Finding a Hotel; Buying Make-Up

July 1, 2002
      RE: the Date with Fabio--------
      OK - I am now responsible for my own travel and hotel - Big Sisters ( Big Brothers merged with them) will pay of one room - one night.
      I am off to the auto club in near record-breaking heat (near 100).
      Lovely.
      When I would rather lay around and sip iced water and read something.
      Especially after having my teeth cleaned and driving back and forth to San Jose to do it. (Ouch1)
      The allergies are horrendous.
      My eyes are like glue, and drain and drain.
      I woke up at 4AM with them on fire and washed them out to no avail
      Burned and burned until I went back to sleep.
      I hate that!
      Time to eat another slice of onion.
      I did that yesterday while cooking, and I now know where every sinus cavity is on my body!
      I am due back at the dentist (FIVE cavities - or teeth needing something) tomorrow morning no less! 8AM sharp!
      I need to pick up the orthodontist referral (yes, I need braces).
      And I need to start using the gel I have for tooth whitening.
      Ick!
      Or maybe try my new toothbrush. SOnic Care with whitening gell.
      I have now watered my squash and tomatoes, and observed the devastation that the snails have wrought on my beans.
      I may empty my geranium pots (three left) and refill them with bean seeds. And a corn stalk or two. And maybe a late sunflower. After the date. My hands are grubby enough.
      I actually have a big sunflower growing in the bag yard which I did not plant but no pumpkins for no reason,
      They are either all over the back yard or totally missing. Alternate years. Go figure.
      I need to go to AAA and book my rooms. Plural. One fore the writer, shold she decide to come, and one for my son. Present to the boy. His own hotel room. Of course, it is to be adjacent to mine if possible, since I have to give him a shot of GCSF and I told the AAA person to tell the hotel, I will sttreak the hotel around midnight - if the rooms are not connected! Think of it! 60 year old woman naked in the hallway. Of course, it is LA. They probably won't even blink!
      And thenoff to the grocery store - the short trip kind.
      Water, soda, ice cream (sherbet, sorbet).
      It is ungodly hot!
      My make up (what little eyeliner I am wearing) is running into my face.
      The doctor took care of the lipstick.
      And I left off the rest because it would get smeared.
      I have 542 minutes left on my phone card.
      I need to get my Retinin A and skin bleach refilled.
      I picked out lipstick - Revlon Fire and Ice - and dropped it before I got to check out.
      I will go back.
      Later.
      When it is other than 100 degrees outside.
      Also spare the air day - SMOG!
      Why my eyes are burning.
      I used to be acclimated to smog when I lived in LA but not anymore.
      And Orange Country was a little better.
      In San Diego we could see it coming at us once or twice a year, a big layer of dusky orange flowing down the coast if the wind was just right. Or wrong as the case may be.
      I am wearing the dusky green-blue crepe dress on the date, long sleeved (old women do not go bare-armed). Velvet was decreed as too heavy - although beautiful.
      I have dusky blue and green eyeshadow.
      (Whoops! It's CREME eye stuff!
      Had to wash out my little brush when I tried it at home.)
      May go get a new one. Brush.
      I looked at glitter stuff.
      Nope.
      Shows up the wrinkles.
      I will do bangs.
      Covers the wrinkles.
      Will try Botox later.
      Removes the frown lines.
      Found 1¢ stamps. Good.
      Because bills are due. Of course they raised the rates right when I needed to send bills out! Of course they did!
      Don't know if the writer is coming now or not. YES. You Should! Seeing Fabio in person is a diffferent thing from looking at the photo.
      I called and reordered the facial bleach and Retinin from the plastic surgeon who ironed my face..
      I had Medifast and a banana for breakfast, Medifast and a piece of cinnamon raisin toast with Total Control on it.
      Need to flop with an iced drink - it's 4PM.
      Thermometers are breaking all over the Bay area.
      Spa later!
      I am in a bathing suit (I do not wear them to the beach - which I seldom if ever see, and up here I have no pool and racquet club, so I wear them around the house when it is warm.
      Wear them out that way.
      Works for me.

     Do I seem distracted? Of course. Tall blonds have that effect on me!