Candle Day is Almost Here and Une Rose Chypree

 Christmas shopping is pretty much done for me. I am looking at getting my dad another video game and getting a friend a small Starbucks gift card and that will complete my Christmas shopping. Thus far, I still haven't seen any kind of deals that excite me.

What I am really excited for is when Bath and Body Works is going to have their 3 wick candle sale this weekend. This candle event is different due to the pandemic, instead of it being 1 day, it is being held all weekend and the price is a little lower than last year's price. Instead of $9.50, it's $8.95. Not a huge difference but either way, it's still a fabulous price. I am going with a friend on Saturday to get some candles but I gave him the heads up that we are going fairly early and we are not pushing it to later afternoon nor pushing it to Sunday. I'd rather not lollygag and not get the ones that we wanted. With the pandemic and what might be sketchy stocking, it will be better to go early. We both don't plan on getting the maximum of 15 candles. I have only budgeted $50 and never planned on getting the full 15 to begin with. Even though I know what I want, I am pretty stoked to go.

I was poking around Luckyscent for some strange reason last night and Andy Tauer's website and had to do a double take. It looks like Andy Tauer might be revamping his whole line. I don't know if it's because of the pandemic or just wanting to make changes but it seems like this year, the changes have been huge. Earlier in the year, Une Rose Vermeille was discontinued and now it looks like Une Rose Chypree has fallen victim to discontinuation. I hope that they are not permanantly discontinued, it just seems like Andy Tauer has released so many things so quickly but has discontinued a bunch of things in the process. It looks like I might be using Une Rose Chypree a little more sparingly even though I don't wear it a lot.

Can't Come up with a title

 

I am still debating on if I should  pull the trigger on my Ulta shopping cart. When I read my email this morning, I find a $10 off $40 and even "prestige" brands were included. I tried to apply the coupon and apparently Chanel was excluded. I sent a tweet to Ulta saying what good is this coupon if I can't use it. Well, there are plenty of things but I could use it on but can't use it on something that I really want isn't the greatest PR move. I am just not moved by what I am seeing online with Black Friday deals so far. Even what Bath and Body Works isn't moving me deal wise. For some reason, I'm okay with not buying anything today or tomorrow. I really need to get one more gift and then I am done with Christmas shopping. I am finding it harder and harder to shop for people and it's gotten pretty difficult to find any great deals that I am looking for, especially for the things that I want to get somebody. I would think that with this pandemic going on, deals would be better and there would be more of them. I am just going to see what the next couple weeks look like and go from there.

At this point, I am just anxious for some reason. It's the holiday season right now and I am waiting on a few important things that should have been mailed weeks ago but haven't even arrived. Thus far, I have faxed a couple things to a couple places but I am going to hope that some things start to work out. I am going to take things one step at a time. I am not sure on who is dropping the ball but it's being dropped. How do I know what is needed and who needs to get it if I don't get the information?

The Shopping Season

 

We are coming up on the holiday season and already my email is filling up with all of these Black Friday previews and deal type things. I will admit that I am tempted by a few things but my bank account is telling me to take a step back. Most of my Christmas shopping is finished but I do have 3 more people to shop for but I am holding off for a couple weeks on finishing up a couple gifts. I have some shipping deadlines because my nephews live across the country from me, so I need to know that. At this point, I am trying to survive Thanksgiving. Due to Covid, holidays are going to be very different and much quieter. It will be my parents and I along with my aunt and quite possibly my grandmother who is still living. So I have a 20 pound turkey in my fridge thawing out and wondering about what the hell is going to happen with all of this turkey. I think that a large roasting chicken would have been a better fit. Let's hope that I won't be asked to pick up anything between now and Thanksgiving or I will be spitting nails.

What is tempting me the most is Ulta. I am hardly ever in an Ulta brick and mortar store, I do tons of shopping through their website and have accumulated almost $60 in rewards and now I am a Platinum level rewards person. Ulta does carry some Chanel perfumes but I never see them sell Chanel through their website. I have only seen it once before and I am now seeing that again. While Ulta might not have the selection that Sephora has in regarding Chanel offerings, even online, I am tempted to get the mini travel spray of Coco Madamoiselle intense. I know that I shouldn't blind buy but I am incredibly tempted. I shall see if there will be some kind of coupon when Black Friday comes to make the mini travel spray much more possible for me, especially if I want to keep saving up my Ulta points. But we shall see because I am trying to avoid Bath and Body Works as well. I am trying incredibly hard to to purchase anymore candles until Candle Day when the deals will be the best for Bath and Body Works candles.

My Last Vacation of the Year

 

I am incredibly irritated with the news. It was a long week with me being on vacation but it was nothing but the election on the news. For too many days, there was no clear cut winner with the election. But I don't know if this shit is just ramping up or is this shit going away. I am just too damn tired of it right now. Tired of how people are carrying on about the results. My mother has the news on 24/7 pertaining to the election.

Nothing much really happened on my vacation. Didn't go anywhere or do anything. I only managed to finish one book out of the 8 books loaded on my Kindle and that's pretty sad though. To have the time but no motivation to actually do it. My last vacation, I managed to finish 3 candles but this vacation; I only got through one and a half. A few days ago, Bath and Body Works had single wick candles for about $7 and broke the whole can't get anymore candles until I use some more. Right now, Bath and Body Works is having a BOGO 3 wick candle sale and I am sitting on my hands at this point. I have pretty much figured out which candles that I will be burning before Candle Day comes in about 3 and a half weeks. I am currently burning a Fresh Balsam candle and I don't think that I will be getting anymore of that scent. I have a single wick of it as well. Burn both of them and that will be the end of it.