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Monday: My Weekend Can Kick Your Weekend's Ass.

1. Honestly... one of the best weekends I've had in as far back as I can remember. Whew.

Friday's boxing class was fucking great. It's always such a nice way to release at the end of the week. But the REAL kicker came AFTER boxing. As I was opening the door to my building, I saw it: a big huge box from UPS sitting in my lobby. I knew immediately what it was.



*SQUEAL!*

Yes, folks - that's right. My brand spankin' new train case for the assload of makeup I posess. I couldn't get the box open fast enough, and I swear a tear came to my eye when I finally had it out in all its glory. It's a beautiful thing.

Then, of course, it was Saturday before I knew it. I woke up with time to gather myself. I took a nice long shower, shaved and plucked, moisturized to my heart's content... everything to make myself feel fabulous. On my way to Adorned I stopped at Olive's for a huge gourmet lunch, which I brown-bagged and took with me to the shop. I got there right on time and Stephanie greeted me with a huge hug. I went to the deli to pick up some trashy magazines and some gatorade, then returned to the shop and enjoyed my lunch while Steph set up. After a lot of nit-picking and placement trials, we finally sat down and got started at about 2:15p. I sat well for the first hour and a half, then I started to get antsy right about the time Dan showed up with the camera. Figures.













We finished the outline (minus the details in the feathers and the pants) in just under four hours. Four hours under the needle, and I can't even lie - there were some areas (on the side of my torso under my ribs, coming around towards my belly) where I was holding back the tears. It was torturous. But Steph was calm and continued to remind me of how ecstatic I'd be with the end result. Around 6p I paid the lovely lady and Dan, Krrn and I made our way to the R Train, my saran wrap crinkling all the while.

After the saran removal and a dab-down with a hot towel (OW), this is what was left:



Needless to say, I'm in love. I'm so excited about seeing her develop as each session adds to the piece. I have about four sessions left, so she's going to take some time... but just seeing her puts a smile on my face. Yay! Oh, and how fucking kickass are my hamster pyjama pants? You love them.

Then on Sunday morning, I wake up to see that the lovely Miss Iggy's new set YAHOO! It's my first set up on the site (I did the makeup, FYI) and I was so happy to see it live. There'll be many more to come, but Iggy looks fabulous. Many thanks to tmronin, too, for gettin' his fotog on. He's a rockstar.

Throw in some delicious food, awesome company, a soy chai latte and a lot of cat lovin' and you have yourself a near perfect weekend. Plus, I had some very hot (and very careful) sex with the hottest man EVER last night to boot. Does it get any better than that? No. No, it doesn't.

I think my favorite moment this weekend, though, is thanks to one of my favorite people - Twwly. She welcomed me with open arms to a very exclusive club:



I couldn't be more proud.

Happy Monday, everyone - it's gonna be a good week.