What Happened to...

[cawakening]

the girl I used to be? I've started wearing more fashionable clothes, doing my hair (complete with straightening it), and doing my makeup. Not only that, I'm enjoying it! And perhaps even more startling, I'm starting to think that I'm pretty. I know I'll never be beautiful but I'm starting to think that I might be able to hold my own in a crowd.

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My sympathies

[anonymous]

You and me both- I own skirts and sandals now. At least, similar for the first part (minus the straightening of hair, though at least I'm brushing it properly now). I still think doing makeup is a lot like face-painting though, especially when I wipe it all off XD

Ah well, life is living. While I shudder to imagine what my 13 year old self would think of me, we might enjoy one of the more harmless pleasures of youth while we are at it.

I was reading a strangely irritating Victorian book lately. There's a whole section about how "while not all girls can be beautiful, all can be attractive" and proceeded to give advice on being healthy and having good deportment, which apparently includes being awake at 4am in the morning, eating dinner at 3pm and sleeping on beans.. 0_o

-Anne

Re: My sympathies

[cawakening]

WOW! That sounds like the regimen for me!

We should really get together and do tea or hiking or a museum or something!

Re: My sympathies

[anonymous]

Any of those options sound wonderful, though I would tend to lean away from the hiking bit XD It's been a very long time since I've seen you other than as electronic text!

Are you free sometime in the middle of June?

-Anne

Re: My sympathies

[cawakening]

Yes! Do you have my number or Facebook info?