A few shopping suggestions…

I’m not one to post product reviews on my blog. I usually reserve that for my website www.happygrrls.com (shameless promotion!), but I am more than willing to speak about a few products that I LOVE!!!!

Well, the first thing that I am obsessing over is the Olive Oil body butter by The Body Shop. Man, this is soooooooooo good! I bought a gift pack containing 3 mini body butters and I ended up keeping this one. I had no idea that I would love it sooo much. It has a fresh clean scent and it feels like heaven on my skin. I have extra dry skin, and this body butter hydrates my skin like crazy. This is my fave new product.

The next thing that I am loving is a hot new lip gloss from Cargo Cosmetics. I recently tried their South Beach Lip Gloss Quad and I swear that they had me in mine when they created it.

The colours are great. They range from a flirty pale pink to a glossy bronze. They all work great on my skin tone. Just like the pic of the Olive Oil body butter, my lip gloss is practically gone. I will definitely hit the mall to stock up on this.

Last but not least, since I am such a huge Cargo Cosmetics fan, I wanted to let you know that they have the cutest greeting cards with a gift built in. Each card contains a sample of lip gloss. Ain’t that cute? You know I was all over that!

So these were just a few suggestions of things to buy that special person on your list.

Until my next entry…

peace & love

michelle

Goodbye, Papa Joe…

Please forgive me if this post isn’t the most eloquent. I just came back from a funeral and I’m feeling a little out of sorts. My best friend’s grandfather died this past week, and he was laid to rest this afternoon.

Believe it or not, this was my first funeral. I’ve never gone to one before. And because of that, I was nervous about going. I wasn’t too sure how I was going to react to the whole thing.

As soon as I entered the cemetery and heard the somber music, I completely lost it. It was also seeing my friend—who is normally a rock (she’s ridiculously strong), breakdown, made the tears stream down my cheek. I felt her pain. I couldn’t stop crying. I’m sure that everyone at the funeral was wondering why I was taking it extra hard, especially since he wasn’t even my grandfather, but I knew how close my friend was with her grandfather, and losing him would really affect her. I felt so guilty for not being strong for my friend. I went to console her and sadly, she was actually making me feel better. I’m sooo not the person to have in a tragic situation.

After the tears, we fixed ourselves and were able to joke around as usual. I’m sooo happy that I conquered my fear of funerals and went and was able to see my friend through her loss.

Until my next entry…

peace & love,

michelle