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Hi everyone! There has to be a place for all of us women who don't have perfect lives....well....I hope you all see a little of yourselves here!
I don't carry a $500 purse (unless you count the ones I buy at Ross for under $40) and I don't buy my make-up at the mall (Target and WalMart work well for me), and most of my clothes are from the clearance rack at said stores and wherever I see a bargain! Yes, I am the queen of bargain shopping! No one really sees the label unless I am lucky enough to have the above mentioned clothes torn off me in a sexual frenzy (ok...now a girl's gotta have BIG dreams too!).
I do however, have 2 girls I can share clothes with! So, I go out sometimes with sparkly teeshirts and an old pair of Chuck Taylors (that's Converse for us old timers). It's always worth a giggle to wear a concert tee with some crazy red-eye skull on it and act like I EVEN have a clue who they are! I wonder why my friends don't always want to take me with them...hmmmmm....Nothing says true friendship like walking through the mall with a friend wearing a "Theory of a Dead Man" or "Godsmack" tee. Really? What about ABBA....or KC and the Sunshine Band? Funny, they never want to borrow my tees........am I missing something?
It's okay though, I came to the conclusion long ago that my life mission is all about doing things that make them roll their eyes and go, "please Mom, don't wear that...you don't even know who they are", and "you're really retarded". (note: no offense is meant for anyone with limited mental capacity). I keep looking for the kids on TV...you know the ones that their rooms are the size of football fields with perfect matching furniture and decorated by the designer with the funny french name and a lisp.....who are always dressed nicely for school, do their homework, sit down and discuss their life issues head on. If anyone sees these kids, send them home, they are late!
Well, enough for one day...my "perfect" daughter needs to be picked up so we can share what an amazing day she had with all her amazing friends. Ok, so it will be a normal day of whining that no one likes her and her life as she knows it is over.......putting on my SuperMom cape right now!!

Plain Jane says: Raising a teenager is like nailing jello to a tree!