September 11th

I was a sweaty mess when we spoke this morning.  I'd literally just finished my workout so, perfect timing madam.  I'm now sitting her in a luminous glow, can you tell?  Yesterday, I was gifted a weeks supply of Clarins Vital Light Serum so I'm giving it a try.  Apparently, it takes a month to see any improvement but it's pricey stuff so I am more than happy to see how far my weeks supply lasts me. 

Hair is looking good, even if I do say so myself.  Frizz Ease Curl Around Daily Shampoo has done a wonderful job of calming my frizzy head after only two washes.  It does actually do what it says on the packaging and my head looks much calmer, smoother and sophisticated.

I didn't tell you about my looky likey mac did I?  I returned to work braced for autumn, in my black mac with cream piping.  As it happened, Kylie and Pippa Middleton were both photographed sporting an almost identical mac in the same week.  The number of people who pointed this out to me and asked, was it the same mac, was ridiculous, even senior, male managers!  (I think they must have a thing for Kylie and or Pippa M.)  Anyway, instead of nodding and smiling enigmatically, I addmitted that mine was years old and had been purchased in a Gap sale.  I'll never learn will I?

I've been turning to "bad" foods over the past week and have indulged in a fair amount of comfort eating, but I'm having a final blow out today, (cheese on toast,) then back to the healthy eating from tomorrow.  I feel so much more sluggish at the moment and out of condition, I need to get  back on track and hopefully that will happen over the coming week.

It's the 10th anniversary of 9/11 today and everyone has their own memories or that awful day.  Everyone old enough remembers where they were when they heard the news, the first time you saw that dreadful sight of the plane hitting the tower, and forever in my brain, are images  I wish I had never seen. 

I don't know how much different the world we live in today is from 10 years ago, except perhaps that we are more suspicious.  Hopefully, we don't take each day for granted and we appreciate our loved ones and ourselves more.  The story of one man's desire to commit such an atrocity, is far outweighed by the thousands of stories of love and bravery born out of that one day.  Light has always overcome darkness, and it always will.