Mirror mirror on the wall
Cats: beauty|I may have a dishwasher at the dacha, but for the past week I’ve had no mirror.
And this is sort of interesting. With no mirror, you don’t see what your hair looks like. You don’t notice the slow tan (that gets through the 30-block sun screen) building on your face. And make-up? Whassa?
It’s not that vanity has gone away. It’s just that it’s gone on a little holiday.
And this is sort of nice until you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror at the grocery store as I did yesterday. Eek!
My unstyled hair was blown over to one side and sticking up at the top making me look vaguely like Pud from the Bazooka Joe bubblegum comics. I had two untanned ovals around my eyes from the sunglasses. And there was a layer of white salt building up on my face.
I’m glad I have no mirror in the dacha. It’s more fun not knowing. And not caring.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:52 am
It may not be a tan – sometimes the first hint of acute alcoholic hepatitis can be jaundice, which looks initially like a tan, before you look like a bright yellow lemon.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
It’s important to have people around you that will point things out to you like eye crust, smigglies, dirt, hair, etc…
Unfortunately most people won’t say anything because they are affraid that you will get embarrassed. I don’t understand it. What’s more embarrassing, being told you have a smiggley in the morning or finding out that you’ve been walking around with a smiggley all day?
August 30th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Dick, I’m almost afraid to ask what a smiggley is
TB, thanks. You have just earned yourself the appointment as GT’s Chief Jaundice Correspondent.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I can understand your apprehension.:-o
However it must be visible for someone to point it out to you, so how bad could it be?
A smiggley is a booger fragment, not a crusted up nose, but a fragment that will attach itself to the nostril hairs in full view.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Thanks Dick. Would you accept an appointment as GT’s Chief Smiggley correspondent?
August 30th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I would be happy to be your Chief Smiggley correspondant. This won’t impact my Forestry Corresponant role will it?
It doesn’t really matter, i’d rather talk about crusties, will-nots, waxies, and acne anyway.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
I love those long weekends where you can forget the mirror and enjoy a secret thrill that your hair makes you look homeless.
Enjoy, GT!
September 1st, 2007 at 4:35 am
Thanks Beth, the line between holiday and homeless is so fine, isn’t it?
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:27 am
Its a shame no one got a photo of you G, or maybe they did! And Dick I find its just more fun not to tell people they have eye bogies and smiggles!
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:15 pm
It did create a bit of a challenge when shaving!!! I have to admit it though, one I got a look at the ghastly face looking at me in the mirror once they did make an appearence on your wall, I wished they had gone back wence they came.
It is a great place though, aside from my the reflection it inspires on my face!
AB
September 4th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
And just think Anne, we had to look at your ghastly face even when there were not mirrors around…
September 5th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Well GT, your mug wasn’t exactly like a nice stroll in the park, rather— rather a terrifying sprint through sleepy hallow.
And we had to listen to you sing too! Oh the humanity!
AB