I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! Mine was memorable, and I enjoyed being around family, but the return trip back home was…. A. Freakin’. Nightmare. I won’t bore you with the details, but let me give you some advice: If you must travel in the dead of winter (say, around the holidays), avoid the western mountain states at all costs. That is, unless you particularly like lengthy delays, sitting on the tarmac for God knows how long, and eating all your meals at the airport.
Oh, and did I mention that Delta lost my luggage? I literally just had it delivered to my house about half an hour ago, but it was tres inconvenient last night when B. and I were getting ready for bed and all of our toiletries were in the missing bag. I missed my presents!
Anyway, that’s my excuse for being a day late in getting out this week’s book review. However, I think everything’s back to normal now, and I look forward to getting back into the swing of things, particularly with regard to this blog.
In the meantime, just so you have a face to place with the names, some photos from our recent trip back to the Big D:
That would be my gorgeous B. at left, in front of the only decent coffee place in Dallas. (For a more eclectic, local experience, you’ll need to head out to Arlington’s Coffee Haus, located near downtown.) T
his was taken at NorthPark Center at the height of the Christmas weekend shopping. Oy vey.
On the right are yours truly (left) and my mom. If the photos are a little blurry, it’s because we didn’t bring our own and relied on whatever point-and-shoot we could sponge off borrow from a willing relative. Took a bit of getting used to. The photo at right was also taken at NorthPark. (Please, no comments on my eyebrows. I’ve heard them all, and I’m still not waxing them. I like the Frida Kahlo look.)
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Bonsoir, Marjorie!!
First, let me say that I am very happy you had a lovely Christmas with your family. Okay, now let me say, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Delays and lost luggage. I am so sorry. That sounds horrific.
B is very cute and you and mom are beautiful. Absolutely ignore and ban anyone from this site who suggests you should in anyway alter your beautiful brows. I have very sparse brows and have to fill in the blanks with penci. Don’t listen to the haters
Happy you and luggage are safely home. Your presence has been missed.
À bientôt, j’espère,
LBR
Hi Marjorie!
Merry christmas! glad you had a merry one. Thanks for sharing your photo here…you’re lovely as well your mom.
Wising you and your whole family a happy & healthy new year 2008!
Welcome back Marjorie! It’s always a pleasure to read your posts.
I find myself agreeing with you and LBR a lot but…yeah…love the brows girl. *enter NY accent here* You got it goin’ on sista!
As much as I LOVE traveling places, I’m not a fan of the airline experience and to top off the horror of loosing luggage. Oy!
You and your family are beautiful!
you look beautiful, M!!! besides, didn’t you see all the beauty advertisements, where all the models have…ehm… “important” eyebrows? so are mine too!
chiara (a long time lurker)
I’d be remiss if I failed in my masculine duties to point out that you must not alter a thing, being as you are already a babe.
As for the luggage thing, ugh. At least you got them back, even if a LOT later than you should have – such as at the airport! I keep on hearing horror stories about this. I wonder if I want to travel with anything but my wallet!
Bonjour, mes amis! Mille merci for all your compliments! This is why I love you guys.
LBR, merci for your sympathy! I guess in the grand scheme of things, my situation wasn’t so bad (I shudder to think of those poor passengers at JFK earlier this year who had to endure 14-hour waits on the tarmac), but when you’re in the middle of it, you just want to scream at the hapless crew, you know?
I’ve had more than one so-called aesthetician tell me in one breath that I should really have them wax my eyebrows, and then in the next lament that they had over-waxed their own and are mad because they won’t grow back! Yeah, like that’s gonna encourage me to get them done.
Lucille, bonjour! It’s so good to “see” you! Thanks for stopping by! Manigong Bagong Taon sa ‘yo rin!
Colleen, yeah, remember when traveling was soooo much fun? And then those stupid terrorists had to come in and mess up everything. I still love traveling, but the getting there isn’t nearly as enjoyable as it used to be. Doncha wish we’d lived in the ’50s and ’60s, the real golden age of air travel?
Ciara, merci for “delurking!” Always happy to meet new people. And yeah, you know, I did actually read somewhere (maybe Elle?) that full eyebrows were back in vogue. Sheesh. As much as I admire the perfect arches of Keira Knightley and Jennifer Lopez, I really resent when people assume that there’s a “good” and “bad” eyebrow. It’s our natural brow, people! If we don’t have a problem with it, then just shut the f*** up!
Whew. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, Ciara. We full-browed gals need to stick together.
Go, us!
Randal, you’re such a sweet guy! Well, with regard to traveling, probably the best thing you can do to minimize the risk of losing your luggage is to try and get an itinerary with as few stops as possible. The less they have to be handled, the less likely they will be lost. I had the misfortune of having two stopovers going back. In a way, I was just asking for it.
I’m thinking of saving up money for a transatlantic QE2 sailing. It takes longer, evidement, but it’s not much more than flying and is loads more fun, non?
Salut,
Marjorie
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