🙂 Wednesday, Linda took Elvera to have her fingers and toes done professionally. She came out with pin fingernails. That is the first, only time I remember Elvera having her fingernails painted.
She likes her pink fingernails.
I told you before, lipstick is the only makeup she has ever used.
Once, while she was still working for an insurance company in Columbia, she forgot to put lipstick on. Nobody said anything to her. She later learned from a friend that the people there thought she had joined a Pentecostal church.
😆
Chuck & Linda are on a plane to Antigua. Did I mention that I like the modern technology.
When I left home for Arabia, my parents never heard from me again for a week. .
I wear lipstick, and I darken my eyebrows a bit. For most of my adult life, I wouldn’t have gone out of the house without at least a line of eyeliner over my lids, but I haven’t been able to wear any eye make-up for the past couple or so years. If I wasn’t afraid of the possible danger to my eyes, I’d consider getting an eyeliner tattoo.
No lipstick, no makeup of any kind, and it isn’t because of any church requirements or upbringing. I just can’t be bothered having to ‘put on my face’ every morning. It makes situations, like the day this week when I awoke to discover that my alarm had been accidentally for PM instead of AM and there was only a half hour to get to school, much more manageable.
I don’t wear it because when I tried, I could never make it work. Then I thought of the money involved and the time involved and figured God made this way, deal with it.
Co-worker (one who took the buyout so she could go to paralegal school, she’s in her early 50s) recently had a “makeover” done at Sephora. She was surprised to learn that the foundation she’d been wearing was like 6 shades too dark. 🙂 You can’t even tell she’s wearing makeup with what they used on her (though several “products” were involved, all applied sparingly and with a very light touch) and she looks wonderful. Her skin just glows.
😦 Major layoffs at work with more to come. The cuts by our tycoon owners seem designed to take us down to the bone.
😦 The loss of experience and talent, not to mention needed resources that were already severely depleted.
😦 Similar things going on at the LA Times. It feels as if the LA journalism market is quickly unraveling before our eyes and causing widespread personal misery and angst as it goes.
🙂 But God …
😦 Driveway complications in filling in the little strip where the foundation was done (they had to tear out the concrete along the side of the house and we always thought we’d put pavers in there, but for some reason that won’t work now). Always something.
I love make up and potions and creams.
What I don’t love is dry skin and not being able to use lotion because it makes my skin itch. I really was afraid I had a staph infection earlier this week. I buy Eucerin because it isn’t supposed to make me itch, but it does too.
😦 Younger daughter and I were supposed to go to “Pride and Prejudice” yesterday, with a couple of teens from our church in the play, and she asked if we could go to the later showing instead and then she overslept. And honestly, with ugly and overcast weather, weeks of mostly being in the house with a sick husband, I was looking forward to the outing.
🙂 We’re in the tail end of January, with February just around the corner. I much prefer February–usually less snow, a short month, and days are getting noticeably longer. After February comes March, which is usually another hard one because I’m really sick of winter by then, but February always feels like “we’re getting there” and it’s more hopeful.
🙂 I got an editing project last night, a rare event in January.
Kim, I know someone in Alabama (wink, wink) who sells “lotion alternatives” with all natural ingredients supposed to be better for dry skin–including a couple she developed for the daughter with eczema (though she can’t make any medical claims for her products). If you want the link to her site, I can resend it.
I can take makeup or leave it. I’m not willing to spend an hour doing my face, so if I put on any it is usually just two or three minutes and I’m done, though I will do more for a date.
Under “lotion alternatives,” the one labeled “Susie’s intensive skin care” was developed for her daughter with eczema, but there are several other options as well. (I love the chocolate kisses lip balm, but that’s in a different section.)
No makeup for me either. I got glasses with a frame that I like that outlines my eyes, perhaps that is my makeup.
I don’t even use soap on my face unless I have done something to get sweaty. With the forced air heat in the missions house I had to quit using soap on my arms as my skin was so dried out.
There are a couple reasons I have bothered with make-up (although, as I mentioned above, it’s only lipstick and eyebrows I bother with now, and they’re not really even a bother). The main one is that with my facial abnormality (partial facial paralysis due to Moebius Syndrome), I try to accentuate the positive. Another reason is that I am very pale, my lips are naturally pale, too, and now so are my eyebrows. I would have no face without a little color added! 🙂
Btw, I use brown eye shadow on my brows, not an eyebrow pencil. Goes on quicker and easier. I found out recently that some other women do that, too.
