movie to watch

last friday we were supposed to watch iron man 2 at 5pm but bambi decided to wait for pilipinas got talent at tfc... and so we waited until 5:30, it's original timeslot.  6:00... 6:30... then by 7 we saw the advisory that it was moved to 10:30 timeslot.

that day.  they decided to move it that day!  freaks...

we did nto regret waiting for it though, coz we loved the semi-finalists!  i am going to vote for ruther (with puppets) and the baguio siblings.  i know jovit has enough votes to continue..


anyways last night we watched how to train your dragon instead, and we ended up liking it so much!  i am going to name our first family pet toothless!  and im going to buy jared the dvd so he can watch it when he's old enough to understand.

although... he looks a little pokemon-ish.

the name

this afternoon while i was sitting near the window i was thinking of a name for a girl... only in my mind. but when i came to think of tuscany i felt bop-bop-baby move for the first time!  and then a lot of times after that.  it was so early... i don't remember the exact date when jared moved but i think it was further along 4-5th month...

well, im almost four months and im still clueless for a baby's name.  bambi keeps suggesting weird names to me and unlike jared's name which just popped up and we actually both liked it, right now its taking some time before we can both agree on a girl or a boy's name.

looking at the internet does nothing.  it either gives you 19th century names like jacintha or fabiola, or uncool names like fawn.  and one site has a list of 50 craziest baby names from celebrities, which really makes me wonder if they (the offsprings) liked the individuality or silently curse their parents for being bullied.

let me show you why:

50 craziest celebrity baby names (in alphabetical order)

Aanisah: Macy Gray (also mother to Tahmel)

Apple: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow

Astrella Celeste: Donovan and Linda Lawrence (also parents to Oriole Nebula)

Atherton Grace: Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger

Audio Science: Shannyn Sossamon

Aurelius Cy: Elle Macpherson and Arpad Busson

Blue Angel: U2's The Edge and Aislinn O'Sullivan

Bluebell Madonna: Geri Halliwell

Brooklyn: David and Victoria Beckham (also parents to Romeo and Cruz)

Calico: Alice and Sheryl Cooper (also parents to Sonora Rose)

Camera: Arthur Ashe and Jeanne Moutoussamy

Destry: Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw

Diezel Ky: Toni Braxton and Keri Lewis (also parents to Denim Cole)

Fifi Trixibell: Bob Geldof and Paula Yates (also parents to Peaches and Pixie)

Fuchsia: Sting and Frances Tomelty

Gaia: Emma Thompson and Greg Wise

Gulliver: Gary Oldman and Donya Fiorentino

Heaven: Lil' Mo (also mother to God'Iss Love Stone)

Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily: Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence

Hopper: Sean Penn and Robin Wright

Ireland: Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger

Jaz: Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi

Jazz Domino: Joe Strummer

Jermajesty: Jermaine Jackson and Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (previously married to Jermaine's brother Randy)

Kal-El Coppola: Nicholas Cage (Kal-El is Superman’s original birth name)

Kyd: David Duchovny and Tea Leoni

Lark Song: Mia Farrow and André Previn

Lennon: Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit

Liberty: Ryan Giggs

London Emilio: Slash

Luna Coco Patricia: Frank Lampard and Elen Rive

Marquise: 50 Cent

Memphis Eve: Bono

Moon Unit: Frank Zappa, also father to Dweezil and Diva Muffin

Moxie CrimeFighter: Penn Jillette (also father to Zolten)

Ocean: Forest Whitaker (also father to Sonnet and True)

Pilot Inspektor: Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf

Poppy Honey: Jamie and Jules Oliver (also parents to Daisy Boo)

Rocket: Robert Rodriguez (also father to Racer, Rebel and Rogue)

Rufus Tiger: Roger Taylor also father to Tiger Lily and Lola Daisy

Saffron Sahara: Simon and Yasmin Le Bon (also parents to Amber Rose and Tallulah Pine)

Sage Moonblood: Sylvester Stallone and Sasha Czack (also parents to Seargeoh)

Satchel: Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee

Seven Sirius: Andre Benjamin and Erykah Badu

Shiloh Nouvel: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Sosie: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick

Suri: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

Tallulah: Bruce Willis and Demi Moore (also parents to Scout and Rumer)

