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free with today's issue...
Here's some stories from the past few days to keep you entertained. And today's entry comes with a BONUS list! It's almost as good as getting those stickers with TV Hits (though that was in year 8 for me, I don't buy that magazine anymore. Truly, I don't!)!
MY SISTER'S NEW SHOES
My sister bought these amazing new heels on the weekend. She let me try them on, and they were so hard to walk in because they were so high! "Wow, I don't know how Jennifer Lopez and Sarah Jessica Parker do it," I said to Sonya, as I pulled some tentative J.Lo dance moves, "Oh, I know, I could-" "No," she replied, "DON'T!" "Oh, please," I begged her, "please please please?" "No, Carla," she told me sternly, "you are NOT going to do that Beyonce thing in my new heels! Don't you dare! I knew what you were thinking!" Sigh. I don't mind so much anymore, though, because I was eating my jam and toast this morning, and Channel V started playing Britney's old "Oops, I Did It Again!" clip! Hurrah! So my memory of her dance moves have been refreshed. I demonstrated them to my sister while I was still in my pajamas. I'm not sure if she was impressed, but I know that she was probably pretty glad that I wasn't wearing her heels again.
WORK
Yesterday, at work, they moved me downstairs to the Estee Lauder counter for the day. I'd like to take it as a compliment (like, maybe they liked my face glitter for a change), but I don't think that that's true, because I know that the business manager down there refers to employees as "bodies" instead of by their names (eg. "Philippe, if you could send me another body down here, that would just be fabulous."). Also, it just felt so highly ironic that I was down there on that day. Reasons why I thought it was ironic?
Well:
1. The only reason why I was wearing a skirt was because my pants had mashed-up tissues all over them, because I accidentally left a tissue in the wash. And I couldn't be bothered to get all the tissue off AND iron them so early on a Sunday morning.
2. How could I sell $40 lipsticks when I'm such a Lipsmackers fan?
3. I'd just bought a hairbrush for the first time in probably a decade. I've always been going for the just-got-out-of-bed-plus-I'm-a-rock-star look. But now that my hair's growing out, if I don't brush it, it just looks straggly. By the way, did you know that hair brushes come with all of these different names? Like "multistyler", "volumiser" and probably "shiny-iser". I think that it is really silly.
4. Speaking of hair again, I was annoyed that I had to wash my hair so as to look presentable for work.
And maybe it's all of the india.arie ("My worth is not determined by the price of my clothes") and Josie and the Pussycats ("Don't be fooled by what you see/ In the movies, magazines and on TV") that I've been listening to, as well as Malcolm's tales of poverty in India, but I just thought that it was so stupid how much all of the make-up cost down there. I mean, I totally love make-up and perfume and fun stuff like that, but I just got annoyed at all of the ads surrounding me and the attempts to persuade people to buy more expensive stuff. Anyway, Estee Lauder was having a gift-with-purchase thing happening, and there were two varieties of gifts available (warm or cool). So all of the customers were stressing about which gift to buy. One lady asked ME what colours I was wearing, but with only mascara and lipgloss on (neither of which were Estee Lauder), what could I say? I answered "cool", and she looked kind of relieved. Weird.
CURRENT INVENTORY
Boyfriends: none
Weeks to go until I finish my degree: six-ish
Pages designed in the past two weeks or so: probably around sixty or seventy
Spacegirl Princess Carla, signing out. |