High School Flashback

If days had themes, I think mine would be "High School Flashback" today. For several reasons.

1. I accidentally dressed like a high schooler. Well, what I imagine a high schooler would dress like. I suppose it's not much different than what I normally wear, but somehow catching my reflection in the revolving door this morning made me feel like I looked 15 again.
2. There was some serious high school-ish drama at work today. Not serious drama in the grand scheme of things, more like what a 15 year old girl would find serious. Sometimes I feel like a grouch at work, but today I realized that what I was actually feeling was disdain for childish immaturity in a professional workplace. (We get to wear jeans on Friday, maybe that's it.)
3. My chin broke out. The kind that hurts. I think it's from eating poorly + lots of make-up wearing while on vacation. I don't usually wear a lot of make-up. In fact, I don't wear any to work. Some might say that shows I don't care enough about my career (dress for success!), but really it's because I'd rather sleep than get up early to curl my eyelashes for my coworkers. Oh man, maybe I am a grouch.
4. I'm going to a club tonight. Not a dance club. A club where people with similar interests get together and eat snacks and talk about things and do stuff. (It's a crafting club. Yes, I'm a grandma that gets excited about the idea of quilting on a Friday night.) I was all about joining clubs in high school. Mainly for the t-shirts. Club-joining in college was for free food. I now join clubs to make friends. Finally catching on...but I'm kinda nervous. What if no one likes me?!

I suppose if 11/11/11 happened while I was in high school I would be freaking out right now. I was the kind of girl who LOVED to read meaning into all sorts of events. (I once made a pact with Katie to sleep through the 1999/2000 New Year's Eve because I thought it'd be an "epic" way to bring on the new millenium while everyone else worried about the world ending. I ended up backing out of that pact...sorry Kate!) I took "signs" very seriously. And, of course, saw myself as quite "deep". I'm glad that, as an almost-30-yr-old, I can enjoy today's date just because I'm a numbers girl. Yeah, I think it's neat, even though I know it's no more rare than 11/11/12 or 6/5/29, for that matter.

One Last Thing

I would like to say thank you to all of the women and men who are serving, have served, or will be serving in our military! (Shout out to my brother Pat! Love you!!) It is truly amazing that you so selflessly risk your lives day in and day out to protect us all and our rights. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!