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One of my favorite movies is "When Harry Met Sally". It's an old movie but any given week you can surf the channels and find it on TV. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan star in this romantic comedy about relationships. There are many themes in this movie to blog about but one has remained a source of teasing and conversation in our family of 3 females and 1 dad. Are you high maintenance or low maintenance? Or...are you the worst kind, high maintenance but think your low maintenance. Now my family would say that I am option # 3. The primary reason is that "on the side" is a very big deal with me. 'Waiter, I'll take the salad but with dressing on the side... I'll have the baked potato with the butter and sour cream on the side. You get the idea.
Yet, I have always concluded that I am low maintenance. See what you think.
1) I am not a purse person..I buy my purses at target or jc penney and I do not change according to what I am wearing.
2) I am not a shoe person. I own no more than 10 pairs of shoes and I wear them until the heels grind down.
3) I wear makeup but I only have one shade of blush and one shade of eye shadow and I rarely wear mascara (kills my contacts!)
4) I have a low maintenance hair style with no streaks, highlights or lowlights only a little gray.
5) I do not have fake nails, I used to but I hated taking the time to get them refilled. However, I do love pedicures!
6) I drive a 2003 toyota corolla and I took the insurance money and went on vacation instead of having the dents popped out from last spring's hail storm.
Okay, so I do like my Starbucks grande decaf latte with enough room for real whipping cream but only one tablespoon and if you don't have real whipping cream just the canned stuff then nothing, but leave me some room for half & half I'll pour it in for myself!
Now I say that makes me low maintenance. Not that being high maintenance is bad but I guess my values tell me I should be low maintenance. I want simplicity. I want abundance in the most important aspects of life..people rather than things.
We do have fun in my family when a "high maintenance" moment occurs. That brings me to a funny blog about this subject. You need to read the article from Divine Caroline about High Maintenance. I was cracking up at the list of possible ways you would know if you were high maintenance...Here are a few.
You might be high maintenance if..."your purse holds more than 5 lbs of "essentials" or "if your makeup case is a double decker toolbox from Sears!"
Would love to hear about your assessment of yourself and please give examples!!! Low or High..it is fun to laugh at ourselves and our little quirks! Have fun reading Divine Caroline!
And Happy Saturday!
Abundance is..."a double mocha latte with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles."
Candy Paull, "The Art of Abundance"
Let me share a funny story, I saw a friend at Wal-Mart driving a brand new Nissan Qwest and I said to her, "love your van, it looks so nice!" She said, "yeah, I had to replace it as my other one had nearly 100,000 miles, and it was a 2001... and all I was doing in my head was checking off everything she described her old one as my current one and the one I hope last a few more years! (I hate car payments and would rather run it to the ground before forking over hundread's of dollars just to drive something newer!) It just made me laugh but I didn't want to hurt her feelings and say, Oh you just described my current situation... :-)
ReplyDeleteI am low maintanance to a T. I rarely wear make-up, hair is always in a pony, casual clothes, BUT I love shoes and have a nice collection!
Let me add I meant hundread's a month for the payment not total!
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely low maintenance. And, I have a theory that one always marries the other.
ReplyDeleteWhat state are you from? I Was going to add you to my Gen X blog roll. I was thinking N.M, but that doesn't sound right.
I love when Harry Met Sally. I know all the lines.
Ha ha. Hubby and I were having this conversation just the other day.
ReplyDeleteDo kid's toys occupying the 5lbs. in your purse count?
I think that I am low maintenance. I do however have to have make up, earrings and my hair done when going out in public, but at home I am very laid back. Right now, I am barefoot with my pj's on (it's almost noon) and I am wearing a princess crown (ask Niyah).
I am trying to learn the importance of not caring so much what others think of my appearance, but it's hard.
Great Post!
Hah! It doesn't SOUND like you're high maintenance. And it's normal for everyone to have certain things they want the way they want it, even when low maintenance. Me, I think I am low as well. But to my husband I may be high, but only in the emotional category like I can go from cranky to happy and back in mere seconds. But in terms of makeup and all that jazz, pretty low key.
ReplyDeleteWow do we have a lot in common! At least all those reasons you are not high maintenance you listed are so true of me, as well. Great post! I'm going to check out Divine Caroline. I was there briefly when I voted for MckMama, but that's it.
ReplyDeleteOh yea - I have a minivan and hubby drive a 1991....yes, a 1991 Honda Accord! We HATE car payments! LOL. If that's not low-mainenance, I dont' know what is! Hmmm - I may have to borrow this idea for a post - could be funny.
ReplyDeleteI USED to be high maintenance - but since having kids - there just isn't the time! Seriously my friends used to kid me that my baby would pop out with red lipstick on!! I never used to wear jeans in public - now they are almost all I wear - that or yoga pants. I only wear tshirts - preferrably white - I hvae like 2- white ones. I only wear flip flops or sneakers. So no fancy shoes for me and I got rid of all my heels years ago, which is all I used to wear. I was tettering around in high heels at 9 months pregnant!!
ReplyDeleteI DO still get my nails done and i think I will likely do that until the day I die. If I don't - I eat them to a bloody mess! I don't get pedicures any longer though - no time - I barely have time for fills - presently my nails are going on week 4 with no fill (argh).
My makeup is simple, I can only wear a certain brand or my eyes will puff up shut - so I never switch or try anything else.
Ha ha ha - that was fun!
Great post!
oh I forgot - my purse - doubles as a diaper bag - so really - the onlything in my purse FOR me is my wallet and blistek!
ReplyDeleteDefinately low maintenance...what ya see is what ya get! I used to be high...getting nails done, hair highlighted and shoes...good grief! But then I met Old McDonald and I love hanging my clothes outside and riding the 4wheeler up the old lane to pick wild blackberries in July...ya, the townie went country!!
ReplyDeleteSaw you were new to SITS...so welcome!
oh my I do love this movie - love the lines - etc.
ReplyDeleteYes I refer to the low maint and high maint thing alot.