Long Time Gone
It's been a long time... I should't have left you... without some solid skin care advice to help you.
So the back half of my Summer consisted of the following: clients, work, events, work, one day off, trainings, more clients, one more day off, emails, "I should really grab a salad for lunch... OH LOOK FRENCH FRIES", work, lots of Brazilian Bikini waxes, DragCon, work, "oh look it's my friends on the internet", work, more damn emails, "I should really be writing", even more work, "Do I even remember what naps ARE?!", work, "When is the last time I had a damn cocktail?!", work, THOSE DAMN EMAILS, new lipstick, "OMG, are those corndogs?!", and (in case I forgot to mention it) WORK.
I believe it was Mecca of Astrology by Mecca (@themeccanism on the Tweets) who warned that August was going to be jam-packed full of activity and she wasn't wrong. I've been running seemingly non-stop since August 1st and there's no sign of stopping until 2018 gets here. Between work events & trainings and all the festivals & talks I'm going to, I am booked like Kelly Price for a majority of the Fall. I looked at my calendar for the rest of the month and screamed. Seriously... I'm surprised Buddy didn't call me from two floors down and ask we what the hell was going on. Maybe we have the same "Holy Shit, I'm never gonna take another nap again am I?" scream and he felt my pain. I'll ask him later.
The fun doesn't end in September. I'll essentially be working my well-exfoliated ass off in October & November because I am kicking off my Birthday season by GOING TO THE UK IN DECEMBER! Get ready to hear my varying British accents for the rest of 2017, folks. I can't wait to eat genuine British fish & chips, maybe a Yorkshire pudding, and pay my respects to the brave Scottish people who invented the delicious liquid gold we call Whiskey. I have barely traveled away from this wonderful yet exhausting city all year and I cannot WAIT to leave it for a spell. I've never needed a vacation more in my life and that is not hyperbole. I am approaching "Miss Sophia in the General Store at Christmas" levels of tired.
In the flurry of work and exhaustion I have been a bad beauty blogger. There are at least five drafts with topics either you've suggested or I've promised to write about that I've occasionally stared at for months. That has to change. I am promising you, and more importantly myself, that I will be better. A Better Beauty Blogger, not a Bitter Beauty Blogger. I am recommitting myself to the act of writing, even if that means I don't write about beauty & skin stuff. My goal is to shrink the collection of ideas in my Notes app by actually writing about shit instead of thinking about writing shit. I thank my small yet mighty squadron of friends, family, beauty nerds, lipstick lovers, makeup maniacs, & Whiskey slingers for being constant inspirations and cheerleaders who have only occasionally lovingly shaded my ass for not writing like I know good & damn well I should be.
Alright... I'm going to get to work. I'm gonna eat some lunch first but then WORK. I'm ordering a salad..
Lies... I'm ordering chicken wings.
Baby steps, Y'all.
