Showing posts with label Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Change. Show all posts

Friday, April 10, 2009

I think I'm officially old

Lately I've noticed a trend with girls younger than me...they all look the same. Take a look at these examples:

Now, granted, The Girls Next Door have bigger boobs than the average girl, but come on. These girls basically look exactly the same. Where's the individuality?

The Hills' girls all look the same except, thank God, for Audrina. They throw one brunette in there to kinda help you figure out who the blondes are. Audrina lives with Lauren--or at least she used to when I used to watch this show.
I can hardly keep straight the new blondes on the country music scene. They look too much alike. Now I can tell their voices apart and let's be honest, no one's as beautiful as Carrie Underwood (who's not in this picture, just in case you can't tell them apart either), but still, you get my point.

Now, back in my day, you could tell the girls apart. There was individuality, self-expression, rebelliousness, the need to stand out from the crowd.

Designing Women--now there's a group you can tell apart. Look, each of them even has a different hair color. Now that's diversity.

The cast of Dynasty. They even had a black woman to attempt to represent the real diversity in America.


Our girl Reba. Now that's a unique style she's rockin' here...the curly mullet. Why has that faded from today's fashion scene? I'd love to see the lovely, bitchy Heidi from the Hills workin' this 'do. Nah, she doesn't have the balls to make this 'do work like Reba did.

Can I just say that I loved Valerie Bertinelli when she was in "One Day at a Time"? I still do think she's the cat's pajamas--whatever that means. In today's terms I think I had a definite "girl crush" on her. I think "girl crush" means I want to be her not do her. After all, who didn't want to be married to Eddie Van Halen and live the life she was living then. Come on.


The Judds. Even Ashley was rockin' some individuality, man.

And of course, the queen of all individuality and rebelliousness--Madonna, circa 1980s. This picture even has identified her marks of individuality.
Oh, what I wish the girls today had the fortitude we had in the 80s to say "Screw the world. We'll be who we want to be!"
Well, that's how I remember the 80s anyway.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

The winds of change

Before I sat down to write this post today about change, lots of thoughts came to mind. I was going to start with my typical, "I hate change" comment, but to my surprise, I realized that isn't true any longer. If I could summarize my life over the past 2 years with one word that word would be "change". As I think about my life and the way it was 2 years ago and the way it is today, nothing is the same.

Two years ago I was getting ready to quit my job, although I didn't know it at this point in time. I also didn't know that on my last day of work I would be getting engaged.



Soon after, I knew I would be moving in with Mr and selling my house, but I didn't know when, nor could I anticipate how sad I would be on that final day when I left my house--and my single life--behind me forever.




In the midst of all this change, I turned 40. Although I was dreading it since the day I turned 30, it wasn't that bad. It helped that Mr threw me an awesome 40th birthday party with all of the people I love most in the world attending. It was a great night!






Then I proceeded on to the happiest day of my life so far--our wedding day. I had no idea how I would feel on my wedding day. It was more incredible than I ever imagined. Truly, a perfect day!



With this glorious event, I also officially became a stepmother.


So, where am I headed with this guided tour down memory lane? I feel like my life is at a turning point right now. I don't know where I'm headed or what's going to happen, but I have this feeling of change stirring. In the past, I would've resisted, dug my heels in and said "NO!!". This time, I feel excited at what may come.

What I know about change is that it's going to happen whether I welcome it or not so I might as well welcome it, learn what I can about myself and hold on for the ride.

Just look at this page full of wonderful things I would've missed if I hadn't been willing to change.