Things That Happened in March

On Sunday afternoon, armed with iPhone photos and an actual desire to write, I flopped on the couch with my laptop ready to blog. And then that thing happened that I don't want to talk about. So instead I spent several hours in a depressive funk, stress-cleaning my apartment before attempting to forget about it entirely by watching "Mad Men." Which did work for a few hours and then it was back to trying not to think about that thing that happened that I don't want to talk about.

But now, several days later, again armed with iPhone photos and a desire to write, I'll post some thoughts and photos of my March happenings. All of which are things that happened before that thing that happened that I don't want to talk about.

March 13

I've been so lax about going to the theatre this year. As in, seeing "Spamalot" with my roommate the second week of March was my first show of 2012. Shameful. But what a good show to see! And my second time doing so. Unlike the last time I saw it in London, when my only Monty Python knowledge came from Wikipedia, I now know more about the group and have seen the "Holy Grail" movie, making the play all the more enjoyable. As was seeing it with the roomie, since I rarely seem to go to plays with others.

March 14

The officemates and I celebrated Pi Day by taking an afternoon trip to La Madeleine for some pie/mini-tarts. And why yes, we may have timed it so we ordered at 3:14. Because we are that cool. And also, as we're all writers, any time we can actually enjoy numbers, we pounce on it.

March 20

Grocery store blooms purchased to honor the first day of Spring. When will I stop forgetting how happy fresh flowers in the apartment make me?

March 22

 I try to get out and about during the day on Thursdays when I work from home. Last Thursday I had an appointment and took a different route home to my apartment. It was a route that happened to be flanked by flowering trees. Perfection.

March 23

Before that thing that happened that I don't want to talk about happened, there was still hope, fun, and a Friday in the office in which I wore a Carolina tshirt and a "5" on my wrist. And then there was Brandie and me at a sports bar for 4 hours talking, drinking, eating, watching, stressing, and then sighing. I also drew a "5" on her wrist and we think the waitress thought we were exchanging numbers. Oh well, we're both great catches.

My last post mentioned me trying to find something to wear for this game and I think Mom asked me what that ended up being. (And if she didn't just pretend she did to justify yet another lame bathroom mirror post.) So I went with this year's official student shirt. (Which prompted one of my coworker's to feign shock/concern and ask, "Wait, what? Together we are Carolina?") But since I'm such a diva who can't just wear a plain tshirt out and about, I cuffed the sleeves using hem tape and tied a knot in the back to make it fit better. We'll just call this tricks of the trade.  

March 25

My first pedicure of the season! I also splurged and got a manicure, only the fourth professional one I've ever had. But considering it started chipping the next day, there won't be a fifth one anytime soon.

 

Other things that happened this month: brunches with a friend, book club, Parks and Rec rerun watching, trans-continental Facetime with Jan, basketball, basketball, basketball, and a broken heart. The end.

Day 359: Christmas Eve will find you

Time for everyone to meet Ed and Fred, the false eyelashes I've had for many months but finally wore tonite, briefly, at Christmas Eve dinner.

As they were itchy and freaking out the brother, I took them off and put them...somewhere. Probably should go find them before someone finds them in their cookies or soup tomorrow.

Day 339: What can't mud do?

Every time I go to Sephora I tell myself I won't spend a lot of money, and I won't make it somehow a new thing. Today, shockingly, thanks to a $15 off coupon, I didn't spend a lot, but I did make it something new. Thanks to my lovely "beauty insider" reward card having enough points, I got to choose from three free samples, and I chose this hair mud mask thing. Though I've used facial mud masks for years, today I applied a conditioning mud "mask" to my hair for the first time. It didn't go on as thick as I'd hope, but after leaving it on under a hot towel for 15 minutes, it left my hair really smooth, shiny, and smelling good. I think the free sample has done its job, I want more.

Day 308: French for a day

It never ceases to amaze me both the amount of stuff I have, and the amount of stuff I have that I forget about. This is not something I'm proud of, in fact, I'm quite ashamed of it, but that's not the point. The point is when moving around stuff I came across these nifty peel on nail polish strips thing from Avon. I don't know if they are available anymore, and Mom gave me the french manicure ones ages ago, but I just now, for no reason, decided to give myself an instant manicure.

Day 303: Playing around

I made a quick trip to the mall tonite to find the last piece of my Halloween costume. Which, of course, I did not find. To console myself I wondered into Sephora to play around. This resulted in trying on $42 concealer and "intuitive" blush. The absurdly expensive concealer did nothing to conceal the absurd pimple above my lip. And the intuitive blush, which goes on clear and then apparently magically determines what it thinks is your best color, decided Barbie doll hot pink is what looks best on me. Needless to say, the concealer and blush are safely in their bins, while the top coat and lip butter went home with me.