Could anything make these accomplishments sweeter? Yes, in fact - Project Runway Season 9 starts tonight.
If everything in the world was exactly how I wanted it to be, Tim Gunn would be my life coach. And my best friend. And he'd coach me to the Miss America title. And then take me to Serendipity for a frozen hot chocolate*.
*For some reason I've always attached frozen hot chocolate to the epitome of treats. I think it's because a story from American Girl magazine told about a rich girl in New York who wanted to go to Serendipity with her less rich friend, but since the less rich friend couldn't ante up for such frivolity they had to compromise and find something to do that both of them could afford. Thinking back on it, my focus on frozen hot chocolate might not have been the lesson readers were intended to walk away with. Oops.
OK, that is probably the ONLY story I remember from that magazine. Thank you for posting that. My comments: the rich girl was Christian and the poor girl was Jewish. The problem besides lack in funding is that they wanted to celebrate their holidays together, but "that year, Christmas and Hanukah fell on the same night." I had a lot of problems with that line, because 1) it's literally impossible, the way December is set up, and 2) everyone knows there are 8 nights of Hanukah. I remember there were some tense racial moments. Also, one of the illustrations was of the rich, blonde girl in a red, fur-lined dress throwing tinsel onto a giant tree, while the poor girl with dark curly hair and her family, in brown and navy poor-people clothes, huddled in front of their menorah like it was their only heat source. I'm still not sure what the message was. Be nice to poor Jews?
ReplyDeleteAlso, that edition of the magazine had some rocking Christmas crafts in it. I made the glitter-glue and push-pin ornaments.