1) Will I ever settle on a hairstyle I like or will I continue to hack off my hair, regret it and grow it back into a long puffy mess before hacking it off again? What about bangs?
2) Will I find a lipstick I love or am I forever doomed to lips coated with unsatisfactory pink or muted mauve or unkind wine?
3) Do we really have the power to warm up the planet? If so, do we also have the power to cool it off? And do we want it any cooler? My toes are chilly as we speak.
4) Is “conversate” a word? Why do people insist on using it?
5) Why did I think I was fat when I was just a normal-sized child?
6) How can some people abandon friendships when they no longer live in the same town?
Do you have any questions without answers? Do you obsess over your hair? Do you have a lipstick that you love? Al Gore: love or hate? How much “work” do you think Nancy Pelosi had and why do I even care? Will I ever travel to Tahiti again or was that one trip when I was sixteen the only one I’ll take? And why, oh why, was Tahiti wasted on a sixteen year old when I am so much more able to appreciate it now that I’m 41? Will the Seahawks stumble their way into the Superbowl this year? Why do teenage boys insist on belting their pants below their bottoms, leaving their boxer shorts on display?
Go ahead. Unburden yourself. Ask a question. You know you want to.
Actual Unretouched Photo 
Why why why do people not slow down when driving on snow and ice? WHY!?
LikeLike
Why do people say “went missing?”.
I should care more that someone is lost, but NO. The grammar queen in me is lamenting the fact that public speakers have rotten vocabularies. Shall I now say to the annoying child “go missing” instead of “get lost”?
And what about “a whole nother”?
I hear this often, and I do not get out much. Please, do not try to correct it by saying “a whole other”. Try something proper, like, “an entirely different”.
(geesh…i just broke a sweat…)
LikeLike
That reminds me…
I am the cause of global warming.
Be concerned, be VERY concerned!
LikeLike
As for one of your unanswerable questions, I, too, was in a place in my life that I didn’t have a favorite lipstick.;-( In fact, I never had a favorite lipstick in all my life. ;-( That is, until I found them. 😉 Go to Victoria’s Secret and check out my FAVORITE lip gloss. It stays for a long time, it smells great and the colors are nice. 2 for $10 – CHEAP! I like the light pink and the sparkly light brown. I would have never known about them unless I was brave enough to venture in there. And the ladies were nice, they didn’t bite like I thought they would. And now I have a favorite lipstick, er, lipgloss!
LikeLike
Why is it that when you are dining out with a group of friends, they insist on splitting the check evenly – even though you did not drink and they did? I know the answer is obvious – why wouldn’t I want someone else to foot the bill on my bar tab? The question is – how do they justify this?
LikeLike
My biggest HUGEST — is hugest a word?! — pet peeve that drives me insane and I don’t understand WHY the whole world seems to do it, including newscasters who should know better is the way they say words that start with “st” like they’re spelled “Sht” instead. Like “shtraight” for straight, “Shtrong” for strong, “shtreet” for street…you get my drift. I want to take the person in ‘real time’ or on TV and bang their heads and say, “That is NOT RIGHT, you dingalings!!!” See…I told you it drives me nuts!!!!! Why are people doing that?!? And “Off-ten” for often…it was drilled into our brains at about 2nd grade level that the “t” in often was silent. Now Dear Hubby and I are about the only people I know of who say it the “old” way. Hmmmmmmmm.
LikeLike
Why do so many people add an “s” to the word “anyway” and say “anyways”? Ohhh…that drives my crazy!
LikeLike
The correct word is most certainly “converse.”
I can’t stand it when people say alls, as in “alls I wanted to do was…” or forget to turn their adjectives into adverbs as in “I didn’t take it personal” to which I inwardly scream – “lee! lee! You didn’t take it personalLY!”
My question is why, when asked on the fly, is it so hard to think of the answer you know you would know at any other time?
