Hypersmile

Current mood: happy
For some reason I just remembered that a nickname of mine in college was hypersmile. It was my first online name too-- Hypersmile@aol.com. I had happy face icons printed on my checks.
My boyfriend during those college years nicknamed me permagrin.
Obviously I smiled a lot. I still smile a lot, but I have learned that extended smiling can make your face hurt. It also causes wrinkles.
I try to "relax" my face more now. I take time out and actually think about not smiling. I really try to relax the muscle in between my eyebrows because I have a permanent line/crease there now. I had a very close friend of the family (she was practically a grandmother to me) that used to tape her forehead every night before she went to sleep trying to uncrease that line. Virginia would be thrilled if she were still alive to know that now she could go in and have a Botox shot every six months or so to relieve that pesky line!
I haven't really thought about having a Botox shot, but you never know. Another friend of the family went and had a Botox shot a week or so before a class reunion of hers and it practically paralyzed the entire left side of her face. I think she skipped the reunion.... It was only a temporary paralysis thank goodness, but it was highly traumatic for her, and for my mother that had to endure her wailing on the phone for quite a while.
Luckily smile lines are not as bad a smoking lines. So that is a plus as I don't smoke. But long periods of smiling can cause more lines to appear around the eyes.
Do it. Come on, do it. Smile really big. Can't you feel the cheek flesh rise up above the cheekbone and invade your eye orbits? If you get out a mirror I am sure you will notice that the cheek fat invasion causes fine lines around the outer edges of your eyes.
Again, I don't know why this just popped into my head, but oh well. Now you know. I have a tendency to smile too much. And lately it is a SEG. Since we are living in a world of acronyms, I decided to make up my own. I can do whatever I want since this is my world. So what is an SEG? That my friend is something for me to know and you to find out.
Later. And I will detail the use of a SEG. I am sure that on Monday, during my day in Lincoln City I will have to use one.
I am not going to write tomorrow because I have a full day. I drop William off in Salem to catch a bus. He is off for a week at Camp Arrah Wannah. Then Jack and I will abscond to Hillsboro to a Sponge Bob birthday party for our two-year-old Emilia.
It should be fun. And I sure I will have a day full of smiles.
Toodles.

Aug. 5, 2006