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Archive for November, 2010
Fashism Saved My Ego
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
What do you do when you’re out shopping – alone – and you just can’t decide if those jeans make your butt look big or just good and you start asking anyone who’s in the dressing room, including the 300 pound woman with the leggings ? Or, you’re getting ready for a party, you ask your partner how a particular dress looks, and he says, “It looks fine” or “I don’t know; it looks alright”? Like, he thinks that’s helpful?
It’s a dilemma, especially at this age, when things that looked great on us in 1980 now look (more…)
Tags: closets, clothing, dressing rooms, fashion, gay male friends, opinons, wardrobe, women over 40
Posted in Fashion | 1 Comment »
Car Talk
Sunday, November 21st, 2010
When we were younger and living at home it was almost impossible to have a private conversation, one of those “deep” ones where you really let the other person see the real you. One reason was that it was hard not to be overheard by at least one family member. The other was, you were virtually never allowed to be alone with someone of the opposite sex, without some prying adult nearby.
So, why is it still so hard now, even with our own homes and thousands of ways to communicate, to find a place to just talk? (more…)
Tags: Babedom, cars, conversation, FaceBook, families, privacy, talking, Texting, women over 40
Posted in Socializing | 5 Comments »
I Can’t Throw Out Old Makeup
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
I can’t throw out old makeup. That’s it. No clever pun, no witty double entendre to make you snicker. I’m just admitting I can’t throw out old makeup.
Sure, if a compact falls on the ground and the powder splinters into a million shards, then I’ll dump it – only because it can’t be salvaged. But why, tell me why, I cannot discard the dozens of tubes of lipstick that I will never wear?
It isn’t just because I’m a hoarder (though not the piles of newspapers, dead animals under the bed type), because I can go through my closet and donate scads of clothes throughout the year (which gives me a great justification for buying more). It’s deeper, more esoteric than that. (more…)
Tags: Este Lauder, eye makeup, foundation, grooming, hoarding, Lancome, lipstick, makeup, OCD, old makeup, women
Posted in Grooming | 11 Comments »
Feelin’ Groovy and Talkin’ Teen
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
I’ve written about those of us who dress like 20 year olds, thinking it makes us look younger. It doesn’t. Now I want to talk about something more subtle: language.
Remember when “groovy” was. . . groovy? Back in the late 60’s, we said things like “bummed out” and “cool” and we would “freak out” if our parents tried to co-opt our slang. Not only did it make us crazy, it made them sound pathetic.
So, when we hear newscasters talking about “bling” (more…)
Tags: bling, co-opt, cool, generation gap, groovy, language, lingo, parents, slang, teens, women over 40
Posted in My Pet Peeves | 2 Comments »
OCD? Y-E-S
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Remember Monica from “Friends”? How she’s so obsessive, competitive and bossy? Know anyone like that? I do.
Me.
Maybe I’m not as bad as Monica (I’m certainly not as “tidy”). But I could give her a run for her money. I wonder sometimes if more of you out there have these same obsessive/compulsive tendencies and (more…)
Tags: Anal, competetive, Monica, obsessive compulsive, OCD, rules
Posted in My Pet Peeves | 13 Comments »
