I was looking at some…err…”girly” blogs. Blogs about shoes, makeup, handbags, et cetera. Looking through those blogs, I’ve come up with a pseudo-realization.

[It's a "pseudo-realization" because I have known it for some time, it just pops up randomly in my conscious mind...much like today.]

I am so not a girl.

I AM a girl in the biological and physical sense. And I do some girly things. I wear perfume, I paint my toenails in the summer, I shave my legs and get my hair highlighted. I even like skirts. But that’s where the line is drawn.

I do like clothes and keeping up-to-date on fashion, but most of the time, I don’t wear the latest things. My wardrobe is funky and functional.

I used to like makeup…before most makeup items would cause me to break out in a rash on my face. Nobody really notices when I DO wear makeup anyway, so that isn’t a concern. I basically wear a tinted lip balm. Sometimes mascara. Saves me 15 minutes in the morning by not doing it.

Also, people tell me how much they love my hair, how awesome my hair looks and “what do I do” to make it look like it does?

Honestly? I don’t do anything special. I wash it, condition it and add one tube of goop or another, depending on my mood and let it dry. That’s pretty much it. I get it cut every 3 months or so and get it colored at the same time. [I don't concern myself with roots.] But I’ve given up trying to fight my hair genetics long ago – so my “secret” is that Frank and Kathy are my parents and I’m lazy.

If I took a poll at work to see how long other people thinks it takes me to get out of bed, shower, get ready and out the door for work…I highly doubt that anybody could guess accurately. Today, for instance, I did not want to get out of bed. It was dark and rainy and I stayed up until midnight reading a book. So I got up at exactly 7:12am and was ready and out the door at 7:33. No, I didn’t scrimp on my normal routine. I showered as normal, got dressed and did my hair and skin care routine. I suppose the only thing I multi-tasked on was brushing my teeth while I was on the toilet, but I do that all the time anyway.

Do you think anybody noticed? Probably not.

As far as accessories go, I have one purse (it is a “seasonal” one, so I suppose that is girly to a point), I wear this Fossil watch on one wrist, a LiveStrong bracelet on the other and my wedding ring. I do go a bit nuts with necklaces ever since I figured out how to make my own (I have a very sensitive metal allergy – I can only wear a minimum of 14k gold in my ears, but sterling silver is ok for necklaces and rings), but again, they are funky.

I do have a penchant for pink, I always have – because I look really, really good in pink. But I go for more modern shapes with pink and nothing frilly or too girly. Lace bugs the crap out of me…I’ll be so glad when THAT fashion trend goes to the wayside. Ugh.

I had a point here somewhere.

I guess I’m proof that one doesn’t need to be slathered in makeup and spend hours on her hair to be considered beautiful. Sometimes if you go with your genetics rather than fighting them, you end up looking so much better. And I get to sleep in while all the other high-maintenance women get up to “get ready” for the day.

Sleep: the best revenge. Well, for me anyway.