• Am I A Hypocrite For Professing Radical Self Love While Wearing 5 Inch Heels? The Intersection Between Fashion, Personal Expression & Loving Who You Are – a thoughtful post & good read from Gala about everything in the title.
• Lovely Letters: A Pen Pal Project. I love this idea. I always loved having a penpal in elementary school.
• Good tips on how to be a dignified, mature adult: 5 Steps to Up Your Personal Dignity Quotient, and Accept that you are not that special.
• The world’s most isolated cave is home to 4 million year old “superbugs”, and this is actually a good thing.
• Put Down The Häagen-Dazs And Nobody Gets Hurt: Why Women Are Losing The Battle Of The Sexes. Read the whole thing.
• 10 Futuristic Shopping Experiences : as if we didn’t like it enough already.
• 10 Lies Disney Told Me – entertaining and true.
• I would like to see this in action and find out: Would democracies work better if politicians were selected at random?
• The Most Popular Everything on the Internet according to a very un-scientific Google Images search. Hilarious.
• 6 Things You Learn at 25. Pretty spot-on.
• The Truth Dresses Down : What I learned about honesty from showing up at a stranger’s home an hour early. Interesting read. I know I freak out if people show up early. Of course, that never happens anymore because my friends like to be way ‘fashionably late.’
• This quote: “If anyone ever makes fun of you for reading, you can just smile benignly at them and realize they’re stupid.” – Orson Scott Card

So, I attended a CAbi event for the first time ever yesterday, courtesy of my sister who is a consultant. It was a little mini banquet celebrating their 10 year anniversary, not one of the shopping/dress-up parties which I imagine would’ve been more fun. And while I’ve now determined it is just not my thing (and out of my budget), I did get to spend some quality time with a friend I hadn’t seen in awhile, and enjoy some good views out in Texas hill country.

View from the country club where the banquet was.