Lately I have been experiencing a weird mid-life crisis. I can’t really call it a mid-life crisis, unless I plan to keel over at the age of 50. Don’t do the math. Division is too hard! Don’t do it!

Fine. So I’m not really 25 years old. *sigh* Which is exactly the point, isn’t it?!?!

But this isn’t really a mid-life crisis, because really, I plan to live long past 65, even if I am still in this same apartment, puttering about with four cats to which I am allergic.

The point of the matter is, I am having my mid-life crisis a little bit early. And what do we do when your mid-life crisis comes a little early?

…you spend $200 on your hair for a blow out. Or blow. Or something else with the word “blow” in it that only applies to men, like the $140 power Craftsman leaf-blower at Sears, Ty Pennington. But I live in city and I don’t have to blow leaves. For me, the only blow out I am looking forward to is my Brazilian Keratin Hair Straightening on June 3rd.

…you go to Forever 21 because H&M isn’t open yet, and blow another $260, which gets you a lot because the most expensive thing at Forever 21 is an evening dress for $49.99 which you didn’t buy because you’re 15 years past the Prom, and technically you couldn’t really wear any of the stuff you just bought because the store is called Forever 21 for a reason and we are talking about a mid-life crisis.

…you go to that place, yes that place, and shamelessly ask the over make-upped Matrix-clad salespeople to give you as many samples of wrinkle cream that they can legally pump into those tiny label-less pots before they have to charge you the full $125 for the actual 1 fl. oz. bottle.

…you rent a Porsche because you do have some sense, and wouldn’t actually buy a Porsche. You just rent it to get that Hasselhoff-like feeling for a few days. Besides, you used your airline points.

Crap. The Porsche is for guys anyway.

You go back through all your archives and re-read the posts when you were young and fresh and collect all the posts wherein you backhandedly bragged to no one about being mentioned in a newspaper, another blog, and felt a teeny tiny bit good about yourself. It’s a teeny tiny bit of affirmation. I need to do this. It’s like my Porsche. But far less expensive and not nearly as stupid. It is just as stupid.

And so I go digging, not the kind of digging where I bury my face in the sand and hope the sadness passes, but the kind where I actively and frantically go digging through my computer to find evidence of better times.

St. Lucia, where the only ugly thing is….? The people! They all tried to steal from us. But since this is not an ad for tourism, I can say that, right? Ok, that was harsh. Find my happy place….find my happy place….find…

…I want to post something soooo bad, I have so much to write, but i CANT get away from my responsibilities!! Go to work, come home, do laundry, eat, pluck my eyebrows to make them two again , feed the cats, clean their poo.

I need a day. I think it will be Wednesday. Stay tuned for some GOOD stuff then……

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