Sarah says:So that's my face above after a mask my daughter had me make out of crushed cherries and cream. She saw it in a fashion/style book of hers and I promised that we could try it out on the Girls' weekend - so that's how we ended our weekend last night - in the below cherry-red masks. We looked all shiny and fresh right after as you can see in the second photo below. But today my skin is worse than ever. Masks can do that - force all the nasty stuff out and to the surface. My chin area is a freaking painful volcano today!
Above with cherry-cream (room) masks... waiting, waiting, waiting...
Above right after the masks were removed and we did a little facial cleansing with Clinique samples of a face cleaner, a toner and a cream...
And now time for this week's Post Secret picks of the week for me. There are two that caught my eye for different reasons. The one below about a hotel cleaner who cleans the whole room (maybe all the rooms on one floor or in a whole hotel!!!) with one rag - and he/she uses the same rag to clean everything from toilets to spoons!!!! THAT IS LIKE ONE OF MY BIGGEST FEARS - GROSS-OUTS!!!! I have no problem with bacteria and I am certainly no clean-freak - but there's something about hotels that can give me the willies! I can't even touch a bed cover for example. My husband will just jump right under one and use it as a blanket. I watch is awe and disgust when that happens! Not me boy - I dump that cover where it can't be touched by me and I avoid those wool blankets as much as possible too. I'm pretty sure a lot of hotels I have stayed at have been cleaned with one rag the whole week! YUCKY!!!!!
And the Post Secret card below about how a teacher can make such a difference caught my eye for two reasons. One - because there are various teachers who I can honestly say saved me in some way or another and brought me out of some bad and hard times without even really knowing it. I'll name them as they meant so very much to me. They got me to believe in my worth and talents when I thought I was nothing more than crap. Somewhere in me I guess I knew I had potential because I always felt interested and smart in some way - but I was lost and so ruined in a lot of ways that without these teachers inspiring me, giving me special attention and telling me I was smart and had some good things to say, well, I'd still be lost because the chances that I would have fallen through the cracks would have been much higher! So THANK YOU SO MUCH Nyack Intermediate school teachers Mrs. Wilkes and Mr Allen and Hackley teachers Mr.Matlack and Ann Siviglia. Thank you so much New Paltz teachers Rob Miraldi and Howard Good. You changed my track big time and got me on the right one! And of course - you taught me so much good stuff that to this day I draw on! If by some google search or something you end up here one day, I can't thank you all enough! (and I apologize for any sloppy writing or spelling and grammar mistakes here on this blog!!! You taught me very well but then I managed to unlearn a few things along the way!)
The second reason the above Post Secret appeals to me is because I just finished Season Four of the greatest show ever - The Wire. Season 4 followed 4 kids basically - in school and on the streets and at home - if you can call any home they had a home. A teacher did his best for them in a school and a system that failed them terribly. Sometimes it's that one teacher who sees the good in you that nobody else sees and helps you to see it too for a second. In The Wire, that wasn't necessarily enough to save any of these kids - but it did make their Mondays through Fridays less horrid. Season 4 of The Wire just got me thinking about so many things and about school in particular and about teachers. Teachers can mean everything. It's too bad that mostly they are powerless to really intervene. But just planting that seed of confidence and hope and by showing the way a little - well, that can change a path... I miss The Wire! Can't wait to see season 5, though season 4 was terribly painful (as well as beautiful at many moments...) Viva good teachers!!!!! Hat's off!
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