another weekend

Can't believe the week is over. Once Monday and Tuesday are over the week just flies by, I feel like its because there is the possibility of being able to go out on wed. or thurs., even though I almost never do.
Any way, this weekend I am looking forward to dressing up. I don't care whats going on. I am dressing as though there is something amazing, this means a dress, maybe straightened hair, and defiantly the red lip stick. The red lip stick has something of a streak going. I won't mention what that streak is, though I am sure you can infer. Also, I will knock on wood so as not to jinx said lipstick. The knocking of wood also leads me to another topic close to this PBHers heart: superstitions.

As Michael Scott once said, " I'm not superstitious, I'm just stitious". This is true of me, as well. I am very apt to become attached to material objects as signs of good luck. The pearls and a baseball hat in question refer to the pearl earrings I wear every day. I've had them since I was 16 and started rowing, and they have become both a style staple and a charm. Sure, I have had bad results in these earrings, but I have had enough good fortune in them to believe in their power. Also, wearing them makes me feel better. The act of not wearing them conjures up too many concerns, ie. What if they are good luck and I loose because I am not wearing them? The mere act of asking this question is unsettling, and could potentially lead to a poor performance based solely on hyped up nerves. I also am highly attached to a worn yellow red sox hat, which I like to bring in the boat with me. It too has a history which dates back to my earliest rowing years. I am also generally superstitious, believing in karma, bad and good omens, and jinxes. This superstition stems from being a control freak, as long as I remember the good luck item I have control of my destiny.

Anyway, enough philosophizing. Now for my list:

Things I am excited for this weekend:

• racing
• trees changing color
• a nice dinner on sat. night
• dancing in a dress
• red lip stick
• being braver than last time.

Historical figures I admire:

• Otto Von Bismarck (uniting Germany, managing those tricky alliances)
  
• Livia (sick hair style)
• Michelangelo (Sistine Chapel, crazy architecture)...Bernini, too.
  
• all the Puritans (braving New England, believing in predestination)
• Eleanor of Aquitaine (went along on a crusade, married a younger man, Henry IV of England.
• Napoleon and Robert E. Lee (so sick, but for their mistakes in the North. Russia and Gettysburg, respectively).
• the Lost Generation
  
• the Dutch, rocked capitalism before anyone else. Plus, Vermeer and Rembrandt.
• Louis XIV, for Versailles. Henry (IV??) of Navarre because Paris was worth a mass.
• Peter the Great, because he made them all shave their beards and toured Europe "in cognito".
  
• Catherine the Great, because enlightened despotism is super clever.

more to follow, later I am sure.