Gratuitous Photo of Your Two Weeks ‘Til We Fly to New York Happy Faces
Me, at three.
Today, right after breakfast, I left Bean at the table while I plucked my eyebrows went about important morning things. Five minutes later I went back, planning to make sure he’d finished his milk, when I discovered he’d given himself a mani-pedi. And also whatever you call it when you paint your bangs.
Normally I check him whenever he’s quiet for more than sixty seconds sense when he’s up to no good, but not this time. Mommydar fail.
The worst part is that I don’t have any nail polish remover. The best part is he mostly colored within the lines.
Inner Witch Edition.
I still do tipsy // liminal Photo Booth sessions, I just don’t share.
Tousled hair edition, because the only thing better than a gratuitous photo meme is a gratuitous photo meme that doesn’t require a shower.
So, this is my third GPOYW today, but hey. G, right?
I don’t think you can make out the boo-boo on his forehead. He had a little altercation with a coconut. He cried, so I packed away my emo, and then we cuddled, and now we’re just cool, man.
Bean asked nicely, so I went in swimming in my clothes.
Again.
What.
This is my life lately. Sitting in the shade and watching the Bean play by himself in the ocean.
Soon, really, I’m going to actually write something of substance here.
Soon.
First time I’ve opened my Macbook since last Sunday. Taking a photo to prove I’m still alive. Closing Macbook. Fin.
GPOYW Cameras Are HARD, Harder Than Photo Booth, Anyway Edition
Also:
At my cousin’s wedding. Sweaty and bedraggled but enjoying myself very much indeed.
Lots of Tanqueray on the rocks. Kind of tipsy.
Wearing the amber necklace I made to match my dress.
I’ve put on a lot of weight in the last year, which bugs me, except my boobs look pretty fantastic and maybe the universe wants me to be fat. So be it.
And, the camera did not come in purple. Obvs.
GPOYW Tired But In A Good Way, Hiding Out In The Library, Agonizing Over Getting a Haircut, Probably the Only Person On The Eastern Seaboard Wearing A Hooded Fleece, And Wearing My New Favorite Necklace Edition
1. I know it’s Thursday.
2. In preparation for my reentry into the land of endless summer, I’ve painted my toenails blue. “Blue My Mind”, to be precise. Thank you, Sally Hansen Hard As Nails, for existing since I was in middle school; I find that comforting.
3. If I had the time and money to do whatever I wanted to right now, I’d be traveling all over with my little purple suitcase, from Boston to Brooklyn to Florida to Chicago to San Diego to Savannah to London, saying hello and goodbye in person before I leave for Grenada, but I don’t, so instead I’m shopping and packing, which is not nearly as much fun, but it’ll do.
4. I’m nervous. Not in a bad way, which is the way I was nervous a year and a half ago, the last time I was preparing for a big move. Not in an every limb of my body is full of dread sort of way, but rather in a everything’s lovely and I kind of want to cry happy tears sort of way.
5. I don’t know if there’s room in my luggage for all my flip-flops, not if I want to pack all my notebooks.
6. A couple of months ago I started actively preparing Bean for Grenada by talking to him about the island and our friends and family and in particular his father. We spend a lot of time now speculating what daddy will think of this or that. One of the first things I told him was that his father would “fall down” when he sees how big he has gotten. Bean found this very troubling, because of course he took my words literally, and so I explained to him what a metaphor is, and now he’s a four-year-old who talks about metaphors. He also tells anyone who will listen that his daddy is going to FALL DOWN, but I surely prefer that to the last ill-considered line of mine he liked to repeat, the one about how he has his father’s butt.
7. I’m pretty much offline all the time, except for occasional moments like today, when I’m allegedly shopping. At first it was uncomfortable, but now I’m enjoying my internet break, because I’m fully plugged-in to Bean, summer, packing, mental mosquito nets and the family stuff that’s happening related to my cousin getting married in a couple of weeks. I’ll be back after that.
8. Just look at all of those earrings.
9. My mom’s making me a dress to wear to the wedding. I looked in stores for ages and just couldn’t find anything I liked. So I found a linen-rayon blend the color of rust, and I can’t believe I just said that.
10. Blurry photo. GPOY is a knack, one it seems I’ve misplaced. <3
