{"id":13124,"date":"2018-08-13T15:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T22:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/?p=13124"},"modified":"2018-08-13T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T22:05:40","slug":"a-huge-life-decision-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-huge-life-decision-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A Huge Life Decision: Weigh In!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just look at these gorgeous nails. They are my dream nails, the perfect shape: Almost pointy but not so pointy that the tips keep breaking off.<\/p>\n

$\"hue$ <\/a>They belong to George, a great guy who works at Nordstrom, and he was pleased by how much I loved them. They’re his real nails, obviously, and he gets them done at a place on Melrose called Pamper or Pamper Something.<\/p>\n

We discussed my own nails, which are kind of oval. As everyone knows, I do my own nails, because I find it relaxing. I admit that it’s hard to make them all the same shape. I like to blame the nail-files but I guess it’s due to handedness and a less than optimal angle.<\/p>\n

Here, look, from last winter:<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I’ve been irrationally proud to say that I’ve NEVER HAD A MANICURE, ever. I will be 65 in a couple of weeks, so that’s more than fifty years of doing my nails. It’s a long streak, and one I didn’t plan to end. I could have it on my gravestone or in my obituary. “She did her own nails.”<\/p>\n

BUT! Why not just go get someone to make my nails look more like George’s???<\/p>\n

This is my dilemma. If I give in and do it, can I see it as a refutation of stupid, reflexive stubbornness and personal “policies” that have outlived their usefulness? Can I turn it into a triumph somehow? I want to have my cake and eat it too, an expression I hate because it doesn’t even make sense to me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or, I can stick to my guns, because I don’t like the idea of paying an immigrant a pittance to service me while working in a toxic atmosphere. It seems so colonialist and fucked up.<\/p>\n

Okay, so let’s not vote on how dumb I am, it’s a given. I want you to vote yes<\/strong> or no<\/strong> on getting a manicure.<\/p>\n

Hurry up though, I could get a stroke or break my neck trying to tie my shoes (which you can just see in the left-hand corner of George’s beautiful nails.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"