Not-so-guilty-pleasures...

So this morning as I was doing my hair and makeup (trying not to look messy as a 5-year-old whispered to me this morning that I should try really hard!) I realized that today was a Taylor Swift kind of day! I wanted to jam out in the bathroom to the candy-sweet and sometimes bitter words of a pop-star who isn't afraid to sing anything that's on her mind!

Some of you may be shaking your heads at this declaration... to you I say #sorrynotsorry ... I mean, really, why should I be sorry for LOVING something so fundamentally girly?! I AM A FEMALE! If you question this, please refer to the pink polka-dot pants I'm wearing today!

I love being a girl and in honor of that, Taylor Swift, and all the things I do that someone told me I should be ashamed of here's my list of things I'm no longer going to be guilty about, so take that and put it up your skirt!

1. Taylor Swift 2007-present day! I love all 4 of her CD's and I am not ashamed that I know practically ALL the words to every song, excluding he 3rd CD which came out while I was a missionary... But I'm pretty close!

2. Diet Coke... but I think the poem I wrote to the beautiful brown liquid kind-of proves that... But I'm really not ashamed of how much I freaking love that stuff... the thousands of straw wrappers that litter my car floor are also a testament to that.

3. The fact that I need to clean my car out really badly! Here's the deal guys,  I am the primary user of that car, and it's not like it smells bad, so just because I have a hard time paying $0.75 to vacuum it out for 2-minutes doesn't make me any less of a girl or any less awesome!

4. My love of Gilmore Girls... some may have said I'm "obsessed" just because I own all 7-seasons, but I prefer to say I'm a normal fan who happens to want to watch the show at her leisure... I mean it's not like I know the birthday of every character, or anything like that...

5. My use of #hashtags... it's mostly nostalgic for my sister... she and I used to have hashtag conversations... #truestory #theyarejustsorediculoustheyvegoneallthewaybacktoawesome

6. My undying love of the cartoons and tv shows I grew up with... I'm not going to go out of my way to watch them, maybe with the exception of So Weird... i just really want to watch a freaking episode of that stupid show but i can't find one ANYWHERE?! wtfrakk disney channel?!!!

7. My love for Mr. Darcy... Colin Firth, Matthew McFadyen, or just reading the book... I LOVE THAT MAN!!!

8. My love of the music of Hilary Duff, Selena Gomez, the early works of Brittney and Christina, Mandy Moore, Disney Movies, N*Sync, 98 Degrees, Destiny's Child, A-Teens, etc... The 90's were a good decade to grow up in...

9. My lists... it's my only form of organization...

10. The fact that sometimes I look at someone and think... "I'm prettier than her"... It may seem terrible but sometimes I just have to, and I'm no longer going to be ashamed of it!

This list is dedicated to Kelly Pilling, who finds value in my knowledge of the celebrity men Taylor Swift's songs are based on, will drink Diet Coke with me all day, gave me the BBC Pride and Prejudice for my High School Graduation, and took me to see Frozen... I'm so glad I found a Soul Sister with such amazing kids, and who let be a part of her family for the last 10-years... I'm a lucky girl!

Ode to Diet Coke

Oh Diet Coke, you fill me with joy! 

my full Styrofoam cup filled might be better than a boy...

 

remember when the stewardess brought me the full can with out me even asking?

yes that was the day she and i became friends, a friendship completely unlacking...

Then she remembered my love of you on the second leg of the flight,

I might marry her now that it's legal all over, yes i just might! 

Then I could fly free and sip you all over the skies,

I'd ask myself, with unlimited Diet Coke, who needs guys?

I rarely need more than a can and some netflix,

they are just the medicine for all ales i must fix.

Diet Coke, you may have once been made with a drug,

your past I will happily sweep under the rug.

I wrote this poem for you, and I do so knowing,

there will be ridicule others think owing.

To them I say they won't understand our love,

And that's ok because I know plenty who will agree with the above!

To my fellow addicts I wish you well

Happy day to all from me and my Diet Coke, to the rest I can only attempt to tell

this story of one girl's love of a soda

however, this is the end, there will be no coda!

How G-ma Mary screwed me over...

So I just remembered something... My grandma didn't get married until she was in her LATE 30's.... Like LATE, LATE .... My mom's oldest sister was born on my Grandma's 40th birthday.... 40....40.... I'm only 15 years away from that ridiculous age! GOSH DANG I'M OLD!!!!!

anyway...

My g-ma was married 3-times, one was a pretty short marriage and in all honesty we don't know ANYTHING about the man... the second marriage produced my mom and her 2-sisters and the third marriage was her happy time... but the woman was probably like, 47 when that one happened.

Reason #33--> It's in my blood!

My grandma screwed me twice over...

1st... she was married at a VERY old age...

2nd...she married 3-times... honestly there are only so many marriages allowed in one family, she may have used up my chance.

Proof:

1st... My mom wasn't married until she was 28 (that's like 100 in Mormon woman age) and one of my cousins wasn't married until she was 30 or 31 or something.... My aunt was married twice and the second husband was significantly younger than her. PS... on my Dad's side my aunt was married at a much older age and that grandma was married twice... mmhmm my chances are looking slimmer by the moment!

2nd... all my female cousins are married, and my sister (while she is now a missionary) will probably be married within a year of her return... So that will leave me, the only female on both sides of my family who is unmarried and by then after all the remarriages and old-marriages I'm pretty positive our family will be all out of spouses.

So as I have said before, thanks to genetics I will never marry!

On the bright side, another thing my G-ma Mary (who was btw SUPER BA) handed down is serious LONGEVITY... She lived to be 94, her mother and sister lived to be 93... So I'll be able to live alone and kiss-less for another 70 years!