Girls Do the Stupidest Things for Beauty

Confession: I get my eyebrows waxed. Have been regularly for about a year now. With my Dad's Russian genetics, I gotta.

When I went on Saturday to get my hair trimmed and my eyebrows waxed it definitely felt different. It hurt more then it usually does and continued to hurt.

When I got home, I freaked. I totally had two burns. I think the wax was either a little too hot or got a little too close to my eyelid skin.

Today I have a scab -- yes, really -- above each eye and below my eyebrow. I almost wore my glasses to distract but then I just looked like a girl with glasses and two scabs above each eye.

And to add injury to insult, I am attending and presenting at a regional conference this Thursday. LOL.

What a dork!

Okay ladies -- and gentlemen -- what stupid things have you done because of vanity?

373 E-Mails!

In an effort to maintain my sanity, I have a separate e-mail address I use to subscribe to professional listservs, sign-up for professional stuff, etc. You get the idea. It's different from my personal e-mail but still keeps that kind of stuff out of my work e-mail box.

It's a Gmail account, so one nice thing is that it will group "discussions" together, making related e-mails easy to read.

Only, it has 373 UNREAD e-mails. So, all of these are from professional listservs, mostly from just one listserv.

I think I might have to wave the white flag and just mark all as read and delete them. I don't know what else to do. I'm pretty good about catching the job postings and deleting those quickly. But I have this bad habit of saving the other topical e-mails, telling myself that's useful information and I'll read it later. Only later is here and I now have 373 that I haven't read.

Yikes.