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Just launched in August 2009, Greengo's Medical Marijuana FREE Delivery Service is exactly what it sound like. All you need to use this service is a valid physicians recommendation to use cannabis medicinally. Seeing as they are just starting out, there are three strains of medical marijuana currently on the menu, but patients beware! This is some strong ass medical cannabis. I think they also currently have some industrial strength medical marijuana brownies currently available. Please check them out if you have your recommendation. Those without a rec need not apply, every single patient MUST be verified! OFFERING COMPASSIONATE CARE IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE 11362.5(B)(1)(A) & 11362.7(H) Prop 215 & SB 420 ONLY.

Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes

Wheeeeee! Do you see em? Those little things under my eyes? Those are my lower lashes! Lower lashes that I thought would never make an appearance. So, I love this mascara. I didn't snap use it earlier because I don't like the color purple (for a very personal and stupid reason). No idea what this 4 in 1 mascara is supposed to cover in the 4, but I know that this is some sweet stuff. The wand is a spiny tapered caterpillar, but whatever it is it works.

DuWop Lash Venom

DuWop Lash Venom. I really like to word DuWop, wasn't that one of the Hansen Brother's songs? Well, that kinda ruined it for me. Anyways, this is the first time I have encountered a teeny tiny mascara wand in the teeny tiny trial sizes. FYI, I simply adore miniature products and trial sizes. Admittedly, I am a little obsessed. So, I really liked that when you uncap this mascara, the wand was actually porportional to the tube size instead of a huge wand in a tiny tube. I kinda wonder what the wand of the regular sized tube is like? Again, I find myself repeating, great extension of the lashes, minimal volume.

Stila Multi-Effect Mascara

As I continue my path down this mascara adventure, I really must admit that it is starting to feel like I am repeating myself over and over again. I mean, seriously? How many ways are there to describe a mascara wand and it's effects on your lashes? Here we go again. I am determined to finish what I started. So, for the first time we encounter a wand that is slightly curved on one side. While I can see how it would be helpful to some people, all it made me do was blop in the corner of my eye. The tip seems to hold onto a tremendous blop which I clumsily smeared on my face. Other than that, it did a very good job at lengthening my lashes and it was about average in the volume department.

Korres Provitamin B5 & Rice Bran Mascara

Okay, I gotta say that I am pretty impressed with this mascara by Korresnatural Products because of the fact that it is a natural product. Don't get me wrong, I am all for natural/organic/good for the earth products, I just never thought that a natural mascara would be comparable to those loaded with super secret synthetic lash boosters but here we are. The applicator wand is once again a fat caterpillar schooled in the ways of separating lashes. It went on smoothly and did well making my lashes longer. Not much in the way of thickening, but I was really happy with the results.

Too Faced Lash Injection

Lash Injection, sounds like something synthetic, huh? Well it certainly smells like something that walked out of a plastics factory. I have never really thought about the smell of mascara, I guess cuz I never really noticed it either way, that is until now. The gook smells REALLY strange. I actually sniffed the wand a few times because it is reminiscent of something that I have smelled before, but I can't seem to pin point it. Anyways, despite it's stinkiness, it does have other pros and cons. Pros? This stinky concoction REALLY extends your lashes and it's applicator is a skinny mini little wand that they dubbed the "pinpoint," which would do great detail work if the mascara itself were not so sticky. Cons? Doesn't seem to add any volume to the lashes and mistakes are a very bad idea as I discovered first hand when I botched the second coat and ended up with all my lashes stuck together in a big clump. Something else interesting I discovered when trying to correct my error, you can pull the mascara off your lashes in black gluey blobs. I think this mascara would be way better if it didn't have such a noticeable stench because it extends your lashes quite well, but for me personally (and I can be a moron at the best of times) it was just too difficult to use.

