An Update From Your Friend

So how are you doing? How's life? What's going on? What's new?

Me? I watched the Red Deer Christmas Parade and had hot chocolate while listening to a choir sing Christmas Carols in the balcony of City Hall. I found my true love.

Doing facials is my true love. I incorporate six different massages and spend an hour or two helping people relax while providing nourishment their skin. They come out changed people. Refreshed, understood, loved, capable, and ready to tackle life some more. Caring, capable human touch is so healing, and I think necessary. When I see the difference in my clients I feel like the world is a little better place because I gave a facial. I know it sounds superficial - but my clients are people who do a lot of caring work and as I lift them, everyone they influence gets better care. All they needed was to pause and regenerate. I think that's what I would like to mainly do when I am done here at school.

Emily Dickinson Rocks My Socks

If I can stop one heart the aching

Or cool one pain

Or help one fainting robin

Into his nest again

I shall not have lived in vain.

Confidential. Girls Only. Will Only Bore You if You are Not a Girl.

So I went shopping on Saturday for Snow Apparel and I found the cutest red jacket! Its got ruffles and buttons to excess. When you see it I know you will love it and want to borrow it and I will totally let you. (Cute clothes are made to be shared.)

Oh, and the Snow Outfit I got I love. I got this silver puffy jacket and puffy silver boots - so cute! And then I got this cute pinky-purple neck warmer and scarf. I wish it would snow!

I wear the scarf and jacket everywhere. The red jacket and purple scarf remind me of something...

Warning

by Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired

And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

And run my stick along the public railings

And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

And pick flowers in other people's gardens

And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

And eat three pounds of sausages at a go

Or only bread and pickle for a week

And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

And pay our rent and not swear in the street

And set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Doesn't It Give You Tingles!

This! In only two and a half hours! Yesturday!

Sweet Stuff, huh!

So Pretty!

Her Hand

This is what it looks like after the henna paste washes off. Gorgeous!

Lo and Behold!

I came home from the Edmonton Temple today and saw these feet on the living room floor. I asked the girl who owns them if I could take a picture so you could be as impressed as I was. The girl is an artist who is busy with a professional career in Calgary and she is just home for the weekend visiting her Mom. If you remember the pictures of me looking very tired, the blue and green striped wall she designed and painted. And you can see a bit of her lighthouse painting in the picture behind me on the posting just before this one. I know she is going to be adored for her art by the masses. The historical pattern dictates that she will never be able to personally benefit financially from becoming known as one our Greats.

She may, however, be able to thwart the statics "which have been put down for our guidance" (as we learn from the play The Importance of Being Ernest) by using henna. She can garner $100 a client!

This angel has offered me a weekend apprenticeship! So I can offer it as a service in my spa! The people that use henna religiously or traditionally will be able to benefit from my knowledge and skill, my friends and family that I buy Christmas presents for will benefit, and anyone else who wants pretty pictures painted on them but are afraid of needles, HIV, or Tattoo Artists.

So what about you guys? See anything interesting you want to tell us about? Did Halloween have any interesting sights where you were?