Today was my grandma’s birthday, and we had a dinner for her. My mom made potato soup, and it was really good - and that’s really saying something since I typically don’t care for it. And we also had chips and lunch meat for sandwiches. My mom made a caramel apple cake. Cakes seem to be her specialty. She likes to experiment with them. Most of the time they turn out pretty good, but there have been a few botched efforts, such as the Kool Aid cake.

After we ate and the presents were opened, my mom, Allyson and I went to Goodwill, TJ Maxx and Kohls. I found a cute shirt at TJ Maxx, and a couple of pairs of shoes at Kohls. I also went shopping yesterday and got a shirt at Maurice’s before I stopped by Sears to pick up a gift card for my grandma’s birthday.

I really need to buy some new make-up. I’ve been trying to take care of my skin, washing it at night - especially when I’ve been wearing make-up, and then moisturizing with some facial lotion. I almost bought a blackhead remover while I was at Target yesterday. I know that Clean and Clear has a product for that, but sometimes that brand dries out my skin, so I was kind of reluctant to get it. I might go to Wal-Mart tomorrow and see if I can find some other brand for the same thing, and see about buying some new foundation while I’m at it. I’ve almost spent all of my birthday money, which is just kind of depressing.

On a completely random note, I burnt my tongue eating the potato soup today and it hurts.

I feel like I’m having some sort of a battle with my skin. It seems to clear up for a few days, and then a new zit will sprout up. It’s so annoying and frustrating. I’ve tried using different things, but the perfect pimple cream evades me, or so it seems. Either the product dries my skin out or causes me to break out even more. It’s rather ridiculous.

Speaking of ridiculous, I’m fairly certain my grandparents have either been at a viewing or a funeral every day this week. Three people they knew died. I told them to proceed with caution since it seems like death is at every corner. I know I shouldn’t make light of it, but I can’t handle thinking about it seriously. Just the thought of either of my grandparents dying freaks me out too much to even ponder.

I think I mentioned needing a new layout a few posts back. Well, I made one. I just haven’t coded it yet. I feel so out of practice with coding layout’s. It’s fairly pathetic. But I think I’m going to try to tackle that because I’m seriously sick of this layout.