In Need of A Little Comfort Right Now......

If you don't like to read random posts that aren't about nail polish then go ahead and skip over this post as it has nothing to do with nail polish. I just need to rant a little bit.

My day started out fantastic, my classes went well, I got a lot of my homework done and I even won a Twitter giveaway. I went to my research project meeting and made a great presentation that went over really well with everyone. After the meeting my boss caught me and asked if I could come talk to him. I thought that he wanted to talk to me about the recommedation that he is writing for me, but it wasn't. I got fired from my job.

Now to give you some background, my boss does not see what goes on in the lab, only my supervisor does. My supervisor and my boss met today and apparently my supervisor thinks that we don't work well together. I am literally completely thrown for a loop. I did everything that she had ever asked me to do with a smile on my face and I did it well. She would even say that I did a great job. Now mind you she never asked me to do a whole lot. I mostly sat around the lab and watched the machine. She seemed to have some control issues, but it never bothered me as I would probably be the same way. Imagine my surprise! My boss explained to me that he wasn't sure what was going on between my supervisor and I because he doesn't see us interact, but he felt that it was probably best if I didn't work for her anymore.

My boss is one of the nicest professors I know, so he let me down gently and he is going to talk to other professors to see if he can find other work for me, but that isn't a guarentee. I just don't know what I did wrong. If I knew what I did wrong, I could have fixed it. I know that I shouldn't take it personally because my supervisor has fired every other assistant that she has had before me, but I am still really upset. I wasn't terribly fond of her but I really liked my job and thought that I was doing a good job. I didn't want to be fired from my first job! I am at a loss here. Have you ever been fired? How did you deal with it? Again I apologize for the rant, I will probably delete this within a few hours lol.

It's Official, Blogger Hates Me :( Fellow NP Bloggers, Help Me Out? Please?

Yep, Blogger hates my guts. I don't know what I ever did to it, but it likes to take its revenge. To my fellow nail polish bloggers, please do me a big favor (if you haven't already) and check your blogrolls for my blog if you have added me. I seem to be missing from a lot of them all of a sudden, but not from all of them. I think that I am missing mostly from ones that update everytime a blog posts. Like it's gone. I am not even on Brooke's blogroll (Getcha Nails Did). Her blogroll puts my long one to absolute shame, yet I seem to be missing, and I KNOW I was on there before. I don't know what happened, but this isn't the first time that blogger has effed me over like this.

You may or may not have been with this blog when I decided to change my URL a couple of months back. It was really long and I wanted it to be much shorter for when I needed to type it, because I am lazy like that. Now when a blog's URL changes on Blogger, it is supposed to update everyone's links for those who follow you and most blogrolls. Blogger did not tell a freaking soul. My blog literally (to everyone following it) disappeared off of the face of the internet. I had to scramble to try to let everyone know about the new url. It was such a PITA.

Some kind of error happened and this blog is actually linked to 2 URLs now. So if one followed the original URL, they had to either change the URL it was linking to, or unfollow me and refollow me. But if one follows the original URL, they still appear under my followers. But they don't get any of my posts. It is SO random and blogger didn't want to fix it. Sorry about the rant, but when these things happen it is super frustrating!

I hope that you are all having a fabulous Friday! Have a fantastic weekend, I love you all! *hugs*

The Great Polish Spill of '09

So I was painting my nails on my bed after I had gone to the optometrist and gotten my eyes dilated. So I did my nails in the dark, although I could see pretty well. Yet one minute I had nail polish sitting on a shoebox on my bed, and the next thing I know it is flying off of the bed onto the floor in slowmotion.

I had spilled my new OPI Sea? I Told You! all over my carpet and comforter. My light beige carpet and dark red comforter. (Pictured is only a small portion of the spill, I didn't have time to take a picture of the carpet.) The light beige carpet that is impossible to clean because it is cut so short and is stain retaining. There are still dog poop stains in other rooms that won't lift. I absolutely panicked, this is my parent's carpet, I would be killed!

So I had to make a decision; save the carpet or the comforter. I think that I made the right choice in saving the carpet. After recieving no governmental assistance after the horrible disaster, I searched Google on ways to clean the carpet, and after two and a half hours I got it all out! This can't be said for the comforter though, who is still under work for getting the nail polish out. No worries, the carpet is fine, hooray! Tomorrow's post will be on how to clean the carpet of nail polish. I hope that you got a laugh out of my embarrassment! Remember, never do your nails in the dark, even if your eyes are dilated! :)

Rant: Where is the Creativity OPI!?!

The wonderful All Lacquered Up has posted recently about an upcoming OPI collection featuring “suede” textured polish. I assume that this is to cater to those who like the matte trend for fall but don’t wish to fully commit to chalky matte by adding shimmer to the mix. The OPI Suede Collection seemed intriguing, until I saw what colors were being released. ALU named the 6 colors to be released, and three of them were released with the very recent OPI Matte Collection. Seriously? How many versions of the same polish do we really need?!? The repromotes are Russian Navy, Lincoln Park After Dark, and You Don’t Know Jacques; their original versions are also in the permanent collection.

I can understand repromoting popular colors in different textures to help sell them, but they could have picked different colors for each collection. Nobody wants to buy three of the same nail polish in different textures unless they are obsessed with the color. In this economy these polishes are probably going to be skipped over more than purchased. I know that I won’t be purchasing any of the matte or suede collections, I will instead buy top coats that create the effect out of the polishes, it’s cheaper and easier that way. Sorry OPI, I love you, but I cannot justify these polishes.