At the office and just not into it today. I have definitely been productive, but it’s been a mixed bag:
• Working on annual appraisals of my staff - they are catching me on a pretty good day, but that could change at a moment’s notice, heh.
• Got a report pulled together for a proposal presentation I have to give later this afternoon.
• Sent out the evite for our next Brunch Upon a Time. We missed August’s brunch since Athena has been working out of town, so I’m super excited for September’s brunch.
• Read Elaine Benes’s RAD about the guy with the magical dick and got a little jealous. Still no word from Steve McQueen, and I haven’t even felt him up yet!
• Getting ready to work on a project that I’ve been fucking around with for a year now. It’s with an outside inventor. These folks make me insane. Pro tip: never invent something and try to bring it to market through a company who is not staffed to do it nor super excited about your invention. Your project will go to the bottom of the pile.
• Put out a couple of small fires before lunch - just like every morning.
I feel like I’m ready to call it a day already.
Tomorrow I have an interview with the press. I haven’t done a media interview in a long time and I feel out of practice. And really, there’s no way to practice because even though you think you have all of the interview questions, the interviewer inevitably ends up asking a curveball question. At least I’ve learned a little bit of the fine art of bullshitting. It helps in these situations.
What else?
I got my hair cut a couple of months ago after YEARS of cutting it myself. I’ve finally started wearing it in a new way, and I’m LOVING it. It’s nothing wild or outrageous by any means. If anything, it’s simply cleaner, sleeker, and less heavy than it was, but I feel like it’s changed my look subtly yet completely. It’s taken a full two months to figure out how to style it, but it’s super easy to do (takes 5 mins if I don’t wash it, which, I only wash my hair 1-2x per week). I wish I’d been going to this stylist years ago, but I guess I’m just happy that I’m finally going to a stylist, period!
I’ve also been working on my skin, now that I’m…ahem, coming of age. I’ve actually invested in the Rodan + Fields hype. And you know what? I love it - when I do it. It’s more of a nighttime regimen and I’m one of those who seems to fall into bed at the end of the day without washing everything off - terrible, I know, but I’m usually so spent by the end of the day/evening that it’s all I can do to get out of my clothes!
So when I take the time to do this routine (that includes this damn roller that has NEEDLES in it to help the absorption of the skincare products), it seems soooooo worth it when I wake up in the morning with dewy soft skin.
And while we’re talking needles, I’m going to divulge one more secret, since it’s my DIARY and all: about 6 weeks ago, I experimented with Botox on my forehead! That’s right - I had a cosmetic procedure done! I will tell you the main reason why: Resting Bitch Face. I have those “11s” between my eyebrows on my forehead and I hate them! I feel like they always make me look like I’m scowling. Whenever I concentrate, I seem to make a frowny face and my 11s would scrunch up. I looked angry 24/7.
So I went in for a consultation, and ended up getting just a tiny, tiny bit of Botox injected in my forehead…like 1/10th of what people my age normally get, just to see how I would react. The nurse told me that she would rather be on the very conservative side, especially since I have a “low forehead” and sometimes that can make the eyes droop (heaven forbid droopy eyelids!). She mainly injected the 11s and hardly touched above the eyes.
The results were not dramatic, and that’s exactly what I was looking for - I still have full movement of my forehead (unlike that frozen look you see in people who’ve had the Full Botox Monty), I can wiggle my eyebrows up and down, and I can make expressions. What I really notice is that I’m not scowling anymore! Yes, the 11s are still there, the forehead wrinkles are still visible, but they are no longer emphasized - they are much, much softer. If I’m pissed off, I probably still look pissed off, but if I’m not, I don’t look angry! Heh.
And it’s funny how people are noticing the small differences. Like, so many people are recognizing the haircut now…even though I’ve had about 6” or so cut off for two months!
Okay, so now that you know ALL my secrets of late, I should probably get back to being productive at work.
…at time of posting, I’ve now put out 4 more fires! Whee. Off to give a presentation!
xox,
GS
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