enough, already

i am making the girls do a workbook page a day of the "Summer Bridge Workbook", and read 20 minutes a day this summer, and when they finished 15 days' worth, they got to pick a prize. tess picked a little diva makeover, and jillian picked going to build-a-bear. so, we go to the mall, and get tess her makeover, and jillian her bear. when we finish with tess' makeover complete with glitter and sparkles, she says she has to to the bathroom RIGHT NOW.
fine.
the nearest department store is Dillard's. so we go in there to go to the bathroom. on our way there, tess sees a flyer for "Celebrity Makeup Artist Michael [hoohah]", and she gets all excited, and wants me to get a makeover. fine. whatever.
we go to the bathroom, and then go to the makeup counter where the CMA was holding forth, and how it worked was, there were 4 celebrity makeup peons who each had a client, and did whatever the CMA said.


and i had a lady, who, really, i'm not being unnecessarily ugly, was about 60 and had raccoon eyes. but ok. So I only got to see the CMA for brief seconds at a time, as he went from chair to chair, supervising.

so my peon does my makeover, and she DOES NOT SHUT UP. she talks from the time i sit down until the end of the makeover.
when the makeover is finished, she says, "Now, with the moisturizer, the concealer, the toner, the foundation, the eye..."
"I'm not buying all that," I say.
"You're not?"
"No, I just came in here to go to the bathroom."
Now, I liked the foundation, but once she wrote down what she had used, and the relative prices, hoo mama!
Foundation: $66
Concealer: $23
Moisturizer: $40
So, I asked her if I could just buy the concealer, but she said it wouldn't work w/o the foundation, and I sure as heck wasn't buying the foundation.
so.
"I'll take the toner."
"And the concealer and foundation?"
"No. I just came in here to go to the bathroom."
"How about the moisturizer, and some eye shadow?"
"No, just the toner. I just came in here to go to the bathroom."
"Oh." (yells) "OK, Tony, ring her up! She's just getting the toner!"
Because, really? I was dressed in my workout clothes, and had had a minimum of makeup on. Did they think I was going to spend over $200 on makeup and skin care on a whim? I HAVE makeup and skin care at home, and if i run out, i have loads of MK, Avon and Arbonne ladies to help me....

Ready for my closeup....

Meh.

I am sick. Started feeling icky yesterday at work, just achey all over, sore throat, etc. Went home, and stayed in bed for the rest of the day, only getting up to make myself some soup for supper. Had tomato basil soup for lunch, and vegetarian barley for supper. i kept thinking of that quote, "I'm only a bad case of stomach flu away from my goal weight."
i asked mike to rub my feet since all of me was achey, but my feet especially so, and he said, "Wow, you're hot." But i don't think he meant it in the "beautiful" sense....

Buh-bye, Menopause. See You Soon

My body decided this month to emerge from menopause with a vengeance.

Me (last month): I think I'll donate all my unused feminine products to Cypress Assistance Ministries.
God: Not so fast.

Eating Roasted Beets for Supper

Purple in, purple out.

I'm just sayin'.

A New Excuse Not To Get Up

I was up uber-late last night, finishing writing the Good Friday service. Like 2 a.m., which in my younger days would have been No Problem. But my 46-year-old body did not want to get up at 6:14 when the alarm went off.
And it didn't.
I woke up at 8 a.m. when the neighbor girl knocked on the front door. Tess got up, no problem, but when I went to wake Jillian, she said, "They won't let me in if I'm more than 15 minutes late." And refused to get up.
So I called the receptionist at school, and had her tell Jillian it was ok to be late to school. Only then did she get up.

Jesus #2

Jesus #2 -- in "Jesus of Nazareth" is better. He gets flogged, but we mainly see reaction shots of the crowd. He has blue eyes. sigh. and guy liner.
This movie is one of the spot-the-celebrity movies. Distracting from the story -- Ernest Borgnine! Larry Olivier! Anne Bancroft! James Farentino! Olivia Hussey!

Jesus #1

The Jesus in "The Greatest Story Every Told" speaks in a ponderous manner, British accent of course, and barely moves his facial muscles. and he has BLUE eyes.
Presentational staging, lots of violins and sopranos.
Everyone....speaks....really....slowly....
the crowds are silent and respectful.
oddly enough, the crown of thorns on this Jesus didn't produce any blood. and he didn't get flogged. his robe got a little dirty, and he's barefoot, but that seems to be the extent of his pre-cross suffering. oh, i take that back. there are about 7 little red stripes on the back of his robe, and his hand is bloody. Poor thing.