Lipstick Llama

Lipstick Llama with Gold Earrings

Oil on Board, 5 x 5 inches, $75.

Ok, this is really an Alpaca. But if I have lipstick and gold earrings on this creature, I'm using my artistic license to tell a non truth anyway. Actually, I look a lot like this Llama. Tomorrow for sure as I have to make a visit to the Oral Surgeon. So when I leave after the procedure, I'm going to look just like this Alpaca. I wear gold earrings but never-ever will I wear hoops, big, small or in between. I won't wear danglers, drops and chandeliers either, although I've come close to swinging from one!

I'm extremely phobic where pierced earrings are concerned. I have the unforgettable memory of Jamie Lee Curtis having a hoop earring pulled out of her ear in the 1980 movie " Terror Train." The way my mind works with this phobia is: I'm wearing the hoop pierced earrings, minding my own business and not paying enough attention to what's going on around me. Out of nowhere comes the man from Terror Train and he grabs both hoops... I won't go on.

The rest of today will be getting everything in order so I can get in my PJ's tomorrow and go to bed! - Brande

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