Posted by Dinah on January 30, 2004, at 0:57:10
In reply to Re: Jealous women at work - what to do about them? » Dinah, posted by gardenergirl on January 29, 2004, at 23:19:01
Thanks to both of you. :) But I just wanted to make clear that I was merely referring to the body I find myself in. Fact is that I'm on the range of plain to ugly and I don't mind that a bit. I could look much better if I lost a lot of weight. Some faces wear extra weight well. Mine doesn't. My therapist says I could slide a bit up the scale if I bothered with proper hair and makeup, but obviously it isn't worth it to me. So I really wasn't putting myself down. It was just an honest appraisal.
I've told this story before, but in case you haven't heard it. My looks are very characteristic in my family. So much so that my mother once was stopped on the train by a stranger and asked if she were a (Grandmother's maiden name), which she was. :) And found out a lot about that family's origins in the process.
I look just like my mother who looks just like my grandmother. My mother is an unattractive woman. But my grandmother? She was beautiful. And if you ever forgot it, you just had to look at the reflection in my grandfather's eyes. I wish I could tell which one I looked more like, but you just can't see it from a mirror.
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