Great minds and all that...I was just about to post on the "forgotten resolution" this year, the "great de-skankifying" which would involve, among other things...less of the hairy legs in winter. Or heck, all year round, actually!

It also might involve more of the brushing of the teeth and showering before rolling out of bed and into work. Ha ha, that was a joke. Maybe.

Great minds, indeed. Snarky remembers a time when she not only kept close watch on the body hair situation, but actually put on makeup and did her hair before work! !!

Snarky wants to be Valentina when she grows up, really. All put together because she wants to, and as an exterior manifestation of her inner awesomeness, and not because she thinks it's expected of her or any other thing.

Snarky wants to be Valentina when she grows up, really. All put together because she wants to, and as an exterior manifestation of her inner awesomeness, and not because she thinks it's expected of her or any other thing.

Don't we all want to be like Valentina when we grow up?

I'll occasionally get motivated beyond the maintenance bare minimum, with the nails and the shaving and the self-tanner so I'm not too pale. "From now on, I'll rilly rilly keep up with this!" That lasts about a week, then it's back to normal. My tombstone will never read, "Gee, Her Nails Looked Terrific!"

OH YOU GUYS! My guess would be that you're all perfectly gorgeous. You all smell wonderful. You have your own distinct styles and express yourselves, and that's what's wonderful and terribly appealing. Besides, you are all younger than me, I have to work it a lot harder!

darkity, I can't grow my nails long to save my soul, especially in the wintertime. The cold here is very hard on fingernails. I envy long nails, they are so elegant. And the cold weather makes me all about putting shea butter on my skin. My bathroom counter is stacked high with shea butters, creams, puddings and whips. Otherwise I would dry up like a prune and blow away!

Heh. More proof that we all want what we don't have. Snarky still dreams of having Anne of Avonlea hair, while other people seem to want her own stick-straight blah black Asian 'do.

Valentina, if she could give you her monstrous talons, they would be yours in an instant. She is having very similar winter skin problems, though. Snarky is currently motoring through a tub of LUSH Dream Cream and Burt's Bees Carrot Cream after morning ablutions and again at night when her thirsty, thirsty skin itches for more.