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Coffee Break: Lunar Beauty Lip Gloss

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Lunar Beauty lip gloss in Starlight

Lunar Beauty's lip gloss in Starlight is one of the prettiest colors I've seen in a while.

They describe it as a “medium tone pink with multi-color reflect glitter,” which makes it sound like it's a bit more razzle dazzle than it is — I think it's neutral enough you could wear it as an everyday lip gloss without worrying there's a neon sign over you reading GLITTER LIPSTICK.

You can find it at Ulta or the brand's page for $17.

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  1. Heading to Lake Geneva, WI for a couple of days this fall. Does anyone have any recommendations for good hiking spots? Hoping to spend as much time outside as possible so any other ideas would be appreciated as well.

    Thanks!

    1. The most obvious answer is the Shoreline Trail, it is 22 miles around the entire lake and takes a half day to complete. Very enjoyable to get up close to the homes. There are many access points if you do want to do the full 22 miles. My preference is to do the North end and start in William’s Bay and hike into Lake Geneva, but the more physically taxing route is the South end start in Fontana and end at Big Foot Beach or go all the way into Lake Geneva. If you are looking to do more nature there is White River County Park and the White River State Trail.

      1. In what world is 22 miles a half day hike? If I ran that it would take 4 hours.

        1. +1 and that’s a decently fast running pace! It would take more like 7-8 hours to walk it.

        2. Right?! That’s 7-8 hours at a steady moderate walk. And half the fun is actually getting to enjoy the scenery.

    2. If you happen to be going north after your trip, stop by Lion’s Den Gorge. It’s about an hour away and has bluffs that overlook Lake Michigan. Truly one of the prettiest spots in Wisconsin to me.

      1. Lion’s Den Gorge is wonderful, and worth the trip, but well over an hour from Lake Geneva. It’s probably more like an hour and a half. OP, how far from Lake Geneva are you willing to go? Take a look at the Wisconsin State Parks website at trails in the Kettle Moraine South area, a bit north of Lake Geneva.

  2. Any recent experience with the Sagamore Resort on Lake George? I’d heard good things from friends who went years ago but the online reviews are rough. Or suggestions for other kid-friendly hotels in that general area with pretty nature views and a swimming pool? We would only be staying 1-2 nights (driving between Maine and Niagara Falls and stopping here to break up the drive — the ideal stopping point distance-wise is around Albany but I’d prefer nature over city).

    1. Have you thought about Lake Placid instead? Lake George is, of course, also surrounded by nature and hiking trails but the town is a little kitschy/overdone (per my taste=lots of mini golf and water parks etc). Lake Placid feels more rustic but yet still lots to do. But again, both are basically Adirondack Park or adjacent so there is tons of hiking to be had! Also suggest looking at Saratoga Springs, which is nice too.

      1. It looks like Lake Placid adds quite a bit more time to the drive. Saratoga Springs is closer – any specific lodging recs there?
        Kitschy is ok. Mini golf would be a plus for the kid. It doesn’t need to be super luxe, we’re generally Hampton Inn/Holiday Inn Express-type travelers on road trips, but I thought it could be fun to stay somewhere that’s more resorty and has lots of stuff to entertain the kid on site.

    2. I went last summer and loved it. Pay attention to the room pics, we did a lodge which was dated but spacious and worked for us. Lots of restaurants all of which are perfectly fine, none of which are amazing. The real joy of it is just being in such a beautiful space. The pool view is stunning. For 1-2 nights absolutely

      1. This sums it up well! It is a beautiful area. The rooms are mostly dated, but it is totally fine overall. You will be happy there on a road trip stop.

    3. Just got back on Friday! Overall everyone, from my 5 year old to my parents liked it. The view is beautiful and although it was packed with families we didn’t have trouble getting a table or lounge chair or anything. The food was fine if super repetitive after a few days. We wandered over to whatever little bbq restaurant was in the town and it was fun and kid friendly. There’s a free boat trip which was fun. We also enjoyed the golf course.

      If I could plug something else? We stopped in Albany to tour the capital building because I like a little educational aspect to these trips. I heard it was an architecturally unique capital building. Holy moly- what a treat! What a building! The tours are free, the last an hour and you don’t need a reservation.

