Double Word Thursday?

Listening to Britney Spears (it's gonna be a thing this summer...)
Eagerly awaiting my next order from e.l.f.!
    So, I realize I haven't posted in two weeks. For yesterday, my only excuse is that I sprained my wrist and typing is not fun. Last week... I know something was going on, I just can't remember what it was for the life of me. So to make it up to you - here's all of the wordiness I've missed!
     So the way I choose the words of the week is through my dictionary app on my iPhone, Olga. There's a word of the day each day and I look through them and choose one for each week. That or if I hear a really cool word I'll look it up and keep it in mind. Unsurprisingly, it was difficult to choose from all the awesome words but I went with:

[nok-tuh-LOO-suhnt] adj. visible during the short night of the summer.
So Sax would sit on the western sea cliff, rapt through the setting of the sun, then stay through the hour of twilight, watching the sky colors change as the sun’s shadow rose up, until all the sky was black; and then sometimes there would appear noctilucent clouds, thirty kilometers above the planet, broad streaks gleaming like abalone shells. Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars
 
[sahr-dn-uh-PEYL-yuhn] adj. excessively luxurious.
Here, in this half-destroyed Tartar town, surrounded by steppes, he indulged himself in a Sardanapalian effulgence that beggared even his jassy Court. Simon Sebag Montefiore, Potemkin



The runners-up were pensée, imponderable, natch, mignon, and fantast.

Wordy Wednesdays: Bosh

Listening to Hercules (awesome movie)
    Today's word was slightly easier to choose - although apoplectic was a close second. The problem was that apoplectic seems like it's only used in very specific situations, and I like words that can be used more frequently than not.

(pronounced like it looks) n. absurd or foolish talk; nonsense.
You know perfectly well - and it is all bosh, too. Come, now, how do they proceed? 
Mark Twain, The Gilded Age



I feel like this word can be pretty handy. A lot better than calling b.s. on someone, if you know what I mean. ;) Like all that bosh about the zombie apocalypse?

5 Things I'm Loving

Listening to Crazy by Britney Spears
Loving ALL THE THINGS (They probably have a meme for that already)
    So I realize I don't normally post listy-type posts. And I'm not saying that's good or bad - I really love all the listy posts from the blogs I follow - I'm just saying this is out of the ordinary for me. I just got this fabulous package from e.l.f. last night and had to share my loot.

Thing #1: e.l.f. Mineral Moisturizing Lip Tint (SPF 8) in Guava. 

So the first time I bought this, I looked at Guava, but I went with Natural. It has the color and opacity of a lipstick, but the lightweight feel of  gloss without being sticky at all. It goes on super smooth and feels great on. The problem was that Natural was pretty much nude, and at the time in January, I desperately needed color. I thought about Guava again, but it just seemed too coral-y, too bright for winter. These babies are only $3 a pop, so next time I ordered make-up a few weeks later, I got Rose. Unfortunately it turned out almost fuchsia, which on my mother and I (because of our weird undertones) just looks way wrong. I had to wait a bit to order more make-up because I got sick and my paychecks were small from missing work, but when I ordered again last week, I finally caved and got Guava, and I totally should have gotten it from the beginning. It's absolutely perfect. Thing is, though, with the right make-up, I can make the other two work, so I highly recommend this to anyone. 

Thing #2: e.l.f. Mineral Foundation (SPF 15) in Fair

I cannot believe the incredible deal this stuff is. First off, it's super cheap for how awesome it is - mineral foundation for only $5. I've bought the same stuff from many other cosmetic companies, and it's normally three or four times more than that price. Albeit the e.l.f. is only .1 oz. and the competitors are about twice that, but if I buy two of the e.l.f. foundations, it's still half the price of the competitors! They even have a set that has the same foundation here, and a foundation powder brush for the same price - only $5! Plus the coverage is perfect, and it blends so well. I'm in absolute love. How do you do it??

Thing #3: e.l.f. Mineral Eyeshadow in Elegant

 Now I've already told y'all how much I love this stuff. I even wrote a letter to it. But I still love it, so I thought I should just talk it up a little more. First off, it's only $3, for mineral eyeshadow, which is just awesome. e.l.f. is always having great sales on it, too. Because it's awesome, so why wouldn't they? I really love all the colors I have - which is almost half of the 28 shades - and I'm sure if I bought more, I'd love them, too. The color is so rich and eye-catching (see what I did there?). Just, please. Buy one and see for yourself. Elegant is a great champagne color, and Smoldering is a nice smokey gray with a little shimmer. They're probably my favorites and would look great with any eye color. 

Thing #4: Honey Mangoes

About four years ago I had the Summer of the Mango. Through a series of events involving a bicycle and the owner of an Asian restaurant near the square, my mom ended up with a huge box of mangoes. Like twenty-five of them. And I ate one every day for like about a month. I discovered that mangoes are the greatest things on earth (except for people who are allergic to them - I pity you folks). So this summer, mangoes are my thing. Specifically honey mangoes. Because I can't tell when the other ones are ripe since their colors are different. Me and honey mangoes - we get each other. They may be messy and sticky, and juicy, but I could eat eight in one sitting. I just can't afford to buy that many. 

Thing #5: Britney Spears (old school)

Blame my sister, Maggs. She's been listening to some serious B.Spears lately, and got me feeling it again. It happens every summer. Not Britney specifically, but old nineties stuff I used to listen to when I was a kid. *NSync, Backstreet Boys, you know what I'm talking about. Nineties Pop. I never had any Britney CDs, but that doesn't mean I didn't know every word to the vast majority of her songs. And may have wished my school would erupt into a music video of Baby One More Time. We already wore uniforms, we were halfway there. 

What are you guys feeling this summer?