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August 26, 2005
Primping in the Tiny Kingdom
My 20th high school reunion is in six weeks. No one is talking about it out loud, but you can tell that the participants are well aware of the impending event. There’s been a run on Crest White Strips and self tanner at the local Publix. The gyms are filled with sweating thirty-eight year olds trying desperately to fit into their acid washed jeans from the 12th grade.
A source tells me that a graduate living in the midwest has already been spotted shopping for the big weekend.
I’m not immune to the need to impress the math whiz, the quarterback, the homecoming queen and the SGA president. I’m trying to decide which hair color I’ve sported over the last two decades best says “She may drive a minivan, but she’s hip and cool with a hot husband and three reasonably well-behaved boys. She’s not practicing law at the moment, but she could be if she wanted to. She’s got her finger on the pulse of America.”
Does Clairol make a color like that?
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August 26th, 2005 at 1:29 pm, liz Says:
Brown with red and gold highlights?
August 26th, 2005 at 1:36 pm, Anne Glamore Says:
That WAS an extremely popular look this past spring….
August 26th, 2005 at 3:14 pm, dollymama Says:
I had similar wonderments last year when I was gearing up for my 15th reunion. Thankfully, it ended up not happening. Now I have 4 more years to try to look cooler and thinner than I really am.
August 27th, 2005 at 7:35 am, Lucinda Says:
It’d be nice to say, “Oh don’t worry about how you look. Everyone is so busy worrying about themselves, they won’t even notice.”
But that’s not true, is it? Don’t we all notice and sort of… ahem… gloat at the former popular kids who now have beer bellies and bald heads and mummy tummies and crow’s feet?
Oh reunions make me nervous just thinking about them. And my next one is still four years away! And I didn’t go to my last one because I was six months pregnant and couldn’t bear to let everyone see me that way!! The shame!
August 29th, 2005 at 8:26 am, Running2Ks Says:
Yeah, it is called Supercool Mom and Great Success Auburn (AKA “Reunion Red”). ROFLMAO!
September 4th, 2005 at 6:07 pm, amanda Says:
are you from mountain brook alabama?
September 4th, 2005 at 6:08 pm, amanda Says:
are you from mountain brook alabama?
January 15th, 2007 at 8:27 pm, My Tiny Kingdom » Don’t You (Forget About Me) Says:
[...] The class of 1985 held its 20th high school reunion this past weekend. In the weeks leading up to the event, I experienced a fair amount of angst over how best to present myself to people I hadn’t seen in twenty years. What did I have to show for all that time? I didn’t have a Grammy, a corner office, or a fancy car. I still didn’t have boobs, real or fake. I have some new scars, three boys and a husband, and a paid off minivan. How would I measure up? [...]