Fashion

[I am still oxox]

@LTT1 please stop tagging me I know you mean well but i have no interest

[LTT1]

@Caaareful Shopper 

You have inspired me! I'm going to schedule a pedicure!

[Desert Lily]

@LTT1  People can be "inspired" or uninspired whether they're married or single. It has to do with the individual. It sounds like you might be struggling with recently being single when you say the young woman makes being single look good. - Being single is good. Being married can be good, too.

@Bird mama  has done wonderful things to her home, rescuing birds, & likely much more, & she's single.

I've been single for many years. I earned a 2nd masters degree, changed careers, built the house I'm in, written 13 novels, etc. I've also planted several gardens as a single woman.

Changing lifestyles is difficult, kind of like the changing stages in our lives can be. I have confidence that you'll find fulfilling interests. You're just as wonderful single as you are married. And you're just as wonderful as any of the married women in the book club.

[I am still oxox]

@Desert Lily thank you for the wise words 

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[cheriere]

@LTT1    That was so rude to say to you I'm sorry.  She asked for you not to tag her and then immediately responded to the very next persons post.  Wow!  

Everyone knows you were doing it to be inclusive.❤️

[ninjawife]

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

As soon as AMS is over, I'm headed out to my first pedicure of the season -- cue the angel chorus!

I do my own at-home pedicure during the late Fall/Winter months -- I always keep my feet correct.  But there's nothing like sitting back in that big leather massage recliner and letting someone else professionally do it.  I always go to the same place, but I still bring my own polish and pedicure tools.  

We're getting very mild weather next week.  Open toes season here I come.

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@Caaareful Shopper I get a pedicure once a month even in the fall winter months when I don't get polish.  I just love the pampering and effective job the professionals do. 

[Bird mama]

@LTT1  I didn't get married until I was 40 years old.  I've always been a solitary kind of person and there were circumstances that I'd rather not get into now that kind of contributed to my isolation as I was growing into adulthood.  Since I was the type of kid who preferred her own company or the escape into Barbie world, I could take or leave people.  My Ma even commented that as a child I was in my own world and had the ability to tune out what I didn't want to be bothered with.

All of this said, I remember being young at work and seeing the singles around me who had such active and busy lives.  Sometimes I would wonder what it must feel like to have so many social contacts (acquaintences and friends) and to be so busy and engaged.  I think it was less what they did and where they were going and more about how it seemed to come so naturally to them.

Ironically I married a loner like me and I used to joke that between the both of us we made a fairly rounded human being   My husband was in my life 7 years before he died.  I can't say that I reverted back to my loner and 'not a joiner' self after he died because I'd always been a loner and 'not a joiner'. 

My eldest sister started dating her husband when she was a teenager.  I can't say that she ever experience single life.  She went from the family home to getting married in her 20's and buidling a home with her husband.  She had been half of a pair since she was a teenager and then her life was defined as a mother.  She became a pretty good real estate agent late in life.  Then her husband died and she had to learn what it mean to be single at the age of 56.

I have to tell you that I loved seeing the transformation.  The first couple of years she was in mourning and sadly when she really started hitting what I call her stride - doing what interested HER - she got ill and died.

LTT you were born an original and all you can be is you, which is great.  

[Squirrels Are Trash]

@Caaareful Shopper 

That jacket is really vivid with wonderful color! I bet it would look lovely on you!

[Squirrels Are Trash]

@cheriere 

Hypocrisy runs rampant. It's funny how some use the forums to live journal their various ills and problems with their daughter and grandson and expect tea and sympathy, but don't DARE expect the same from them. They live to be miserable. It's the senior boomer version of Mean Girls enacted here.

@LTT1  I like reading your updates!