{Winter Blues}

Each January, after the holiday season ends, I pack away its presence for next December.  I gently wrap up all my ornaments in bubble wrap and newspaper, placing them in various boxes, marking each as fragile.  I de-string my tree of its lights.  Then, with a lot of help from my husband, I cart my tree out of my apartment, into the street, with all the other sapling rubbish.  Its putrefied branches shed needles throughout my living room, foyer, and apartment stairwell – which I swept and vacuumed up fastidiously.  This annual post-holiday routine consistently leaves me feeling a little blue, not to mention, with damaged nails. 

In an effort to beat my winter slump and mani-mess, this year I immersed myself in blue.  I treated myself to a classic manicure and pedicure at Notting Hill’s Coco Nail Bar.  There, in the comfort of their plush, massaging chairs, I sipped a cup of tea while pampering my hands and feet with a scrub, file, massage, and polish with OPI’s Yoga-ta Get This Blue!.  It seems that being blue isn’t so bad after all.