I have just had a fantastic bath. The temperature was just right, the candles flickered warmly, the steam and shadows and heat relaxed me completely. I’m on a ‘make upper arms not so red-and-white spotty’ mission so I’ve been bathing with copious amounts of Aqueous BP and exfoliating like crazy for the past few days. The sudden interest in my upper arms is of course because they will be on show in my fancy dress for the wedding on Wednesday. The red and white blotchyness, some form of mild eczema no doubt, really wouldn’t look great with an otherwise elegant and classy dress.
I seem to be getting it under control anyway, and in optimal condition for a little touch of very, very light fake tan on the day in question - just enough to even the skin tone, never enough to streak and look orangey.
I’ve actually had quite a pleasant surprise so far with all this getting dressed up lark, I’m actually enjoying it a little bit. I found perfect shoes, which turned out to be twenty euros less than I had figured I was going to have to pay. I found the perfect lipstick (I needed a neutral pale pinkish shade to compliment the black and silver eye colour). And numerous other little touches have come together nicely to leave me actually looking forward to getting dressed up and strutting my stuff. I’m particularly energised about it all because Benny is looking forward to seeing me dressed up, and I’m looking forward to seeing him in his suit (all the main men are wearing a nice rented fancy suit, I saw it on him during the fitting and it looked, um, very nice). It’s probably just good old fashioned showing off, but I want us to look good, and it’s enjoyable to fit all the puzzle pieces together to make it happen, once in a blue moon, I hasten to add.
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We took a trip to Enniskillen today, stocked up like a nuclear apocalypse was coming, as usual. Much as I’d like to discuss some of the bargains I got and the lengthy list of organic lentils we found, the bed is calling and Millie is demanding some cuddles before I lie down.
So, we WILL see pictures, won’t we?
I don’t know if we’ll see pictures, Gord - We never did see the outfit with the red necklace…
It does sound like you’ll both look very chic. It’s fun to get all gussied up every now and again. Although it’s been a very l o n g time since I’ve worn a dress! hehe.
my goodness!
yeah me want piccies! glad you are enjoying the dressing up.. it is fun when its not a stressful pressure. my weekend wedding just there nearly gave me a hernia trying to pop into town to quickly find something nice while trying to get big important appication sent off. gah. worked out ok in the end though.
enjoy the pampering! will be made all the more effective with that glow of ‘i got the job. i got the job’!
Ah lovely, hope to see piccies too! I love seeing Dermot in a suit too, it makes them look so handsome. Now that you’re going to such an effort, you should go all out and get a few loose curls in your hair or something. You have the hair for it so ya do