Willow Camille Reign: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith

Zola Ivy: Eddie Murphy and Nicole Mitchell

seriously, Pilot Inspektor?  anyways thats their kick.. its just weird to be so undecided about a name. i wonder how long they all thought about it before deciding to give those names to their children.

the undecided me.

oh how i hate the fatigue that comes with my second pregnancy.  although it subsided a little coz im in my second trimester now i still feel sleepy most of the time, and i spend my whole off-day yesterday sleeping.

yet i gained nothing more than .95 pounds between my 2nd-3rd month.  i didn't know how that happened since i had a schedule of eating at 7am - 10am - 1pm - 4pm - 7pm - and sometimes at 10pm.  and i drank a lot of soft drinks and ate a lot of ice creams.  oh well, moving on...


after deciding and undeciding and then deciding again to stay in manila when we go home in december, i now can't wait and i've stared at my house models the whole morning and afternoon, thinking about the future and the reality that i will take care of my children alone.  if candy didn't call last week (she gave birth recently) to ask how to clean her baby's belly button, i never would have realized how lucky i was to have francis do everything when i gave birth before.  for the frightening first week at least.  and so i contemplated again about leaving him here.

but, to my sister's despair when she finds out, we have both decided for me and our two children to go home.  there were so many explanations and discussions to come up with that decision but we both agreed to buckle up and gear for the ride, or so they say.

and im not going to justify our decision, ok.  we both agreed.  we both are involved. so we both will take the consequence.

anyways on a lighter note i have found a lot of old friends in facebook recently.  it makes you realize how people change and how the past seems so good to come back to.  but the good thing is that we have all found our happy place in the present.

i still haven't made my personal rave about too-faced shadow insurance and urban decay primer potion, but with thousands of reviews in the internet, i don't think i'll add more.  i was just happy to have them.  and i am now longing for their sustainable shadow box... wheee...

and you know what i realized this morning?  that sparkling gray cream liner is better than black!  its the 'lava' cream liner from smashbox.  i was surprised! i still has the dark effect that i want, plus it has sparkles that lifts up my eyelashes, i love it so much!  pix soon, you know what they said about photos and pregnant women hehe!

first trimester is over

thank goodness!

i am almost fed up with the fatigue and sleepiness.  i will have my 3rd prenatal tomorrow and hopefully everything's still fine, coz now and then i feel my stomach tightening a little bit.  and next month i hope i can start to feel when he kicks, its one of the perks of being pregnant!

i started to avoid the kitchen nowadays, and i just have our food delivered by a catering service, which gives me time to sleep more :) but sometimes bambi is being stubborn and not eating just because 'i didn't cook it'.  seriously, would he rather eat what i i cook?

unlike the first weeks of my pregnancy when i was loaded with work, these days i am so bored just counting the time to freedom... which is as bad as being overworked.  at least when you're working time flies fast.

anyways its almost 7 and im about to go out.  bambi and i are supposed to visit one friend who just gave birth and im still thinking of what to send...

wants and needs

since we realized im pregnant, i have been to 2 pre-natal checkups already, 2 ultrasounds, and hundreds of cravings.

but there are foods that i stay away from, because they are dangerous to me and my baby.  some item may sound weird but there is nothing to lose if i abstain from them for just 9 months, to be safe, like pain medications, even if they say it's safe.  that's why I thank God that my headache does not last that long, coz i don't want any complications.

i also do not eat soft cheese anymore, you know, the white cheese that goes with salad?  i loved it with khubus.  and liver spread, coz too much vitamin a in liver and im already taking a multivitamin.  vitaminosis happens when you take too much vitamin a and it sort of backfires with complications.  what else, left-over salads and cold cut sandwiches (unless microwaved steaming hot), basically uncooked food, for fear of contaminations; raw eggs or eggs not cooked properly, unpasteurized milk (i called a milk manufacturer once just to check if the bottled milk im drinking has been pasteurized {idiot})!

and then some which have no scientific reason but basically old wive's tales like eggplant, coz it will cause purple discoloration to the baby's skin.

and then those that i want but i don't really need, like biscuits (currently finishing my 3rd can), candies, ice cream, soft drinks and potato chips :D

im a slave...

to my cravings!

