Thursday, February 28, 2013

tears. and makeup.

One of the girls I work with cracks me up talking about her small group (home group, community group, whatever you prefer to call it) sometimes. She doesn't like the one she's in this semester, and her main reason is that nobody cries. According to her, the quality of a (all-female, presumably) small group is measured by how frequent and abundant the tears are. After all, tears indicate people are being vulnerable, sharing, growing...all the things that make a good small group. If no one's crying, no one's growing, my friend says. 

I couldn't help but think of this last night at my own small group. The one where pretty much every single person was crying multiple times throughout the night. This must be a DAMN good small group. LOOK HOW MUCH WE CRY!!! It was a beautiful thing and it made my heart happy. We're reading and discussing this book 
 and it's really good. And tear-inducing, apparently. So anyway. If your small group needs to kick it up a notch, may I recommend this book? Or just join my group. Guaranteed greatness.

After group ended, one of my friends managed to convince me to go to Target with her to help her shop makeup. You can imagine how much convincing this took. I really hate shopping for makeup. Ha. Anyway, I must have done a good job because within 20 minutes she was begging for me to take her on a field trip to the nearest Sephora (an hour away) to show her how to really makeup shop. What can I say? I'm like that corner drug dealer your parents warned you about, only my drug is overpriced makeup and my trench coat is a cute orange purse.

Yesterday was a good day. This morning after dressing, I looked in the mirror and knew that if my dad saw me today he would say "Gig 'em!! Hooowah!!" (or however you spell out that noise that Aggie people make) I would feel weird posting outfit pictures two days in a row, so you'll just have to guess what I'm wearing. I'll give you a clue, though. It involves this super fab maroon dress I got on SUPER MEGA ULTRA CLEARANCE at Banana Republic a few weeks ago. Then I got to work and the first song that came on my Pandora station was Michael Buble's Save the Last Dance for Me and I love that song and I'm not gonna lie- I think it's going to be a great day today.

12 comments:

  1. My small group doesn't cry together but I still think we rock!!! And now I really want to see what you're wearing :) Post a pic, post a pic, post a pic (is the peer pressure working yet?!)

    Also, I don't wear any makeup so if we ever meet and you convince me to, then your makeup dealing status will be confirmed :)

    I'm praying for a GREAT day for you today.

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  2. By "Hoooway!" did you mean, "WHOOOOOOOP?!"

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  3. The dress already seems great since you got it at such a great price at Banana!! I could use some real makeup shopping tips too - side business?! Haha I hope your day is still going great!!

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  4. Ok, now you've made me feel even more crappy for not being able to do small group this semester. Stupid schedulers moving it to Wednesday night...the ONLY day I couldn't have done it. Then again, maybe I was getting in the way and all the tears and awesomeness are because I'm finally not there.

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  5. I must be really growing because I cry every.single.week. And then new people stare at me.. I want to introduce you to Birchbox! Google it.

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  6. I love your friend's correlation between tears and growth. I'm actually in a married couples community group, so tears are less frequent. However, I have to admit that we girls still cry a bit (me more than I should) which is way more embarrassing than it would be in an all girls scenario. The husbands just kind of stare awkwardly. Bless them. Glad your group is growing so well!

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  7. Ha, yes, I think you mean whoop :) Either way, we are thankful for your Aggie support!

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  8. Are small groups common in other parts of the country? I don't know of any peers here in MN who are in such groups. I am thoroughly jealous! I think here we all hide in our nice, warm homes for too much of the year or something!

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  9. Whoop! Whoop! For a great book, cute dress, and make up. Whomp whomp for the closest Sephora being so far away. PS: auto correct changed whomp whomp to "who'll wimper." I would whimper for a sephora next-doora. :)

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  10. I love that you are a make-up drug dealer. I need one of those!

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  11. I've heard good things about that study. Hmmm...

    Is your group ladies only, or couples?

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  12. Hi! Just found your blog from a lot of clicking. So I am going to post a comment here that's off topic; sorry in advance. Just wanted to say I'm happy (is happy the wrong word?) to have found someone else with the same IF diagnosis as us, sounds like. You say in your stats "IVF or a miracle due to severe MFI..." and that's exactly what I say in mine! So far loving your writing and even rambling, I tend to be the same way. Can't wait to read more. Cheers!

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