Sep 14
all dressed up and no place to go
whenever i feel crappy or just down in the dumps, i want to dress up and make myself look really pretty. i try a new make-up style. i experiment with different colours and techniques (half the reason i look at celebrity gossip sites is for fashion, and mostly make-up ideas). i go through my closet and try to come up with new and interesting outfits that i haven’t worn before, or in a while. i do my hair, because i’m too poor to get it ‘did’. when i say i ‘do’ my hair, i mean i bother to blow dry it and then straighten/curl it.
of course, this always leads me to believe that i don’t have enough clothes (of the kind that i want, anyway) and i don’t have enough shoes. the latter point is very true. i only wear my boarding shoes to class because i take the bus, but if i drove i’d definitely wear some of my cute pumps.
this leads me to the fact that i need a job and i’ll be able to know what kind (part or full time) to get in a couple of days. my initial point was that i feel dumb getting all dressed up with literally no place to go. it used to be okay if i was seeing jeff. at least someone else could appreciate my efforts (i hope). now that he’s in windsor, i feel particularly stupid doing it on a friday day or night when i’m just going to stay home. or better yet, going to class. it’s mostly just for me anyway, but it takes so much work, time and effort, it almost seems like a waste.
let me clarify that this is not a plea for people to invite me places so i have somewhere to show off. it’s just an observation that my life seems emptier without jeff. i also feel guilty going to class looking really good. as if people will think i’m doing it for the attention of others, when really it’s for myself, or jeff . . . if he was still here.
i should go to bed, not only because i’m tired, but so i can wake up earlier and make myself up. maybe i’ll take some pictures and send them, so it’s not a total waste.
p.s. i already kind of used that title and i used far too many parentheses in this entry.
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Beware the temptation to dress up, take pictures of yourself in a mirror, and post them online. Therein lies the path to MySpace fame, which is a fate worse than death.
I don’t think your use of parentheses was excessive.
About your significant other being far away…I empathize. (Isn’t it silly that after all this time, I’m still not really comfortable with using the term ‘boyfriend’?) And as cliche as you might think I am, I’am going to say it: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. When Iljya was away, I would try to avoid thinking about how miserable I was without him, and instead think of how happy I would be the moment that I saw him. It sounds so logical, but is so very difficult to do…