I tried makeup two or three times in teen/young adult years before someone taught me how to do it well enough I was willing to use it regularly. After my second son I stopped as I had more than enough to do getting ready in the morning without that, but eventually my husband asked me to start using it again. So I do, because he likes it (same as why I color my hair). Just eye shadow and lipstick, plus concealer under my eyes – takes less than a minute.
🙂 My son decided to try reading Murder on the Orient Express, which he found on one of my bookshelves, and yesterday evening he took both his Nintendo DS and the book to a game at school (where he had to be to play in the pep band), and ended up never getting his DS out because he was enjoying the book so much.
😦 Our union voted to authorize a strike vote.
🙂 I am doing a “Turtle Triathlon” at the Y. We have 42 days to run/walk 26.2 miles, bike 112 miles, and either swim 2.4 miles or do 25,000 meters on the rowing machine. In the first week, I have walked 6.25 miles (mostly on the elliptical machine, because just walking the dog two days in a row had me limping from the pain in one foot), biked at least 22 miles (a conservative estimate, because the screen on my exercise bike at home is broken, but I know I do at least 15 mph on the bike at the Y), and rowed almost 7000 meters.
I just use a brow shadow (light) powder on my brows, fills in and slightly darkens but looks natural.
I look better with makeup, even just a little bit. I think probably most women do. And I spend less than 3 minutes, tops, putting on a bit of light brown stick shadow, a light coat of mascara, tinted moisturizer & blush (which works on lips too). It’s quick and easy enough for a much brighter look. 🙂 Mornings aren’t my thing.
The LA Times newsroom voted overwhelmingly to join a union a couple weeks ago. Since then, something of a mysterious “shadow” newsroom has been hired by the owners, working under a different company name. Hmmm. There’s no winning in journalism these days, sadly.
… After decades of successful resistance by management and years of demoralizing cutbacks, the Times’s journalists voted overwhelmingly last week to unionize. Before bargaining can begin, however, reporters are concerned about a plan by the Times’s management to reorganize the way the paper produces news.
Under a new “pyramid” structure proposed this month, a network of nonstaff contributors would produce the bulk of the information the Times publishes online. Reporters say the paper has quietly begun hiring a cadre of editors to supervise the reorganization, which would effectively create a new company within the company.
The man who introduced the plan — blindsiding the newsroom when he presented it to an investor conference in New York — was publisher Ross Levinsohn, the fifth person to hold that title in the past five years. Last week, Levinsohn was suspended by the paper’s owner, Chicago-based Tronc, after NPR revealed a series of sexual harassment allegations against him in previous jobs. The company said it is investigating.
The state of play at the Times, as well as the existential dread swirling around it, was neatly summarized in a tweet this week by Matt Pearce, a Times national reporter and an organizer of the union effort: “Basically, anything could happen at this point at the L.A. Times and people in the newsroom could only be half surprised by it. We’re hiring [editors] that aren’t being announced to the newsroom, our publisher wants to turn us into a pyramid, and by the way, he’s under investigation.”
… Like almost every newspaper in the United States, the Times and its parent company has been buffeted for years by a precipitous decline in advertising and the flight of subscribers. During the 1990s, the Times had more than 1,000 journalists. It now employs about 400. Still, the events of recent days seem to have left both the newsroom and its readers a bit dazed and unsure of what’s coming next.
One Times reader conveyed the bafflement in a tweet on Friday: “I subscribe to LAT b/c I think it’s impt to support my local paper, & their journalists do great work. But what’s going on there is awful. Is it helpful or counterproductive for me to cancel my subscription?”
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It finally happened! After a year and a half,, they didn’t sing a song I didn’t know.
It occurred to me this morning, Each pew in our churches has eight hymnbooks on the back. Never used.
We sing from the hymn book and from the psalter (and we will soon be getting a new hymn book that includes the psalter and it’s supposed to be a better psalter).
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🙂 Wednesday, Linda took Elvera to have her fingers and toes done professionally. She came out with pin fingernails. That is the first, only time I remember Elvera having her fingernails painted.
She likes her pink fingernails.
I told you before, lipstick is the only makeup she has ever used.
Once, while she was still working for an insurance company in Columbia, she forgot to put lipstick on. Nobody said anything to her. She later learned from a friend that the people there thought she had joined a Pentecostal church.
😆
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🙂 I really like the “find friend” app on my iPhone. Chuck & Linda are going on vacation. I just checked and saw them at the airport in Newark, NJ.
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Back is better.
Pinewood Derby today; I haven’t attended one in 20 years.
Week coming up with lots of writing time.
So much to be thankful for.
