A while back, I received a gratis bottle of Afrin's No-Drip Original Formula Nasal Spray in order to try and review.  The product promised instant, twelve hour relief in a formula that wouldn't drip down the back of your throat. 

Is it a mystery wrapped in an enigma shrouded in the internet?

Yeah, this is so totally how my dishes look when I'm done washing them, as opposed to being thrown everywhere.

When I received this dish drying mat (for free) from the Influenster's Naturals'12 VoxBox, I discretely groaned inside.  I don't wash dishes.  I have a dishwasher.  I won't lie.  I'm partially lazy and partially super busy, so I'm more than willing to dish out the extra money to run the thing. See what I did there?

Because of this laziness, I couldn't figure out how having this thing would benefit me.

Because of my activities in the 2012 Mom Box, I was lucky enough to receive a Naturals Box from Influensters for free in order to try and review.  This is a quick run down of the items that I got in this box.

Hey, promotional images are promotional, right?

If you read through this blog, you'll notice that I do a lot of campaigns for the W.O.M.M company BzzAgent.  Lately, I was offered the chance to purchase a printer from Dell at a steeply discounted rate in order to review and promote it.

I was excited, because I had been shopping for a printer lately.  I'd recently come to the conclusion that my life would be 110% better if I had an at-home color laser printer.  There's not any real justification for this conclusion, though.  However, I don't need justification.  Instant gratification works just fine in its place.

Unreal is a candy that's been fairly recently launched here, promising to be better for you than your normal candy.  It promises to use no artificial dyes, no HFCS, and to have less sugar than most.

Sounds good, right:? 

I guess I'm reluctant to believe claims, as most candy that's touted to be healthier or better for you generally tastes like balls.  You know all the sugars and fats that are so bad for you?  Those are the ones that also cause triggers in our brains to go "woooo!"  And that's with natural sugars and fats.  I'm not even going to get into what the unnatural stuff Americans love to load their food with does.

Bun down, shoe, mustard, pan, bun...no!

One of my friends absolutely loves cheeseburgers, to that point that we refer to her as Wimpy.  This year, for her birthday, I decided to make little cheeseburger cupcakes.

Nothing says refreshing like licking a bar of soap after an hour on a trampoline!

One of the items that I received as a freebie to try and review from Influenster's MomVoxBox was Ivory's classic bar soap.  I hadn't used a bar of Ivory soap to wash myself with in years, though my current bottle of body wash is Ivory.  I love the smell of it, and wanted to see how the bar soap compared, as it's extremely inexpensive to buy it that way. In fact, it's one of the cheapest bar soaps you can buy.

I have a confession to make.  :(

I'm supposed to be learning new eating habits, and changing how I look at food.  Then I tried one of these cookies...

I did, I really did.  Why doesn't that seem like a lot, though? I worked hard, I practiced *gasp!* self control, and I'm proud of the results.  Still though...

We went through the normal ups and downs of planning Mog's 11th birthday extravaganza, and she eventually settled on wanting cupcakes. More specifically, she wanted bacon cupcakes with maple syrup frosting.

Heyas! My name is Christina (Kirari).

I started this blog because I love to ramble, and as such can't stem the tide of non-makeup related things on my other blog. Here I plan to showcase ideas, reviews, recipes, my art work... really anything that strikes my fancy.

My opinions and thoughts are my own. They are also uncensored and often provocative. I'm not going out of my way to make this website R rated, but I wouldn't consider myself family friendly, either. In fact, maybe I'm a PG-13+. Oh, OK, maybe I am an R. But not really a hard R, just a...

Yeah, I warned you about the rambling, didn't I?

 As I was saying, my thoughts an opinions are my own. If I say I like something, I really do like it. If I don't like it, I'll probably have a lot of fun telling you why. If I receive any fancy freebies to review, I will definitely make sure that's known. I love getting free stuff. It's like my favorite hobby.  I also will most likely delve into the joys of being a non-traditional mother to a very non-traditional child.

 I'm an early 30s pseudo-goth single mom living in the Bible belt. I'm also a Pagan, and for fun I do paranormal investigations. I'm also an artist, an avid reader, a cake artiste, and a gamer. In the real world I work in the social services field.