What kind of femme and I?
I am the kind of femme who likes to wear jeans, skirts, shorts and dresses equally. I very rarely wear/use makeup. I've worn heels twice in the past year and both times told myself "never again!" They HURT!
I am the kind of femme who likes to get her hands dirty. Nothing like running my fingers through freshly overturned soil. I love gardening, though I hate weeding.
I am the kind of femme who will dress somewhat modestly, but not matronly. If/when I am with someone, that person only, gets to see anymore than what I show the world, both figuratively and literally.
I can paint my nails and do sometimes, but never mourn one that gets broken.
I am a nurturer by nature. I am strong enough to carry heavy items, independent enough to think and act under my own volition and clever enough to build a deck.
I am a femme who knows how to use tools, even power tools (except my pretty purple and lime green chainsaw....*sighing). I have swung a hammer in my lifetime, as well as a maul and an axe.
I am the kind of femme who will cook for you, sew buttons on your shirts or fix a tear or patch a hole. I will bake for you, care for you and even cede things to you. However, I will not cater to you.
I am the kind of femme who hates housework, but will do it because it's "my job" and I've yet to find someone to do it for me. My Mother used to say that that was why she had so many children.
Finally, I am me. Unique, sometimes odd, often sarcastic (light heartedly most of the time) often vulnerable, but strong enough to mend my own wounds and strengthen my own weaknesses. I love deeply and protect fiercely.
I may not be the perfect femme. I may not be high maintenance. I may not be ultra girly. But if I were, then I wouldn't be me and I LIKE me and love being me.
PS. to compensate for my pretty chainsaw being taken away by my father (he was afraid for my safety) I went out and bought a pretty orange and purple fishing pole. When I told my brother this, he rolled his eyes, took my "fly fishing rod" away, and gave me one for the kind of fishing I ws attempting to do. It was an ugly brown
