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Side note, but have you ever tried walking a cat on a leash? Scratch that. I mean, have you ever tried to put a leash on a cat? Today, feeling guilty about taking away his freedom by making him an indoor cat, I tried to put a kitty harness on Tabs to get him some sun out on the deck. Yeah… he wasn’t into it.
What are you doing tonight? Anything good on TV?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
So, now I have a new excuse to accessorize. 🙂 I’m looking for a cute way to tote around my two newly prescribed inhalers, which will be joining the tubes of lipgloss, cans of cat food and random acorns I usually have on me at any given time.
I spent this morning scouring the Net for a sassy wristlet/clutch and found these 12 colorful options, each one priced for either budget babes or lavish ladies. 🙂
And check it: you don’t need to have a medical condition to get down with one of these little bags. No, ma’am. They’d also make perfect companions for on-the-go makeup essentials like lipglosses, blotting papers and purse-sized perfumes!
Dear Makeup Gods,
Please make me an eyeshadow in this color.
Xoxo,
K-Money
Hark, a Dark Angel cometh, and she’s got bitchin’ hot hair!
Okay, so I just walked in the door from seeing Avatar (the 2D version… I KNOW! The theater was closer to home), and, yeah, I loved every minute of its FernGully-ish, eyeball-kissing spectacle. 🙂 That Jimmy James Cameron (Aliens, Terminators 1 and 2, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic) sure has some science fiction film making chops, right?
Makes me wonder if Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981; NOTE: She doesn’t star in Avatar), when she learned back in 2000 that she’d been picked to star in Cameron’s short-lived Dark Angel TV series, thought, “OMG! I’m going to be taking orders from James Cameron!? How cool is this?”
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that Jessica’s bad girl looks and lascivious locks had something to do with her getting the part. And yet she’s managed to maintain a strict no-nudity clause in her acting contracts throughout her career, once saying, “I don’t do nudity. I just don’t. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won’t get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety.”
It didn’t stop her from taking the No. 1 spot on Maxim’s Hot 100 list in 2001, or AskMen.com’s list of the 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006.
I don’t know about any of that, but daaaayam, girl has some foine hair.
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Karen
Diamond Head, overlooking Waikiki Beach on Oahu, HI
Oh, you guys. 🙂 I just finished reading all of your comments and feel like a new woman. I guess I’m just gonna keep on keepin’ on. For better or worse, that’s all we can do.
This afternoon I fired up the old tea pot and spent a long, lazy hour sipping tea and surfing the web.
What follows are the highlights of my tea-fueled e-adventure…
I’ve been a fan of Basement Jaxx for years; check out the voguing bears!
I’ve been meaning to ask if you’ve seen Avatar. Is it as amazing as I’ve heard? I’m going to try to force myself to the movies tonight (gotta get out of the house). What did you think of the 3D?
Have you seen any other movies you could recommend? I have some movie catching up to do.
Talk to you soon. 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Hi, ladies. How are you? 🙂 I hope everything on your end’s going well and that you had a fun New Year’s.
I know I’ve been MIA for a few days, which is totally unusual. For going on three years now (since Feb. ’07), we’ve chatted at least once a day, so I’m sorry.
Suffice it to say, I’m not quite feeling like my usual self. I haven’t wanted to burden you with it, though, and so I’ve kept quiet.
But I figure that sharing is probably better than just holding it all in, so here goes…
The death of my friend’s dad hit me hard. It’s a deep and profound sadness, one I’ve never felt before. My heart’s flooded with a sorrow that I’ve so far been unable to handle.
Part of it’s the pain I feel for my friend. We’ve been close since childhood, being there for one another, and because she’s hurting, I am too.
The other part has been the realization that one day I will also mourn the loss of my father.
I keep seeing the image of my friend at the funeral, walking behind the coffin that held her dad, sobbing in her brother’s arms. I keep hearing the sound of her voice as she struggled to sing one last song for him (The Rainbow Connection) at his grave site because he loved the sound of her voice so much.
It’s all weighing down my heart like an anchor…
Adding to my general malaise, the cough I picked up last week (which I didn’t think worth mentioning) officially turned into a “thing” my doctor calls “reactive airway disease.”
But thanks to two oh-so-sexy inhalers (looking for a cute wristlet in which to carry them), I’m finally getting better.
I woke up to the soothing sound of a light rain outside my window. I listened to it for a while, and then it stopped. Then a brief silence, and then a symphony of birds chirping and singing, “Rise and shine, Karen! It’s time to get up! Come on, let’s go. Get up, get up, get up!”
And so I did. 🙂
I’m suddenly reminded of everything good in the world, like you — a kind and generous person who takes time out of your busy day to spend it daydreaming with me about makeup or dinner plans or school or work or life.
Yes, I know this sounds corny, but I want to thank you for being you. Through everything, the good stuff and the bad, you’ve been there for me.
I can feel my joy rising to the surface again… bobbing up and down in a sea of makeup and beauty.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Tabs posing with his favorite MAC powder, Blot in Medium Dark ($21).
