Yesterday morning, Miss Nat had a play date with her friend at the nail salon in her friend’s neck of the woods. So off we went on the 6 to Dashing Diva in Brooklyn.

It was nice for them to catch up after not seeing each other for a whole week (ha!) and a great excuse for a little mani maintenance. Sure I had a Spa Belles manicure (in essie Sugar Daddy) on Wednesday afternoon with Jessica after lunch but sadly my manicures only last a few days thanks to all the rummaging I do in my sample closet to get ready for product segments. (Oh the glamorous life I live).

The play date started out well…

Miss Nat caught up on an issue of W while she waited for her friend to arrive.

The girls picked out their colors.

Both settled on Roxanne’s Ruby Slippers. A cute sparkly color I suggested to Miss Nat instead of City that Never Sleeps. A little too dark for a five year old.

But when it was time for me to choose a color I decided to do something I had never done before.

Go bold.

How bold? Let’s just say in my life I have never had hot pink finger nails but I had just chosen the Elsa Schiaparelli of pinks.

It was definitely shocking Barbie Gone Wild. Except the name was something like Felicia’s Fuschia.

Out of all the colors I could have chosen I chose to try and match the floor tile.

As my nails were drying and my friend sat next to me laughing while her light lavender painted nails dried, I remembered I have two events this week where wearing Ballet Slippers or Mademoiselle would be more appropriate. Ooops.

I blame the color choice on the downpour of rain I walked through to get to the nail salon, will wear the color tonight to The Plaza but will probably polish change tomorrow back to Starter Wife on my lunch hour.

I will say for the few hours I’ve worn this color, it’s made me smile .. without fail.. every time I look at it. Must be how Barbie got Ken.

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Next stop – Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the year – Guacamole Day aka Cinco de Mayo that means dinner at Dos Caminos

Car Song – Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla “We asked many questions like children often do.”

We’ve been back from Luke’s fourth birthday extravaganza in Turks and Caicos for a week now.

And Miss Nat still has the sparkly pink dolphin tattoo she got while away. Well some of it.

Her friend Grace woke up day two of the trip without it. Came off in the shower. But Natalie still has remnants of her tattoo.

The dolphin may only have pink sparkles on the top of it while the rest is only an outline of the temporary tattoo because of her suntan. But the dolphin is there. And Natalie is holding on tight. Protecting it from a pretend tuna net called soap and water.

I found out this morning (from her father) Miss Nat doesn’t want the area to be washed at all. Which caused me to let out an early morning “Gross girl, you don’t want man eating bacteria to wake up and start eating your arm alive.” And then I continued “Do you know what man eating bacteria is?” “Noooo?” “Man means human. So it eats human. It’s going to eat your arm because its dirty.”

Now I think I meant flesh eating bacteria (a la Cabin Fever) but I’m not sure why I even said anything like that to my five and three quarters year old but I definitely said it. It may have had something to do with sitting through Bride Wars (definitely going to become a classic) and eating both honey wheat pretzels and Samoas last night.

But back to the flesh eating bacteria that is absolutely positively going to take over my daughter’s left arm region.

Let’s just hope that doesn’t happen within the next few hours. Because in an hour, I’m off to take Miss Nat to see Grace for their mini Diva manicure appointment at Dashing Diva. Think I can get them to put some of that antibacterial gunk gel on her arm that they give us before we get manicures? Just to keep the flesh eating bacteria at bay until we get back from Brooklyn?

Freshly manicured fingers crossed.

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Next stop – Tomorrow is the If You Give a Mom a Martini book launch party for Lyss Stern at The Plaza. I plan to leave the office and go directly to it. Should make for some interesting pink carpet photos considering it’s supposed to rain all week. Sugar melts people. Sugar melts.

Car Song – Halo by Beyonce  “You know you’re my saving grace.“