This past weekend, Eli and I took a spin through the North Bay, stopping at the Marin Headlands for a few photo ops and a chat with some friendly folks at the Marine Mammal Center before continuing on to Healdsburg and Dry Creek Valley. Some highlights of the trip: seeing an adorable little quail family (that’s our state bird!), running up the hill toward a vista point overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, trying an old vine zinfandel at Quivira with a badass dark chocolate finish. I hear there are vineyards in Cupertino, too, some of them award winning! I’m trying, I’m trying.I’m starting to get pretty anxious about the move. There’s probably nothing I hate more than moving, though its less frenetic but more demeaning cousin, apartment-hunting, comes in at a close second. I suspect my need to feel grounded and nested stems from that crazy summer in college where I moved from couch to couch about a dozen times, relying on the kindness of friends and shuttling my belongings from one end of Cambridge to another by cab in a sagging, beat-up laundry bag. I’ve used up all my moving points.
I’m also starting to notice that I have a lot of stuff. What drove me to order all these cookbooks from Amazon? Why do I have thirty pairs of shoes? What might an inventory of all the hair products I’ve amassed in the past two years look like? Well…
Shampoos
· Aveda Scalp Benefits Balancing Shampoo· Garnier Fructis Fortifying Anti-Dandruff Shampoo
· Kerastase Resistance Bain de Force
· Shiseido Tsubaki Oil Shampoo with Japanese Camellia Oil
Conditioners
· Aveda Black Malva Color Conditioner
· Aveda Curessence Damage Relief Conditioner
· Shiseido Tsubaki Oil Conditioner Japanese Camellia Oil
Styling
· Aveda Elements Finishing Solution· Aveda Elements Smoothing Fluid
· Dove Extra Hold Hair Spray
· Dove Straight & Soft Sleek Styling Cream
· Framesi Chill Paste
· Kerastase Resistance Volumactiv Spray with Complexe Amplicament
· Kerastase Lait Nutri-Sculpt
And yet, the only hair product I use on a regular basis is the $3.99 Garnier Fructis. Oh, and my Kiehl’s hairbrush with picots (pictured), without which my hair would converge into a single, glorious one-dread.
Simplify, man!
2 comments:
Nice pic from the Golden Gate Bridge
In the process of acquiring a second home for hiding away in Maine, we are experiencing a similar realization that we have far too much stuff here. For us, this is good. For you.... you must simplify and thin out!
Who needs 3 hammers, 4 dog bowls (for one dog), 12 flower vases and 3 cork screws.
Keep the reports coming..
mother of Eli
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