I have no idea how to properly pluck my eyebrows so I get them waxed every couple months. I've thought about going down to Tampa to try getting my brows 'threaded' but haven't done it yet. Since I naturally have thicker brows, I do the "Brooke Shields brows" fairly well.

A couple years ago I got a spa treatment package as a gift. The woman doing my facial waxed my brows and did them more traditionally. It was strange seeing my brows so thin!

I like the two ouches and some yipes approach. My pain threshold is generally really high -- but trying to tweeze my own brows reduces me to a whimpering child.

My mom and I went to the new Sephora in my hometown of St. Joseph -- it's a teeny one INSIDE the Penney's, huh?? -- and I tried some dark circle fix that I've been eyeing (heh) in the Benefit catalog for years. But I'm a try before you buy girl when it comes to high end makeup.

It was called Lemon-Aid and I quite liked it! It lightened and softened my dark cicles without that annoying glitter, and did not cake.

OTOH, Smashbox's new O-Glow lipgloss looked like flourescent ass.

But I saw my mom buy me a travel size of Tarte's gelly blush, which I have also lusted for for years, but the regular size is just to honking big. I'd never use it before it dried up. I'd have to rouge my nipples a la Josephine twice a day just to get through half!

Hey, the puppies have a new bed! wider with shorter walls. Does anyone else have trouble getting sound? It seems to go in and out on my computer. It was especially frustrating when puppy!mistress was picking them up and holding them up to the camera and introducing them and I couldn't hear her!

It was called Lemon-Aid

Oh, I love Lemon-Aid-- I often combine it with YSL Touch Eclat and the two blend together nicely and do a pretty good job of making it look as if I've gotten decent sleep.

Especially important during conferences because I can't sleep for squat in hotels and by the end of the week I look like a mugging victim.

where poor women who'd given birth out of wedlock could leave their babies, and the nuns would take care of them.

There's a really excellent book about child abandonment called The Kindness of Strangers. >[link] In Rome, there was was an area in the Forum where children were left and were often secretly "adopted" because of incentives for citizens to have children or because of the lack of a male heir.