I have no review today, and no excuse other than sheer laziness. Just as well then that I am off on vacation. Am wearing Les Bains du Marais Fleur d'Oranger, and looking forward to a relaxing week. My plans: eat french fries, sit under a beach umbrella and finish the Billy Strayhorn biography I've been neglecting all month, eat some more fries, and take my son to the boardwalk to ride the bumper cars.
I am trying to limit the number of fragrances I bring, because if last year's beach vacation is any indication, I won't end up wearing any of them anyway. In my bag so far: Carthusia Mediterraneo, L'Eau de L'Artisan, yesterday's Parfums de Nicolai Eau d'Été, Un Jardin Sur Le Nil, and Creed Jasmal. No doubt I will throw in a few more before I leave.
If it turns out (and I suspect that it will) that I do in fact have to come back home, I will post again on Tuesday, August 9th.
Have a lovely holiday, R! We'll miss you.
Thank you N!
Hey there!
Have a wonderful (relaxing!) time and enjoy those french fries!
Have a lovely holiday, save some room for a Shack Burger and please DO come back
We will miss you!
xo,
f
Have a safe trip! Let me know how you end up liking the book, because it has been recommended to me by a friend. I love his music.
Thank you V! I usually eat enough french fries to gain at least 3 pounds. And crab cakes, and ice cream, and they have a wonderful creperie. I will not go hungry
V, I love Strayhorn, but I find biographies hard going in the summer. Hope I will finish it. Just found out yesterday that a new biography of Dinah Washington came out this year and I will have to read that too, although all the music bios turn out the same: massive talent destroyed by alcohol & drugs.
Hello R! Bon voyage and please come back soon. I will miss you.
xoxo
You need to have the time of your life for all of us!
SO COME BACK AND TELL US ALL!
Hey, R.
Sounds like you're going to “the Shore”. Mmm… salt water taffy. Fried Taylor Pork roll on a bun. The boardwalk perfume of grease, sugar, coconut suntanoil, fried skin, Jean Nate. Oh, I just described JLo Miami!
Have fun!
Thank you N, will miss you too!
I am quite sure I will be back…but it is always hard to leave the beach and return to reality
A, Where I come from we said “beach”, and since moving to PA I have learned that that is how you distinguish those that go to NJ (“the shore”) and those that go farther south (“the beach”). Is that why I don't know what a Taylor Pork roll is?
But the other smells, I imagine, are all about the same.
Have a lovely time, R. Will call you after Aug 9.
Have a funfilled vacation, R, and eat some more of those fries for me!
I need to get ahold of that Strayhorn bio. I always hoped that he would come out from behind the Duke's shadow and be recognized as the major talent behind the talent!
And a Dinah Washington bio, too? I don't know much about her life, but love her velvety voice.
Hugs and love. Have a safe vacation, darling!
Yummm, eating french fries and ice cream — that's a vacation in itself! Have a relaxing time!
Have a great time! We'll miss you and our daily fragrance fix.
Hugs,
Victoria O
L, look forward to talking to you, & hope your week goes well.
R, Will eat enough fries for everyone, I'm sure
Dinah Washington was another lived hard, died young — she was only 39, and apparently her voice was already completely shot.
Thanks for the good wishes!
Thanks V!
You'll be missed … but I'm glad you're getting a chance to blow this popsicle stand. Everybody needs a change of scene … and smell. xoxoxo
Have a good time! I will miss your daily post. Eat an extra fry for me, too.
(When you come back, we must discuss the megablog proposition.)
R, I wish you a wonderful, relaxing vacation! Like all the others wrote before: I´ll miss your reviews, too.
Oh that sounds like you'll have a wonderfully fun time. Enjoy yourself, enjoy your time away. We'll miss your daily bloginess in the meantime. I hope your trip is relaxing and fun.
Bon appetit and have a sweet smelling vacation with no worries.
Hello NST!!
Have a wonderful, safe, and memorable vacation! I'll miss you!
Have a wonderful vacation! Your blog has become a daily routine for me and I shall miss you!
Wow! Though I hope you have a lovely trip, how long will you be away?!
Have a wonderful time and come back refreshed and full of beans (Tonka ones, of course)!
Have a fun and safe trip! Can't wait until you get back!
Miss you, R! Hope you come back rested and refreshed!
Did even better & ate a whole bag for you…
Thank you M! We are having a great time.
Thanks S!
Thank you K! Have relaxed myself into a stupor…