Happy Birthday! Your plans sound great - enjoy! 
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Weirdly, I can see that working.
If they’re anything like the kids I teach, you’ll get a detailed recap.
Heck yeah! New horizons await you. Sometimes liberation can follow disaster.
I have never understood makeup, in general, save for acting and the like. I always felt the women I knew who wore makeup in quantity were doing it to impress other women, not guys. I’ve told every girlfriend I’ve ever had that the makeup is unneeded. Show me the soul! I work in a school where very few wear makeup, and those that do seem to have a feel for moderation. My God, those long eyelashes I’ve seen some wearing are hilarious, to me. I have trouble taking folks seriously with those on, when I look them in the eye. The “cat eye” makeup, too, can’t wait for that fad to die. Seems to be dying, though.
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You shop a lot like I do. I buy bulk things that last, and am always looking for deals. I have a Woodmans (huge grocery store) I shop at and they always have clearance fruit/veggie bags for $1.00. There’ll be pounds of food: Daikon radish, rutabagas, peppers of all kinds, etc.
I started young, too. Love my mom. Started with basic homemade bread. Now, working on perfecting her beef Wellington, a forgotten classic. Bought the tenderloin cheap off a farmer.
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LOL!!! Thanks. I’m in jail right now, and that lifted my spirits.
Lovely critter and photo. I’m pretty into biology and animals in general. Never heard of these.
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Adorable. As a squirrel hunter, all squirrels seem to have a natural tendency to do that. Usually now butt up, though. Flatten out and circle. Stunning animal. Look at the paws on that thing.
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I have pine squirrels by my camper, and they are the most beautiful things. I’m muy color blind, but I believe they are dark red. Love watching them frolic.
I work with kids on self control, including some serious OCD, MDD, PTSD, BPD. Control your air, you control you. After we get the breathing down, then we work on self talk. What you say to yourself matters. Really help kids to kill, or at least tolerate, rumination and think rationally.
Now you’re talking. Being a WI-inite, I never noticed that none of our pro teams have a predator mascot. Occupations: Packers, Brewers, and our favorite prey: Bucks. Our college football, Badgers, are a reference the the miners in the state of yesteryear.
This is why I’m getting my dog certified therapy dog training. Like you and me, kids often feel the same way. He’ll love it more than the kids. All he gotta do is, act naaaturallyyyyyyy.
Yeah, it’s hard for me to take someone who has hair awnings glued to their eyelids seriously. Plus, the installations fail in clumps, not all at once. Looks even weirder.
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I’m much less critical with kids. They experiment with vanity all the time. Great to see them come to the conclusion: " I look better just as me." Yes you do! You don’t cover up beauty trying to look pretty. I expect the whole dress up at prom and homecoming; but the beauty shows in the boring day-to-day: cute little kids to bonehead middle schoolers, to young, beautiful adults. I’m blessed to be able to observe the metamorphosis from age 4 to graduation and beyond, with most.
If you come to my office wearing a KISS shirt, though, I’m gonna give you some raspberries.
This sounds like you’re telling people what to do with their own faces, but that can’t be right.
Yes, people present as they do for all sorts of reasons, not all of them involving attracting romantic attention.
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Tarantula eyes! To each their own, I guess.
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Have a great celebration! Looking forward to 
Saturdays to come.
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It makes people who choose to wear it feel better about themselves.
Make-up foundation and powder can smooth out a skin’s colouring and hide imperfections.
Right now, I deal with rosacea, which has meant my skin can’t tolerate makeup anymore. Eye liner stings, eye makeup remover leaves blisters. I happen to like what my eyes look like with a little liquid liner and shadow, which makes the green colour of my eyes pop a little more. I can’t really tolerate makeup anymore so I’ve become a very ruddy faced person most of the time. Am I doing this to attract male attention? No. After close to 30 years of the ups and downs of dating and some short-term relationships, I am not trying to date, unless the right person happens to find me and likes me the way I am, with or without make-up.
Make-up helps a lot of people feel better about themselves, and that’s what counts.
Make-up can also affect how other people treat you, as a woman. There’s a reason politicians, executives, and actors have a polished look and wear make-up.
The last time I bought make-up was the day of my passport photo. My skin was too shiny despite blotting, and very uneven in tone. The black and white photo would have captured the contrast. I used matte foundation to take care of the uneven complexion, and the black and white photo as a result is a clearer photo that will be easier for the customs officers to use to identify me.
Everyone has their own reasons for choosing to wear whatever make-up or clothes they choose to wear.
On the topic of men’s thoughts on women wearing make-up, a lot of men don’t know the difference between a woman wearing no make-up and some make-up to even put perfections or enhance what she’s got. Many men notice heavy make-up, and this is what many men associate with make-up in general.
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