Comments | morwen_peredhil: Vanity and Books

morwen_peredhil

Vanity and Books

Jul 07, 2009 20:02

First appointment with my new dermatologist today. She told me I have beautiful skin, which has been making me happy all day. I'm kind of obsessed with my skin, but I figure I deserve to be after suffering from acne from ages eleven to twenty-seven. A six-month course of Accutane finally got rid of it. That and my fanatical devotion to sun ( Read more... )

books, food, health, vanity

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hercircumstance July 8 2009, 01:02:06 UTC

Yay! Finally, someone rational about skin issues. I have so many people who tell me I need to go tanning despite the fact I tell them my ancestors are from southern England and we don't tan! We just go red, peel, and then white again. And freckle. I wear lotion all the time so I don't freckle terribly (I like freckles...in moderation) and since I came to terms with things in high school I've been much happier. Still doesn't shut people up.

There is a girl at work just a year older than me who has neck wrinkles. Neck! I got to see both great grandmothers into their 90s and they had excellent skin for their age. Of course that was back when woman wore hats on their head against the sun and otherwise covered up more and kept their skin as it should be. My peers won't looks so well even in their 70s. If we thought old people are wrinkly now just wait until the generation of Cheetos people get old.

morwen_peredhil July 8 2009, 01:13:24 UTC

My pasty English/Scottish/northern Italian skin just doesn't do sun at all. I'm lucky that I grew up on the coast of Oregon, where there is no sun. (Only a slight exaggeration.) Burns and weird hyperpigmented patches are not a good look on me.

I don't ever go out during the day without sunscreen and a sunhat. I wear gloves when I'm driving, too. It's okay with me if people think I'm crazy.

Cheetos people

Heh!

meganbmoore July 8 2009, 03:25:21 UTC

Yeah, those poor medieval romances really are a dying breed, aren't they? (Which is a pity, because when they're well done, I LOVCE them.)

morwen_peredhil July 8 2009, 03:32:16 UTC

I've pretty much stopped reading romance because medievals are the only kind I really like. I remember when there would be five to ten published every single month, and now it seems that we don't get many more than that in a year.

I still have my keeper shelf of all the Roberta Gellis medievals. Those were the days.