    4. The resort is nice, particularly for a short visit, but it is not walking distance to the main downtown area of Lake George (which is quite kitschy). It would be nice if you want a picturesque historic location and you want to stay on site for meals. It is a tad dated. Very similar to the Mt. Washington Resort in many ways, if you’re familiar with that one.

    5. It’s fun for a few days. I don’t know that the rooms are that dated but we usually stay in the dog friendly lodge area or the hermitage, which I have always interpreted as just being in that Adirondack style. It’s removed from the touristy Lake George area, which is, I think, a plus. The town it’s actually in is small and cute- good for an afternoon visit. Ditto on the BBQ restaurant (the hotel can drive you over in a shuttle). Yes to the boat tour. It’s a nice stay for 2-3 days and your kids will be happy. Mine love it.

  3. how often do you check your retirement or investment accounts? for me it’s about once a week but I check them all at once thru Quicken Simplifi

    2. Maybe logging in once a month when I’m looking at it for a different specific purpose (e.g., did the catchup contribution from my employer land for this year? did I max out 401k already or do I need to increase contributions?), and then annually with my financial advisor.
      I was a baby lawyer during the 2008 recession and learned to tune out the minor ups and downs in favor of the long game, and most of my retirement accounts are target dates that don’t need active management.

    3. Once a month when I update our forecasting. We are CoastFi, so I’m not touching anything, but we are tracking to make sure we don’t fall out of CoastFi or reach a certain number where we feel good about taking some money out early for a remodel.

    4. At the end of every quarter, I check both mine and my husband’s and tell him how we are doing. Annually, I check both of our Social Security statements. We are 5-7 years out from retirement, but I have been doing this for at least 10 years. Anything more frequest makes me crazy.

    5. Once every couple of weeks even though I’m very far from retirement. I like knowing. Also CoastFIRE-lite (still contributing, but not aggressively).

    7. Used to check more often, but with all the volatility in the market I normally do about once a quarter. Only exception is when I freak out about how much money we have and go through everything to soothe myself that I could say f-it and quit my job.

    8. I check one account daily. Am super far from retirement. I like to guess whether it has gone up or down. Am rarely correct. The others I check about once a month.

    9. I check all my accounts (bank, credit, retirement) multiple times a week. I rarely do anything other than ensure everything is entered into my spreadsheet properly, but it makes me feel safe so 🤷🏻‍♀️

      1. Same. I don’t react to what I see, mostly just want to make sure there is no unauthorized activity. If I’m logging in to one, I may as well log in to all of them.

    10. Typically quarterly (when I am notified that the quarterly statement is available).

  4. I am the number 2 at a small non-profit and…realizing that my boss just really, really likes the status quo. Well, he doesn’t like it, will complain about it, but then when time comes to pull the trigger he’ll always find a reason not to.

    I have two kids, 4 and 8, and would like to keep this job. So do I just…not propose any new changes? How do I get used to just being in a role of positional leadership?

    1. not everything needs dynamic growth or 10x last year’s stats or whatever. sometimes businesses can just chug along happily but they do that by being good at what they do.

    2. I think you just stop proposing new changes and mentally get to the stage where you acecpt the status quo as the price of admission for this job.
      However, if your boss likes talking about potential changes that he won’t implement, then you can continue to provide ideas while also acknowleding to yourself that nothing will change – this may be more frustrating. Some people love to chew on ideas but hate executing them.
      As long as your current boss is in his position, nothing will change. If you want to keep your job, you just have to accept that. It’s like becoming content with anything else in your life that you either cannot or will not change. I find it’s easier to do this when I don’t think about the things that I would like to change or could so easily change. Even if the boss brings it up while he’s complaining, just “uh huh” back to him and change the subject.

  5. Over the weekend I visited some friends in New York, and we wound up staying out all night. One of their other friends was also visiting, and I felt like he was hitting on me the entire night. Things like calling me a beautiful girl, grabbing my hand to hold it for a second while we were walking, saying that I was so amazing to talk to that he wanted to stay up all night talking with me. It turned out that he is married, and at one point he said that he wife would be very upset to hear he was staying out all night talking to a girl. He said she is jealous ‘in a cute way,’ but will try to control whether he goes out with friends. Our mutual friends (a couple) had expressed that they were a tiny bit wary of him because years ago, before he was married, he would often say that he and his girlfriend were on a break and then would flirt with other girls when they went out. I asked him about this and he said that he was genuinely on a break previously and would never ever cheat on his wife. He did say though that once you have a certain level of wealth, men get options they didn’t have previously, and also feel numb about everything, so they are more likely to stray, and that he doesn’t know many (if any) faithful wealthy men.