LikeLike
why do people say orientated when the correct word would be oriented?? (example, I am a nurse and we say “alert and oriented” when reported on someones mental state,but I can’t even count how many nurses say “alert and orienTATED”) I always want to say OH, did they go through ORIENTATION??? is that why they are ORIENTATED???!?
anyway, doesnt bug me that much anymore, c’est la vie
LikeLike
Lipstick. Yes. Covergirl Outlast. #545 Naturalast is my color. Blue tube, two-pack, lipstick that you brush on, and then a gloss top coat. It is a little drying, but it stays really really well, and the color is subtle, which i like. I am just not a bright red kinda gal
mARY
LikeLike
Listen, right outside of Disneyland in Downtown Disney there is a Sephora. You and me are gonna hit every lipcolor in there until we find one for you.
And Al Gore is one of my new heros! (but you already knew that)
LikeLike
Ok this is on the personal side, but what I want to know is… why do other grown women feel the need to comment on my *ahem* chest size? God made me this way, my husband is NOT unhappy, and I nursed 4 children. What possible difference could it make to any other woman on the planet that I am small? Don’t we have enough to worry about and take care of already, without judging body parts? Sheesh. You can tell this gets to be a hot-button for me. Thanks for letting me get it off my, uh, chest! LOLOL
LikeLike
Beth, it could be worse. You could have unsaid friend or family memeber comment about how droppy your breast must be after nursing 4 children with another one on the way. Why in the world would someone feel like they know me well enough to make such a comment???? the only person that should dare say anything is dh and he knows better. People are amazing, I tell ya.
Oh and as far as unanswered questions, when will we be leaving Iraq? That seems to be the real unanswered question as of late. While I support our freedom and our troops I am saddened that lives are being lost since Iraq can’t figure out which way is up .
LikeLike
The boxer short question was answered for me a few days ago, although it may be urban legend (the person who assured me this was true is good for that kind of stuff!). Evidently, since you’re not allowed to have belts in prison, gang-bangers get used to wearing their pants like that. In the inner city, those who have been to prison are almost like heroes, so the youngsters emulate them. And then the gang wannabes, and the suburban bored kids who think their tough followed up on it. Now it’s just cool. Seems a little racist, but that’s how it was told to me.
LikeLike
Kellyjo,
On oriented or orientated, the latter is proper in British countries, they think oriented is wrong — to them that means from the Orient. Not that the people you worked with were, it’s just come into common usage that way. I was in a whole conversation thread on BookCrossing once about that one.
LikeLike
OK…a few more just came to me. The amount of people who call “prostate” by “prostrate” instead. And “chidrun” instead of “children”. And “ax” instead of “ask”. And the word “like” inserted into a sentence every other word. And “troof” for “truth”. My hubby watches a lot of hunting shows and one line that bugs us both to no end is a bunch of hunters on one show who tell us EVERY week…”This ain’t Hollywood, this is the TROOF!” Arrggggghhhh!
LikeLike
Why do people chomp, crack and smack their gum? Don’t they look like cows chewing cud? I SWEAR I am going to have some Hollywood loser finance my documentary about people who chomp their gum. It’s the one thing that makes me unglued psychotic in terms of pet peeves.
Whew…I feel better now.
LikeLike
Oh I have lots of questions – these days they mainly consist of “baby, what do you want?” “why aren’t children born with the ability to speak?” “why can’t I read my crying/whining/whimpering child’s mind?” “WHEN WILL YOU LEARN TO TALK AND TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT?!” or I think “oh my goodness! How did another virus get into this house and get another one of my children sick?” “How high can a fever get before mom really has to worry?”
Oh, I have some questions that are unrelated to my children, but they are usually crushed by all those parenting questions! Lots and lots of questions.
Not so many answers – but I have one very important answer I’d like to offer to you – the Seahawks will (hopefully) not even win next week, so no, they will not stumble to the Superbowl this year!
LikeLike
I am usually just reading your blog..but thought today I should comment – you know…New Year’s resolution to comment more – ‘lurk’ less! So…here I am. AND I just watched a program on the the most popular and versitile lipstick, both have the name/color ‘Twig’ – I think Avon sales one, and Max the other. Hope you find one!
