Things you don’t expect

If you’d asked me six months ago if I thought I’d ever be shopping at the Dior counter of a department store I would have laughed. (Actually, if you’d asked me a month ago, I would have laughed, thinking at the time that I already had a perfectly good ruby red lipstick.)

And yet yesterday there I was. 

After a couple of tries turned out Forever Glam was the colour for me. One tube of the most expensive lipstick I will ever own purchased. Pity I will get so little use out of it.

Time to head up the island highway to meet my old friend for lunch. Even though she is most definitely not a woman who wears make-up, she admitted, with no prompting, that this tube of lipstick is a work of art. She also enjoyed the story behind it. “Kissing a much younger man in front of an audience? Well, that’s going to be fun,” she said. I’m not sure “fun” is actually the word – and from the way she said it and the grin on her face, she knew it wasn’t – but, yeah, as she said, it’s just a kiss. Okay. (If you’d asked me six months ago if I could envisage ever again kissing anyone, let alone a much younger man, I would have laughed in your face.)

Quick message check on my phone when I’m in the line-up for the returning ferry. Oh, no! My friend Krys has had to cancel her visit. Decide to call her straight away because there is actually a signal available on my phone now that I’m not at my house, only to discover that I haven’t put her number in my contacts list. Will have to wait until I get home. I’ve already defrosted the lobster tails I was going to use to make lobster bisque today for her arrival tomorrow. Can’t refreeze them, so I guess it’s all for me now. Tough break. (If I see lobster tails in the freezer section again, will get more for when her visit is rescheduled.)

Here’s something else I never would have expected.

Yes, indeed. A little Christian Dior bag sitting on my dressing table. 

Normally I would laugh if someone tried to give me a bag for something as small as a lipstick, but, hey, c’mon, it’s a Dior bag. The amount I paid for that lipstick, I should definitely get a bag.