Julep Mandy and my new 3DS!!!

My Julep "It Girl" Intro box came with Mandy, Heather, and Helena.  Here's Mandy!  It's a bright and pretty coral-y orange that Julep describes as "Fresh, bright, deep coral-pink."  I think calling it pink is a far reach.  To me it looks quite orange-y.  I'm hoping to be able to swatch the other two Julep polishes this week.

 I must say so far I really like the Julep polishes.  They go on quite smooth, and they self level pretty well.  This is three coats.  Two is ALMOST ok, but I don't like to be able to see my white line under the polish, and when I wore this one with two coats, I could see it in the bright light.  So if you don't mind the white of your nail showing through a little, or if you are only wearing it in lower light, then two is fine...but honestly this color doesn't truly shine until you get it outside in the sun, where it is just beautiful.  Oh, and that's China Glaze Fairy Dust in two coats over Mandy on my ring finger.

NOW LOOK AT MY NEW TOY!!!  I was in Gamestop midweek last week and I saw the box and signs for the new 3DS color that Nintendo scheduled for release on Sunday.  I haven't yet bought the 3DS because there aren't any games out for it that I HAVE to have (Pokemon, Animal Crossing, etc) and also because every time I settle on a color for a Nintendo handheld, they release something I would have rather had less than a month after I finally bite the bullet.  Not this time.  I was determined not to settle, at least not before there was a game I had to have on it.

So now, a little over a year after it's initial release, Nintendo released a color that really gave me pause.  I mean really...the pictures on the signage and the box looked stunning.  I hemmed and hawed for a few days and on Friday, I went and preordered it, to pick up on Sunday.  I didn't really NEED to reserve, but I figured it would just be my luck that the store wouldn't get any extras, and they wouldn't have one to sell me, so I did.

So on Sunday morning me and the hubby hopped in the car and went to pick up my new toy.

Now let me pause here to tell you something you don't know about me.  I LOVE gadgets.  Also, I'm very impatient.  It wasn't so hard to wait a year to get a 3DS, because I didn't really want one...but once I decided I wanted it, that wait from Friday to Sunday was PAINFUL!!!

Anyway, we pull up to the store, and there's no front window anymore.  Um...what?  The night before someone cut their power and drove through the front window to rob the store.  SERIOUSLY????  I threw a royal temper tantrum.  I asked the gal there if I could pick up my 3DS at a different store and she said yes...but...I would have to pay for it and then come back when this store reopens to get my deposit refunded.  Ok fine...problem is, I paid for the whole thing when I preordered.

My saint of a husband told me to just go buy it, again, so I could have it right away, and then go back later and get the full refund.  It's a lot of extra money, but it will probably only be a few days.  So we load back up and head over to one of the other stores in town.

We pull into the parking lot, and the store is gone...REALLY????  I threw another temper tantrum.  Ok, so I know of one other store in town.  I started heading there and put my husband in charge of calling them to make sure that they have one available.  They do.  So we got all the way there (we are so far away from home by now that I'm thinking we might have to get a hotel!!!) and I decided to make 100% sure that I had my receipt from the preorder, so that before I pay for a second 3DS, I have what I need to get my refund for one of them.  So I pull my billfold out of my purse...oh wait, no I don't...BECAUSE I FORGOT IT AT HOME ON THE COUCH!!!!

So I took my husband's credit card inside and my luck was better from then on.  They had mercy on me and let me pay with his card without making him come inside, they had the 3DS for me, and they had a used DS lite case with Pokemon Platinum on it that was only $3.