Now that I'm older, my formerly combo skin is dry, plus uber sensitive. I get eczema and rosacea, lucky me! Hence the need for something to smooth out the complexion a bit.

Crazy more sensitive. I didn't know my skin could get more sensitive. But I'm at a BB year round now because it's got a sunscreen that my face tolerates. Mostly.

"I'm sorry, but that's not in the scope of my job. And I'm buried under my own responsibilities right now. Good luck in getting it taken care of."

I'm using this.

Today I actually got to say, "oh, are we just saying that now? Out loud? I thought we didn't say that. Out loud." When it was clearly stated that one person at work is unreliable, won't do his job and is basically a hot mess. Of course I also clearly told my boss I had murderous feels when confronted with stupid clients. She laughed. And refused to fire me. I pleaded. She also brought her husband's truck to help me take a ginormous crate home. I like my boss. Except when she refuses to fire me. Probably that's good in the longer term.

My face really only sweats when I'm putting on make up - maybe I get nervous or something.

I get this not infrequently. But I realized it's anxiety usually. Not about makeup but often makeup is getting ready to leave the house and, ugh, people.

My face really only sweats when I'm putting on make up - maybe I get nervous or something.

My face sweats for a long time after I've taken a shower, for no reason I understand, I don't take hot showers, but it makes putting on make-up right after showering really problematic.

Now that I'm older, my formerly combo skin is dry, plus uber sensitive. I get eczema and rosacea, lucky me! Hence the need for something to smooth out the complexion a bit.

Burrell, we are skin twins.

You know how, when you're waiting on something to happen that's overdue (hello, paychecks), and you post about it, sometimes it shows up in the next hour? (That's happened to me more times than I can recall.)

I am oh-so-impatiently waiting for the final photos from the photo shoot I did. It was on October 22, and the timeline they give for the photos to be ready after a shoot like that is 3-4 weeks. I had been hoping they would have been ready earlier this week, because Wednesday was Tim's birthday, and that's the whole reason I did it in the first place.

So I emailed them on Wednesday to ask if they had an ETA on the photos, and they said "by this weekend." I'm starting to suspect that's going to mean 11 p.m. Sunday night. I am the WORST at waiting on stuff, dang it. Every time my email counter ticks up by 1 new email, I switch tabs, all excited, because SURELY the pictures are ready...and no dice.

So this is my attempt to manipulate the universe by complaining about something that I'm waiting on. (And I will laugh my ass off if in fact the pictures show up within an hour.)

Listening and hoping for the sound of Teppy laughter. (also wanna see pics!)

It's one of those days that wherever the sun shines is warm and shade is cool and even a hint of breeze is damn chilly. I've been adjusting layers about every five minutes when outside and every hour inside.

I went through about half my wardrobe and culled with mostly extreme prejudice. There is one drawer I admit is purely sentimental and that's okay. But if it's anywhere else that I've sorted, tried on and didn't approve, it's in one of four huge bags in my trunk to be donated to the local battered women's shelter and what is not of use to them, can be sold at their thrift store. I'm extremely unmotivated to finish this task today but maybe tomorrow.

I hope your manipulation works, Tep.

I was supposed to drive back to NJ today, but I wasn't feeling great, so I decided to drive tomorrow instead. Probably a good decision -- I just took a five-hour nap.

Today has been really long. I had a meeting for Thursday/Friday. we have a plan. Hopefully it will go off without a hitch, although I'm worried about one guy's tendancy to wander (and be an asshole, but mostly just wander). We also have our scheduled lunch breaks. Today someone got off the schedule & caught up with a customer and didn't convey that another person should go first and by the time it was figured out everyone realized that the last person getting a dinner break will be taking it an hour before we close.

And someone is leaving, he's the "Apple Specialist" which means he primaroily sells Apple stuff and gets a loaner iPad we're supposed to use for work. It's a full time position and our Apple vendor (who doesn't sell but tells everyone how great Apple is and explains how things work) pulled me aside and said "I really want you to be the new Apple Specialist." I hadn't thought about it, so I went around and told the manager and sales manager, R - whose reaction was "Well of course! that was the plan."

So that's cool. I'm not currently doing a ton of online apple training.

We had the HP rep there who I don't like and the OLD HP rep who got fired for being unethical or something and now working for Intel (I think) and is super creepy. They both kept trying to sell stuff directly to customers and the HP guy keeps leading people to think he works for the store (he doesn't not) and the Intel guy was just being creepy. I don't know why he's allowed in the store.

I have tomorrow off. I may try to go Christmas shopping.

I hope your manipulation works, Tep.

Alas, it has not. The universe must have caught wind of my plan.