last last thursday i had to walk past my house to two streets more just to wait 30 minutes for my daing na bangus order, last thursday i had to walk at the opposite direction to my house from the office coz i wanted a turkey sandwich, and this morning i quietly went out of the office to our nearest supermarket which is a corner away just to buy skittles.

this baby wants to eat a lot!  and not only that, im addicted to mostly junk foods, and soft drinks... i know i had to stop it, let's just consider it a one-week relapse ok?

as of now i am officially 10 weeks pregnant, and here is an illustration that i usually visit on a weekly basis to check the baby's development:

just keep swimming, just keep swimming...

fatigued

seriously, i feel like ive been doing construction work for the past month, even early in the morning i feel sleepy and lethargic.  and it does not go away even after my 1 hour siesta in the afternoon.

what can i expect, my body is growing another human being and it is no easy task.  i just thought it would be as breezy as my first pregnancy.

i had so much to blog but can't find the will to do so, photos and stories are being dumped in my desktop but i just feel so withdrawn and all i want to do is sleep.  one day is not enough.  i lost interest in my job and i was always thinking of an excuse for not going.

and i think i scared on of my colleagues when he found me crying out of frustration in my desk. haha.  that was the highlight of my day yesterday.

no, scratch that, this is the highlight of my day, and my week:

there she is!  (i know she will be a girl) expected delivery date: October 20, 2010!

i love pilipinas got talent!

and my two favorites are jovit baldivino and big mouth... and since im crying to almost anything these days (dang hormones), i also cry everytime i watch them in youtube.

k-fed

kristinne is fed up.

it has been the most tiring 2 weeks of my life.  even if i have received half of my ebay purchases from last month, it wasn't enough to make me happy and blog.

it started with this sensor...

it's supposed to be cute coz it's hello kitty, but i hated the reason why it's lighting up so i took it off my blackberry and attached it to my roaming mobile instead.

when i was in college i had a simple sticker sensor at the back of my nokia 3310 that lights up when it receives a call or an sms.  and it made me giggle when it lights up because it means i will receive an sms from bambi soon.  so i had such good memories of it.

unfortunately at this time of my life and even if i have a blackberry, i want to throw away the phone when it lights up especially when im at home coz it only means my boss is going to call and i would probably be searching the internet for something or maybe i did something wrong for the day.

dang i really hated him this week!  it seems my stress level has been up all the time even if i have probably the same amount of work, its just that everytime he calls and asks me to canvass a price for something (5-6 items this week from more than 10 suppliers) it really takes up a lot of time and at the end he changes his mind and i really want to hit the phone so hard at my table just so i wouldn't scream!

my darn hormones are probably to blame.  my first pregnancy was such a breeze compared to this.  starting this week i started to lose appetite and was just eating junk foods even though im really hungry coz the thought of rice and viand makes me vomit.  i was just eating bread yesterday all afternoon.  plain bread and water.  i had to, coz i feel sick when im hungry, but ill feel sick when im too full.

ooh, i saw camella's ad yesterday!  those three kids strolling along their village, and they had ice cream... then i wanted to eat ice cream, too!  so bambi bought one for me, london dairy no less!  but, i didn't eat much because guess what...?  it wasn't on a cone like those kids had.  yay... is this what pregnancy blues mean?

i really miss my son!  he wasn't this picky when he was in my tummy... not even one bit.  i was watching his videos yesterday and i missed him terribly, and i wanted to make time pass so quick and make it december already... anyways, 10 more months and ill be free from waking up so early just to be scolded, free from my boss' (sometimes) unreasonable mood swings, free from being disturbed at home for more work.  free, free, free.

anyways, i have some new stuff that i wanted to review so im going back to work and post them later.

thank You, for all the blessings, especially the one inside me..

it has been a great week for me!

i was originally planning to write a post about my terrific tuesday, but my luck ran through the rest of the week!

first, i was so happy to go to bcc with maricel last tuesday, coz with a girl i can go to shops that bambi cannot, and test their products on another person without complaints!  when we were with irish before, we always pass by mac to put on eyeshadows and liners. 

even if we were there for only two hours we went home happy coz we both had what we came for.  

she bought a nipper (which made her very happy,  as in very happy, because of a nipper)... and i was able to buy too faced shadow insurance.  at last! they have it in stock!

