OK, cough it up!I want to know what your FORMERLY is, not least of all because perhaps it'll be as superficial and relatively unimportant in the scheme of things as is mine.
Obviously, the fact that you've always been the smartest kid in your family and yet couldn't bring yourself to finish your dissertation is nothing compared to the problems of veterans returning minus a limb, but it's still worth a few words. Or that your high school peers voted you most likely to get rich quick and you're working at Dunkin' Donuts. Or that you had the marriage and little blond children that seemed so perfect, and now you have an ex and bigger blond children that you see every other weekend.
Boo-effin'-hoo, some will say. You're not homeless. You're not trapped in some abandoned bomb shelter with nothing but a skeleton and some plant water to drink like that girl on All My Children. Get some real problems. And you will, at some point. But for now, I want to hear about your FORMERLY.
Go to the drop-down menu, and select a FORMERLY from among the ones I posted. If none apply, write your own in the box to the right. And then give me a few words (no more than 200) on your FORMERLY, what it meant to you and how you're dealing. You can also post a relevant picture (it needn't be you but something that says it all). Keep it relatively clean, kids, and feel free to post more than one. You can be serious, self-mocking, however you feel.
INSLEE WROTE: What about that “they ruined it” feeling you get when you discover that your treasured, saved-money-up-for, big-ticket-handbag–the one that you finally purchased after waiting until was on markdown–is on the arm of most 13 year old girls at the mall! You are now forced to toss it aside, because you figure all who see you with it will assume you are trying to be one of them! THEY RUINED IT! I can’t keep ahead of these kids. I’m not trying to be cool and with-it, but I can now never imagine carrying a Couch purse with the “C”s on it, any silver jewelry from Tiffany’s nor compete with my niece’s Tori Burch ballet flat collection!
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June 16th, 2009
by StephanieDolgoff
Posted in IN THE MIX, RELEVANT, What's Your Formerly?
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Tags: Coach, Tiffany, Tori Burch
AMY WROTE: At the doctor today I got the usual question: Are you a smoker? And I was hit by a blinding realization it has been YEARS since the natural follow-up question has been asked: Do you use recreational drugs. Yeah, I may be a bit of a freak in that I’ve never tried, but still, I’m not even worthy of being asked? “Oh her? She’s too tame/boring/staid to even think of drugs. Not worth wasting the time with that one.” Hmph. Maybe it’s time for my first tattoo.
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June 16th, 2009
by StephanieDolgoff
Posted in RELEVANT, What's Your Formerly?
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