Re: Life Choices

[ase]

This weekend was partially consumed by Rachel Manija Brown's memoir All the Fishes Come Home to Roost. Since then I have been backspacing, typing, and backspacing again on how many of my reactions I need to overshare. You don't have to drag your child from LA, USA, to an ashram in an Indian backwater to demonstrate poor parenting skills. In the meantime: look! Treecat! Discuss?

The rest of this week is going to go fast: work evening event Wednesday, Wicked Thursday night, jd birthday celebration Friday. Somewhere in there needs to be more job applications than I've managed so far this week. I remain distressed by my net negative cash flow, but as I said at a networking event tonight, most people who knew me pre- and post-move think getting off the East Coast was a really good idea for me. So it's time to stop hiding under a comforting blanket of Stephenson and KSR novels demonstrate adaptability and apply to more jobs.

Buying Wicked tickets was probably spendthrift, foolish and downright immoral, but it's leaving town at the end of the week and K, instigator of plans, really wanted to see the musical. K is super excited and is getting me hyped up too: I like anticipation, it seems to add some sparkle to whatever event you're going to. I guess that's value added entertainment? An occasion becomes special because you make it so. I may go all out and mess with the makeup kit for this one! Makeup users, what moisturizers do you use to counteract the powder drying out your face? And how on Earth do you get the mascara back off? That stuff burns!

Comments

here because i'm reading other ppl's flists, hoping i don't come off as a snob

[vellum]

i really don't think it's the moisturizer. you don't need powder over your whole face, just the shiny or ruddy parts. if you're using a pressed powder, try dabbing it on with the sponge instead of streaking, if you're using a loose powder, use less. if, er, the make-up is cheap, that might be an issue too because cheaper make-up isn't milled as finely and will sit and clump on your skin instead of blending.

i use aveeno body moisturizer on my face. sunscreen on top of that, then clinique loose powder. i don't touch my l'oreal anymore.

for the mascara removal, i use two round cotton pads. the first one's folded in half, spritzed liberally with eye make-up remover, place that right under your eye, close eye, and make sure your lashes rest on top of it. with the second pad, also liberally applied with remover, go at it from above, gently with downward strokes (i use rimmel eye make-up remover on my regular mascara because it's constantly on sale; i use make up forever for anything waterproof because whoa does it work but the mini-bottle i have doesn't squeeze well so i have to use q-tips and it takes forever)