Why not ...

Why not ….

• Forsake that shrieking alarm clock for the song alarm function on your phone? Wake up and smell the Coldplay! I have this song set to wake me up everyday at 6:30. This way, I wake up feeling like a sparkly-eyed scrapper… rather than the snarky, coffee-chugging troll that I sometimes
  

• Have secret sheets! Do you engage in grown-upp-ily modern and minimalist bed dressing? That doesn’t mean you can’t be business on the outside, party on the inside! I love to tuck riotously colored sheets under my sedate white duvet. Mixing stripes and florals? Yes, please.

• Try something new from the fruit section of your grocery store. Everybody likes fruit, right? How about dragon fruit, lychees or, um, this thing? Trying new foods can be scary or gross, but really … how bad can any fruit ever be?

• Wear your brightest skirt or trousers and paint your toe nails to match. Because sometimes matchy-matchy is fun.

• Keep an eye out for used, hard cover editions of your favorite books. They’re usually pretty cheap and in a few years, you’ll have a beautifully eclectic library. And you won’t have to be one of those tools who buys books by the yard to fill up their bookshelves and look impressive.

• Look through your sent email folder from 2004. Look how far you’ve come! You totally got over what’s-his-name, stopped wearing those super low rise pants that gave you muffin top and got through that awful class. Here’s a little gem from my 2004 folder, to the BFF

Dude,

I have two important announcements for you.

1) I have discovered the perfect hairdo, for both me and you. It looks sexy and slightly tousled, but kind of dressy and professional. Basically, I just put styling creme in and then put all hair in loose buns/french roll at the nape of my neck with various tendril falling out around face and down back. Oooh.

2) There is a girl from Willmar, Minnesota on the next Top Model! I think her name is Christie Anderson – or some such - she's an 18 year old electrician whose birthday is on x-mas eve. However, I've seen a picture and she's not super cute.

Also, I got a white under-the-nail manicure pencil in my attempt to look more 'polished' and 'put-together.' will let you know how that goes.

Okay. So maybe I’m not that different.