Smashbox Bionic Mascara

Once again we encounter the old school bushy applicator which separates well but shirks it's detail duties. I am pretty sure my lower lashes are way too sparse to ever even look like they exist so if any of these mascaras are able to make them look present I will be amazed. My opinion? It's good stuff, not great, but good. WAY BETTER than the Anastasia Lash Lifting Mascara, Smashbox Bionic Mascara is more in league with Benefit Bad Gal Lash and Bare Escentuals Buxom Lashes. This stuff extended and thickened as any good mascara should. As it stands, my favorite is Benefit Bad Gal Lash, with Bare Escentuals Buxom Lashes tied with Smashbox Bionic Mascara at a strong second and Anastasia Lash Lifting Mascara trailing in last place.

Benefit Bad Gal Lash

Hmmm... I'm starting to notice something. The mascaras with the big thick old school applicators that look like caterpillars who are fat in the middle do a WAY BETTER job of separating the lashes. This is really cool and all, but I seriously find it much more difficult to handle these big mama wands. Must be a combination of uncoordinated hands and my little China girl eyes. How was it? Totally bad ass! Benefit totally gave this mascara the perfect name cuz this stuff is perfect for giving someone the appearance really long and lush lashes while still seperating each lash and avoiding any major clumpage. The first coat extended my lashes, the second coat continued to extend and thicken, and the third coat (cuz I liked it so much) just continued to thicken and extend. I gotta tell you, while I was slathering on the third coat, I felt like my lashes were the absolute shit. Even if it was only for a couple of seconds, I was cool!

Anastasia Lash Lifting Mascara

So we move on to Asastasia Beverly Hills Lash Lifting Mascara. Ok, what did I think? The applicator brush is kinda more of the old school bushy style, but I can see the benefit is that it creates more seperation of the lashes for an overall more natural look. Also not great for those hard to reach lashes at the corners of your eye. It goes on easily and doesn't clump. First application extended the lashes, second application made the lases slightly fuller (but not much). So true to it's name, this mascara really is a lash lifting mascara. It is great for school, work, sitting around the house, but no one is going to ask you if you have false eyelashes on like I got with the Bare Escentuals mascara. I mean it works, but I think I like something a little more dramatic and less spidery. I mean, c'mon, my lashes look like flailing spider legs.

Buxom Lash

So, current obsession? Hair and makeup. More specifically? Luscious lashes. I have suddenly discovered my eyelashes and I LOVE THEM! The mission? Reviewing all 11 mascaras included in Sephora Favorites Lashstash Mascara Deluxe Sampler. We begin our journey with Bare Escentuals Buxom Lash mascara in blackest black. My observations? I noticed that the wand is kind of like a big caterpillar which is pretty good for applications, but doesn't cut it for detail work like those little lashes on the very outside corner of my eye who refuse to take a good coating without coaxing. Beware: coaxing with this wand results in blobage. First coat extended my lashes, the second bushed them out. I like.

Drumming for Hope

Between where the Farmer's Market and Art's and Crafts sections are located on the Embarcadero was a man who was absolutely bursting with energy and making music on a completely non-traditional homemade drum set. He banged away at his drums for hours never letting his enthusiasm falter and continuing to attract people with his hope.

The Pipelady & The Gnome

San Francisco, what a wonderfully diverse city where public transportation is actually a reality rather than just a discussion and every single person is completely free to embrace whatever the hell they feel like. While strolling through the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market my husband and I stumbled upon a stall labeled "Handmade by The Pipelady & The Gnome" manned by the gnome and his miniature buddy. Looking at his wares, I said, " Are these pipes?" and he answered, "To answer your question: yes, I am high!" That set me a cackling. I laughed even harder when a very proper looking lady in her 50's or 60's closely examined the incognito wooden pipes and her husband pulled her out of the stall saying, "That's not something you are interested in!"

Physical Therapy for your Best Friend!