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Chuck & Linda are on a plane to Antigua. Did I mention that I like the modern technology.
When I left home for Arabia, my parents never heard from me again for a week. .
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In a church years ago, an elderly lady told me I would be wanting to use lipstick by the time I turned fifty. She was mistaken.
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Some family members are thinking I should find a discreet tracking device for daughter.
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Michelle – Nightingale and The Boy are going to his first pinewood derby this afternoon. 🙂
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I wear lipstick, and I darken my eyebrows a bit. For most of my adult life, I wouldn’t have gone out of the house without at least a line of eyeliner over my lids, but I haven’t been able to wear any eye make-up for the past couple or so years. If I wasn’t afraid of the possible danger to my eyes, I’d consider getting an eyeliner tattoo.
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No lipstick, no makeup of any kind, and it isn’t because of any church requirements or upbringing. I just can’t be bothered having to ‘put on my face’ every morning. It makes situations, like the day this week when I awoke to discover that my alarm had been accidentally for PM instead of AM and there was only a half hour to get to school, much more manageable.
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I don’t wear it because when I tried, I could never make it work. Then I thought of the money involved and the time involved and figured God made this way, deal with it.
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Co-worker (one who took the buyout so she could go to paralegal school, she’s in her early 50s) recently had a “makeover” done at Sephora. She was surprised to learn that the foundation she’d been wearing was like 6 shades too dark. 🙂 You can’t even tell she’s wearing makeup with what they used on her (though several “products” were involved, all applied sparingly and with a very light touch) and she looks wonderful. Her skin just glows.
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😦 Major layoffs at work with more to come. The cuts by our tycoon owners seem designed to take us down to the bone.
😦 The loss of experience and talent, not to mention needed resources that were already severely depleted.
😦 Similar things going on at the LA Times. It feels as if the LA journalism market is quickly unraveling before our eyes and causing widespread personal misery and angst as it goes.
🙂 But God …
😦 Driveway complications in filling in the little strip where the foundation was done (they had to tear out the concrete along the side of the house and we always thought we’d put pavers in there, but for some reason that won’t work now). Always something.
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I love make up and potions and creams.
What I don’t love is dry skin and not being able to use lotion because it makes my skin itch. I really was afraid I had a staph infection earlier this week. I buy Eucerin because it isn’t supposed to make me itch, but it does too.
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😦 My husband is still sick.
🙂 He seems to be finally getting better.
😦 Younger daughter and I were supposed to go to “Pride and Prejudice” yesterday, with a couple of teens from our church in the play, and she asked if we could go to the later showing instead and then she overslept. And honestly, with ugly and overcast weather, weeks of mostly being in the house with a sick husband, I was looking forward to the outing.
🙂 We’re in the tail end of January, with February just around the corner. I much prefer February–usually less snow, a short month, and days are getting noticeably longer. After February comes March, which is usually another hard one because I’m really sick of winter by then, but February always feels like “we’re getting there” and it’s more hopeful.
🙂 I got an editing project last night, a rare event in January.
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Kim, I know someone in Alabama (wink, wink) who sells “lotion alternatives” with all natural ingredients supposed to be better for dry skin–including a couple she developed for the daughter with eczema (though she can’t make any medical claims for her products). If you want the link to her site, I can resend it.
I can take makeup or leave it. I’m not willing to spend an hour doing my face, so if I put on any it is usually just two or three minutes and I’m done, though I will do more for a date.
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Kim, it’s thathandmadesoapsite.com
Under “lotion alternatives,” the one labeled “Susie’s intensive skin care” was developed for her daughter with eczema, but there are several other options as well. (I love the chocolate kisses lip balm, but that’s in a different section.)
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No makeup for me either. I got glasses with a frame that I like that outlines my eyes, perhaps that is my makeup.
I don’t even use soap on my face unless I have done something to get sweaty. With the forced air heat in the missions house I had to quit using soap on my arms as my skin was so dried out.
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🙂 Sleeping in
🙂 Two hour nap this afternoon
😦 Why am I so tired all the time?
🙂 Huge snowfall yesterday – everything is so pretty
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There are a couple reasons I have bothered with make-up (although, as I mentioned above, it’s only lipstick and eyebrows I bother with now, and they’re not really even a bother). The main one is that with my facial abnormality (partial facial paralysis due to Moebius Syndrome), I try to accentuate the positive. Another reason is that I am very pale, my lips are naturally pale, too, and now so are my eyebrows. I would have no face without a little color added! 🙂
Btw, I use brown eye shadow on my brows, not an eyebrow pencil. Goes on quicker and easier. I found out recently that some other women do that, too.
