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NYC In A NY Minute Quick Drying Nail Polish

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On my hunt for the best and cheapest nail polish, this month’s travels brought me to Target and NYC In A New York Minute Quick Drying Nail Polish. NYC has officially carved a special place in my mani-heart. Not only does this polish give you a fantastically perfect mani that looks like you just got pampered, it’s $1.74. Boom.

Just two coats of their color, Sidewalkers, and a clear top coat my nails look great. I am still trying to get used to the greyish color, since I’m typically a light-colored kinda gal. It’s slowly growing on me, although I have gotten mixed compliments – my husband loves the color and my mom told me she hated it! Ha!

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Initial Apply:

It went on great, very smooth. Took me only 2 coats to get my desired look, then finished off with a light, clear top coat. More than that just don’t work for me, so total plus. It’s quick drying, which allowed me to do my nails while the baby took her afternoon nap, instead of waiting till she went to sleep and not doing them till later in the evening when I’m usually draggin’ ass. Double Plus!

Chippage:

With washing my hands a million times a day, this lasted a good week-week 1/2. Not bad for a $1.74 bottle of polish.

Overall Rating:

After about a week, I hated the grey color. I just can’t step out of the box when it comes to nail color on my hands. I will, however, stick to it on my toes. I can go wild with any color on those guys. I can’t wait to go back to Target and get some fun summer colors for my feet…and of course a light for my hands.

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weird grey…

Definitely worth the try ladies, and for less than $2, can’t pass it up!

- Amanda

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Meatless Friday’s: Cheese Fondue

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I love me some fondue! As a Mother’s Day treat, my mom whipped up some delicious cheese fondue as an appetizer and let me tell you, it blew the socks off the Melting Pot’s version! I have always been intimidated to have my own fondue night but rather opted to just go out and let a waiter take care of the dirty work. I observed as she made the cheese and no joke, it took her about 15 minutes from start to finish. That’s it. What the hell am I so intimidated by?!

We feasted on bread and green apples covered in the deliciously melty, hot cheese and it was the best part of my Mother’s Day! Definitely the way to a pregnant girls heart, FOOD! Mom knows best.

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i lucky got a pic before it was all gone!

Cheese Fondue

yield 2 cups

  • 1/4 cup Butter
  • 1/4 cup Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon Dry Mustard
  • 1 can (12 oz.) Beer (We used Sam Adams and it was very Beer-y, you can try a light beer if you want to tone down the beer taste)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce
  • 2 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese, shredded

In a medium sized pot over medium-high heat, melt butter then blend in the flour, salt and dry mustard.

Slowly add in the beer, followed by the cheese and the Worcestershire sauce – all the while constantly mixing. Once everything is melted together nicely, transfer to a fondue pot to keep hot and serve with bread, veggies and green apples.

Chef’s Tip: Use day old bread or just cut up a loaf of sour dough or french and let it sit out for about an hour or so just to let the crust get a little hard and the inside remains soft – Perfect for dippage!

This will make a fun appetizer – total throw back to the 70′s baby. I mean, check out the pot…that thing is older than me!

- Amanda

Organizing Your Life: De-cluttering Papers & Bills

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I am probably the most unorganized person on the planet, but am trying to learn how to organize my life and de-clutter pretty much everything around me. Because seriously, I can’t freaking stand all the crap around anymore, it’s driving me insane!!!

This is what usually happens in my house when we get our mail: it piles on our buffet until I can’t stand looking at it anymore, so I then shove it into our very small mail organizer on the counter.

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ew im gross.

After a few weeks, it looks like it’s about to burst at the seams with bills, letters and whatever I end up shoving in it. My nesting phase has started pretty damn early with this pregnancy, and just looking at it all makes my skin crawl. I knew I had to do something, but what?

I tried filing them away in our Tupperware filing bins, but that turned into an even bigger disaster.

I tried shredding things after reading them, but that just got old-fast.

I had to think outside the box. They say if you de-clutter things around you, your head is able to function better and I’m a firm believer in that because my head was spinning with all the piles of papers around my kitchen. I noticed on various blogs and Pinterest, people using binders to organize their family budgets and bills. Printing out spreadsheets and calendars to further help organize their bills and paper work. Now, this is sooooo not like me to even contemplate, but I am desperate!

I headed over to Target and got some supplies: a binder, dividers, and sheet inserts. I sat down with a pad of paper and grouped our bills and came up with a system that fit our family and divided the binder in to specific section: Monthly Bills, House Hold Miscellaneous, Cars, Healthcare, Financial, 1 for my husbands personal things and 1 for myself and daughter. After figuring the basics out, I grabbed all the piles of crap and bundled them into each group. Took me no longer than 20 minutes to get everything done.

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neat, tidy and concise.

The piles are gone, the mail organizer is neat and tidy and my brain doesn’t feel like a hoarder lives in there. I have been using it for about 2 weeks now, and so far so good. I never thought I’d use anything like this to organize my daily life, but it seems to be doing the job. But now for the bigger test…keeping it up!

How do you organize your bills/budget/family?

- Amanda