vw, I thought you were off this week?

Just from school...not work. I wish I was. I could have used the week off. It's been a hella week.

Just took a painkiller. That's not gonna help with the getting moving.

now, is ginger Snaps a real horror movie or can I watch it at night?

You can totally watch it at night.

I didn't find Gingersnaps particularly scary. I liked it a lot, but not because of any scare factor.

I, too, wish I was going to the F2F. Both for the meeting all the nifty folks factor and now the potential getting made over factor. Ah well. This is what I get for chosing getting a couch and paying off debt over fun social stuff.

Someone mentioned dying eyelashes upthread. Is this particularly difficult or expensive? No matter how allegedly waterproof or smearproof mascara is, it always ends up under my eyes halfway through the day. So dying my light, light brown lashes would be great. They're long--they just about touch my glasses--but no one can see them because they pretty much match my skin.

I need to get mine done again - generally I've found the only places that do it are fairly upscale salons, but it's not an expensive treatment itself. I love it - my eyelashes are really pale as well, and when I used to get it done regularly (which = every 6 weeks or so) she'd use a blue black that meant I could roll out of bed and still look a bit put together.

The eyelash-dyeing part cost about $15, IIRC, and it took maybe 10 minutes. I used to do it myself, before the FDA pulled eyelash dye from the market. (I've heard that eyelash dye is available in other countries.) This was a better job than I ever did for myself, though. Over years of discarded mascaras, I have yet to find one that I'm not allergic to that will stay on my eyelashes more than an hour or so. I have oily eyelids.

I need to e-mail work and tell them I'm not coming in. I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm just... I'm so embarrassed and frustrated.

sweet vw, are you making the decision to not go to work because your health demands you rest at this time, or are you having a shame attack because of being late? whatever is going on, we are 100% on your side, hoping and praying for you to feel better, healthier, stronger, happier.

I can't get going, because I am in a lot of pain. I haven't even walked the dog yet.

I just e-mailed them. We'll see what they say. I'm really scared that this is it. And, even more scared that it should be.