HelloGiggles and Me

Even though I’m somewhere near the 2,500th person to “like” this site (officially unofficial), I still feel like I’m buying something without spending money.  (That number is small when you think of the whole world–I like to think well of myself.)  Oh, well, it’s still totally me to be liking the following:

HelloGiggles.com brings a fresh “let’s live like it’s 1950 without all that humdrum housewifely oppression business” vibe to online community-izing.  (You know what I mean.)  What I mean to say is that there are a lot of girls out there who like to dress in knee length, plaid skirts and ballet flats and drink tea every night who have needed a lady like place online to you know, discuss.  I mean, let’s chat, ladies!  I myself, look terrible in knee-length plaid, but I did buy ballet flats the other day at the, gasp, GAP. Hey, they were 40% off.  And on a side note, I got a compliment on them.

True story: Saturday night, I’m playing cards with a bunch of guys and one says to me, “I like your mocassins.  They look hard to walk in.”  The teacher in me escapes with, “They’re actually called ballet flats and ballerinas wear them to dance in so I can’t imagine how they could be hard to walk in.”  (Good Lord, why must I be so feisty and combative and always right?)  “Oh, I mean, like hard.  Like do they have cushions?”  “Oh.  Yeah, these have cushions.  They are very comfortable.  Thank you for liking them.”  (This is me trying to crawl back into my cute and adorable skin.)  He then asked me what year I graduated—from high school.  HelloGiggles tells me that means he is too young to date.  I concur and concede, as cute as he was.  Onward.

The site is all about everything we ladies love: hair, how to tips, wearing the same pair of pants three different ways, ways to treat ourselves, and prescribing advice to one another about the previously mentioned topics and everything else you have ever talked about while riding home after a day at the beach with the boys.  The only thing it’s really missing is a spiritual aspect–although one post did mention getting caught up with “Oprah’s body shape through the years” or something.

How could I not enjoy a little fun in the sun, ice tea on the porch talk with Zooey Deschanel (I believe, currently yet to publish a post on her own site) and a posse of her real (Sophia Rossi and Molly McAleer) and internet girl friends?  (Some contributors seem to be 12 and 10 years old.  I’m not sure how that works, but I’m not really up on this networking thing.)

Here’s one post to get you started, but this site is not all about singleness.  Single Girls Guide.  It’s simply not an old boys’ club.

In the end, it’s good to be a classy girl and Zooey knows that.