I’m not discontinued.

It’s amazing the things I will raise hell about and the things I won’t, the things that I can ignore and the things that will ruin my day (or week) completely.

Around Thursday of last week, my favourite lipstick came up missing. When this usually happens, I heave a big sigh and just go buy another tube. But this lipstick is special: it’s discontinued. That word can strike fear into the heart of any women. It’s a word that can cause riots. But yes. My utmost favourite lipstick, Aveda’s Lip Satin lipstick in Red Ore, has been discontinued. It’s been so for a while now. Those bastards also discontinued my favourite perfume! Anyway. This tiny tube of colour is special. It matches my lips and skin tone perfectly. Just a tiny, tiny covering gives so much colour and the smell is pleasantly minty.

And it was lost. LOST!

I felt somewhat naked this entire weekend without it. I had looked everywhere for it to no avail—except the one place all women should probably THOROUGHLY search when something is lost. Yes, you know where I’m taking about … THE PURSE. I didn’t empty out my purse and so assumed it wasn’t in there, but today at work I emptied my purse ENTIRELY and there it was, at the very bottom.

It felt like being reunited with a very old friend.

I still have a good three inches of lipstick left to her. I’m hoping she’ll last me for many years to come.

In other non-lipstick related news, I start school tomorrow. I am not excited. The Yankee sent me flowers at work, which was a nice surprise and made me happy. I asked him if he had looked up the meaning of giving a woman irises and red tulips and of course he said no. Then he said he didn’t disagree with any of it and I could just chew on that. Well, I won’t. I don’t need the L-word muddying up my non-L-related relationship.

I still think he doesn’t quite know what he wants, but I don’t know how I feel about that, either. I should probably make some sort of decision of how “this is going to be”, but I don’t feel like doing that right now. It’s simply in my nature to play things by ear and pounce when no one is looking and least expects it.