Showing posts with label let yourself go. Show all posts
Showing posts with label let yourself go. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

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.)