i always check it in sephora but its always out of stock, so even if i am waiting for my primer potion, i still stocked up on it and maybe sell the potion to maricel or irish, if i find shadow insurance better than it.  or maybe keep them both :) *vain*

i also bought a purifying brush shampoo, but im gonna return it coz the sales lady demonstrated the spray one, but she placed the gel type on my bag.  i was so disappointed when i found out at home.  

in fairness, she gave me a lot of sephora mattifying primer samples.  and these can last me for almost a month!

i also bought a nice-looking violet shade of nail polish from claire's... i was so excited to use this!

but all of my nail art will be put on hold because of a surprise!

then wednesday morning, four parcels from ebay came!  

first was the nyx lipglosses from u.s.!

in three beautiful shades!!!

pinky natural is my best lip gloss color coz it matches with any eyeshadow, apricot is a little turn-down coz the color is diluted, and soap opera queen is the most glamorous!  although, since i have been satisfied with long-lasting lip products i find that they fade too quickly.  and i hated reapplying.

i also received my avon mirror shine silver nail polish (for subtle konad effects like this one i found online:)

and 2 bottles of cuticle oils (coz kristelle took mine away),

and the rhinestones for my nails:

1800 rhinestones, and two clippers

sample nga! :D

then, wednesday night, bambi gave me quite a shock when he gifted me with a blackberry curve!  what?!!&*@(*?  this is for me?!?

i cannot believe that he bought this.  i told him so many times that i don't need a new mobile.  actually, i was really hoping to buy the hello kitty one.  but this is so freaking amazing and did not hesitate to accept it!  haha!  now i have my n95 as my roaming mobile.  *evil laugh*

then thursday morning i received my nail art brushes.  they are so cute!  and soft, and stiff, and i was so excited to use them.  but, as i was saying, all nail art sessions are cancelled until further notice... 

for an explanation of their purposes, watch this long and boring video...

then, (i saved the best for last), thursday night was the night when we found out that jared is officially a big brother!

the biggest surprise of my week!  i am 6 weeks pregnant!!!  i think i am still in shock and in awe, i cannot feel that im pregnant, nothing has changed in me, and there were no signs except that i was delayed, but there it is (with jared's result last 2007), and it is confirmed - i will be a mom of two!!!

what a blessed blessed week for me!  that's why i was so engrossed in cleaning our room today, as in super cleaning, not just wiping and stuff, and doing the laundry.  and it is a two-week's worth of laundry!




this is where i say thank You, for all the blessings, especially the one inside me.  

when friends become too busy

last night, we invited irish to pass by the office to 'accompany' me and maricel at american mission hospital for my check-up.

but it really was a kidnapping scheme, to get irish to come to our office with urgency.  coz maricel and i were actually planning to go to the mall.  we knew irish would bail at something that shallow, since her job is a full-time thing now.

its just that it has been along time since the three of us bonded, so we made up a story and told irish that it was important for me to have her there.

unfortunately, work was still the winning team.  can i imagine irish being so dedicated to her job to leave me with maricel?  it would be funny!

or maybe that moral support theory was not that convincing after all.

but it would also be the truth.  she has been so busy these days, and not unlike our previous ex-colleagues, she moved on and forgot...

maybe it is really so immature of me to force her to come here when she has to work.  it's not really like she was just being lazy or she wanted to hang out with different people now.

yeah, maybe i was being unfair.  but i also think that friends should make an effort to meet with old friends, especially those funny ones, because they're such good people to hang out with :P *selfish*

and speaking of prenatal check-ups, bambi is still not convinced that baby number 2 is on the way.  he has a lot of theories, like it's just cold, or maybe you drank a lot of coffee last month... and since i blew up my chance of knowing the results because of stupidly dropping the wiwi on the wrong place (where the results will show), i just have to wait until the 15th, exactly two weeks of delayed period before i decide to really go to the hospital, and not the mall.

for people who thought marriage was easy...

you are all in for a rude awakening.

ok, given that there would be moments when you wish time would stop, that life was so sweet and you can live forever in just one place with your better-half, that's because your just beginning.

im not saying that marriage isn't bliss, its just that i have come to realize that it takes a lot of work, and i mean it when i say that it will take a lot of effort to make your relationship work.

