Okay, this is a thread for all of us with sibs out there that leave us scratching our heads. I bear little resemblance to my middle sister (5 years older), both in looks in personality.
ME: Clothes are about comfort. I live for jeans and a flannel! Even my dressy clothes are usually comfortable. I like to look nice, but I don’t spend ridiculous sums of money on clothes and I don’t have to have designer brands. My nails are very short, rarely painted (I’m a teacher, fercryin’outlawd). I have fair skin and very dark brown (my b/f still says black), very straight hair. I wear it long and straight because it’s pretty much style-free and thus hassle-free (and it looks good). Make up? I like to wear some and rather like its effect, but rarely wear foundation. My breasts are a natural D cup (wide set, so they look smaller). Personality? In the writer’s club, choir, other “artsy” clubs at school, mocked cheerleaders. Never had a boyfriend until 21–because I thought having one while under 20 was pointless as I wasn’t going to marry them. Always wanted to live on my own, always had my independence a goal, always wanted to fall in love with a best friend (which I did), not a stranger whose eyes I meet across the room. I also hate cigarrettes. Nothing against those of you who smoke, I personally just don’t like it.
Middle Sister: Perfectly curled/styled, often permed bottle-honey-blond hair, three inches shorter, immaculate acrylic nails, fake tan from the salon, what I call “evening out makeup” every day (looks good, just a lot more than I wear), smokes, newly-implanted DD breasts (she was a D before…why she had to go bigger is beyond me), expensive high-quality clothes. Personality? High school cheerleader and homecoming princess. I’ve never known her-from age 13 on–to be without a boyfriend for longer than 2 months, maybe. Constant flirt (once told me I needed to relax and flirt more). Had a baby in failed marriage thinking it would make everything better. Didn’t. Divorced because she finally realized she never loved her husband. Had a boyfriend within a couple months of filing, now is on boyfriend #2 and saying she’s head over feet in love (she’s known him a month). Says she always wanted the fairy-tale romance (her words) where it was, essentially, love at first sight. Said she wants to live happily ever after in love. She leaves me feeling like the protective big sister.
Now, understand I am not slamming anyone who has fake boobs, or was a cheerleader, or has acrylic nails, or who believes in love at first sight. I’m just amazed that the two of us, as different as we are, came from the same friggin’ gene pool.
Anyone else have a sibling so completely opposite of you like this? Do you find yourself banging your head against brick walls, too, with them?
formerly known as LauraRae
I’m a Raggety Ann in a Barbie Doll world.