Melange Monday

1. One word, Boston. Please people, send good thoughts. Cross fingers, light candles, and invoke incantations. I am not just thinking of myself, it is all about Lily. She wants to go to Harvard. She is considering a dual major of International Relations and Bioethics and she also has a keen interest in the Classics.

2. Peter Thomas Roth Unwrinkle Peel Pads. LOVE-LOVE-LOVE these. Thank you, Stephanie, for telling me about them. I used them for the first time last night and my skin looks less ready for Halloween( i.e., less scary).

3. We got a new mattress this weekend to make room for a new dog, when the time is right. Unfortunately the time is not right. The in home date was a fiasco. Lily was, to say the least, not ready to commit. She liked Loki enough to date him. However she did not like him enough to share her toys, her house and most especially her Daddy. My gentle white angel turned into a ferocious bitch when Loki came to visit. After a while she calmed down and was less She-wolf warrior princess and managed begrudgingly some hospitality. She even let Loki have a bone as long as he promised to stay far away from her Daddy. But once Loki left she made it clear that she was not happy by leaving protest poops around the house. Lily's message was clear, "I am just not that into him."

I so wanted Loki to be the one. Only he wasn't. I knew it as soon as he walked in the door. Yet I tried to push past my intuition and follow my heart. However I am old enough to have learned the painful lesson of ignoring intuition. So I didn't. Happily Loki has a good home even though it is not ours. Lily is back to playing the field. She is being pursued by a Brussels Griffon named Thor who she is totally indifferent to.

4. A lip gloss that lasts. Maybelline Superstay Gloss that I found out about from A Femme d'Certain Age. I know! I am usually more of a Chanel Glossimer girl but I am tired of glosses that come off two seconds after you apply them. This colour stays put for seven hours ( Maybelline claims 12 but I think that might be a little of an overstatement). I got Wine Shine and now that I know that it actually works I am going to pick up Radiant Ruby.

5. Today is the day when I start studying for test two of the BBS's Marriage and Family Therapist Clinical Vignette exam. I am making a chart( I am highly externally motivated) for which I get a star for each hour of study. At the end of each row I am giving myself a treat of some kind. Must decide on a motivating reward other than the joy of passing the second test. Suggestions?

6. Pumpkin pie flavored yogurt with Kashi Honey Flax Crunch. Who knew breakfast could be so autumnally delicious?

7. He-weasel and I are watching the Jonathan Creek mysteries and this is making me want to live in a windmill. He-weasel tells me I wouldn't actually enjoy living in a windmill. He says they are noisy. I don't care about reality, I am enjoying the fantasy. The actual fantasy is to be able to hire a fancy shmancy architect to make me a post-modern windmill to live in. I wonder if Frank Gehry,the Don Quixote of design, does pro bono work or is this just an impossible dream?

8. 45 minutes until the studying begins. That is dread that I feel. I was reading a message board on studying for the exam and someone suggested making studying fun. I am open to the idea only I can't come up with a way to make that happen. I am open to suggestions.

9. As I make my study plan I am realizing that part of the non-fun of studying is that during my six weeks of studying I am only going to be able to blog two days a week. I think I am going to, until I am done with this test, only blog on Tuesdays and Thursdays. When I am done with the test I am going back to the old schedule. Seriously, you bloggers with a job and kids, I don't know how you manage to keep up your blog; truly you amaze me! And I under amaze me with how little I can manage to juggle. I have no juggling skills. I throw one ball in the air and I am sure the next ball is going to hit me in the head and then everything comes crashing down and then I want to put all the balls down and take a nap.

10. Lucky me!!!! I got to spend yesterday with Enc. We lunched and did a little shopping. I saw a gorgeous sweater at JCrew that was a beautiful beige. I wished out loud that I could wear a colour like that. Enc told me I could. "Really? "Of course you can," Enc answered. I tried it on and as much as I loved the sweater I was so used to my self-imposed rule that I cannot pull off beige that when I tried it on it created a cognitive dissonance, "but I thought I couldn't". Turns out I was wrong. I wonder what other self imposed rules I am wrong about.