Especially because I mentioned making my bed right before taking the Landline picture. Earlier in the day, I was putting away my clothes. In my closet, I have two fabric, hanging, shelf things. And when I put away a couple of my t-shirts in one of the fabric shelf things, the weight finally got to it and broke it. Since then, my dad has repaired it, it's back to hanging in my closet, and my dad even made it extra strong so that it could withstand all of my clothes. But during most of this day, all of my shirts were strewn across my bed. Which my cat, who likes sleeping on my bed and likes sleeping on clothes, really enjoyed:

"I am queen of the clothes-hill. Do not look at my clothes hill. This is MY clothes hill."

So now you're probably wondering: where did you put all of your clothes before taking the Landline picture. Good question. See, when I'm being kind of messy (which, right now, when I have way too much stuff for the amount of space I have tends to be "basically all the time") I have this habit of keeping stuff on my bed during the day, and then moving them to my chair at night. Then, during the day, I move them back to my bed. Then, when night comes, I move them back to my chair. It's this whole thing. But this time, I moved them to my chair really neatly and then just left them there until my shelf thing was repaired.

Okay! So there you have it: my rainy day in. I hope you enjoyed it. :)