    The whole thing left a weird feeling for me, and I’m not sure if I either a) participated in crossing lines with a married man or b) completely blew something out of proportion and am too sensitive to flirting. Does this sound like crossing a line? I can’t tell if it was normal / appropriate, or if it veered into line-crossing. When I confronted him and he was so insistent that he’d never cheat that it made me feel like I was imagining things. But also, the holding my hand did feel like in new territory. It doesn’t really matter since we will only see each other a handful of times in the next year, but I did feel a bit disoriented by the whole thing.

    1. His behavior was extremely weird and inappropriate, but I don’t think you did anything wrong. Sorry he made you uncomfortable.

    2. You crossed a line by not immediately snatching your hand from his and then putting another person between the two of you for the rest of the evening. Confronting him about cheating, while he is cheating, seems more like teasing than actually confronting. He sounds gross, but it sounds like you kind of enjoyed it.

      1. +1. Once you learned he was married your reaction should’ve been “Stop grabbing my hand and trying to hit on me. I’m not interested in married men.” This wasn’t banter with a maybe-flirty undertone. You discussed his philosophical views on cheating and didn’t shut down clear advances. I agree it sounds like you enjoyed this.

    3. IMO, he absolutely cheated on his wife. If my husband were flirty and holding hands with another woman, I would assume there were deep cracks in the relationship that may or may not be fixable. There is no “jealous in a cute way.”

      Run far, far away from this dude. My gut says he enjoys either the thrill of the chase or thinking he can have multiple women interested in him at the same time. Either way, he’s incredibly bad news.

      1. 1000% agree this is not a faithful guy. he is bad news. i don’t think you did anything wrong but i would not continue any conversation with him. and tell the mutual friend you’re closest to that he was being icky.

    4. The whole thing is very weird IMO! I can’t tell if it was just the two of you who stayed up all night or if it was the whole group… But either way, if I were you, I would not have wasted my time engaging with him in much banter if you knew all along that he was married. Like, what is the point?

      That said, his behavior is the problem here, not yours. I just don’t understand why you didn’t seek out someone else to chat with!

      1. We were in a group that stayed up all night, but by the end it was four people instead of eight. He and I were on a rooftop talking the two of us for a few hours toward the end of the night, but my friend’s husband and our other friend was there as well talking separately.

        Unfortunately I liked him and found him handsome/charming/funny, and was also very drunk. Only after did I feel like maybe he was bordering on inappropriate more than just flirting (although he was flirting with everyone).

        1. OP – ignore the haters who are piling on. If you were drunk, I understand that you liked him and didn’t realize the inappropriateness at the time. Pretty sure if he tried to kiss you, you would have stopped it. I would be cold to him next time you saw him and if he tries to flirt, shut it down.

    5. I know a diplomat who acts like this. He’s very charismatic but has cheated on every partner he’s ever had. I pity whatever woman eventually has his kids.

        1. He buys women drinks, holds their hand, has deep chats, flirts etc, then eventually moves onto gardening.

          Socially it’s kind of an open secret he acts this way, his girlfriends never know they’re being cheated on though, they think they’re special.

    6. Keep your distance when you see him in the future. He was hitting on you. He might have been laying the groundwork for a more overt approach, or he might just like to flirt and think he has options.

    7. He was hitting on you. 100% his behavior is the problem, but I think your line of conversation was also kind of strange (like, you’re asking a guy you met hours ago about his history of allegedly cheating on girlfriends?) and would avoid 1-1 time with him in future interactions.

    8. If I have to pick between (a) and (b), I pick (a). He was definitely crossing a line and your best move would have been to shut that ish right on down.

    10. I’d make sure I wasn’t seeing him a handful of times in the next year. Holding hands was cheating.

    11. Dude is a major creepster, but I’m not on board with suggesting you did anything wrong. Ultimately it is *he* who is married. You’re a free agent. That said, for your own wellbeing, I’d avoid this man at all costs moving forward. His toxicity sounds intense and a little frightening. Bad men are often dangerous men. Keep your space!

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