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  By an exercise-loving Registered Dietitian

No-Chip Manicure

5/8/2011

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Before I came back to Adelaide, my mom treated me to a no-chip (or shellac) manicure. It involves four coats of special polish (one base, two color, one top coat) and putting your hand under a UV light for a couple of seconds after every coat. You don't have to keep your hands under a dryer; they are dry and ready to go after the last coat. My nails were perfect and shiny and would not chip!

This is what they looked like the day after I got the manicure. 
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This is what they look like more than three weeks later.
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I have small nick on my pointer finger, but that's pretty much it. My polish is still as pink and shiny as the day I came home from the salon. 
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I was supposed to take it off after two weeks, but this is ME we're talking about. I never take care of my nails. I'd rather bite them off than file them or paint them myself. I'll probably get around to peeling the polish off this week, since I hear that you can peel it off! How fun! It's much more exciting than nail polish remover. 
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Now, backtracking to yesterday, I went to the O'Connell Street Bakery in North Adelaide to place an order for a morning tea for work tomorrow morning (mini quiches and banana cake...yum). I bought a vegetarian wrap for lunch with olives, sundried tomatoes, feta, onion, carrot, alfalfa, lettuce and capsicum (red peppers). 
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It was a huge-ass wrap, but it was so tasty and filling. I  might grab one tomorrow morning on my way to work. 
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We then cleaned the entire apartment from top to bottom. Our friend Shona came over to see our place, and then we all walked to Outback Jacks for dinner. Al and I went there recently, and we had a great meal. I ordered a hamburger with grilled onions and fries on the side along with a tasty James Squire brew. It was all really good, although the bun looks really unappetizing in that photo. I swear, it was good. Al and Shona also liked their dinners a lot. So far, Outback Jacks has been good to us. 
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Today, the family went to Aunt Susie and Uncle Andy's brand  new house in the Adelaide Hills. We went there last year for Mother's Day, and it was basically a vacant lot with a few walls up. This year, it was complete! 
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Their house is not easy to find. I can't imagine trying to tell a taxi driver how to pick me up there. In fact, I think it's impossible. It involves taking a few turns off the highway, taking another u-turn and then driving into a ditch that turns into a dirt road and goes under a bridge and driving up a steep trail (you can't really call it a road) that finally leads to their house. It's very well-hidden. 
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Despite being hard to find, their house is amazing! It is nestled into a rock with floor-to-ceiling windows, so you get spectacular views of the nature around you. There is also a lot of natural light in the place, and everything is brand new. 
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They have a few human neighbors around them, but most of the creatures that live around them are furry and love to climb trees!
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This little koala was sleeping all afternoon with his head buried in the tree. After gorging myself with food and drink for a good four hours, he finally woke up and showed me his face. 
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There's Uncle Andy with a glass of red and a brick in his hand. Andy, were you planning on knocking the koala out of the tree?
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I certainly hope not! 

Annnd with that said, happy Mothers Day to all of the beautiful mothers out there!

Have a wonderful day, and remember to not throw bricks at animals in trees!
2 Comments
Barb
5/8/2011 05:47:24 am

Jen, I love your nails! Keep getting those manicures!

Uncle Andy had better not be throwing a brick at that tree! We are all huge insane animal lovers in our family, and even joking about it makes me want to get up and fly over to Australia.
Say hi to all. Is it Mother's Day in Oz too?

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Jen
5/8/2011 10:21:00 pm

Yes, it was Mother's Day! Father's Day is the one that's different.

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    I am  a Chicago-based Registered Dietitian working primarily in Acute Clinical Care. I started this blog in 2010, before I even knew that I wanted to be an RD! Now, as an active dietitian, this blog will become part of my life again. Read about my current healthy habits, but please peruse my old posts (from 2014 and before) to read about life as an RD student and my previous years in Australia!


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