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Some Days She Was Baby Cute
Well, I did it…messed up in a grand fashion. The bad part is that I have a lunch with portrait man tomorrow, a St. Pat’s party on Sunday afternoon, and a one-woman show on April 6th. How fast does hair grow?
Right after the portrait thing and before Z arrived for Jeopardy!, I walked into the bathroom to look in the mirror. I had an eyelash or something stuck in my eye. After I got the object out, I looked back into the mirror and came up with the idea that I would look cuter if I had bangs. Chop. Chop. Chop. I kept trying to even them out. My scissors kept slanting off on a weird angle. When I finished I didn’t have bangs exactly. They are only about an inch long! Still I thought that I didn’t look too bad, kind of punky and spritelike, and artgirly. That was until Z arrived.
He walked in and said, “Hi Mamie!” and he started to laugh.
“Mamie? You goof, what are you talking about?”
“Do you know about Eisenhower? The president? I Like Ike? His wife Mamie?”
“Of course!”
“You look like Mamie…a much better face…but those bangs…why did you do that?” He just kept staring at my forehead and laughing like a maniac.
“Is it THAT bad?”
“No. Well yes. You are beautiful and you do something strange. On you the Mamie bangs look good.”
The jerk. I think he unnerved me just so I would lose my confidence and then lose at Jeopardy! Every time he looked my way he would start laughing.
Well, haha! I think I look cute. And I can wear a headband so no one will notice. So there.
I have a plan. I am going to buy a package of men’s white T-shirts and a black Magic Marker. I will write I LIKE IKE on the front of one of the shirts and I will wear it on Monday when he comes over. I will flaunt my minibangs!
Mamie was a power woman. I am too! I win.
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Writegirl note: Word is a funny program. It tries to turn Mamie into Mammy, and Mamie helped women so it is ironic…haha! the program just changed my words again. I will fix it and leave…fast!
LIKE
IKE!