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I tried makeup two or three times in teen/young adult years before someone taught me how to do it well enough I was willing to use it regularly. After my second son I stopped as I had more than enough to do getting ready in the morning without that, but eventually my husband asked me to start using it again. So I do, because he likes it (same as why I color my hair). Just eye shadow and lipstick, plus concealer under my eyes – takes less than a minute.
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🙂 My son decided to try reading Murder on the Orient Express, which he found on one of my bookshelves, and yesterday evening he took both his Nintendo DS and the book to a game at school (where he had to be to play in the pep band), and ended up never getting his DS out because he was enjoying the book so much.
😦 Our union voted to authorize a strike vote.
🙂 I am doing a “Turtle Triathlon” at the Y. We have 42 days to run/walk 26.2 miles, bike 112 miles, and either swim 2.4 miles or do 25,000 meters on the rowing machine. In the first week, I have walked 6.25 miles (mostly on the elliptical machine, because just walking the dog two days in a row had me limping from the pain in one foot), biked at least 22 miles (a conservative estimate, because the screen on my exercise bike at home is broken, but I know I do at least 15 mph on the bike at the Y), and rowed almost 7000 meters.
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I just use a brow shadow (light) powder on my brows, fills in and slightly darkens but looks natural.
I look better with makeup, even just a little bit. I think probably most women do. And I spend less than 3 minutes, tops, putting on a bit of light brown stick shadow, a light coat of mascara, tinted moisturizer & blush (which works on lips too). It’s quick and easy enough for a much brighter look. 🙂 Mornings aren’t my thing.
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The LA Times newsroom voted overwhelmingly to join a union a couple weeks ago. Since then, something of a mysterious “shadow” newsroom has been hired by the owners, working under a different company name. Hmmm. There’s no winning in journalism these days, sadly.
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Ah, speaking of which:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/anything-could-happen-amid-newsroom-clashes-los-angeles-times-becomes-its-own-story/
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… After decades of successful resistance by management and years of demoralizing cutbacks, the Times’s journalists voted overwhelmingly last week to unionize. Before bargaining can begin, however, reporters are concerned about a plan by the Times’s management to reorganize the way the paper produces news.
Under a new “pyramid” structure proposed this month, a network of nonstaff contributors would produce the bulk of the information the Times publishes online. Reporters say the paper has quietly begun hiring a cadre of editors to supervise the reorganization, which would effectively create a new company within the company.
The man who introduced the plan — blindsiding the newsroom when he presented it to an investor conference in New York — was publisher Ross Levinsohn, the fifth person to hold that title in the past five years. Last week, Levinsohn was suspended by the paper’s owner, Chicago-based Tronc, after NPR revealed a series of sexual harassment allegations against him in previous jobs. The company said it is investigating.
The state of play at the Times, as well as the existential dread swirling around it, was neatly summarized in a tweet this week by Matt Pearce, a Times national reporter and an organizer of the union effort: “Basically, anything could happen at this point at the L.A. Times and people in the newsroom could only be half surprised by it. We’re hiring [editors] that aren’t being announced to the newsroom, our publisher wants to turn us into a pyramid, and by the way, he’s under investigation.”
… Like almost every newspaper in the United States, the Times and its parent company has been buffeted for years by a precipitous decline in advertising and the flight of subscribers. During the 1990s, the Times had more than 1,000 journalists. It now employs about 400. Still, the events of recent days seem to have left both the newsroom and its readers a bit dazed and unsure of what’s coming next.
One Times reader conveyed the bafflement in a tweet on Friday: “I subscribe to LAT b/c I think it’s impt to support my local paper, & their journalists do great work. But what’s going on there is awful. Is it helpful or counterproductive for me to cancel my subscription?”
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I wouldn’t be caught dead without makeup, yet. I do worry about overdoing it as I age. I tell my daughters to tell me if I look ridiculous.
One of my daughters was allergic to Eucerin.
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It finally happened! After a year and a half,, they didn’t sing a song I didn’t know.
It occurred to me this morning, Each pew in our churches has eight hymnbooks on the back. Never used.
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I love the hymns. I want a hymn sing at my funeral.
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We sing hymns from the hymnals and songs from the chorus books every week. I like that. I especially like it when we don’t have music to sing to.
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We sing from the hymn book and from the psalter (and we will soon be getting a new hymn book that includes the psalter and it’s supposed to be a better psalter).
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We sang several hymns today, but most of them were to new tunes or had added choruses.
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