In 2005 I adopted the world's greatest dog from Little Bow Wow Rescue in Southern California. She is a white fluffy little thing who is probably a cross between a Maltese and maybe Shih Tzu and definitely the world's happiest little girl. She was left at the OC Animal Care Center by people who said she was found as a stray (yeah right, as if this starved little thing had any chance as a stray) when in reality what probably happened is that these people thought it would be fun to have a little puppy for their kids so they went out and got her (probably from a puppy mill), but what? you have to feed and groom a dog? and take them to the vet if they get hurt? what a hassle! So they decided they didn't need to do any of those things for her, not even when something or someone injured her severely as a very young puppy. Nope, they didn't even take her to the shelter then of find a rescue group to fund her care. Instead they let the injury stunt the growth of her femurs which left her permanently crippled. By the time LBW got her, she was already fully acclimated to life with two extremely damaged hind legs. In the time that I have been lucky enough to have her, she had always been little miss speedy, but I noticed earlier this year that she was walking more on her front legs and using her rear legs less and less so we ended up at CARE which is a rehab center for our furry little friends! Dr. Waldman established that my little Lily had torn her cruciate so we began eight weeks of physical therapy which included acupuncture, physical therapy, and water treadmill along with exercises at home. Eight weeks later she was pain free and had gained almost a pound of muscle! That's a lot when you only weighed 5lbs before! Did I mention that CARE is located in Santa Monica? It was about a 45 minute drive one way in the carpool lane (my human best-friend rocks!). They do incredible things there, making dogs who can't walk, walk again. The staff is great, my favorite techs are Steve and Juan. Lily and I miss seeing them twice a week, but we try to keep up with her progress by swimming in the bathtub and doing the physical therapy we learned there a few times a week.

Poopie bag dispenser!

While I was working on organizing my friends stuff, I came up with a seriously simple but kind of cool solution to storing the doggie poopy bags that she uses to discard kitty litter. She uses biodegradable corn starch bags that come in packs of something like 100, but the problem with them is that they come in a plastic bag without any way of dispensing them one at a time so they end up scattered and completely unruly! So I simply took an empty Keds shoe box and cut a rectangle at the top (which basically was cutting out the logo) with an Exact-o knife, which made it like a doggie bag dispensing Kleenex box! I was pretty excited about it, but I guess it really is just a glorified Kleenex box!

What to do when you don't have a job? Make stuff!

Last Saturday I was totally bored because I'm only working one day a week at Dogma, a dog boutique in Newport Coast and I'm also doing a little personal assistant work organizing a friend's house, but seriously? how much time out of a week does that take up. So since I quit my job as a vet tech at an animal hospital in December because of a pretty emotionally abusive supervisor, my motto has been: When in doubt, GET CRAFTY! My first attempt at making a dog bed yielded nothing but one of my new favorite terms, "tippy tippy canoe," and two very blobesque dog beds (of sort). After recovering from this first disaster of creating fluffy clouds for my puppies, I returned to the practice several months later with a renewed sense of urgency (I probably just had to pee). Even though I had discovered this really super cool tutorial at Lorie Marie's Pretty Little Things the result was rather dismal which caused me to strike out on my own! This yielded a blob kind of shaped like a canoe. Well, months later, I rallied and came back with this strawberrylicious bed. I used black duck cloth for the bottom, an old stained towel for the inside bottom and flannel material for the bumper. The second time around, I still kinda misunderstood the instructions because lets face it, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing, but everything turned out all right. Oh, when I tried to stuff it under the sewing machine to close it up, I knocked every single item off my desk nearly giving two of my puppies a heart attack and was standing over the bed using my considerable body weight to try to keep the seam going. It isn't pretty, but who cares? My dogs sure don't!

Taking pliers on a plane???

So, I am going to my cousins wedding in San Francisco next weekend and my mom made me an absolutely amazing necklace to wear, but there's a catch. The stones on the triple strand necklace are so heavy that they keep freeing themselves so my mom said I should take a pair of pliers with me just in case... We are flying from the OC to SF and I wasn't planning on checking any bags and I am pretty sure there is no way I could bring a pair of pliers on the plane with me no matter how innocent I look or how well I explain my accessory situation. I could probably pick up a pair of pliers once I get to SF, but I won't really have time to stalk down some handy dandy pliers with all the matrimonial events surrounding the weekend. Hmmm. Would it be tacky to wear a possibly disjointed necklace? Well I guess it doesn't really matter because everyone will be focused on the bride and groom, but I still like to pretend that it is all about me. I am really excited to meet the bride's mom, I hears she's around 4' tall and at a smidgen over 6' plus heels, I plan to tower over her. I bet she's the cutest little Asian mama.