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No In Between

If there were ever a time in the year that I feel completely scattered, it is during the holiday season. My energy is all over the place. There are unfinished projects, piled all around. I had to do a few things before I started writing today, and that has me all messed up. I’m terribly unfocused. I know from talking to others, that this is not just a me-phenomenon. Does this scattered energy happen because we all have added a lot of extra fa-la-la-la-las to the to-da-do-do-dos? I feel foggy all of the time and even the extra bright LED Christmas lights have hard time breaking through to me. Staying “in the now” is incredibly hard during the holidays. I am always careening from expectations of what needs to happen and get done in the future (not to mention my future goals for 2022), to the hard-hitting nostalgia of Christmases past. (on an aside, I was reading an old interview with Pierre Bergé, who was the partner of the fashion designer Yves St. Laurent, and Pierre said in that interview, that he emphatically hates nostalgia and I was so happy to read that because I hate nostalgia, too. I don’t think I ever heard anyone admit to that before. It made me feel relieved and less alone and less ashamed to read his admission of truth.) While I say that I hate nostalgia, that doesn’t mean that I don’t still be-bop back there from time to time. It is like pushing on a bruise or a sore spot on your back. It’s oddly irresistible, sometimes.

Getting back on track to what I guess I am trying to say with today’s post: while never really fully being in the now-moment, it often means that I lose things and then have to spend gobs of time finding said items, which just makes me more stressed about the to-da-do-do-dos. This edgy, stressed out state-of-being does not fulfill my self-expected requirement to be “in the holiday spirit.” This whole blog post could easily be summed in the meme below. No wonder why we love memes. They get right to the point.

Christmas memes - 27 of the best Christmas memes for 2021

Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.

Friday’s My Favorite

Buddy the Elf’s Manager: Why are you smiling like that?

Buddy the Elf: I just like to smile. Smiling’s my favorite!

Buddy the Elf’s Manager: Make Work your favorite. That’s your favorite, okay? Work is your new favorite.

Ha! It’s Favorite Things Friday and there is no way, ever that work is going to make the list. Smiling can make the list on Favorite Things Friday, but not work. Nuh-uh, no way, no how. New readers, on Fridays, I keep things light and happy and smiley. There are no deep thoughts on Fridays. I typically list about three things, songs, apps, websites, twitter feeds, etc. that make the experience of my life just a little bit grander. I would love for my readers to get involved in the comments section and add to the favorites list so we all can have an even grander experience is this game called Life.

Today, I am going to expand my list a little bit because I’m only going to discuss nail polish colors. Now, I have hideous fingernails and I’m too lazy, impatient, cheap and rough with my hands, to get acrylics. However, I have always had pride in my feet. I think that I have decently pretty feet. I also love a good pedicure, even more than a massage. Even though “work is not my favorite”, if I had a dream job, I think it would be naming nail polish colors. I think those people are among the most creative people in the world, and I’d love to be part of that colorful crowd! Here goes:

In the brown family: Essie Partner in Crime (a dark, chocolate brown) and Essie Mink Muffs (a light, chocolate milk brown). Also, OPI Krona-logical Order (a greyish, earthy brown).

In the orange family: This is my only go-to in the orange family and I go-to it a lot! Essie Playing Koi (an dark, autumn-like, rusty orange)

In the green family: My skin tone looks terrible with light greens, but this rich, foresty, dark green is fabulous!! Essie Stylenomics

In the blue family: Blue is another tricky color with my skin tone, which bums me out, because I love the blues on other people. That said, I can get away with this light, sky blue version. OPI No Room For The Blues

In the red family: I know Russia is a touchy subject these days, but this is the only red that works for me. Dark, mysterious, maroon-ish and metallic. OPI Midnight in Moscow

My two long-term favorites of all time: Essie Smokin’ Hot (a fabulous milky, dark lavender) and OPI Nein! Nein! Nein! Ok, Fine! (a gorgeous, sophisticated grey)

To give you a frame of reference, I am a natural brunette with brown eyes and medium skin tone. I often have been asked if I am Italian (one very southern woman once asked me if I was in the EYE-talian Mafia, true story), Spanish (a lot of people just start talking to me in Spanish), Middle Eastern, and Native American (this one is more related to my maiden name). Truth be told, according to DNA tests, I’m not at all exotic, much to my dismay. I am mostly English and Irish and a little bit of German. Anyway, readers please share your favorite polish colors!!

Buddy the Elf answering his father’s office phone: Buddy the Elf, what’s your favorite color?

Come on readers, what’s your favorite color??? Happy Friday!!!