Fantasy du jour, day 6 -- update -- mugged by reality

[lblanchard]

Roy should be arriving in Bedford any time now, so I'm waiting by the phone to hear what he has to say about the property. UPDATE: Roy reports that the view is the only good thing about the house. The house is small and mean, the neighborhood is ugly (with derelict vehicles parked in side yards and no real evidence of properties being kept up), the slope behind the house is steep enough to preclude gardening, and there are biker-girl stopping hills leading into the development. But other parts of Bedford, he says, are quite nice. He will continue his explorations.

Meanwhile...

My Barielle nail-strengthening product order arrived (already) and I'm puzzling over the four products trying to decide how they should all work together. I *think* I should be rubbing in one of the creams a couple times a day and one of them at night for a couple of weeks, and then adding the two polish-like things as a "base coat" and "top coat" substitute for real nail polish. I'm not entirely clear on how I'm supposed to remove the stuff, though, given that their literature suggests that nail polish remover is spawn of satan. Perhaps it will wear off by week's end. Ah, well...I have a couple weeks to figure it out.

The guitar practice is paying off -- Friday and yesterday I played "Leda" up to tempo and without start-overs. Not without wrong notes but nothing that held me up. Soon I may be able to add some of the dynamics that made Linda Cohen's performances so memorable. I've also been working at "Wendago" and "Windy & Warm" -- two that I found on the discovered tape, and also on YouTube by Doc Watson. The calluses are getting serious.

In the back yard all is well. On the windowsills, the one fruit from the Schlumbergera truncata has turned from pinkish green to pinkish purple. I have consulted with Teh Google and learn that I don't have to do anything except wait for the fruit to fall off. Then I should remove the seeds from the fruit, let them dry for a day, and plant them.

Comments

Oh wait, I know the answer to this one!

[saoba.livejournal.com]

There's non-acetone nail polish remover which is not so much of the devil. Cutex & other such make it in various forms.

The actone removers are used these days mostly to remove salon-type artifial nails and tips. Acetone is fierce and very drying and eats paint/furniture finishes, some plastics and many glues- mere nail polish quails before it but it can damage your nails.

(Acetone is used to clean certain kinds of tools, where Himself works.)

If it's the set I think it is, the company's site says the cream can be used over polish or enamel and should be done 2-4 times daily, the oil should be done at night and allowed to soak into nails and cuticles. The nail rebuilder is used every other day as a base coat followed by the nail thickener (again every other day) and the whole layered effect removed once a week, with an acetone free remover.

Re: Oh wait, I know the answer to this one!

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I didn't think you could buy acetone nail polish remover any more. I haven't seen it in a drugstore in a long time.

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[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I thought I saw something like that on the site but forgot where I saw it, and the instructions with the stuff were not marvels of clarity. I also think I'm supposed to hold off on the base coat and thickener until I've oiled the nails for a couple of weeks.

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[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

As long as you're reading the instructions for me: I think I'm inclined to use the nail strengthener cream a couple times during the day and the oil at night. Or should I use both at night, do you think? And if so, which one do I put on first? The directions that come with the cream say for best results put it on at night. (The oil is extremely, ummm, oily and gets painted on with a little brush. The cream is creamy and I confess that I like it better.)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the house; some things are better as fantasies.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

There's some kind of irony in the fact that the only part of the reality that lived up to the fantasy was the view.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[pameladean]

Oh, dear. Well, you had the fun of planning it.

P.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Not entirely a waste...Roy thinks Bedford may still be The One, just not that house.