I, for one, would follow them anywhere…Dole guides pose beneath the pineapple water tower, a famous Honolulu landmark. More than 100,000 visitors each year tour spick-and-span Dole “kitchen”, the world’s largest fruit cannery. Jim Dole started Hawaii’s pineapple industry in 1901.
NORDSTROM Children’s Shoes
Visit Children’s Shoes Friday & Saturday, February 18th and 19th.
Come get your toenails painted. Piggy Polish “Peticures” on Friday, February 18th
Paul Mitchell will be on hand from 12-4 PM doing updos on Saturday, February 19th.
Man, just say the words “Piggy Polish” and “updos” and I am there! So, the girls and I headed down to Nordstrom on Friday for “Peticures” and Saturday for a taste of the hair glamour that is conspicuously absent from their lives when they’re with me.
You see, while I am pretty good at most of the girly stuff associated with…well, girls…I can’t do hair. I not only lack a basic knowledge of hairstyling techniques, I’m completely unfamiliar with the tools. I’ve only used a blow dryer once in my life (during an ill-conceived, junior high, pre-dance grooming session that is still referred to as “The Dandelion Incident”) and the thought of using a curling iron leaves me clammy.
I know women who have used curling irons for decades who still manage to char their flesh on a regular basis, so, as a rank amateur, I’m a little reticent to brandish a wand of white-hot death near my daughters’ faces. Perhaps if my morning grooming ritual growing up had carried with it the ever-present possibility of grotesque, disfiguring burns or self-immolation (like applying my contact lenses with a soldering gun, or trimming my sideburns with an acetylene torch) I wouldn’t be so squeamish. But, as it stands, when they’re with me they usually have to settle for a few spritzes with a squirt bottle, a thorough brushing…and, if I’m feeling especially bold, perhaps a few barrettes.
So I went to this thing hoping to pick up a few “idées de coiffure” that I could use at home, but this probably wasn’t the place to go for practical hairstyling tips.
When it was over, Emma ended up with a remarkable recreation of the fountains of Versaille:
And Zoë’s hair was like an Escher woodcut. It seemed to turn in on itself and circle around and turn in on itself and circle around and turn in on itself and circle around…:
But even though I didn’t learn much in the way practical techniques, I studied the process carefully enough that I’m pretty confident that I could recreate the hairstyles if the girls ever get invited to a cotillion…or the Westminster Dog Show.
Here is a refreshing and authentic story of a nurse’s life. In it redheaded, vivacious Sue Barton finishes her training and goes on to the many experiences, both humorous and exciting, that a pretty young nurse can meet in a great modern hospital.
In the very beginning of the book Sue gets mixed up in a minor mystery of the hospital, and we find that although she and her friends are more mature than they were as students, they are still able to get into occasional trouble with the Head Nurse. Exceedingly interesting episodes are those that deal with Sue’s serious work, including her first experience in the operating room, and the operation when she assists the brilliant but fiery-tempered doctor for whom nothing is ever right. Later she has her training in the care of newborn babies and their mothers. Deeply immersed as she is in her work, Sue struggles with the conflict of her love for her career and her growing affection for Dr. Barry, who continues to show as much interest in the pretty young nurse as he did when she was just a student.
This book will be read with enjoyment by all who wish to know the inside story of the exciting dramatic life that goes on in a big hospital.
I saw the same movie twice last night. The first time it was called Finding Neverland; the second, Spanglish.
Update: OK, OK… After receiving numerous requests for clarification, here are the similarities as I see them:
| Finding Neverland | Spanglish | |
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| A hard-working artist… |  |
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| …laboring in a field in which, “They changed it — the critics — they made it important”… | |
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| …is trapped in a loveless marriage with a rigid, frigid, philandering, social-climbing wench… | |
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| …played by a fabulous babe. | Radha Mitchell |
Téa Leoni |
| Enter a warm-hearted, grounded, single mother with child(ren)… | |
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| …who develops a close relationship with the artist… | |
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| …and teaches him about love and life… | |
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| …and even spends the summer at the artist’s summer home… | |
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| …but leaves before the relationship is consumated. | Dies of consumption. |
Consumed by guilt. |
| The hard-working artist gets four-star reviews… | Eventually, for Peter Pan. |
For his restaurant. |
| …but still wants seats set aside for special guests. | Orphans. |
Walk-ins from the neighborhood. |
| Supporting characters are subjected to too-tight outfits… | Smee’s and Nana’s costumes. |
Bernice’s school clothes. |
| …and there’s a large dog that chases balls. | Porthos, a Newfoundland. |
Chum, an overweight Golden Lab. |
Did I miss anything?
