Milen

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Birthday cards like child's drawings, although I don't have children yet, are difficult to decide what to do with. Do I keep them or do I discard them? If I keep them, where do I store them and when am I gonna look at them again? I cannot simply have them pile up on shelves and on top of chests of drawers - they are going to turn into indifferent dust-collectors. But how can I just dump them, like some insignificant, emotionless pieces of glossy paper, which they are definitely not! Someone dear engraved, in ink, wishes of love, happiness, prosperity etc. with sincere passion on this little piece of glossy paper!

So I decided to grant them an eternal life and appreciation, here in my blog. The first 2 are birthday cards from Joan and from Steff's and Cliff's kids. I don't believe they'll come up readable, thus I'll translate.

The Kid's hand made the card and I find it very touching, it says:

Joan’s, incrusted with relief diamonds, continues on the inside:

"Well, actually I was thinking about me
but once I was on the subject of fabulous things
I thought of you next.

Have A Fantastic Birthday!"

I sometimes study the signs of maturity in my entity. One of them certainly is the complacency of solitude. In my early years I could never enjoy the state of seclusion, being by my self had never been pleasurable. I’m not certain due to what changes I’m perfectly contempt alone now. I can definitely share a delicious recipe, however. This afternoon I was tired but uneasy; I wanted to accomplish many things, alas I was tired and unmotivated. Amongst those things were to produce an entry in my blog, clean and tide up around the house, read… I couldn’t get a grasp.

Facing the need of doing nothing too, I decided to lit some candles and to take a bath with sea salts. Think about it, how often do you have the luxury of time to fill up the bathtub and soak for ½ hour? In fact I prepared a hot water with the special salts that Joan gave me, lit few candles, with a glass of wine, and relaxed to the narrated but unabridged version of “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James. Upon cooling of the water I used the “Egyptian Goddess Skin” scrub and I can’t begin to tell you how good I felt at once. Entirely relaxed and smooth with fresh spirit uplifted.

The “Egyptian Goddess Skin” is in fact a “Body Coffee” product. The front of the box says – “Invigorating body polish. Dead Sea salt. Coffee Arabica.” In my opinion everyone should indulge in trying it. Joan and I named it “Egyptian Goddess Skin” after a story. One day she had came out of the shower and exclaimed “Baby, feel my skin! This thing is amazing,” I, urged like this, hurried to feel but couldn’t see the difference; Joan continued in her exaltation “my skin feels like and Egyptian Goddess,” and I thought “oh, whatever!” The story ended here till one day I was out of soap and decided to try the scrub – it felt salty, scrubby, oily and pinchy. Afterwards the tub was slippery but wait till you hear me after I dried my self up – I felt my skin on my left hand with my right and immediately rushed out of the bathroom screaming “BABY, BABY MY SKIN FEELS LIKE AN EGYPTIAN GODDESS!” Ever since that’s how we call it.

For more information you can visit www.bodycoffee.com (that is an unpaid commercial).