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April 2, 2006
Circles
I have circles under my eyes.
It's not just because we had to "spring forward" today. It always happens when I stray too far off my CR plan and eat too much, drink too much, and in general behave like radical anti-aging biotechnology is right around the corner waiting to slam into me. It's this kind of instant punishment that keeps me on track.
The last few weeks have been crazy. Between training new staff, very busy campaigns (won the one on March 24, btw, 29 - 3. Yippie!) and trying to keep up with everyone, I've been paying less attention to my CR than I really should. And now I have circles under my eyes. This is unacceptable. Visible signs of aging have a way of motivating me like nothing else. I do not want to look old. "Vanity will save your life," said the waitress in the bar in Nashville three years ago. Actually, she said "Writing will save your life," but in my blog, writing and vanity merge.
We've had way too much fun as of late, most recently going out for Luke's birthday on Friday after work. We went to a French restaurant where we sat outside (first really warm day here) and shared a salmon and endive salad, mussels, a warm goat cheese salad, a cheese plate, two desserts and a bottle of dryish pinkish French wine. Shared between five people, mind you. This was Luke's first birthday with us. He's 38, but looks much younger. I expect him to look even younger next year when he turns 39. By 40, he's better look 27. Sharing dishes was his idea, and a good one it was. Between lots of people we were able to try several amazing tastes without going too crazy on the total calories.
Later I met my mom at the art museum and we split a crab cake... almost all crab, very little breading. Glass of pinot noir. Yum! Got to see the Wyeth exhibit, which was quite good, though I expected it to be bad. I never liked his more popular paintings, but the total exhibit was quite amazing. Kinda a cross between Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper but without all the color. If that makes any sense. Lots of American landscapes and seascapes like Homer, lots of thresholds and windowsills like Hopper, but all neutral earth tones. Apparently that was Betsy Wyeth's idea. Must be a pain to be married to an artist. I'm glad I'm permanently partnered with a writer... at least there's no paint to clean up.
Speaking of cleaning up, our Sunday breakfast dishes are calling out to me so I must go.
Posted by april at April 2, 2006 9:36 AM
Comments
You can't have circles under your eyes no matter what you do... You're not old enough to have them. It must be your imagination.
So, did you go to the CR conference? How are things there?
Posted by: zeynep at April 2, 2006 7:52 PM
I'm with you on hating the under-eye circles. Happily, like you, I only get them if I'm burning the candle at both ends. I posted an unfortunate photo on my blog last week that showed just how visible they are when I'm going on too little sleep. I think I have them today, too. Irritating. Of course, I wasn't good on my CR this weekend either, which no doubt didn't help. Oh well, I'm climbing back up on the horse this morning! Have fun at the Conference!
Posted by: Amy Wright at April 3, 2006 7:01 AM