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05/31/2008
Missing Eyeliner
Occassionally, from time to time (frequently) I lose my eyeliner pencils around the house, in my bag, down the back of the sofa, on the kitchen counter.... anywhere really. It starts off with my putting them in my jeans pocket on the way downstairs so I can put some on before I go out but *after* I have made a cup of tea. The eyeliner is sometimes applied and sometimes not, but always spends the rest of the day (and subsequent days) in my pocket. Here is lives until I remove it for some reason or other: piano playing, cooking, boredom, abstraction... At this point the eyeliner pencil is left somewhere. At this point the eyeliner pencil becomes lost.
I then think nothing of the pencil, or the loss for several days. Indeed, I think nothing of it until the next time I wish for alarmingly green/blue/sparkly/black eyes. Then I can turn the entire house upside down looking for the damn thing. No stone is left unturned - so to speak - no bag, no pocket, no medicine cabinate, no dressing table, no counter, no behind bed or down sofa... everywhere (over the course of a few days is searched thoroughly and repeatedly). And I can never find it.
That is not particularly unusual or unexpected. The curious thing is the way these eyeliner pencils turn up. I *always* find them in the top left hand pencil draw in the set of small draws on the lower shelf to the southern (ish) side of our kitchen. Whenever I look purposely in that draw I find nothing. And yet, the moment I am idly searching for a sharp pencil to tie my hair up with find one, no two, no three previously lost eyeliner pencils.
Could whoever keeps putting my makeup in the pencil draw please just give them to me when they find them. I know it is less amusing on your part, but it really is very confusing.
xXx
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but by requesting this you go against one of the oldest traditions in our house... things are always put in the most useless place to be found long after the person looking for them has ceased to care...
we can't change years of traditition merely for your make-up darling!
x
Posted by: Emma | 05/31/2008
Didn't know that Ruth needed or used makeup. Is she getting old? :-P
Posted by: Steve | 06/01/2008
Ruth has worn make-up around Steve before... it isn't helped by the fact that it keeps going missing.
Eyeliner is fun... particularly my eyeliner.... obnoxious is a rather accurate and stunningly descriptive word
xXx
Posted by: Ruth | 06/01/2008
quite right steve,
she doesn't need it
though the green eye liner is very groovy.
=D
X
Posted by: stuart | 06/01/2008
I feel ganged up on now!! I like make-up, what is wrong with that.
And sometimes I get no sleep and go grey, then it is useful.
xXx
Posted by: Ruth | 06/02/2008
It's tricky
I had a girlfriend years ago who did serious war-paint. She would come round to my place and I had the nerve to ask her to wash it off which she did! I thought she looked better and that it was a compliment but she wasn't really happy about it.
Years later, I can see that I was messing with her identity/self-image/ or one of the other Baaaad Things That Men Do
Posted by: Steve | 06/02/2008