I went shopping with Gia this morning because she announced yesterday that she needed new clothes and Gia rarely shops, and when she does, rarely buys anything because she's 12 year old picky. So this was a big deal. Apparently the 6th grade styling is changing, and now everyone is wearing a dress to school (and she has none). So we we went shopping, and I will tell you, never in my life have I noticed how many sick people there are! It's of course because everywhere you turn people are saying, "avoid sick people". You also hear constantly that corvid-19 can be contagious even if people have mild symptoms. Well, everyone seemed to be coughing and or sniffling. It's still winter, so it's totally normal of course, but now when you hear it all you can think is "cold, or corona? It's confusing. We stopped to get gas and the guy who took my credit card literally took it, coughed on it, put it into the machine and then handed it back. Time to find the hand sanitizer. I'm sticking with my effort to not freak out, so this is more of just a commentary, but how the heck can we stop a virus when literally everyone seems to be sick and unless they are the 1 out of 5 people who get serious enough symptoms to go to the doctor, they could be passing it all over the place and not realize it. How many times have I muscled thru and gone to the grocery store, or run errands feeling sick (because you kind of have to sometimes)? Too many to count.
Update on my microbladed brows...it's still hard to tell whether they will be amazing. I only had them done yesterday, so I'm still very much in the healing process. Microblading is basically tiny cuts that they fill with ink--it's sort of like a tattoo, but not as deep and they're strokes rather than dots. The procedure itself didn't hurt, but my face sort of ached last night from it. They warn you though that your brows will be sort of an odd auburn color for a 3-4 days (because the cuts basically are red, and that combines with the ink to form an auburn color), and then your brows go DARK....Groucho Marx dark, 'I took a sharpie to my brows' dark. They also shrink over the first week, so they are, as of now, still very large and in charge, AND dark (but with a funky auburn tint). It's not pretty and I can't look at anyone very long because I know they are inevitable going to stare at my eyebrows. I think when I'm healed up though, and they lighten up, I'm going to love them...but right now it's still a little hard to tell.
I did also make the most delicious beet chips last night, and they were so easy that I'm going to rethink my whole attitude toward beets (which use to be that they are hard to cook). I simply sliced them thin (if I had a mandolin I'd really be in business). Then I drizzled them with olive oil and chunky salt and cooked them until crispy. YUM. Really yum. I'm a firm advocate of any vegetable drowned in olive oil and salt and crisped in the oven--it's like a chip, and I love chips.
Also very delightful is the new Eileen Fisher. It's full of white, and I LOVE white, especially paired with little punches of color. You know how lots of people gravitate toward classic black? I gravitate toward white, love white head to toe, and feel like it's my preferred essential color. I'd wear white linen 100% of the time if I lived in a tropical climate. No joke. It's a pretty awesome group though, with lots of wonderful pieces (this might have been my personal favorite Spring EF group)!
Signed, ME
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