there were times when talking isn't the solution, because it leads to more fighting.  you don't understand each other even if you try to.  you will be asking yourself what's the point of staying, when everyday you just make each other mad.  and time will come when you would just want to take the easy way out, coz it seems so hard to continue.

but why do we stay?  why do we put ourselves at stake?  why are we willing to humiliate ourselves, why would we lay down everything for the one person who basically is just another person in this planet?

then you realize what problems our parents or our grandparents must have suffered in their own, just to get to the point where they are and still stay together.  what did they sacrifice?  what did they do to make it last?

i did not know that it would be so complicated to intertwine your life with another person.

in the 'hood

this is my favorite day of the week.  and there it goes...

before the sun set i went outside for a walk and saw our nearby cosmetics shop.  i went inside and checked what they were selling.

apart from inexpensive makeups, they also have avon, but the brands that i would not choose if i am staring at their catalog, bath salts, at-home hair treatments and makeup brushes.  ooh, makeup brushes!

i have been searching for an inexpensive blush brush since my body shop blush brush is now disfigured.     its just 3 years old and barely used.  oh well...

when buying makeup brushes i always choose the ones at the back, coz the front ones were probably touched and rubbed a lot of times by a lot of people to check if its soft or the bristles are rough.  especially in packages that can be opened.  even if i do wash it before use, i still don't want to think that my brush has been contaminated.

this one's soft and cheap.  what a deal!

one more brush i bought is a face brush, which i saw on youtube is a great exfoliating brush.  just apply cleanser on your face and brush gently in circular motion.  its supposed to get rid of whitehead and blackheads.

good luck to me!

next is an eyelid protector when applying your mascara without smudging it on your eyelids.  i was so happy!  i was searching in ebay for something like this and turns out i have it in my neighborhood!?!

the hole in the middle is for your upper lashes, to allow you to put mascara on every single lash without smudging on your eyelids.  the top part is for your lower lashes.  and the bottom is for combing out your lashes afterwards.  

kudos to the one who invented this!

i also bought a nice smelling nail polish remover.  ok first, when my sister bought a nice-smelling nail polish remover before,  it was not so easy to take off your nail polish and it takes a long time for you to finish.  so i went back to acetone-based nail polish remover, which removes np as fast as melting them and keeps the np in the cotton ball and not on your fingers.  this one, however doesn't smell as strong as my normal acetone bottle, just a little.  it also rubs off your np with ease, but with black np i've found out that it drips the np on your fingers and so making your fingers look like a farmer's finger at the end of a long day.

and when i passed by a cold store guess what i found!?!?!?!

wheeee!!!  curly tops! you found me at last!  

i wasn't able to buy much coz i ran out of money but tomorrow for sure i'll buy more!

happiness!

anyways, i did not do anything today, apart from cleaning the room.  it has been decided that laundry and grocery will be done tomorrow coz its bambi's off, so today i just lazed off in the afternoon sun.

in the morning i talked to bambi's mom and she was ok, i saw jared and he was concentrating on staring at another monitor.  he is kind of darker than when i last saw him.  and he was oblibivious to our faces on the screen.

in the afternoon after talking to my brothers and mother in ym i have found out that my mother in law talked to two of my aunties, who lives near their house and she was still saying that i can't go to their house when i go home.  i can't believe that she still hasn't moved on!  my mother and i agreed to let her do what she wants, we'll just let her be.  as far as i know, she has forgiven me already.  if she is still telling people about what happened then that's her deal.  i am shutting my mouth on the subject.

on another subject, my half-sister, rj, is going to celebrate her birthday on the 11th and today my mother and her father had a fight.  he left them, which he usually does for a while to cool off so im sure he'll be back.  that's why i promised rj i'll send something to let them celebrate her birthday.  

my two brothers are still undecided on what to do with their lives.  i told them to stop their illusion that im gonna bring them here because i wont, not without a college degree or a decent job experience.

kristelle, on the other hand, is suffering from migraine for 4 days now.  i am also going to ask the office about her uniform's encashment coz she said she would like to have a CT scan to check if there is something wrong.  i sure hope not, but im really hoping she will realize that excessive fatigue and excessive eating, along with turning on the ac after a long walk, is bad for her health.  she keeps ignoring her body's warning that she is not living healthily.  wake up sis!

