Miscellaneous Monday - Behind the Curve Editioin

Monday, February 17, 2014

Crying Uncle

I was in Las Vegas the week before last on business. I have a number of clients out there now, and while I'm happy to be busy with real opporutnities and working with highly professional colleagues, Las Vegas really is one of my least favorate cities in the world. The reason for this will be left as an exercise for the class.

And in what is becoming a really unpleasant annual tradition, I had to reroute to Ohio after my meetings due to the death of the Smart Man's Grandma. Her death was not unexpected, and she lived a good, long life, but these things are never easy. The Smart Man and I are really over funerals at this point. I mean SERIOUSLY OVER. I was horrified to discover while in Ohio that I now have multiple funeral outfits, and the Smart Man is ready to burn his funeral suit.

Crap on a cracker - enough already.

Pedaling Faster

My company offers bereavement leave as one of our benefits, and so I was out of the office Monday through Wednesday of last week. Right after I'd been assigned a major RFP (100 locations, 13K lines). So now I'm pedaling as fast as I can to catch up, as I'm constitutionally unable to be the one whose deliverables are late to the Proposal Manager. Because it's horrifying, that's why, and I have no intention of being that person.

Filling in the Lines

The last 12 months has been really hard on me physically. The grief of losing my daughter along with a very stressful year professionally, personally and physically has resulted in some weight gain, an erosion of my physical fitness, and a return of my depression.

I'm working on it, though. My physical health is improving steadily, my weight is decreasing steadily, my conditioning is returning, and I'm doing better with depression management. So - progress. Go, me.

HOWEVER.

The grief associated with Moe's death has left its mark on my face. I look in the mirror and I feel like I've aged 10 years, and the evidence supports my subjective opinion. I now have deep nasolabial folds, as well as marionette lines around my mouth.

I'm not quite ready for my lower face lift just yet, but I wanted to do something about this.* Which is why I'm a patient at a local medical aesthetics practice. They've done my botox for several years, and when I asked for a consultation about my lower face, they recommended Radiesse Volumizing Filler. I had my appointment today, and based on preliminary results, I'm pretty happy with the results. No photos just yet, as my skin is discolored from the injections and I have some swelling and bruising. Maybe when things heal up.

I'll never have my 20 year old skin again, but I'm executing a holding action.

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*Someone once asked Diahann Carroll if she believed in plastic surgery. Her response? "Oh, God, yes." Better living through medicine, baby.

2 comments:

The Mechanicky Gal said...

Dammit I KNEW there was something else I was supposed to ask my Dermatologist. I swear, if I don't write it down and staple it to my forehead I forget.
I'm glad it went smoothly for you and I am excited to see the results. In 2 DAYS AND A WAKE-UP.

Janiece said...

SQUEEE!