glamour

Well my head is still spinning from the whole Today's Creative Blog thing. 407 hits in 24 hours. Whew! My site counter is pooped! My maps look like they have the measels! I totally feel like the ugly girl in high school who suddenly contracted some kind of fatal disease, and everyone felt so sorry for her that they decided to elect her prom queen. Except that I'm not in high school, or sick, or even that bad looking (if you ask my husband). So I guess none of that was really relevant at all except to bring me to the topic of this post: I feel glamorous! I have actually felt that way for several days now. This is why:



Last Friday, my husband brought me yet another forgotten Christmas gift. It was perfume. Not just any perfume, but the one I consider my 'signature scent'. It's called Chopard Casmir. I discovered it in Paris almost 15 years ago and fell in love with it's deep orchid and rich vanilla smell. They sold it in the states until about 8 years ago, then it just disappeared. I haven't found anything I liked as much, so I've been a lotion-only-no-perfume gal since my second child was born. Still, I kept my last empty bottle of perfume in our medicine cabinet, and would get it out every now and then just to sniff it. In one grand romantic gesture, my husband sleuthed out some from a French perfume website--and voila! c'est magnifique! baguette! (um, I think that's all the French I know....) I got my special smell back. And he got lots of kisses.



All my new found glamour got me a-thinkin' about who I always considered glamorous. I guess I'm "old school", because ever since I was a little girl, these were the two most glamorous women I knew:




I guess I have a thing for well-dressed, active housewives with nice teeth.

Except not these ones:

they ruined it for all of us. However......


I cordially extend you the invitation to live your life glamorously today. As for me-- I'm going to put on a little bit of my new perfume, slip into my shiny red going-out shoes, and run my vacuum cleaner! Oh yes, and I will be watching this repeatedly. It's over-the-top glamour----just the way I like it!