Whew! I'm exhausted today. I hosted a baby shower for my friend this morning and I am tired! Parties always wear me out. All the set up and anticipation and then schmoozing with all the guests, and then the clean up... it really takes it out of me. I've been on the couch recuperating for a couple of hours. The party was a success though and that's really the most important thing. I'm really looking forward to some time off from party planning though. In the past two years I've hosted 3 baby showers, one bridal shower, helped with two first birthday parties and a wedding. Tricia needs a break!
I know I talk pretty incessantly on my blog about feeling old or getting old but I've just been experiencing so many scenarios that apply that I have to share them with you. Last Sunday evening Joe and I were channel surfing trying to find something to watch when we happened upon the MTV Movie Awards. That in itself was funny to us because when we were young it was a show that we'd never miss. We'd anticipate it and remind ourselves that we had to watch. Now, we didn't even know it was on. We watched a little bit of the show and were kind of surprised at far out of the loop we are. Several times we looked at each other in disbelief going, "is this really cool now". I thought I had a pretty firm grip on what is in and who the hot bands are and who the hot new actors were.
When I was a teenager and irritated with my parents for not understanding how important certain things were to me I always said that when I grew up and had children that I would try to remember what it was like and would try to be more understanding. Well, I haven't even had the kids and I already don't remember what it was like. Either that, or things have changed so much since then that I just completely don't understand what it's like. Back then people were all up in arms over guys wearing their pants with their underwear showing. Now the guys are wearing their pants tighter than the girls, they're flat ironing their hair and even wearing guyliner. Back when I was young, we called those guys freaks. Now they're cool. And are girls these days seriously looking up to the Pussycat Dolls as role models? If so, we're in some trouble! They are pretty much just strippers with microphones.
I guess that's just how it goes though. Our parents didn't understand what was cool to us and thought when we wore socks with our Birkenstock sandals that we looked kind of dumb. I'm sure their parents didn't understand what was cool to them. I'm sure that we won't understand what is cool to our kids when they get there. Do people just forget what it is like to be young, do they change the way they view things as they get older, or does the world just change that much that they lose touch with what is "in"?
I think I've gotten past the pressure to be "cool" but I'd still like to be able to keep up with what is relevant now a days. I think ultimately I don't want to be one of those women who is still rocking the same hair and clothes from when she was 20. I definitely don't want to look like some 19 year old starlet from MTV in skinny jeans and greasy, Ashley Simpson (excuse me, Ashley Simpson-Wentz) looking hair and if I ever saw Joe in guyliner I think I'd shit myself. I just want to look like a cool 29 year old me with some memory of what it's like to be 16 and misunderstood.
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I think that you are a very modern and up to the moment person-- I like the way you dress and how you take care of yourself---you were never a way out there type of person----you have a very good fashion and style sense about you and you know how to make it work---I don't think it is an age thing -it is a maturity thing---things at 16 and 18 just aren't so important when you are in your 20's and 30's--as you get older you make your own way and it doesn't matter so much anymore what people think----Aunt Patty sent me a funny bumper sticker--it said-- I thought as I got older I was becoming more patient---now I realize that I really don't give a shit! People and what they think just doesn't matter so much ---family and friends do matter to some extent but me to the rest of the world--oh well.....I have my own little bubble to live in and I'm happy with that----xoxoxo
I am so old with you! Meg's girls are planning her bachelorette party right now, I am doing the shower. They want to include this old lady, so I said I would go out to dinner with them before they "hit the town". I am embarrassed to say it, but I asked them to move the dinner time earlier. They wanted to eat at 7:30 or 8:00 and I would like to eat at 6:00! How old sounding does that make me!!!! I can't even hang for dinner with these young ones! My hair and clothes are still style circa 1997, the last time I was actually cool.
For the record, I think you look very young and hip. Your SATC outfit was dynamite! (BTW- Meg and I finally saw the movie this past Saturday!) Nobody that I know could wear that better than you. You have a knack for style and color.
To close, the thought of Joe in guyliner is the funniest visual I have had in a decade!
oops, we saw the movie on Friday, I can't even keep my days straight!
I am totally in your boat! I was flipping through the channels and found the movie awards. I really am NOT looking forward to my kids growing up. Would it be wishful thinking to hope that the socks with birks would make a fierce comeback? Yup, I thought so too! Love you, Kristen
PS. You girls looked great at SATC nite!
I really mean this to you all with the utmost love in my heart, but I have been on this earth for 52 years now and for 35 of those I have been Patti with an "i" This has been a running gag between Bre, Kristen, Mike & me to see if anyone will every catch on that they are spelling my name wrong. . . . Of all the cards that I have send for everyone's occasion over the years, I have never used a " y " in the spelling of my name.
Love to all !
Patti with an "i"
LOL !
Dear Aunt PattI- point taken.
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