When we read sad books during times of sadness, people think we’re wallowing. Not entirely true. We wallow for about ten percent. Maybe fifteen. But more like ten. A big thirty percent of sadness-reading is validation. It is fine to feel sad, the book says. It is normal, it says. I feel it, too, it...
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Monthly Archives: August 2010I think it’s personal. Defense: It’s not like we were married. We weren’t. I was with Blogger in a casual sense for about a year and a half. It was good. It was. We shared some laughs. We shared some tears, although to be perfectly fair, I was the only one crying. When it came... That last post — I know, right? Could I be a better whiner? (Hey, we all hope to be good at something…) Do you ever tire of being the center of your own universe? I’m just ready to enjoy being way down the list, that’s all. And it’s good. It is very good. And now... I’m doing a scientific study about popularity and validation, which consists of me sitting here wondering why everyone else seems to have a whole lot of friends. Point: Husband took these gorgeous family photos and has them mounted so cool, and hung on the wall. He wonders why nobody has said anything about the display....  So here’s what I love today. It’s all about the minimalist summer makeup. I can go with these total basics: Loreal Voluminous mascara (I like the brown-black, non-waterproof, straight applicator, I’m just saying) and the Maybelline Superstay lipcolor #774 (which goes on wet and dries gluey, then you spread on the included gloss-thing, and I... |