Today I had a “first”.
About a month ago I stopped biting my nails cold turkey. This week I noticed my nails were like awkward claws that I would catch on things like soap, chips and my scalp. Later at the end of the day I would pretend I was a corpse on CSI and scrape the day’s build up from underneath and speculate on my “killer’s” motive for putting mozzarella cheese under my nails. So it went.
As SharkBoy and I waited for our custom T-shirt place to open (we’re getting custom t-shirts for Gay Days at Magic Kingdom – expect pics later this week) he suggested that we have a manicure. I was extremely apprehensive. Firstly, I was tainted by those horror stories you hear about nail infections and secondly… no one has ever touched my hand that way. I was a virgin.
I did give in eventually and was thankful for it. She was rough and made me bleed from my cuticles (“Tsk bad! But you nail is good!”) but in the end, I was left with shiny buff nails! And a hand massage! Why haven’t I had this done sooner?
Half way through it, what I suspected was half a bridal party came in and gave SharkBoy and I odd looks while we sat there. I just beamed like a blushing virgin and said “It’s my first time!” One of the women confided in us that she liked “dark” nails and I refrained from commenting that 40 years ago, that would be considered “slutty”.
So I recommend you get a manny. Next time I may move up to a pedicure but I know I would laugh all the way through it. I have ticklish feet.
After, we met Rod the Photog. and went and saw “Bears” at the InsideOut festival (thanks for Daryl for recommending it to us a while back!). SharkBoy has more on his site. It was fun. All the drama, cheese and excitement you’d expect from an American pageant.
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Thanks DR! I’ll check it out!
daryl – I’m trying to avoid the screen printing as all my designs are four colour.
i can also do custom shirts if you like. screen printed. probably more limited, but i suspect they might hold up better than a photo transfer thingy.
Colour transfer (high quality iron-on transfers) from a TIF, white lettering on the back, Triple A shirt (high quality) came to about $35 for a one-off. Shipping might be more. Contact him and tell him that the guy from “Happy Monkey” and “Gay Day” shirts (Sunday) recommended you onto him. He does do bulk orders.
Customized tshirts, I need some done, there’s nothing (as usual) in Ottawa.
How do they work and how much? Their website isn’t too keen on letting people know.
SharkBoy kept on asking for a shark appliqué!
“Only Flowers!” came the broken response.
Poor dear.
now the hard part is to not bite/scratch the polish off
Now you just need to stop biting your toenails.