Cut to the Chase...

Yesterday, I went to lunch with 3 of my closest girlfriends. And as usual, we went for sushi.
During the early days of my sushi obsession, I used to order a lot and often ended up with the most expensive bill. Yesterday, I had the least expensive. All I had was a chirashi... miso soup, green salad, assorted sashimi with rice.
While my girls enjoyed their tasty nigiri and rolls (LRM's volcano roll looked SO good), I slowly savoured my meal and found my stomach full and my taste buds entertained.

My friend Dee first turned me on to the delicious simplicity of the Chirashi. Dee is also responsible for my sushi obsession.

I've found my sushi tastes have changed over the almost 10 years I've been enjoying this delicious eastern cuisine. I've gone from trying everything to knowing what works for me currently.

This is also how I settled into my simple "putting on my face" habits. I used to live in Vancouver, BC where I could get my grubby little hands on all sorts of exotic, sparkly, and oh-so-sweet makeup products. My face was a canvas, and I was certainly no minimalist artist.
Over the years, I discovered that if I focused on improving the quality of my skin, I didn't need to use foundation makeup. And that led me to think, "if my skin looks good naturally, maybe my whole face would too", so I nixed the blue and green eyeshadow and opted to emphasize what was already there... and nothing more.
So, now, I just wash my face, moisturize, curl and mascara my lashes, and swipe on some lip colour. I look like ME, only more so.

I've simplified my makeup routine, and now I'm simplifying the rest of my life.

When I told my girlfriends that I was closing the hula school, one of them said, "wow, you're just getting lazy all around, aren't you?!" (or something like that). LOL! Trust Mich to cut to the chase. Damn, she knows me too well!

But I think that's exactly what it is. I'm lazy. I don't want to do the extra crap... especially when I don't need to, especially when my heart and mind hurts to do it, especially when my time is best spent doing other things, especially when I could be going out for sushi with my best girlfriends...