"Hey, it's OK..."

My favourite magazine in Glamour. Inside the shiny cover of "my bible" you'll find stories about woman who struggles with the things that make them passionate (love, family, career, money, etc.), the things that make them suffer (cancer, family, love, I even read a story on a woman who witnessed her mothers death), and the things that make them spend their money (it was because of this magazine that I decided to drop $70 at my salon to get my brown treads turned blonde).

It's a magazine dedicated to the young, gutsy, "I am who I am" attitude, and self-confident woman of today. Otherwise known as me, or "moi" if you prefer.

This particular issue beside me has a few things written on the cover. For example; "sexy at any size", "the secret things men do when women aren't around", and not to mention the fact that the beutiful Liv Tyler is gracing the cover of the magazine with her hair delicately spiralled to make curls, and her make-up so perfect that I think if she smiles the wrong way her whole face will crack right off.

But the thing that I like most about this magazine is the "Hey, it's okay..." part. In this particular issue this section features; "to change into pajamas the second you get home from work", "if you haven't inherited a family recipe", "a peice of real estate, or killer legs", "to take everything off before stepping on the scale-underwear, jewelry, ponytail holder", "if you still can't figure out what's happening on Lost", and my personal favourite is "to eat a brownie on the way to the gym. That's why you go the gym!".

Hey! Here's MY "Hey, it's okay..." list:

• if you love to stop into pet stores just to see the puppies....and the kitties...and the birdies....and the fishies...and the cute pet store worker who thinks you're nuts!
• if you stay up WAY past your bedtime just because you can...even though you're exhausted
• if you fart in public, and then pretend like you didn't do it. Farting stinks, why would you admit to gassing the elevator?
• if you don't completely know what the green thing in the back of the fridge is/was...but you like having it around, afterall, you like that it eats all the things you don't
• if a little part of you just can't help but get a kick out of someone falling on an icy sidewalk right in front of you
• if you skip the gym...twice
• if you eat when you aren't hungry...you'll be hungry sometime later, might as well eat now
• if you dance when no one is watching. It's excercise, and that's good for you. If you stripdance, then we have a problem.
• if you love the "oldies". You don't find lyrics like those. Now, they're "my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard", then it was "my baby love".
• if you would rather blog than do your homework
• if your idea of a date involves a bucket of chicken and a movie
• if you laugh hysterically at America's Funniest Home Videos. Someone getting nailed in the crotch is always funny.
• if you get a little uncomfortable seeing those commercials on television about feminine hygeine products. They're annoying. These products seem to have more features than a car. Period.
• if you truly believe he's suppose to chase you. This is human nature, don't mess with it, it's worked for years.

 Perhaps this list won't mean as much coming from me, as it would from the editor of a magazine that has Liv Tyler on the cover, but I hope that I lifted a little bit of the stress from your day, as I know these little lists lift mine.