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Let me introduce you to my new favorite hair-styling product: John Frieda Luxurious Volume Lavish Lift Root™ Booster.
I have fine, thinning hair and I am always on the lookout for a product that can help me pretend I might have supermodel hair one day. I was shopping at my favorite store, Target, on Sunday and decided to browse the hair product aisle. I saw the John Frieda line was on sale and noticed the new Luxurious Volume products. Sale + New product that promises thicker-looking hair = Sold!
This product does not disappoint. It makes my hair look thicker/fuller and gives it some hold/height, yet is not sticky or stiff. It even helps my straightening iron efforts hold better. Success! I’m going back to buy the All-Out-Hold™ Hairspray.
I am going to take tennis lessons.
I’ve never had a lot of interest in tennis. A couple weeks ago, my work group had a team-building day and part of it included a brief tennis lesson. Surprise! I had a lot of fun. I wasn’t that great. I wasn’t even good. I have some potential, and mostly I think I could have fun with it. And it’s exercise. Fun and exercise is always a good combination.
Next week, our local tennis center is offering a free tennis lesson, then a follow-up Play Tennis Fast 3-week session. I will be attending both the free lesson and the follow-up session. Then, I just need to practice. Some of my co-workers will be taking both the lesson and session, too, so I hope to find a partner in one or all of them.
Speaking of partners, I also need someone to help me practice Spanish. Otherwise I’m going to forget all of that too. I don’t want to memorize it, I want to use it. Instead of taking the next level this winter, I suggested I go to Cabo and spend the winter practicing Spanish in Mexico. Now, if I could just win the lotto…
This is one of my favorite pictures from Italy.
I have an urge to travel. Somewhere. Somewhere out of state. Out of country. Somewhere they speak a foreign language and eat something other than deep-fried food. Where people care about their appearance and dress up to go out.
I want to experience a new culture and new people. New food and new shopping. New buildings and new routes. I want to get a stamp in my new passport.
I want to go to Ireland and Bora Bora and Germany and Brazil and everywhere. As much as everywhere as I can manage.
My neck/shoulders area muscles are so tight/tense that whenever I get a massage it’s more deep-tissue than relaxing. I’m used to it. It’s a little painful, but I know in the end I’m going to feel better.
Last night’s massage was definitely deep-tissue. Deep – elbow pressed into your muscles to try to relax them – tissue. Ouch. It hurt. And it still hurts a little today. I’ve had this kind of massage before and my muscles have felt so relaxed the next day without the soreness I’m feeling now. And my muscles still feel a bit tense – I still have to push my shoulders down. I probably won’t go back to this particular place.
Part of my problem is that I need a regular monthly (weekly!) massage, but I just can’t justify spending the money. If I could get one regularly, tho, I wouldn’t have to have such heavy-duty work done each time. I wait so long in between visits that my muscles have all tensed up again from the last time.
On a good, and totally unrelated note, I have most of my Christmas shopping done already! Not typical, but just worked out that way this year.
I recently saw a commercial – I think it was a car commercial – where shoes are falling out of the sky and a lady gets out of the vehicle and starts gathering up the shoes and stows them in the back of her car/SUV/whatever.
I think shoes falling from the sky could be a wonderful thing. But I’m curious if they were her size and did she find pairs or just one shoe from each pair. Because pairs of shoes in my size falling from the sky in a place where I can grab them? Is a dream.
But random shoes falling from the sky would be kind of a nightmare.
