Archive for the Note From Greg
During our recent yard sale an adorable salt and pepper haired guy jumped out of his car and headed towards me asking in a delightful French accent about half wine barrels we had for sale. As he got closer he slowed down, stopped speaking, and we both blinked and stared. “Gregory?” he asked. “Herve” I asked and at the same moment we pushed the table between us aside and just hugged each other.
Herve, who you can see below doing my sister’s makeup for my first wedding, was–is–one of my favorite people. One of the kind of people you hate to lose track of but life somehow leads you in different directions.
Herve with my sister Alexis in 1984
“I have chills” I said, “I have them too” he answered and so it went for probably 30 minutes. Lots of Oh My Gods, and I can’t believe its were exchanged and the girls he was with were introduced and it was like we’d never been away.
So I asked him what he was doing now–25 years later! “I”m still doing hair and makeup” he replied and let it go at that.
Well of course as soon as he drove off–with lots of treasures for his friend’s new home–I had to Google him.
He’s not just doing hair and makeup, he’s a rock star of hair and makeup. And the co-host of the TV show “Scandinavia’s Next Top Model” now in its 5th year. Not to mention, he seems to be helping us midlife types with some of our beauty issues.
The video below will show you the current Herve at work on a non-model midlife woman. Though he’s less Duran Duran in appearance he’s still a sexy, good looking man who knows how to make a woman look beautiful. Is there a collaboration in our future? Who knows. What I do know is that we are going to start with a long dinner, plenty of wine, pajamas in tow cause we’ve got catching up to do.
Finding a long lost friend in the way this happened is so delicious. He told me that his friends were tired of yard sales and wanted to go home and he insisted, “come on, just one more.” “I really don’t know why we chose yours” he told me. But now we do. Thanks universe for this treat.
Herve’s 3 Minute Makeup Makeover порно бессплатно
Well I didn’t even know this kind of thing existed or if I did I’d put it out of my mind but welcome to my blog got hacked and oh how it s**ks. I’m telling you this for a number of reasons. First of all if this is your first visit to MWAV, welcome. If you scroll through different categories and find something you want to read, click that link and arrive at a post with only a title and no text–that’s the work of my hacker. Or say you are reading through a post and find a strange link offering you some drug or to download a movie, that also comes compliments of my hacker.
When I went searching to find out what to do I used this phrase: “WP blog hacked” and got back over 2 million pages to view. 2 Million! What the heck is it with WP blogs? Never mind, I’m done spinning about this, what I’m doing now is clearing the strange links and doing my best to recreate the posts that were partially deleted.
One of the blogs on blogging–Daily Blog Tips (Mostly they promote WP) that I follow has 3 security features they say we should install. Got my VA on that now.
Over and over I read that we WP users should always upgrade as soon as an upgrade becomes available. That’s something I didn’t do and tend to try to ignore for no apparent reason. Not anymore! I’ve also been told how important it is to change our passwords on a regular basis–did I? No, not unless forced by an application or program to do so or not be allowed to log in. Well of course this has changed too. And I’m going to invest a password management program so I can easily retrieve them all and update changes more easily than I’m currently doing.
So women, take heed, and if you are using a WP blog to share your wisdom or build your business, find out what it takes to protect yourself from this situation. It’s not just annoying it’s kind of creepy. Not to mention having posts deleted means I’ve got less great information here for readers when they visit. What would it mean to you if you found half your posts were gone or that porn links were embedded here and there throughout? Right, so go get some protection! трахают школьницу член секс фото жестокое порно видео изнасиловали смотреть порно
Yesterday while slogging through some miles on the treadmill I glanced up at one of the gym TV monitors where CNN and MSNBC were playing side by side. One was droning on about the FDA and cigarettes, noteworthy to be sure but I’d exhausted that story earlier. What grabbed my attention was the story and live feed of the elder George Bush flying through the air with a parachute on, sky diving (in tandem with one of the Army’s Golden Knights) to celebrate his 85th birthday. Wow!
He did the same for his 80th, 75th and plans to do it for his 90th. When asked why he did it he said, ”It’s a great, exhilarating feeling,” He told reporters that he jumped Friday for two reasons: to experience the exhilaration of free-falling and to show that seniors can remain active and do fun things.
“Just because you’re an old guy, you don’t have to sit around drooling in the corner,” Bush said. “Get out and do something. Get out and enjoy life.”
Amen to that! The story also pointed out that non of his children, nor his wife, the fairly cool Barbara Bush approve of this kind of thing. Thankfully old George has learned a few important lessons along the way, the most important perhaps being that we each come here to have our own experiences, ones we are drawn to and choose. They include all of our many selves–wife, mother, aunt, teacher, risk taker, mountain climber, bon bon popper. Some we try on and realize there isn’t a fit and others we become fully and for a good portion of our lives. One-offs like the occasional sky dive, deep sea diving, speeding around hair pin turns on a motorcycle, serial dating for the fun of it, are all just experiences or a stand-in for the feeling produced by certain activities that our inner self wants to experience.
If you haven’t gotten this yet, read, re read and repeat out loud–I am here to do what I want, to have the experiences I came to have, I will not allow anyone to stop me from having these moments. I’m not suggesting irresponsible behavior and throwing everyone else under the bus–unless the need to break away is calling you. (Tricky isn’t it?)
Do you have a list of things you feel deeply about experiencing? If not, walk around with a small notepad and write them down as they come up or take some time to make the list. If one speaks really loudly to you, such as say, leaping out of a plane for your 45th, 55th, or 85th birthday, I’d call around til you find the perfect place to do just that. You don’t need anyone’s permission. Act presidential. Oh, and make sure you pay extra for the picture. You want to give the naysayers something to be envious of.
If it were not for good friends we’d all be less able to cope, our brains would be shrinking, and our life would be shortened. According to a study out of Australia reported earlier this year, the kinds of social ties and relationships we have matter.
Researchers at the Centre for Ageing Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia concluded that a network of good friends is more likely than close family relationships to increase longevity in older people.
What Makes the Longevity Study Significant?
According to Lynn Giles, one of the four researchers who published the report, there is nothing new about evidence showing that social networks increase longevity, but ALSA went a few steps farther.
“What hasn’t been done before is to break down which social networks might be most beneficial,” Giles said in a statement published on the Flinders University web site.
“It looks as if friends are the most important in terms of survival.”
I’m sure you didn’t need a reason to keep in touch with good friends but it’s nice to know that we get the bonus of a better quality of life from seeking out the easy-let-your-hair-down-belly-laughter-producing-shoulder-to-cry-on-as needed conversations that only happen with good, close friends.
I don’t know if it’s friends day or not but all hail those who hold us dear–crabby, happy, fat, thin, bad or good hair days and even during those times when our life choices are less than stellar.
Thank you friends for being there for me throughout the years, and please don’t be a stranger–I miss you when were not in contact.
Old Friends Sam, Chris and Alex
