isn't it a little unfair to be dealing with acne and worrying about wrinkles at the same time? i submit that it is.
i have a bad habit of assessing my aging lines in the rearview in traffic, but can soothe most of my worries by reminding myself that people often guess i'm younger than i am. just a few weeks ago, the 19-year-old at work guessed i was.... 22! or 23! sweet!
but the acne? i'm over it. i'm not quite sure what i do to piss my skin off so bad, but obviously it's something. then again, maybe it's just hormones, and what can you do about that?
It's funny because just this morning I was looking in the mirror trying to see if I was getting any wrinkles or age lines. Then I started looking at my acne to see how close it was to going away.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
