I think I've decided that my blog colour scheme is too girly. Come on, PURPLE?? What exactly was I thinking? And not just any purple, but a LILAC-y sort of purple. Sigh. Frankly, I'm too tired to change it. It was a pain finding colours I thought went well together in the first place, and I really don't want to wade through a billion colours again to find another scheme. I am really impartial to the blue-orange colour scheme though. My friend's blog has those colours, and I rather enjoy it! :) But really, my sudden dislike of purple actually comes from years of not wanting to be too girly. I think I always wanted to compete with guys, to be as smart as them, as funny as them, as strong as them (ahahaha, good one!), and in general, I really competed with guys in being guys. But I'm not a guy. I'm a girl. Elisabeth Elliot talks a lot in her book, Let me Be a Woman, about how women are constantly trying to compete with men in being men. This is an inaccurate and unhealthy view. If you're going to compete at something, compete at whatever the mjob is. If you want to be a pilot, compete with men in being a pilot. But don't compete with men in being men. It's impossible, first of all, because physically, I'm a woman. Second, I think it's so important to embrace who you are. It's taken me a while to be comfortable with being a girl, with having doors held open for me (I now LOVE this), with getting help carrying my heavy loads, etc. but in the end, it's rather nice. :)

On another note concerning male and female differences, did you know that women have more sweat glands on their backs and on the backs of their legs than men do? Men have more sweat glands on the bottoms of their feet, though. Yes, there IS a reason for those ultra-smelly socks.

What's the moral of today's entry? I'm going to a fancy dinner on Saturday and heck, I might even wear heels. Yay girliness!