Stacy's mom has got it going on...

man there are some really funny songs that I just love listening to but I always forget about . Seriously I just enter the name of an artist or a song and it matches me to relative songs. Its good for when I am in a certain mood and just want to listen to a mix of music in that genre. Love. Anyways, I am not really sure how this song got into the mix I am listening to, but I am glad it did. I can even remember the silly music video that goes along with it! How awesome. My mood just got a lot happier :) So I just finished spending about an hour cleaning out my fish tank. So its all clean and doing well. I am super proud of that little thing! Seriously the smaller the tank for salt water tanks the harder it is to maintain. Because the different levels in the water can change much faster in a small body of water then compared to a large body of water. For example, if one of my hermit crabs were to die for some reason, I have to remove the body right away. If it starts to decompose the chemical levels in the water go haywire and causes a lot of issues really fast. However when a small hermit crab dies in a 600gal tank it pretty much passes unnoticed. For years I thought my tank was 8gal, but it's actually 5-5 1/2 gal. Much smaller! When I got started with my aquarium I had no idea that I was getting a hard to maintain size for salt water. I don't know (I read reef blogs) of any reefer that has bought such a small tank for salt water. When I tell owners of stores what size I have they always ask me how many times its crashed (when the levels in the water goes haywire and you have to start over basically). And I am proud to say that it hasn't crashed once! I still have the original sand and some original live rocks (I've added some and switched some out), but of course not the same water (because I do a weekly 10% water change). And the levels in my water are expert level. Seriously. I check the water every once and a while (something new to me) and the swatch of water levels always impresses me. Here is an example of how well my tank is doing right now. I just bought Lucy, my sebae anemone, as I mentioned before. She was bleached when I got her, VERY bad. Almost all anemones that are bleached will die. There isn't really anything you can do at that point. You see anemones have this thing on their "arms" called zooxanthellae which helps them to light into nutrition just like plants do! So when you get a sebae that is stark white (even though its really pretty like that) its really really bad. Also when I purchased the sebae its tentacles were nto sticky at all. Food would just float right off of the arms and away into another part of the tank. This is also a really bad sign. It means that it cannot feed itself at all. Even if I put food right in the middle where the mouth is, it cannot hold it there, so therefore it will eventually die. Anemones are all really hard to keep alive in captivity. Probably around 75% of them die within a month of purchasing them. Sad. And it feels like such a waste of money. You have to be brave when you buy these creatures. And don't get too hard on yourself when they die. Because most of the time they will. I have tried to keep anemones before and failed. But I have a clown fish and I really wanted to get an anemone for him. If I would've researched it first I would've realized that a bubble tip anemone is the easiest to keep since its the most hardy out of the bunch of them


As you can see there are lots of different types of bubble tip anemones. But I didn't get any of these ones. I got a sebae. One of the hardest anemones to keep in an aquarium. And they would be hard to keep in a large tank, practically impossible to keep in a small one. When I told an aquarium owner what anemone I got he just told me that it was going to die within two weeks. That I wouldn't be able to keep it. Watch me! Anyways, let me tell you... Lucy is doing so well! She has not only picked a spot from day one and stayed there (important for survival), she is bigger then when I got her, much bigger. And she is able to "grab" food with her tentacles and bring them to her mouth! She closes up at night and "sleeps". And she has regrown a bit of her zooxanthellae!!! I am so happy. I was so convinced she was going to die. I was ready for it. And now I am hopeful. I hope I can keep her for awhile. Like I said, most anemones die within a month of buying them. They really don't last in tanks long. So even if I don't keep her too long, I guess I should be proud of the progress we made so far :) I am so excited to get more corals for the tank now that I know that its ready. I should've started with corals and then moved onto anemones. But I wanted one so bad for Hubert! He is so cute with his anemone :) He cuddles with her and lays on the arms. He almost looks dead sometimes because of how still he is when he lays on her. So precious. Anyways... The real reason I wanted to write this post today was to talk a little bit about some foundations. I have a ton of unopened face foundations under my sink. I took them out today and I am going to try them all out and decide which one I like the best. I have four to review. The first one is by Neutrogena. Its their Healthy Skin Glow Sheers with SPF 30 (SPF in foundations makes me so happy!)

Then the second one is also a Neutrogena one. Its the Healthy Skin Liquid Makeup, antioxidant blend (SPF 20)

Then the third one is by Maybelline. Its the Pure Makeup one. Supposedly its 50% water and its oil free, so its supposed to be better for your pores

And last but not least I have a foundation by Almay. Its the Pure Blends one (SPF 20)

So I will let you guys know in a few days what I think of these different ones :) Only one of them doesn't have SPF, the Maybelline one. So its already behind in my mind. We'll see. I hate wearing sunscreen, but I want to take care of my skin, no skin cancer please! So I like finding foundations with SPF in them. Win win.

Oh, and I just wanted to say that my lotion is my favorite lotion that I have ever used in my whole life. So I am incredibly happy with it. I plan on it being the only hand lotion I ever use :) I put the rest of my Aveno lotion in the larger bottle in the kitchen (we keep one in there because all of the girls in the house like to put lotion on all the time, soft hands live here!) and filled it up with my lotion so I can keep it in my purse. It was a pain in the butt to fill though! I had to get a straw and suck the lotion up through the straw and then insert it into the bottle and squeeze the lotion out into the little opening. At least its just a little bottle (one of those $1 bottles in the travel sized things in Target). The only reason I am not using it on my face is because there are small specks of vanilla bean in it that kind of stick to your skin for a little while. And I don't want to have a black spotted face! Plus I have some Bert's Bee's day and night face lotion right now. So its all good. My face has been so dry this weekend and today! I've already put lotion on twice today! But, my face is clearing up. I am so happy about that. It was breaking out like crazy for two weeks. I think its because I started going to the gym and sweating a lot and not getting to shower right away. And even though I would dry my face with the towel it was still really dirty and clogged my pores. So I bought one of those small packs of face wash cloths and put it in my gym bag. It seems to be doing the trick :) Unless that's not what made me break out. Because over the weekend I didn't use any of my new face lotion because we were out of town. And it was over the weekend that my face cleared up... so now that I am using the wipes and the lotion if the acne comes back I will try going off of this new lotion again. I'm just happy its clearing up right now:) Ok this is a long post.... Much longer then I anticipated... So I am going to get going!