Yup, real, if tiny lashes. My eyes have been less blurry and irritated as the process progresses. This may well be as long and visible as they will get. I'm good with just this much. Any more growth is simply bonus. I'm calling this a win. Just wish I could get a photo as good as the first try, and that I'd done a baseline photo. Looking over these, there really doesn't seem any difference. No objective measurement. Still, feels better.
Woken by thunder in the wee hours. Woken a bit earlier by Eleanor kneading my ribcage as I lay on my side. Painfully, and not because of claws. When I turned, she laid on my sternum, shoved her nose under my chin and kneaded my throat. Not terribly comfortable, either. She moved off, I fell back asleep, until the storm whipped through. She woke me again in the same manner about 6, with the addition of kneading at my breast, like a suckling kitten. Pretty obvious this is what she's doing, so I tolerate the discomfort for a while and curl around her. Friends do what they can.
Once up, sat on the sofa to browse here, drink tea and eat a muffin, and Moby needed attention and affection. Cats feeling in need of reassurance, apparently. All that water out there, makes 'em jumpy. Ok, now both beside me. I am sandwiched by cats. One snoring. As I watch the scrub jays deciding which peanut to take first. Not sure why they bother testing several before flying off, they always take them all in the end. Finches on the sunflowers, arguing.
Dug some of the mud and weeds out of the gutter, nice dirty job. More than I could finish, but made a significant improvement. Pulled other weeds, easier to uproot them when they are well soaked. And poured boiling water on a recalcitrant patch in the driveway. A method, that, with the 20% vinegar, has proved remarkably effective in the areas I've treated two or three times conscientiously.
Prowling the intertubes for Guardians of the Galaxy clips. Looking forward to watching it at home, since the spectacularity of it was not the appeal for me. I'm all about the characters, Rocket and Groot in particular. For me, real funny is not fluffy, but rooted in the deadly serious. This movie oozed with authentic humor, flip and fey and furious. So often it's easier to deal with the more dire emotions at the remove of a fantastic being. Puppets and talking animals, ents and aliens, experimental story telling, isolating the variable for clarity.
Fun seeing it full screen at full volume, once. Probably the last time I intend to go to a theater for a film. I like being able to move, keep the volume moderate, avoid pre-views and ads, get a mug of tea or run to the bathroom. I've grown more fussy and impatient with sitting still and being fed a tale.
Finished The Attenbury Emeralds, Jill Paton Walsh, last night. I find her writing to be very much like Sayers, and the characters believable older versions of the originals. Credible extensions of the Whimsey universe, with a quality all her own as well.
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Liked Guardians otg very much myself. I have not yet watched this link found at Metafilter of Vin Diesel on stilts, as Groot, reading his line in many different languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsCJ0JH_XrU
Nimble,
Like! Gracias!
Hooray for lashes!
Haven't seen Guardians yet--I'm waiting for it to come to the second-run cheap-o theater.
I really, really enjoyed Drax's dialogue in that movie. He had a few lines that had me LOL, something I don't actually do all that often.
Seems to me the lashes are darker as well as more of them, especially noticeable difference on the lower lid.
Also clearly better condition of the eyelids themselves, more of a healthy pink instead of a pissed-off red.
Cool beans, Zhoen! What you're doing is working nicely.
Fresca,
It will be the same movie when you get to see it. No worries.
Phil,
Dave Bautista is a funny guy, given some excellent lines.
Crow,
Probably that's much of it, decreasing the chronic inflammation. Which feels better.
Oh, that is interesting about Jill Paton Walsh. I didn't know anyone was tackling a Dorothy Sayers 'resurrection', far less that it was Jill Paton Walsh doing it. I've only read one of her books, 'Knowledge of Angels', which I thought was simply superb. I'm now very curious to try her Sayers work.
gentle,
I intend to read her other works as well.
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