| Ah, what fun. I'm sitting in Erin's living room in St. Louis, ready for to go to a place called the "Pepper Lounge," which may or may not be named after my parents' dog...the one Dad calls "Punkin." Alicia is in town from Atlanta and is participating in the "getting ready" ritual, as are Erin and Rebecca...said ritual includes hair, makeup, outfits, etc. As my version of this ritual is relatively simplistic, I've been ready to go for half an hour and I think we have another half an hour left before they are ready. Hence my return to Xanga...I'm bored and I don't feel I can handle the auditory chaos which is the television...however I am sure the martini bar will be fine...after a few...
Soooooooo...Alicia in town from Atlanta, Rebecca in town from Atlanta...very nice...so I'm in St. Louis. I can't spend that much time getting ready to go out. I get so bored doing that stuff. I quit drying my hair yesterday because I was tired of it...not b/c it was dry...it had to do the rest on its own, dammit. I know a lot of people really enjoy this "getting ready" process but I don't. I would much rather just be where I'm getting ready to go...or just screwing around or something...and I don't think there's a correlation between my spending more time putting on makeup and getting hit on or whatever...in fact...had a very interesting night last week which was the result of no makeup and hair dirty from the day before...baggie jeans and stupid shirt...and he was possibly the hottest hookup yet...except for maybe an ex-boyfriend but I can't really decide who is hotter...so I really don't think this getting ready bullshit has anything to do with that...and it seems like girls do this to impress boys...so my head is spinning. Honestly, now that I think about it, I've always been hit on more when I had put no effort into appearances. Maybe I just look better without makeup...maybe it's the no-care attitude...dunno...anyway, I think it's silly. Yeah, when I met the aforementioned ex-boyfriend, I had no makeup, hair not done, wearing overalls I think...and ended up dating him for a couple years. And man was he hot.
I'm generally irritated with how much effort people put into appearances anyway...but alas, that's the world now. Maybe it's just that I feel pressured to do it when everyone else does and I'm lazy and don't want to. Or maybe it's that I feel like people are better than that. Now, these particular girls enjoy the process itself, so I'm not calling them shallow by any means...and they aren't seriously hard core about it...I mean, all of them went out to lunch today without any effort at appearance at all...not even lip gloss...and this is why I love these people. Well, one reason.
Ugh, now I'm tired of this and want to do something else. |
