I Enjoy Being a Girl

I love this old song and found myself humming it today. Actually, I was looking for something to name a feminine board on my Pinterest (come follow me there) and decided on I Enjoy Being a Girl. I looked up the lyrics and the history. Fun to know! Certainly not the kind of woman I am or anyone is today, but the song is fun and reminiscent of the era it was written in. Except for the title: I do enjoy being a girl!

The song, I Enjoy Being a Girl was originally from the 1961 movie, Flower Drum Song, starring Nancy Kwan. (click on the link to watch the video) Although Kwan played a young Chinese woman, (Linda Low) singing this song, the vocals were actually performed by B.J. Baker.

Peggy Lee (click on link to watch the video) made the song again famous in her album titled, Latin Ala Lee.

Doris Day (click on link to watch the video) does a fun version too!

I Enjoy Being a Girl

I'm a girl and by me that's only great
I am proud that my silhouette is curvy
That I walk with a sweet and girlish gait
With my hips kind of swivelly and swervey

I adore being dressed in something frilly
When my date comes to get me at my place
Out I go with my Joe or John or Billy
Like a filly who is ready for the race

When I have a brand new hairdo
With my eyelashes all in curls
I float as the clouds on air do
I enjoy being a girl

When men say I'm cute and funny
And my teeth aren't teeth but pearls
I just lap it up like honey
I enjoy being a girl

I flip when a fellow sends me flowers
I drool over dresses made of lace

I talk on the telephone for hours
With a pound and a half of cream upon my face

I'm strictly a female female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy, having a girl like me

When men say I'm sweet as candy
As around in a dance we whirl
It goes to my head like brandy
I enjoy being a girl

With someone with eyes that smolder
Says he loves every silken curl
That falls on my ivory shoulder
I enjoy being a girl

When I hear a complementary whistle
That greets my bikini by the sea
I turn and I glower and I gristle
But I'm happy to know the whistles meant for me

I'm strictly a female female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy, having a girl like me

~Songwriters: R. ROGERS, O. HAMMERSTEIN II

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Pinterest, a New Obsession. Pinning Away!

I needed to be working on an article for Mermaids of the Lake, (my online women's magazine) among a million other things. We have a new issue coming out tomorrow! And, what was I doing? PINNING! So to make myself feel a little bit better I created this image and wrote a blog post on it! Yay! I was working after all!

Oh, my!!!!!! Are you doing it? PINNING? We are and we are having an amazingly inspiring experience with the whole Pinterest phenomenon!!!

We admit, we were late starters. Friend after friend said to us, "You need to be on Pinterest! You will love it! Truly!" They were right!!! Truly!

For the two of you left in the world who do not know what Pinterest is - Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board. Instead of bookmarking images and blog posts, you simply "pin" them to your own virtual board. Once you have created a Pinterest account, (easy peasy process) you create your own virtual boards, title them and start pinning, becoming more and more inspired and excited with each pin!

You follow other people's boards and they can follow yours! Pinterest has made it easy for you too! They provide this awesome little tool called a Pin it button. In two seconds you add it to your favorites tool bar. When you are out surfing the web, diving into blog after blog, and you find something you love, simply click on your Pin it button and a little box pops up and you choose which of your boards you want to place it in. PRESTO, you have pinned another image!!! When a friend or anyone out there pins something you love you can choose to click "repin" and the image is added to one of your boards!

I have found that creating boards, and watching them fill up with images of things you love, sort of validates YOU and your interests, personality and more! I think women and men are learning about themselves by the things they pin!!!! How cool!

It's also wonderful to see what kind of things your friends have pinned and what they name their boards. Sometimes you will see something they pinned and think to yourself, "Oh, that is so ____." or "____ would love this!!!!" It's a bonding experience! How cool!

Here is the most awesome thing for blog owners: when someone pins your image, Pinterest automatically provides a direct link to your blog post. So the source of the image is always credited. We were (and still are) thrilled to see all of the images that others have pinned of ours! What a way to network! How cool!!!


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