<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>

Every year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it's the start of a new year? LOL At least that's what I think. And look if you didn't know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.

<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that's an over share (Promise.. next time I'll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven't seen my eyebrows when they aren't done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it's just simply not a pretty sight.</span>

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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn't her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate's glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you'd think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn't mind seeing again.</span>

 

<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won't discuss my choice of nail color.</span>

<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.</span>
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can't the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Like my ugly foot?
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<span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span></span></p>