My question: Why do people think that letting their albeit cute and adorable kids, run around a restuarant to other tables, or look over the back of the booth – is cute? Yea..their kids are cute…but I’m trying to have a meal without mine! If I’d wanted to be entertained by a smiling cherub, I’d have brought my own!
LikeLike
M.A.C. lipstick “O” absolutely the best. yes, more pricey than the Target brand, but cost is not an issue when you’ve been going your whole life looking for just the right shade! and i know you know what i mean, diet coke with lime, need I say more?
my pet peeve:”that goes without saying” okay, so now you just said it, does that mean it’s not as important????
Seahawks, I’m thinking quite possibly.
Oh, and does anyone find the cavemen/gieco commercials humorous??
LikeLike
i love my mother dearly but when she says walmark instead of walmart it drives me nuts!
LikeLike
I have the exact same hair dilemma…I cut if off, grow it out, cut bangs to see if that will make it look better, grow my bangs out, and do it all over again…it’s a cycle I have been in since I was a teenager…it doesn’t help that I have extremely curly, thick hair…maybe I should invest in a wig…
LikeLike
Why do teenage boys insist on belting their pants below their bottoms, leaving their boxer shorts on display?
IMNTBHO???? It is just another part of being a skank.
I have a 17 year old teenage boy. DS is not allowed to wear these things as I BUY his clothing and those articles of clothing must pass my muster.
I as well carry on a wicked commentary to DS about what others wear or in some cases don’t wear. What they are messaging and how others are recieving and responding to that message. DS doesn’t not want to be on the recieving end of that type of commentary.
LikeLike
realtor….not REAL-A-TOR…(what really ticks me off about this one is I’ve heard realtors pronounce it wrong
nuclear…..not NU-CU-LER
library…..not LIBARY….
I have the hair dilemma…..I have curly hair but it’s thin and fine…most of the time i accept its curliness…but right now I’ve started straightening it…I’ve done it in the past, it’s just a phase. I always have bangs though, a carryover from my childhood, since my mother always insisted I needed bangs because my forehead is “so high”…
LikeLike
Two words for you: M.A.C “Twig”.
As for the questions, I have been wondering a few things myself lately…like, why do I weigh more now after having 3 kids than I weighed when I was pregnant with said kids? Or…why is it that my kids are happy to play quietly until the second I get on the telephone? And finally…why do people say “irregardless” when they can just say “regardless”?
LikeLike
How did the phrase “There’s lots” make it’s way into the vocabulary of north America. It’s so very grammatically incorrect. You would never say “there is lots” so why is the contraction acceptable?
It drives me nuts, especially when newscasters say it.
LikeLike
have you tried warm shades for your lipstick? the colors you mention are cool which typically don’t go with some types of blonde/skin combos.
Here’s my question. WHY must our natural lip color fade as we age? I look miserable without some APPLIED color on my lips and I prefer not to mess with remembering to apply lipstick. I used to have a pretty mouth and i miss it.
LikeLike
oh wow Mel. You have such dark eyebrows that maybe you aren’t a warm blonde after all. Still. Try a warm lipstick and see if it pleases you.
I have monster dark eyebrows too. Cherokee in my ancestry.
LikeLike
I agree with the WalMart not Walmark! ooooh, it grates like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Or this. Ideal in stead of Idea. as in “I have a great ideal! Let’s go to Walmark!”
i need to quit commenting now.
LikeLike
“Any-hoo” for ‘Anyhow’. HATE HATE HATE that, it makes me cringe. Don’t wear lipstick yet though, so can’t help you there. ‘Like’ for ‘As’. As in, “Like I was saying…” ARGH. My ‘hairstyle’ has been a ponytail for way too long.
LikeLike
Hello Mel,
My favorite lipstick is running out, Avon Coordinates Lipstick “Rose Freeze”. I bought it a looooong time ago and felt it looked too young for me in my 30s so I put it away and then found it and tried it again in my 40s and have been loving it ever since!
Many more questions, but not enough time today.
LikeLike