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So, last year, my friend Libby met me for pedicures one Saturday morning and said that she’d just come from Nia class. I gave her a blank (and probably confused/skeptical) stare. “Hunh??” She, in turn, had that expression of one searching to explain a complex concept in only a few words. “It’s an exercise class, kinda like dance and martial arts.” I filed the word ‘Nia’ away under ‘martial arts’ in my head (only the last concept she’d said really stuck) and didn’t think any more about it — we proceeded on with our rare morning visit of pedicures and a girly kibbitz brunch.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago. Engineerboy and I are taking our normal drive to work, and I notice in a strip shopping center just off I-45 and Houston street, in bold red letters above one of the businesses:

Nia

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Click here for the CURRENT YEAR’S Golden Globes Report

This is the 2005 report.

Likes:

Angelica Huston was gorgously wonderful in a simple long black dress with loads of diamond necklaces. It was a great look, sumptuous and very sexy.

Mariska Hargitay once again looked stunning in Vera Wang (also her choice for the Emmys), this time in a medium pink silk column with ring detail at the shoulder.

Glenn Close in a beautiful black Geoffrey Beene, worn to honor him (he recently passed away).

Jennifer Garner was classy in a bright red gown; whether or not she chose that color to synchronize with the release of Elektra is anyone’s guess.

Kim Raver from 24 looked great in a pale yellow chiffon wrap Carmen Marc Valvo (but then again I’m super-partial to this guy, seeing as how every fancy gown I own is Carmen Marc Valvo). She accesorized with a

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Mynagirl, the Wolf-Nose

A stand-up comic on David Letterman once told a cute anecdote: He goes shopping with his girlfriend at a candle store (“… because I wanted to buy a candle…,” he notes wryly) and she holds up a candle to him, saying, “Doesn’t this smell like lavender and lilac?” His response: “What are you? A wolf? It smells like a purple candle!!”

Okay, if my husband and daughter are supertasters, then I am a supersmeller. Either that, or American folks, as a general rule, immerse themselves in way too much hair gel, hair serum, hair spray, bath gel, bath splash, bath spritz, body powder, body lotion, body spray, fragranced soap, fragranced makeup, and most of all… cologne and perfume. I think maybe the truth is both a combination me being a wolf-nose and people wearing way too much smelly stuff.

Maybe It Was a

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