Self-portrait Tuesday
Dear Donna,
OK, get that grin off your face and listen, because we need to talk. Having just gotten done with your shower, and fooled around with all that jazz you do afterwards, here’s the thing:
Nobody cares what your toes look like. What the heck are you wasting all that time for with a pedicure? You aren’t even wearing sandals, you wear tennis shoes 80% of the time anyway. If it feels good, fine, but quit obsessing over what they look like for goodness sakes.
Ditto on the leg and pit shaving. You barely have hair on your legs anyway, and the few times people even notice the pit fur you think they’re weird for getting bugged about it. Again, nobody really cares, and you’re not wearing shorts or tank tops anyway. Stop it. Unless the pits are smelling, forget about it.
OK, so you don’t bother with makeup much these days. I’m cool with that. And the hair is certainly easy enough – just long and straight these days. No fuss, no bother. We’re good there.
The facial stuff? Well, when you have time, fine, do a peel or whatever. Otherwise, slap on some moisturizer and be done with it, already.
You tend to wear comfortable clothes, which is great. Aren’t you glad you don’t have to wear those damned suits from the 80s anymore? And pantyhose? Forget it. Yeah!
On to other things.
Get that grin back on your face, and smile more! It looks a lot better than when you’re just moping around, and it makes you feel better. Didn’t that cheer you up, just smiling? Right, so do more of that.
That pile of art books is getting pretty bad. Stop piling them up, read them, and do stuff with them.
Ditto on all the other piles of crap around here. Clean them up, already. It’s spring, time to clean! Great job cleaning up the kitchen yesterday, btw – sparkly!
Stop worrying about the Japanese final tonight – you’ll do fine. Relax already. And the Japanese dinner after is gonna be great.
You don’t have to order things perfectly.
Stop worrying about the voice lessons this week – it’s been 30 years since you practiced, you’re not gonna be great. Just have fun, already.
Ditto on the art stuff. Just have fun already. You need lots more fun.
OK, get your hair dry and take the son out to lunch. And enjoy the day!
3 Responses
Wonderful self-talk — thanks for sharing because somehow I have heard that voice or at least those words before.
Needed the reminder to have lots more fun.
Love the smile!
I love how you presented this with the self talk – but your smile is the best part – you have a very nice smile and I hope you had an enjoyable day!
It was all right. I screwed up the Japanese test and ended up not going out to dinner because I was just too tired, but oh well.
Let’s hope the voice lessons go better!