Mod/Day 19
The other day in my post, A mod-icum of clarity, I talked about the things you gain and the things you lose when you become a mom. Since then I seem to mentally adding to that list every day – like everything good or bad that happens to me gets slotted into one of the two places on the list. Some days I will add several biggies to the “what you gain” as a mom category (riding bikes, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all the time, really great hugs by tiny arms) and other days I chalk up a lot of juicy ones for the “what you lose” when you become a mom category (your mind, your sense of self, your engagement ring which one of them has hidden and you don’t know which one and you can’t drag the information out of the other two).
Today, I’m going to add “reading fashion magazines” to the “what you lose” when you become a mom list. In the last nine years, if I’ve had time to read anything at all it’s been something about parenting – potty training, positive discipline, why French parenting methods are better than American parenting methods, how to parent boys, how to parent girls, how to parent differently than your parent’s parented – even my cookbooks are about how parents can get kids to eat more vegetables… So a fashion magazine? Please. I told myself now that I’m a mom, I didn’t have time for such frivolous reading, but deep down I think I didn’t want to read fashion magazines anymore because I didn’t want to be reminded of how bad I looked.
All that has changed and in the name of science, I’m back to reading these superficial, all-fluff, banal wonders of publication! How to get that Smoky Eye Look… The Super Fancy Sweatshirt! Perfect your Curls in Five Minutes… 9 Muffin Top Miracles (This one was actually good and surprisingly thought provoking)
I got inspired by an article in Lucky magazine called, “Who says you can’t wear color to the office?“ I don’t go to an office so I can’t answer this question, but apparently in most workplaces if you wear anything other than brown, black or grey, you’re in for a world of trouble. Here’s what Lucky recommends that you do wear to the work place –
You will certainly brighten up your cubicle in these little numbers! Mod clothing is all about bright, bold colors so I decided to just throw on a bunch of random colors and pretend it all worked.
And you know what? I kind of liked it. I’ve never worn lavender, blue, red and turquoise at the same time and I felt positively appropriate in the Easter aisle as I shopped for plastic eggs at Rite Aid. This must be how color blind people feel – so liberating not having to match anything!
But just because I liked it, doesn’t mean it worked. And because I decided to prepare for colorful clothes this spring by putting a bunch of them on all at once, doesn’t mean I should. That’s where you come in – Yay or nay? What where you thinking? Or you go colorful girl! I value and trust your always colorful opinions…
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