Monday, March 28, 2011

I am supporting my brother’s escape.  Escape from Omaha and my parents.  My move home was a tag team event; he has been tagged; now he needs to get the hell out.  How many of you are “healthy” enough to say NO to your parents?  Exactly.  Time for him to go and live somewhere warm (my mom calls him at work!!)  If you read yesterday’s blog you will know I am working really hard on pronouncing my “N” word.  I have ten days to get it down.

We had Mexican food and margaritas yesterday to celebrate his birthday.  “I haven’t celebrated my birthday for years,” my brother shared.  And, this dinner wasn’t described by him as a birthday event. Bummer.  IMHO, our birthdays are permission to celebrate ourselves and who better to make the plans than ourselves?  I celebrate Loridon.  I learned of this extended birthday celebration from my former neighbors.  Deborahdon and Markadon, both celebrated in February, are week-long specialnesses, events, gifts, and treats, whatever.  It is a wonderful time, all about YOU and mostly planned by YOU!  I have such a great birth date at the end of June that I, not only get my special days, I also get Fourth of July weekend!!!  And like Katie Perry sings, I am a firework!  (Take charge and empower yourself cuz no one else will do it for you!)

This brings me to red lipstick.  One of my BFFs is rocking red lipstick.  It looks amazing on her.  One night on the town, when six of us were in the bathroom together (yes, girls’ go in groups) we tried on her red lipstick…well knowing we all would wipe it off immediately.  We didn’t!  It appeared to be a universal red and we all looked smashing.  Forward to me owning my own tube and trying to rock it every day.  It bleeds.  Ok, maybe not for 20-something lips, or I suppose 30-something lips, yet for 40-something lips…….oy.  Fine lines are highways for bleeding lips. I learned that when I checked my appearance after a job interview today.  Glorious.  Not. *sigh*