Sunday on a Tuesday

This picture has nothing to do with this post. These are two of the items found in the time capsule.

Today is Tuesday, but let's write about Sunday shall we?

On Sunday I met with the lovely Kristine. I accompanied her on a threading expedition in Park X. I assume you all know what threading is but just in case: Threading is a method of hair removal similar to tweezing but in which thread is used to remove hairs faster. I don't actually know how it works, but it's a cool process to watch.

Anywho, I went with Kristine to this neat little beauty salon in Park X. They charge only $3 to thread eyebrows and no appointments are necessary. The salon is in the basement of a commercial building. We descended a short flight of stairs into a cotton-candy pink confection of a room. Chairs were lined up along the walls in a 'u' shape and they were all taken. People were also standing in all the available spaces. Popular place! It reminded me of going to the passport office except that the air had an antiseptic pleasantly-sweet smell to it and there was a lot of sunlight coming through the one window.

Despite how busy the place looked, the wait only lasted about 10 minutes. If you are wondering, I did not get any threading done personally. The salon says on its business cards it is 'exclusively for women.' I am not sure how they feel about pig hand puppets and didn't ask. My butt arm (yes, the one that makes me move) got her eyebrows done and they looked pretty good. Can't beat the price either. Kristine has been going to this place for a couple of months and swears that they always do a good job.

If you are interested in checking them out, they're called Salon Dee's Beauty. They have the following three locations:

737, Blvd. Cote-Vertu-2nd floor, Ville St-Laurent (corner of Montpellier) Tel: 514-744-2306
803, rue Liege Ouest, Montreal (corner of Outrement) Tel: 514-948-2306
1014, rue Jean-Talon Ouest, Montreal (corner of Acadie) Tel: 514-277-1074

After our hair removal excursion we took a little trip over to Marche Centrale and visited the SAQ depot. I bought a couple inexpensive bottles of wine for future festivities whilst Kristine picked up a 2-6er of Vodka for her mother. (I know, that sounds bad!) The only problem is that she bought Bacardi and neither of us noticed. At least the weather has been hot and lovely lately and they are all set for Daiquiris...those use rum right? I am so uneducated in the realm of alcohol!

Today's song is 'Head over Heels' by Tears for Fears. It's an 80s sort of day.

Fashion of the Day

I was unsure of what to write this evening. I had a very pleasant weekend thus far, with great company and good food. Now I am once again alone and pondering what to write on my little bloggy-blog here...

Several weeks ago I met with some friends to dig up a time capsule that we buried in 1996. I was just a wee piglet then, still finding my place in this world. Originally, we had planned to dig it up at the 10 year mark but found that getting all the original participants together was too difficult. Three of us decided to dig it up without the others because we had used an old camper cooler to bury the items in, and started to fear that the contents would be damaged. There was indeed damage, with the exception of some items places in a bucket within the cooler, and we threw many things out. All of us had forgotten what exactly was in the time capsule so we were surprised by what our younger selves considered significant. Basically, we found a lot of magazines, notes that we passed in class, drawings and other oddities and creations. There were also letters to our future selves and some trinkets. In future, I may post a series of photos that we took to document the contents. For today, I have included two of the ones pertaining to fashion. The bottom one is from a 1996 edition of the now defunct YM magazine heralding 'Genius jeans!'As you can see, you would have to be a genius to pick such fetching ensembles! The top picture is my own attempt at drawing a fashion line...please keep in mind it was the 90s!

Ciao darlings et a bientot! (insert accents in necessary places)

Tonight's song: Tom Waits 'Real Gone' album