Neato! I have switched to Blogger Beta. There are numerous dire warnings that not all the bugs are fixed yet...but so far so good. They have fantabulous new features such as adding LIST!! capability and various other things. I can hardly wait to explore the features a little more and see what I can do. I have also been continuing to explore HTML a little, and Blogger Beta offers a lot more options regarding coding your own page. This brightens my week a little :)
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Paul's check was quite a bit larger than anticipated (yay, overtime), so we decided to do the date thing earlier this evening. I had been craving Olive Garden for a while, but it is not one of Paul's faves. However, since they now have the neverending pasta bowl for a while, he consented to go. We enjoyed ourselves and especially enjoyed the fact that the waiter sounded just like Agador Spartacus ( I do not wear shoes, because they make me fall down) and kept calling me 'lady'. As in, 'would you like some cheese on your pasta, lady?'. It was great.
We had to get groceries too and we got a whole bunch cause Paul hates going shopping so much that it is easier to just get vast quantities at one time. I always brag about how frugal we are, but the dog just drives our frugality away. We spent $2.49 on special dog ice cream. She loved it so much that her tail uncurled while she was eating it (which only happens when she is asleep, deeply depressed or concentrating so hard that she cannot devote any of her tiny brain cells to tail curlage). We also, oh dude this was exciting, came upon 6 big bins by the checkout. The bins were $1 special notebooks/office supplies etc. I got a pack of 5 gel pens and a pack of 4 glue sticks (for scrapbooking) and a 3 hole punch. Paul shook his head, 'you are the only person on earth who gets excited about glue sticks'. And I did!
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WARNING: they following paragraph deals exclusively with eyebrows. If you are a man, or a woman who is not totally shallow, you will find it excruciatingly boring.
I have felt actually mildly attractive lately. I've lost 5 pounds or so, my magic-minus-15-pounds make me look even svelter, Paul and I got haircuts last week and also my eyebrows have started to grow back. This is weird. When I was about 14, my sister Shari decided to have a talk with me about the fact that my eyebrows were thick, black and met in the middle. She agreed to pluck them for me, but she likes real skinny eyebrows (still does) and the style at the time was also very thin. So we plucked them nearly out of my head and I continued to do that for many years. I had such thick brows, that I would often pull out like 5 hairs at a time. I only learned a decade after I started plucking, that that can kill the hair follicle. In my mid-twenties I realized that I looked like an idiot and began to try growing them in. I got my first professional eyebrow wax and that helped. The waxer told me that in 6 months to a year they would grow back. They didn't. After about 5 years of only plucking strays, they began to fill in a bit (although mostly in the middle :p) but still they didn't look as full and arch-y as I wanted. When I got my second professional eyebrow wax before my first wedding, I told her the story and she told me to give it more time. When I explained that it had already been five years and they still weren't filling out as much as I would like, she laughed and said that I had kind of screwed myself then. But now, ten years later, they are starting to come back. Twice in the past six months I have been told that I have 'perfect eyebrows'. It is a sad state of affairs when your eyebrows can make you happy.
4 comments:
I like your new Blue colour scheme. It makes me look less fey if someone notices me reading your page at work.
p.s. sometimes the random characters you have to type in to prove you aren't spam are dirty. What is a Xeokok anyways? Sounds exciting!
Since I'm sitting here, bored out of my skull at reception, I'll put in my two cents about eyebrows.
I also had HUGE eyebrows as a youngster and once I finally worked up the nerve to get them waxed, I could not believe the difference, my whole face looked different (for the better ;)
A word of advice for anyone who gets their brows waxed, if you're ever offered 'threading' say no, it's horrible and hurts ALOT.
Now that I'm addicted to the look of nicely shaped eyebrows (the lady who does mine, says they're 'perfect' *beam*) I can't ever stop. The only problem I have is that it seems that one day I'll wake up and they'll need to be done NOW. No little hairs to start, just huge caterpillars one morning :p
*HUGS* for Jenn. Thanks for amusing me over my reception time :D
I agree with Chris about the color ... very nice. I likes it :)
How Sad, Chris, that you are nearly 30 and still do not know about the joys of Xeokok. You should edumacate yourself ;)
And, Angie, I totally know. I see people who either have never plucked/waxed or, more often, who have plucked their brows nearly out of existence and I want to shake them and say 'do you KNOW how much better you would look with nice eyebrows!' The one good thing about my previous severe overplucking is that a lot of the places that don't grow in anymore are places that I wouldn't want hair anyway. I've only had three pro waxes and, although I could stand another one now, in general, a few well placed plucks ecery week now get me through years at a time.
Jenn, I know your feeling about the gel pens and dollar supply bins. I'm totally hooked on office supplies, specialty papers and the like. I have so many post-it notes and scratch pads of paper and pens that I shouldn't ever have to buy anymore either in my lifetime, your lifetime or the lifetimes of a couple more generations to come!
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