We Can Only Speculate: Girly-Girl Rules to Live By, Even in SSA

Girly-Girl Rules to Live By, Even in SSA

Posted by Unknown On Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Sally, this one's for you (and your sweet mommy). Four carved-in-stone rules that my best girlfriends and I live by:

No patent-leather before Easter. Don't care what current faux-fashionistas say, we're all traditionalists.
No white after Labor Day (the exception being, naturally, winter white)
Lipstick, always!
A lady never walks with a cigarette in her hand. Period!

There you go, Sally. And so in the wildly optimistic belief that I might be departing in less than six weeks for as-of-yet whereabouts unknown, I must laugh at myself as I begin my packing list. Leatherman, satellite radio, etc. Yeah, yeah . . . that all goes without saying. But how about these "essentials:"

My complete Erno Lazlo skincare collection, along with my Kinerase.
A.B.'s Good Eats: The Early Years. Don't leave home without it (Becky, Rusty, Sally: you know what I'm talkin' about).
My Moulton Brown and Temple Spa aromatherapy, along with that groovy stone box of balm that we bought in French Lick.
My Clarisonic. Believe me, I'll find a way to keep it charged.

And I still haven't completely given-up on the idea of my flat iron. Will I wake-up to reality? Will a solar charger handle a a flat-iron? Or will I accept the idea of over 800 bad hair days? We can only speculate.