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The weekends mostly depress me since I often don't know what to do with myself. Last weekend, I took four days off -- took two for Rosh Hashonah because I felt I needed the break -- and we went to the Atlantic Antic on Sunday. That's a huge long street fair down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, which is held on the first Sunday in October. I try to set aside a little money because there are generally a lot of nice handmade crafts. I got a beautiful bronze hairclip shaped like a sand dollar ($5) and a tie-dyed swing top ($20). Barry decided to come with me this year, but he does what I try not not to: buy food. To me, an $8 gyro is outrageous, plus, I'm not a fan of eating while on my feet. Thought I confess (please don't kill me, oh sugar- starch and gluten-free friends) that we split half a dozen deep-fried Oreos, as neither of us had ever had one. Worth the splurge.
This past weekend was dreadful because it was The Weekend Before Pay -- that is, broke, broke, broke. This is the kind of weekend where I am trying frantically not to think, because it will plunge me into even deeper depression. I slept a lot, watched TV, watched things on the computer.
A week or so ago, I was really feeling the absence of scent (cologne, perfume). My big bottle of Bellodgia has a clogged sprayer and although it's about 2/3 full, I can't get any out. This happened about two months after I got it; at some point, just from pumping and pumping, I got it to work for a few days, then it quit again. There's no way to open it. I even wrote to Caron, and never heard from them. I had bought some Gucci rush about a year ago, but the sprayer dropped off, so it will only stream; plus, it's not holding well on me at all. My Sublime and Escape were down to dregs. It's the season where I like to wear something a bit heavier, like Coco, but what was really on my mind was Shalimar. Mind you, I've never worn Shalimar. But one of my grandmothers did, or else she simply had a bottle on her vanity, and I remembered the smellvividly. It was wonderful and almost overwhelming. I recognize it on women who walk by. So I got myself a fairly small portion (1/4 oz. EDT) on eBay, and it's unbelievably wonderful. I can't believe how happy it makes me. I'm also waiting for a bottle of Mitsouko and one of Samsara, both also made by Guerlain. It seems like time to wear classics.
I may have mentioned The Perfumed Court, a website where you can buy smaller sizes of almost any kind of scent you can imagine -- plus it really has a lot of information about the history and composition of pretty much every scent on the site. It's tons of information, but it does help you to find other scents of the type you enjoy -- plus you can get small samples (not free) to check them out. It's not cheap, but fragrance samples are not as easy to come by as they used to be.
My brother is having more and more and more problems. Not much to be done for him. He's having more and more flashbacks about some bad things that were done to him as a kid, and although he sees a therapist, this stuff has totally paralyzed him. Neither he nor my sister-in-law has worked for a very long time, and I'm not sure how they get along, except that I guess public assistance goes a longer way in Providence, RI than it does in New York.
I do have a new insurance plan through my job, which is about as good as it can be. Unlike Medicaid, there are co-pays, but there are none for generic meds and none for lab tests, which is a life-saver.
Work is basically good. The beginning of the term was pretty hectic, but now things seem to be rolling nicely. I hired a nice new intern who seems to be working out well; I've had good luck so far with interns.
Barry is now without insurance (we lost Medicaid September 30), which is terrible, but there's not much we can do. I don't have a spare cent to add him to my coverage (which would totally about $6,000 per year). I'm really pushing him hard about looking for work...rather, I am strongly encouraging him. But we are just not making ends meet. We've already sold CDs and books and Barry's drum kit. Something has to change.
This past weekend was dreadful because it was The Weekend Before Pay -- that is, broke, broke, broke. This is the kind of weekend where I am trying frantically not to think, because it will plunge me into even deeper depression. I slept a lot, watched TV, watched things on the computer.
A week or so ago, I was really feeling the absence of scent (cologne, perfume). My big bottle of Bellodgia has a clogged sprayer and although it's about 2/3 full, I can't get any out. This happened about two months after I got it; at some point, just from pumping and pumping, I got it to work for a few days, then it quit again. There's no way to open it. I even wrote to Caron, and never heard from them. I had bought some Gucci rush about a year ago, but the sprayer dropped off, so it will only stream; plus, it's not holding well on me at all. My Sublime and Escape were down to dregs. It's the season where I like to wear something a bit heavier, like Coco, but what was really on my mind was Shalimar. Mind you, I've never worn Shalimar. But one of my grandmothers did, or else she simply had a bottle on her vanity, and I remembered the smellvividly. It was wonderful and almost overwhelming. I recognize it on women who walk by. So I got myself a fairly small portion (1/4 oz. EDT) on eBay, and it's unbelievably wonderful. I can't believe how happy it makes me. I'm also waiting for a bottle of Mitsouko and one of Samsara, both also made by Guerlain. It seems like time to wear classics.
I may have mentioned The Perfumed Court, a website where you can buy smaller sizes of almost any kind of scent you can imagine -- plus it really has a lot of information about the history and composition of pretty much every scent on the site. It's tons of information, but it does help you to find other scents of the type you enjoy -- plus you can get small samples (not free) to check them out. It's not cheap, but fragrance samples are not as easy to come by as they used to be.
My brother is having more and more and more problems. Not much to be done for him. He's having more and more flashbacks about some bad things that were done to him as a kid, and although he sees a therapist, this stuff has totally paralyzed him. Neither he nor my sister-in-law has worked for a very long time, and I'm not sure how they get along, except that I guess public assistance goes a longer way in Providence, RI than it does in New York.
I do have a new insurance plan through my job, which is about as good as it can be. Unlike Medicaid, there are co-pays, but there are none for generic meds and none for lab tests, which is a life-saver.
Work is basically good. The beginning of the term was pretty hectic, but now things seem to be rolling nicely. I hired a nice new intern who seems to be working out well; I've had good luck so far with interns.
Barry is now without insurance (we lost Medicaid September 30), which is terrible, but there's not much we can do. I don't have a spare cent to add him to my coverage (which would totally about $6,000 per year). I'm really pushing him hard about looking for work...rather, I am strongly encouraging him. But we are just not making ends meet. We've already sold CDs and books and Barry's drum kit. Something has to change.
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