Let Yourself Be Goofy

So I read somewhere that laughing is good exercise, I want to tweak that a little bit. I think it should be laughing at yourself is good exercise, not only for your body but also for your spirit. I personally feel better about myself when I do something really stupid but can still find the humor in it. For instance, I was a waitress for four months and on my last day I did something really stupid. You know those big 10 gallon cans of chocolate syrup? Well I was pouring that into a more practical container via ladle. I was about halfway done when someone asked me to do something. I stopped pouring and tried to set the can on the counter, apparently I missed and down went the can… All down my pants (Thank goodness it was in the front). Everyone around me froze. I could almost feel tension as most of them though I was going to cry. What was the first thing out of my mouth? “Well this isn’t as sexy as I thought it would be” and just like that the entire situation turned around. Everyone was laughing and helping me clean up my mess. All while I continued to crack jokes. Soon enough my fellow employees started cracking jokes with me. Yes I realize that they were laughing at my stupidity, but why shouldn’t they? One of the ladies walked up to me later and told me how impressed she was with how I handled my very public, very embarrassing mistake. She then went on to tell me that if it were her she probably would have run out crying. My First though was why cry over too much chocolate? Women usually cry over the lack of it. Then I realized something. Most women have not been programmed to laugh at what we do wrong. We are just constantly told to just fix it. Worst of all, the people that want us to just fix it also expect us to cry over it and we oblige. Mistakes are not the end of the world and laughter is sometimes the best remedy for a bruised ego. I would personally encourage you to laugh at the silly things you do through out the day. Don’t take things so seriously! You’ll end up with more wrinkles then you bargain for at the end of the day. So Laugh! Dance to your favorite song while you brush your teeth. Laugh at your own jokes! If you can’t laugh at your own jokes how can you expect others to? When you accidentally make one wing bigger then the other stop for a minute and take in how ridicules how much effort you just put into that little line that’s just a little bigger then the other. Then giggle at the fact that it’s going to drive you absolutely crazy if you don’t fix it before you leave.

Makeup is Not Paint
Girl I know you want to look good, but there is something to be said about natural beauty. In other words less is more. So lets fix this before you do damage to your face. Your pores need to breath! When putting on make up don’t try to look like someone else, try to enhance your own looks. Start by finding YOUR skin color foundation, (Orange is not appealing, unless you’re Willie Wonka) you have no excuse for using make up that’s too dark. Unless you are like me and are still waiting for them to come out with the shade ghostly vampire, then I understand. As much as I would love to tell you the does and don’ts of make up, I really can’t. I have absolutely no authority in this matter, but I do want to tell you what I think about make up. Through out the entirety of the world and the span of human existence warriors have used face paint to prepare for battle and put fear into their enemies. Through time that has changed, present day soldiers use face paint to make themselves invisible, while men in African tribes use face paint to attract a future wife, and then the fierce woman of the 21 st Century use it to attract their prey, build up their confidence in war time tactics, trick their enemy into believing that they are merely a pretty thing to possess and like a venues fly trap defeat them in one swift move. I know, I know it sounds silly but I look at make up as war paint. It is what makes us feel flawless and what makes our enemies underestimate us. You may think that someone underestimating you is a bad thing but I have to disagree. In underestimating you they give you the greatest weapon they can give you, the element of surprise and them being completely unprepared for any attach you may make. This is a valuable strategy for any warrior, and that’s what we are. Every woman is a strong Amazonian Warrior that can kick ass, come equipped with her own supper powers and awesome accessories. So my suggestion is to choose your war paint wisely, but remember that you are already endowed with a natural beauty. With make up you merely want to enhance it.