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Weekends Away: Gift-Giving Advice
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Girlfriend Getaway — A Weekend Away (No Boys Allowed)
When you were seven years old, you had no doubt you'd be a full-fledged, card-carrying adult by 18. You pictured yourself all glamorous with impossibly glossy lips and perfect blue eyeshadow, lazily blowing smoke rings into the narrow space between you and your incredibly cute boyfriend with the slow smile who, yes, really did look like he could star in "Grease".
When you reached 18, you confessed to yourself that you were still waiting to feel like an adult. The gloss, shadow, and smoke just weren't cutting it. And the incredibly cute boyfriend never quite materialized.
And now, even on the phhxxphxth anniversary of your 21st birthday, you can't deny it: you still want to play Mystery Date, jam your feet into multi-colored striped toe socks, and cram cheese curls into your head until your entire face is bright orange. (They're so much tastier than cigarettes.)
Of course you're not truly delusional. Sure, you still cringe when someone calls you "Ma'am" (especially if it's a boy you'd date if only you were phhxxph years younger), and you've moved on from giggling over the potential of your imagined first kiss to the reality of countless kisses and so much more, but that doesn't mean you have to kill off the giddy girl whose pulse races at the opening bars of "Dancing Queen". You know you're a woman, and for the most part you know how to act like one.
But get together with a gaggle of gal pals and what happens? Instant silliness. Even though you prefer, in your professional lives, to be referred to as "women" and insist on "Ms.", make no mistake about it — the reversion to girlish behavior is sure to follow.
This natural regression is nothing to be ashamed of, though. Rather, it is something to be embraced and celebrated — and who better to share it with than "the girls"! One really great thing about being older is that you no longer have to rely on weekend pajama-party sleepovers to get together. You don't have to answer to suspicious parents. You can indulge in your girlish gabfest your own way: A weekend away. With your own cheese puffs. And more.
Posted on September 06, 2006. Filed under Girlfriend Getaway
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