Letting Yourself Go

You know you've "let yourself go" when:

• You paint your fingernails and your 4-year-old shouts, "MOM! WHAT did you do to your fingers?!!!!!????"
• Your bank rejects an online purchase for hosiery as obvious fraud
• Your co-worker compliments you on how your hair looks, asks you what's different, and you say, "No conditioner today."

I reject the term "she let herself go".  How sexist!  How degrading!  I prefer the term "a different stage of life".  I mean, if I've showered, have clean clothes -- ironed if possible, and can manage to get out the door without spit-up on my shirt -- I've already been a success that day.  (Notice there's no reference to what I look or smell like at the end of the day.)