Toenail Karma (UPDATED...)
I`m sorry, but the post below is too weird and gloomy to be on the top of my blog -- especially if I don`t have time to post again before we leave, and it`s up there for a week or so.
So allow me to indulge in something frivolous. Remember how I rationalized the enormous sum I paid to have our used guinea pigs inspected, and get them pedicures, by vowing to forgo toenail work myself?
Well, Tim`s foot, though greatly improved, is still a little bit nasty looking, even though he finished his course of antibiotics. The person who will be taking care of our house and animals while we`re gone is a nurse, who doesn`t mind giving a little piggy a dropper of medicine twice a day.
So I called the vet, who just as a precaution, agreed to refill his prescription. Even though I have a gadzillion things to do before we leave, I drove all the way downtown to pick it up.
The medicine cost almost exactly the same as a human pedicure, plus tip -- so to reward myself for so responsibly maintaining our companion animal, I went and had my own piggies done. I rationalized that it had been over a year since I got a pedicure, and my feet were beginning to look like GUY feet.
But my real cosmic reward came right after my pedicure. I went to the Goodwill store in West Portal, and found a really cool Dolce & Gabbana greyish tee-shirt in brand new condition that fits me perfectly -- for $10.99.
So off I go to Japan, with my new shirt and my bright red toenails. Look out, world -- here comes a nicely-groomed middle-aged woman, with an attitude.
Stay well, all of you. I`ll be back before you know it.
(UPDATED to say that I just heard from a friend that Shiba Pool, our favorite cheap public swimming place in Tokyo, is closed for renovations. Our favorite fantastic 1960's playground with its enormous crazy slide at Takaragaike Koen in Kyoto is also closed for renovations. Perhaps this is a cosmic signal that we need to....renovate?
P.S. What does it mean when you bump into friends in church, expecting them to notice your new radically shorter haircut that you worry shows off all of your facial fat....and the only compliments they give you are on your nice pedicure? Either I`m right about the unflattering haircut, or my feet look truly impressive. Oh well....it will grow back....both toenails and hair....)
So allow me to indulge in something frivolous. Remember how I rationalized the enormous sum I paid to have our used guinea pigs inspected, and get them pedicures, by vowing to forgo toenail work myself?
Well, Tim`s foot, though greatly improved, is still a little bit nasty looking, even though he finished his course of antibiotics. The person who will be taking care of our house and animals while we`re gone is a nurse, who doesn`t mind giving a little piggy a dropper of medicine twice a day.
So I called the vet, who just as a precaution, agreed to refill his prescription. Even though I have a gadzillion things to do before we leave, I drove all the way downtown to pick it up.
The medicine cost almost exactly the same as a human pedicure, plus tip -- so to reward myself for so responsibly maintaining our companion animal, I went and had my own piggies done. I rationalized that it had been over a year since I got a pedicure, and my feet were beginning to look like GUY feet.
But my real cosmic reward came right after my pedicure. I went to the Goodwill store in West Portal, and found a really cool Dolce & Gabbana greyish tee-shirt in brand new condition that fits me perfectly -- for $10.99.
So off I go to Japan, with my new shirt and my bright red toenails. Look out, world -- here comes a nicely-groomed middle-aged woman, with an attitude.
Stay well, all of you. I`ll be back before you know it.
(UPDATED to say that I just heard from a friend that Shiba Pool, our favorite cheap public swimming place in Tokyo, is closed for renovations. Our favorite fantastic 1960's playground with its enormous crazy slide at Takaragaike Koen in Kyoto is also closed for renovations. Perhaps this is a cosmic signal that we need to....renovate?
P.S. What does it mean when you bump into friends in church, expecting them to notice your new radically shorter haircut that you worry shows off all of your facial fat....and the only compliments they give you are on your nice pedicure? Either I`m right about the unflattering haircut, or my feet look truly impressive. Oh well....it will grow back....both toenails and hair....)
posted by L. at 7:55 AM
9 Comments:
Noooooooo don't leave us!!! By the time you get back I will be ensconced in my new apartment, enjoying my new DSL, Pygless and fancy-free. And I for one am GLAD you started the guinea-pig blogging, because I had started thinking a guinea pig might make a cute starter pet for my pyglets, but after seeing those pictures in the article about their arses and the poo-eating? NO WAY.
Ahh pedicures. For three months I put off a pedicure because everytime I had a free moment, something else came up. So I bought a kit and learned how to do them myself. Granted, there is not sub for the sitting-in-a-spa-and-being catered-to feeling, but at least my feet no longer look like you put it "guy feet" during sandal season.
Yay for red piggies, Goodwill finds, and traveling.
Have a great trip. I'll be around when you get back.
Have a great trip - we'll be waiting to see you all back safe and sound!
have fun I am sooo jelous!!!
Have a great trip.
:o)
I'm sure your haircut looks better than my mushroom do. Trust me. We can commiserate. :)
Enjoy your trip! BTW, it is VERY hot here...
Have a fabulous trip. I've been lurking recently, not commenting as have had non-stop visitors since the middle of June, so am a bit behind in my hellos and bon voyages.
Oh, man. I have the face fat self-consciousness after a new hair cut too. And when people don't comment on a radically shorter hair cut, I am always so paranoid. I think it's always much worse in our own views, though. I'm sure you look lovely. And I know hearing that from a stranger who's never seen you in person means absolutely nothing. Sorry...
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