tgif, lame PCs and apologies

yes!  finally.  although it did come so fast.  i hope every week in bahrain is like this!

this week was so stressful, unlike before where i had to tend only for the office stuff, now i also have to manage my boss' international correspondence for his two new shops.  supplies and materials and quotations, even shipping...

and today, i have to walk a kilometer to get back to the office coz i went to the german embassy to take his daughter's visa.

apart from that, earlier this week my lame pc at work proved how deficient it is by pretending to have a virus and then totally crashed my system.  for 4 days i had to contend with using the internet for our mail server.

when it finally came to itself it tried to install my printer's driver for one whole morning.  imagine installing for one whole morning.  what a dingbat.

i thought i could go to the mall this afternoon but irish bailed on me at 4pm saying she's still at work.

so i just slept the whole afternoon.

and when i woke up i realized that my period is delayed for 4 days.  it's not unusual.  it usually is delayed for 4 days, problem is i have a weird feeling in my lower stomach, like ive been doing situps or something.

if jared is indeed going to be a kuya, then for sure ill go home for good on december.   i have no plans yet, but i know by that time i'll have enough to start our apartment even for just the first two floors.  then ill come back to work and try to finish the third floor when they are at least two years old.

i get kind of excited thinking about this!

anyways im gonna see jared tomorrow in ym.  his grandmother started getting dramatic again last week, and i apologized again for hurting them, especially to my father in law, because in all fairness to them, they do take care of jared the best way they can.

and my father in law really made my stay as comfortable as possible.  it is his feelings that i was concerned that most.

but i am so thankful that my biological mother is the most understanding mother of all time.  she doesn't shout back, she doesn't walk out.  she will take everything for my son.  what an unconditional love that i rarely see these days.

i also apologized to her.

my activist sister, however, tried playing games with my mind again, torturing me with her manipulative chuvaness.  i sometimes think that my son is so lucky, coz so many people are concerned for his well-being.

im slightly optimistic about the situation but to be realistic, i kind of tipped the balance between the two families and yeah, i think i am a little catastrophic.

if i am indeed pregnant, then maybe it is a sign.  anyways im still a little confused about my situation.  my crossroad never leaves, really.  it appears in every street, in every situation, in every decision.

hello kitty plush & pink makeup holder

is it tuesday night already?  i was just wondering why last friday came so fast and tomorrow is our last full-day at work again...

*no complaints here*

yes! one month with X!

since last week i have planned to blog but decided to sleep instead.  ok, real reason is that downloading images halts my plan.  but i really wanted to blog about a lot of things.  one, because i have begun changing my nail polish every two days again, and two, because bambi bought me the cutest, softest, most amazing hello kitty stuffed toy last friday!

"she sleeps most of the time" :)

weeeeee!!! so cute!

i have decided that my character now will be hello kitty, jared has long been kero kero keroppi (because he smiles like him), and bambi, well, maybe bad badtz maru XD

also, since i have been feeling artsy early this week i have decided that instead of buying a brush holder from ebay (below), i'll just make one.  seriously.

ok, apart from the ridiculous price of brush holders and the limitations in design, i have also tons of foam boards in the office, so i just visualized the design and cut the foam boards in different heights.  it took me three hours just to have these:

pretty decent yeah?

hold on...

after much double taping (a little help from bambi, coz im no genius in measurements :)) and stickers and painting, tada!  my own makeup brush holder is done!

it now owns the front area of my drawer because of its cuteness:

im pretty proud of myself! haha...

apart from that, i also had some art on my nails... 

first it was this one, manually made.  good thing i didn't use red or it will look like marlboro... its supposed to have rhinestones in the middle v like i saw on the internet but my order from hong kong hasn't arrived yet.

after the blue is the pink!  i was trying to make it like a double french manicure with pink at the end but i made the white area so wide that it looks like a normal stripe design.  bummer.

and last but not the least is the summer color of orange and green!  although its just starting to get cold here i cannot help but like the brightness and happy color feeling on my nails :)

and in one week i have already used up my my acetone bottle. 

that's pretty much it.  i have used up all my bragging powers, too...