When did I start needing face spackle?

It appears that I can no longer sleep on my side.  Because when I do?  My face develops sleep craters.

I get up, well-rested, thinking all is well with the universe, until I look in the mirror.   My face, which had enjoyed the delicate sqwoosh of the pillow beneath my cheek, now has a sleep crater around its eye.

And you know what?  They don’t make face spackle.  Not for eye craters, not for forehead lines, and even if they did, you’d have to buy it in a tub – not a tube.  Seeing as eye cream generally goes for $20 or more for 15 ml of the stuff, I know I couldn’t afford a freaking tub of it.

I’ve even attempted to convince my face to  go back to where it’s supposed to be with intricate facial exercises, but I’m realizing that you pretty much just have to wait it out until your face bounces back on its own.  This can be tough going, given the elasticity a gal’s face retains after the age of 40. 

I’m lucky if ‘bounce back’ happens after my morning decaf and
breakfast… but there are days I just have to use my hand to make it look
like I’m deep in thought well into mid-morning.  Plus, that way I can pull everything up and out of the way and I look really alert.