Can you be both crunchy and fabulous at the same time? Absolutely! That’s me!
I shop almost exclusively at Whole Foods and believe that yes, organic foods are better for you. My children slept in the family bed, I nursed them both well beyond their second year of life and I birthed one of them at home. I have dredlocs. That’s the crunchy me.
But I’m only a psuedo-hippie because I also like some BLING! Peace signs are my favorite icon, but they are even better covered in Swarovski crystals or diamonds. I don’t consider myself a shopper, but somehow they know me in Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s. I am also a beauty product junkie; Sephora is one of my favorite stores and I’m always searching for the perfect mascara and lip-gloss. The fabulous me!
In my former life I used to be an ethnographer. Never heard of that? Penn Anthropology gives a good definition: “….ethnographers engage in ‘participant observation’, which means that they participate as much as possible in local daily life….while also carefully observing everything they can about it….Through the participant observation method, ethnographers record detailed fieldnotes, conduct interviews based on open-ended questions, and gather whatever site documents might be available in the setting as data.”
Sounds fancy and intellectual, huh? It was, but basically I listened to other people’s stories and recorded them.
Now I record my own stories.
I have been married forever and have a teenaged son, affectionally called The Boy, and a ‘tween daughter, known online as Girly. My third child is my cockapoo puppy, Chili Dawg, who has his own Facebook page. I live in the South, by way of the Northeast, by way of the West, by way of the Midwest. But I plan to move to the beach and become a surfer. I will take my husband with me; he’s cool even though he is irrationally afraid of birds.
I have an uncanny ability to remember lyrics to a frightening number of songs. Even obscure grocery store loudspeaker ones. Or sappy sentimental ones, which I hate. I haven’t figured out how to parlay this skill into a beach house, but I’m sure it’s marketable somehow. I love cartoons, but not politics and certainly not political cartoons. I am very opinionated and not afraid to say so!
I started this Lifestyle Blog because my husband, who is a social media big wig, made me. He thinks that I have a lot to say. Or maybe he just wants me to say it to someone other than him. Either way, I accept my mission: To Save the World From Mediocrity.
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