Southern Women-Extra-Curricular Activities

Ahhh.....Southern Women and their hobbies....where to begin. One thing about being a Southern Lady is that just about anything goes as far as hobbies are concerned. We will find any reason to get together. From playing Bunco to throwing Baby Showers, we have lots of reasons to get together. As long as their is food and friends involved, we will find just about any reason to socialize. Most of these gatherings are centered around some sort of event, like I mentioned before, a baby shower, Bunco game, or SEC football party. If you want to get right down to it, they are just organized gossip sessions. You better be in attendance because we are usually talking about the one who didn't make it to the event. Here is another little "Southern" tip for you. You can say anything you want about anybody as long as you add these three little words to it. "Bless Her Heart." Those three little words change downright mean, spiteful comments to sounding like genuine concern for someone. For example you could say, "My gosh, Sally Smith has gained about 40 pounds!" That sounds kind of mean don't you think. Try this on now... "My gosh, Sally Smith has gained about 40 pounds, bless her heart!" Much better huh? That whole "bless her heart" thing works wonders, so try it on for size next time you are wanting to say something ugly about someone. Anywho, back to our extra-curricular activities. Like I said before, Southern Women, especially myself like to dress up all nice and spiffy. We can go to the fanciest events, gala's, fundraisers, etc. and then turn around and put on some camo, or our nice blue jeans to head off to the PBR semi-finals. (For those of you not familiar, that would be Professional Bull Riders). Here are David and I at gala....


And then here we are a couple nights later at the PBR Finals in Atlanta..


The point of all this is, in the South you can do just about whatever you want for your activities. From the nicest black tie event, to a down in the mud rodeo, we are up for it all. That is the beauty of living here...it really doesn't matter. And if someone has a problem with it, they are just a big ol' fat butthead.....bless their heart.