Steph, is it mean that I laughed at your friend's version of "high femme"? I know I have a high bar for this, but really.

No, seriously. She basically dresses like me, but with a gel manicure. I love her, but I think she's higher femme in her head than she is in execution.

I will also say that even when you are watching your pennies, I think it's important not to feel like you have to punish yourself every day with every decision. So, you know, you can get a new t-shirt. Just not every new t-shirt.

This is true. Plus I still have an income at this moment. Just not for long.

I could see the trinket hair at my government office, if they didn't jingle. OTOH, my brother swears that even very sedate facial piercings are off-limits in a medical (patient-care) context for doctors, so I'm no sure how hair charms would go.

I want low glycemic oatmeal cookies, Consuela! Recipe?

Take a standard oatmeal cookie recipe and use whole wheat or white whole wheat instead of regular flour.

Storming, uhg.

Timelies all!

Not especially femme here, though my hair is long. Not butch either. I'm not sure what my usual dress code(t-shirt/knit shirt and jeans or chinos, black walking shoes) could be labeled as. "My style", I guess.

We have actual blue skies and sunshine right now, after about five straight days of rain. I'll be celebrating with B'ahn Mi and a rye-based cocktail in a bit.

No, seriously. She basically dresses like me, but with a gel manicure. I love her, but I think she's higher femme in her head than she is in execution.

Hah. Yeah, I think anything that involves Birkenstocks, even the fancy ones, is not very femme.

OTOH, my brother swears that even very sedate facial piercings are off-limits in a medical (patient-care) context for doctors, so I'm no sure how hair charms would go.

If the reason is patients not entrusting their pain management to someone who thinks having sensitive areas of their face pierced with a big needle is fun, I can see hair charms being much less of an issue. If it's MRI-related, NSM.

I think on GP, I would choose a doctor with gauges in his/her ear.

I already feel like doctors are too young! And the new-fangled body art would just emphasize that for me, even though I think the (for example) dimple piercings can actually be cute.

Or is she using high femme to mean higher maintenance with an excuse?

Oh Kat. I am usually horrible about remembering my dreams but occasionally a thought or a picture lingers when I wake up. Today it was Grace, very forcefully, telling me that we needed to sell CJ's toes for celery.

This is hilarious!

Two nights ago, I dreamt the end of Downtown Abbey. It included a massacre where all inhabitants died because of some monster. Seriously. Then when I woke, I remembered that the current policy zero population growth and I had to think to remember who had died and who had been born. Then I began to speculate that perhaps they were going to set up Mary and Tom which seems improbable. But still possible. Also was Mary's baby a boy?