Did I NOT invite you to do just that?????

Hello Pam...hope you're still around, although with a 5:30 wake time, you'd NEED to be going nighty night by now!

Okay, so yesterday it was a glass of red wine, a merlot? But it WAS 15% (I never look at the % but it's a running joke with us as my Sis and BIL basically shop for the "best bang for the buck" ).

That's hardly enough for me to miss a whole line of chat, but who knows. Actually Pam, I thought MY forgetfulness was due to the Xanax, not the Celexa...but as I started both at the same time I could be wrong.

I'd like to say it gets better but...I can't really tell!

If you mean you sometimes forget who's thread you're reading or why you entered a room for the second time...weeeelll...it is a little disconcerting. I think, personally, that stress itself can cause such symptoms too.

So as to your take on what us gals look like....very interesting.

As for Tal...I had the tall, exotic, slender, bit...she thinks Cher is an insult...but Cher was my body image idol growing up!!

SOOOOO... being 5'2" by age 12....132 pounds, C-cup bra (well maybe it was JUST a B at 12)...Always had long dark brown hair, red highlights. When 1/3 of my hair fell out after my first round of illness/surgery (mid 20's) I got my first perm ever ...next time I just cut it all off!!! Sassy and short.... It grew back black and wavy .

Intermediate years??? Intermeditate lengths.

But for some reason since my 40th, I'm growing it out again. Now long face framing strands, about mid/-way to my bra in back. Use a flattening iron to smooth it out, dark red highlights on a dark brown field..a few strands of lighter amber (SIL does hair!!! ).

As for petite...well in height for sure. Medium frame, pretty evenly proportioned, good upper body definition (NO not THEM! ) from free weights. From 1996 to...oh 4 months ago...I weighed between 120 and 125 ...

Worked out regularly the whole time. A Bit more sporadic now .

Let's see...since getting dishwasher 3 years ago (WHAT was I thinking before that??? ) ...I've grown my fingernails long. Nice hands actually, hope the family arthritis legacy passes me by. Usually they are french manicured (by ME of course!)...In the "high anxiety" days of the late 1990's I "clicked" my fingernails as a nervous habit...wore huge grooves into them...don't know HOW I managed to stop that! :
..Oh yeah...meditation and mindfulness

Dark brown eyes, quite large and deep set...alas hidden behind glasses, which although stylish, shrink my eyes some. Black lashes, well arched eyebrows (total bushes, but NOT a unibrow, if I don't pluck).

Teeth, which were the bane of my youth (well that and my weight which vascillated between 115 and 155 regularly )
overlap slightly...sort of the one-fanged version of the original Cher...alas they were also quite dull from childhood antibiotics....BUT!!! I've found that Colgate's Simply White Overnight has whitened my uppers considerably.!

Now how weird is this? I don't trust products that promise the moon...so I just applied the stuff to my upper front teeth, so as to REALLY tell if it was working (bottoms as comparison)...well it DOES...only I just keep doing the uppers ...they're all you see when I smile!

One of the most heartwarming comments I've ever overheard: "SHe has a great smile"...from two of my students in the hallway.

Okay...were we talking about rambling and forgetfulness???

JK!!!

Shiny

P.S. Geez!!!! I almost forgot!!! Hot here can get into the upper 30's, even low 40's Celcius...so that would be high 80's to mid 90's??? (We changed from Farenheight when I was in high school so I still have vestigial memory! )

Thing is...it's also been very humid...in the 90% range, which CAN push the temp up over 100 ...I'm just a wuss, my perfect day is about 75 degrees, slight breeze. Most Canadians SOAK this stuff up.

Makes up for the -40 degree winters (strangely, when it gets to the minus degrees C and F are almost even)

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