Featured Blogger Friday: "Glamour Girl"

Dulcet darlings, I'm thrilled to introduce a shiny new blogger to you today, Glamour Girl! Ms. Glamour and I met in the comments section here, and I quickly began to follow her vivacious blog (Can a blog be vivacious? I waive my magic wand & make it so).

What I like best about Ms. Glamour is that she speaks to an area of blogging and writing I've been searching for - that space many of us occupy between our singleton past and our card-carrying, minivan-driving mom future. She can also pull off retro glamour in one post - just wait until you see her wedding photo below - and proclaim her love of Guns n' Roses in the next one. Given that I respectively qualify for & adore all of the above, I naturally think she's genius, but there is something for all of us in her writing.

Let's get to it . . .

Why She Started Blogging: Well, I’m too pretty to do math, so writing seemed the natural choice. No, for real, I started writing before I could even read. I would ask my mom how to spell words so I could write the stories that were in my head. My early work consists of stories about cats and sheep. Really great stuff!

I had been thinking about writing a blog for a long time, but just wasn’t sure how I wanted to go about it. I got married this past April and as I was planning I kept using “Hollywood Glamour” to describe the look and feel I wanted for the wedding. This gave me the idea for Glamour Girl

Some of the first blogs I read were those of like-minded people who I thought would “get” me and appreciate the place I am in my life now. You were one of my first blogger friends because I enjoyed your sense of style, wit, sarcasm, blondeness and prettiness of course! (Pretty Note: Pinky swear, I don't put the FFBs up to this sort of flattery. Yes, really.)

Her unique voice somewhere in between "20s singleton" and suburban mommy, which is one of my favorite features of her blog: This was one of the reasons for starting my blog in the first place. I kept thinking, “There’s got to be more people out there like me!” I spend one weekend on the soccer field and at kiddy birthday parties and the next out on a boat sipping cocktails with my friends. It’s almost like a dual personality.

Even though I have a step-daughter, you would be amazed at how many “Mommy” types still shun me just because I didn’t pop her out of my own body. And my single friends always assume I’m busy with Mommy duties. There’s a definite stereotype to both of these groups, leaving someone like me floundering somewhere in the middle.

(Pretty Note: I defy one of those Mommy Mafioso types to look at this darling girl and be snooty to anyone.)

Where she finds blog inspiration: I have two things going for me:

a. Crazy stuff happens to me all the time. Or maybe I just put myself in crazy situations, who knows?
b. I have a great imagination. No matter what is going on around me, I always have an alternate dialogue or scenario going on in my head. You’ll often see this reflected in my blog. I’ll go off into a dream sequence quite often. I doubt I would ever get through the work day without my brain working this way!

Where on Earth she finds time between marriage, work, and a kid to blog: I sneak in time between pretending to work during the day at my full time job to hearing Hottie Husband yell, “Are you blogging again?” in the evenings.

Cryst*al Me*th also works wonders. Kidding!!! Really, I just take it one day at a time. I try to write every day, but it doesn’t always happen.

Her non-bloggy hobbies: I go through phases, but I always enjoy shopping, painting, traveling, taking my cat for walks (Pretty Note: I like how she sneaks the cat walking in here as if it's a ho-hum, everyday thing us mere mortals can pull off) and dancing (either out with friends or just in my own kitchen).

Right now HH, the little Chica and I have been playing a lot of Rock Band on Xbox. Our band name is My Midget (so politically incorrect, I know!) HH plays a mean guitar, Chica rocks the mic and I wail on the drums. (Pretty Note: I too rock the Rock Band drums) Great stress release! And, it’s always entertaining to see a 5-year-old rock out to Rage Against the Machine. She loves it!

3 songs she recently downloaded: I love music and I listen to a little bit of everything. I always have music on my blog to reflect the mood I’m in that week.

Right now I’ve been in a big classic rock phase and Chica loves The Rolling Stones, so I recently downloaded one of our favorite Stones songs, Sympathy for the Devil. I’m also always looking for good workout songs so Cobra Starship’s Good Girls Go Bad and Sean Kingston’s Fire Burning have given me my fix recently.

Some personal & professional goals for the next 5 years: I’m one of those annoying people who have a new life goal every week, so who knows? I always have a new “great idea” that I want to pursue. HH and I are both very creative people and we would eventually like to run our own business. We would also like to have more kids, after all, how else will I truly be accepted into the Mommy Club and flaunt my superiority over my single friends once and for all? (Pretty Note: This line thaws my icy, Smug Married heart to the core.)

(Pretty Note: The first dance accessories are perfection here - I'll take the child and the feathery veil, please.)

What a new reader should know before clicking over to her blog: Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful. No, really, just don’t take me seriously. Most of my ideas are whack and I don’t really follow the crowd or agree with popular opinion. I was a drama major in college and that explains a lot. But, the good thing is that you will always get 100% authentic me. I never put on a façade or pretend to be someone I’m not.

Thank you for playing, Miss Glamour! My darlings, please run immediately over to Glamour Girl's blog here or her Twitter feed here, lest I aim my Icy Glare in your direction . . .

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