Ugly Duckling

Along with my usual "World's Best" french toast this morning, I went a little wild and ordered a second breakfast of steak and eggs. And not the grimy germs on the table, dirty knives IHOP kind either. Sizzling, searing hot fillet cooked perfectly with two steaming warm round poached eggs. MMMmmm...breakfast of champions. I stepped outside onto the stone pathway and walked to the Jubilee station to get to my facial appointment. Silver metal escalators, steel doors, grey floors and hospital clean stations full of a sea of people shuffling past one another as windy gusts chill your bones.
I skip to the facial experience where I entered a palace of aromatherapy filled scents, toned down tribal beats and lavendar shaded lights in each room. I closed my eyes and layed on the padded massage table awaiting my de-ugly-fying experience. Layer after layer, I envisioned the dull, dry and tired being exfoliated away. I fell asleep at some point and was shocked away by the extractor tearing into my nose as I screamed with horror. Being a girl ain't easy...
After the pain subsided and a couple of more layers of random rose-smelling creams, I left the salon shiny but afraid that the city smog would somehow seep back into my pores and turn me back into a duckling. I rushed back to hotel keeping my head down and covering my face with my new elbow-length winter gloves. That's right...my sparkly grey elbow-length winter gloves. Nobody has them yet. But I'm sure they will by...hmm...2012! Pictures to come soon!
Back at the hotel and safely no longer being blown-away by the spine-numbing chill outside...I catch up on an episode of "The City" and learn what a "Frenemy": a friend who by face-value is fun to hang out with and tends to smile all the time, but underneath the onion-like layers is your biggest enemy. Allah ka shukar (thank God!) I don't have any frenemies...but wow...how perfect of a term...the new "BFF!" Now its time for me to give my undivided attention to the choc-chip biscotti and tiramisu cheesecake that I just arrived, I wonder what craziness will happen tomorrow!