1. I LOVED LOVE LOVE a newly discovered drugstore lip stain: Milani Color Fetish Hydrating Lip Stain in Pink About It. It goes on glossy and then dries to a long-wear stain. As I have gotten older, my mouth has become really hard to make up. My lips are sort of just melting into the skin around them, and all the teeny wrinkles from my smoking days in the 90s make it REALLY HARD to wear lipstick, especially bold, matte colors (my favorites) I have been using Laneige lip mask every night and THIS wonderful local-ish lip balm when I put my makeup on, but for color? Things have been grim outside my long time stand by Lancome Sugared Maple WHICH HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED. Anyway-- this stuff is great, and I will be back for more colors.
2. Minnie has been sick this week. Not a shock after Dorothy's strep and Coop's strep and influenza-a. And also all of the kids at her school are hacking little snot balls (which drives me up a WALL because it is a 3-hour school day. KEEP YOUR SICK KID HOME. Like I am doing. Even though keeping her home makes me see in STARK RELIEF how inequitable Ben's and my current work/life balance situation is. **shakes fist at universe**. Plus, when she has a cough (WHICH SHE DOES), I can't sleep and have major flash backs to when she was SO SICK last winter. She got swabbed for All of the Things and has none of them, so she went to dance, where everyone was hacking and blowing snot bubbles and they tired on their ballet costumes. (She felt crappy but was fever-free until Thursday AM when I has been planning to send her back to school so I could attend a bunch of meetings. Sigh.)
3. Maybe related to my sickness anxiety: my hot flashes are OFF THE CHAIN this week. Which makes me think my hormones are well and truly fucked-- which explains my general anger and anxiety/ insomnia. Also! MY FINGERS ARE TOO FAT FOR MY WEDDING RINGS. I am going to HAVE to get my rings resized. And commit to life with sausage fingers.
4. This week was a rough one in terms of news. On Wednesday, I ate 2 donuts and part of a third in the random mid-afternoon and then had a kiddie meal from Culvers for dinner. I CANNOT HANDLE MY FEELINGS LIKE THIS. One day? Funny. Habitually? NOT AT ALL FUNNY. Especially since early-ish menopause raises my risk for heart disease and my cholesterol is already kinds high and I am VERY ANXIOUS ABOUT MY HEALTH. And my sausage fingers.
5. Thanks to Annabel, I see all the pretty sunrises. Also! Minnie is her favorite chew toy.
Ugh sorry Minnie is sick. I would be having flashbacks too. Rob and Mark got norovirus at the same time in 2005, and at the time I had a tiny newborn, Mark was one, and my husband was now married to the toilet. It was a dark time, but I got through it and then three months later they both got rotovirus. How Jake and I didn't get sick is a miracle but the tl;dr for this is that for years I had massive flashbacks anytime anyone would barf and I feel all sweaty and anxious just thinking about it. Good times. On a less barfy note, the lipstain is gorgeous. I followed your advice and bought Maybelline crayon and I love it. It's a bit drying though so I use gloss over top. That colour lasts forever, holy hell. I love it.
ReplyDeleteWell... at least you look fabulous. Menopause can wreak havoc with everything, and is probably causing a lot of your anxiety. And ugh, poor Minnie! I hope she feels better soon.
ReplyDeleteI recommend a news fast- it's working for me, until someone starts to tell me all the things I've missed (stop doing that, people!) These are challenging times... hang in there.
Knock on wood, the boys have been fairly healthy. Everyone has a cold but it's not a terrible one thank goodness. I resume traveling next week so just hope everyone stays healthy, esp next week which is Phil's busiest time at work. I try not to travel the first 4 biz days of the month but it was unavoidable next week as our company has its huge sales conference.
ReplyDeleteUgh the news. It is a real joy suck.
I hope Minnie feels better soon... But also she looks glorious (and not at all sickly) in that picture of her at dance class :). You are gorge in all the pics too!
ReplyDeleteThe news has been the worst sort of panic-crisis ever since... well, you know. May we all live to laugh about this.
There is so much crap going around right now. I work solely with adults and do not member the last time I interacted with someone under the age of 18 - it may very well have been your children - and everyone's wearing masks and coughing and I am over it.
ReplyDeleteBut YES! to the beautiful sunrises. So much pretty! And it also means THE DAYS ARE GETTING LONGER. WOOT!!!!!!!