Where I've been lately

1. Trying to work on my "favorite products of 2013" series, except travel, and illness, and dry, dry, dry, desert-y dry skin.

I mean, is it possible to assess my various B.B. creams when my skin is so dry that I'm carrying a sample-sized pot of Estee Lauder Re-Nutriv Seriously Rich Cream For Seriously Rich Old Ladies* everywhere I go, so I can dab a little on the places that might crack when I start laughing at my own jokes?

2. Shopping. And for high-end products. Chantecaille, Guerlain, the aforemention Estee Lauder cream.

3. Watching YouTube Beauty Gurus. And, naturally, emulating them:

* OK, that isn't really its name, but what is up with the long-ass names cosmetics companies give their products? Who can remember them? I can't remember the actual, official name of my day-time moisturizer, and I've used it for years. If I ever got laid up in bed and had to send my husband out to buy it for me, I'd tell him to get "the Garnier lotion in the ugly green pump bottle."