I LOVE MAKEUP!

I enjoy the process of putting on makeup. When I am in a show, I like to get to the theater at least 30 minutes before call time and start putting on my makeup in the quiet dressing room, occasionally a kindred soul is there as well doing the same thing. I enjoy this time. It helps me to relax.

I wear makeup almost everyday. I wear it for myself and not for anyone else. Since losing my hair and now my eye brows and eyelashes have gotten thinner I find that I have to change how I wear my everyday make up. I now draw in eyebrows and use liquid liner on my eyes instead of the eyeshadow with a liner brush I used to do.

Before: no makeup and bald head

After: with makeup and bald head

After: with makeup and scarf... ready for the day!

This week can suck it!

Welp, this week was not zesty. I wish I could have a drink, but no alcohol for me right now.

Started out on Sunday with my Uncle Barry dying. He had a heart attack. I'm really done with people dying, you all can stop now!

The rest of my crappy week is work related. We hired a person as a contractor who will be my back up and be on call for when I am out and if I need extra help with proposals. Well, I trained her for 4 days and it was painful. Her skills in InDesign were not what she said they were. On Tuesday my boss Kathy and I had a meeting with her just to see how she was feeling about the job and to also voice concern about her speed since this job is very deadline driven. On Wednesday she came in and told us that she really needs a job that will have guaranteed hours (right now we can't guarantee a set amount of hours). She stayed for the day and I worked with her on a proposal for the Northern California Sales Director. It was exhausting watching someone work so slowly on something I would have finished in a few hours. She finished it a around 4pm and we sent her home and that is the end of it. We will be bringing in a gentleman we interviewed and give him a test run... hopefully he will be more speedy. Today I get a call from the Sales Director of Northern California and she basically yells at me because the proposal was not what she wanted even though we did exactly what she asked us to do which was the convert the PowerPoint file she sent us to the proposal layout. So I spent the day working with Cynthia, our on staff writer, to give the proposal actual content. I won't be back to work until next Thursday so hopefully it's what the Sales Director wants.

I am singing at my Uncle Barry's funeral tomorrow (Friday) in San Ramon and then I have to drive to Sunnyvale to go to my pre-chemo appointment and do blood work. Since Presidents Day is this Monday, I will be doing my chemo on Tuesday.

I have no plans for Valentine's Day... since I don't have a Valentine. I will hopefully get a kitty visit in with Dombey over the weekend, probably on Sunday.

That's it for now.

Chemo #6 done... two more to go!

Did my 2nd round of Taxol on Monday, which means I'm sore today. If it's anything like last time I will be fine tomorrow.

My brother Michael took me to chemo this week. He brought his wedding binder so we talked about stuff for his wedding in July. After chemo we had lunch at Asteria Grill off of Mathilda near 101 & 237 in Sunnyvale. I drive past it all the time going to doctor appointments so I decided that is where we were going for lunch that day. It was delicious! MMMMMM.... Greek food!

I can't believe 2 more chemo treatments and then we get to see how they worked! I can't feel the tumor any more so that is hopeful. It was really easy to feel before treatment.