At the end of the summer, I introduced Emily to The Hills. We started at the beginning. Thanks to Netflix and procrastination, Emily’s already finished all 6 seasons. Since I hate being left behind, I’ve decided to catch up and have been watching The Hills fairly nonstop.
I guess I forgot how crazy these people are.
Here are some things I’ve realized or learned in this Hillsfest.
#1. Â My hair sucks.
Their hair is always beautifully done. Especially Lauren’s. The past few days I’ve tried to curl my hair. With hairspray, without hairspray. Tight curls, loose curls.. it always just ends up looking… normal. Not LC normal, but Stephanie normal. Okay, maybe with just a little less frizz. Can someone please teach me how to do my hair? In real life? Because while I love The Beauty Department’s hair tutorials.. I just need help.
#2. Lauren Conrad is SO CLASSY.
She’s so lovely, and I’m not sure why we are not best friends.. I mean, aside from the fact that we’ve never met or anything. Minor details, minor details. Instead, I decided that I’d just spend some time with Lauren Conrad in a different way…
So there’s that.
#3. If I hear the word “loyalty” come out of Spencer Pratt’s mouth one more time…
I’m gonna… I don’t know.
#4. actually let’s just say Spencer Pratt is..
you know.
#5. My life is SO DRAMA FREE.
There is something to be said about healthy drama. A life free of conflict and messiness is boring and lacks vulnerability. When we have to be real and honest with our feelings, we are forced to grow. Tension is good and necessary.. but in moderation. And this show… no moderation in the drama. Which makes sense, I guess. Who would want to watch a half an hour of Lauren Conrad doing her hair and picking out her outfit?
(uh… ME!!!)
Did you watch The Hills? What did it teach you? haha.Â
the hills taught me the same as you. that my life is so drama free compared to those crazies!
it also makes the drama we’ve dealt with seem foolish to worry about.
Curling hair IS difficult :(. I got my hair cut and colored today and she curled it all nice and pretty. It took her maybe two seconds and it looks lovely. I’ve decided that I need a hair and make-up person to come to my house every day.
ugh! that is the worst! because you can never know if you like a hair cut for a few days, until you wash it and have to deal with it all by yourself!
I love how almost everything in the pile of clothes is pink. And I’m the same with my hair! Mine is curly but it still never looks as good as tv people. I think they have a rare kind of hair or something. The Hills is a guilty pleasure of mine, but I felt really uncomfortable watching the Spencer-Heidi situation develop, like I was condoning it or something. He’s so manipulative! (Funnily enough, there’s a reality tv series here called Made In Chelsea, about rich, upper-class young people, and there’s a guy called Spencer on that who is also unbelievably manipulative and annoying. Hm.)
Also I love that you watch things like The Hills and talk about it and yet talk about other stuff like faith too. I sometimes feel like every moment not spent doing ‘worthwhile’ things (don’t ask me to define ‘worthwhile’ though, I think it’s pretty much whatever I’m not doing but feel like I should be at a given time..!) is a moment wasted and that I’m the only one not making the most of life, and to be honest I feel like I’m just not a good person because of it. And hey, I definitely have room to work on things, but it helps me to know that people I respect and admire do the same stuff I do in their down-time and are still good people, because that means I can be too! (I’m not sure if this is coming across positively haha but I definitely mean it positively!!)
Thank you for being yourself and sharing stuff with us.
Also, pink: 😀
girl. this is really what the core of my identity issues is. Even today, as I re-positioned my gold glitter bow before I walked into church I thought “can I love glitter, bows, pretty earrings and fancy things… AND have a heart for broken, inner city kids who are sassy and defiant and in desperate need of love?” In other words, or really.. does it DISTRACT from my passion for Jesus?
I guess yes and no. yes because glitter is shiny and shiny is distracting. but no, because I would never in a zillion years value a stupid glitter bow in my hair over a child or my faith or my Lord. the same goes with silly pleasures in life. Does it hinder your relationship with Christ? does it cause problems for others? Does it give you questionable integrity? if you can answer NO to those, then what’s the big deal? not “you” like YOU, clare.. but in general.
Christ attended weddings and dinners and didn’t spend all day every day healing and teaching. Laughter is good for our hearts and our souls. “ministry” or “witness” doesn’t turn off the minute we stop speaking Christianese.
sorry if this was preachy. it was meant to be friendly encouragement – for you and for me. because I’m always in need of identity encouragement.
Hey, sorry this is so late, I just saw this. Not at all preachy, don’t worry! Yeah I have the exact same issues, and sometimes I am definitely on the wrong side of the line. The problem is I don’t think I would ever value a bow over God, like you say, but I do think these little things can add up to something bigger and quite detrimental because my focus changes, but then like you say I guess Jesus shows us that being happy and having fun is a human need.. I tend to be 100% one or the other, which is impossible to keep up haha but guess it’s just keeping track and asking ourselves those questions every so often. And like everything else I think God can use our love for beautiful things, if we go with it.
oh and I personally hate ‘Christianese’ haha. I can’t bring myself to use it :/ Just had to add that 😛
i’m working on claiming the territory of my identity in Christ – knowing WHO I AM, and how God uses that. if that makes any sort of sense. so long as we’re pursuing Christ first, foremost and with all of our hearts… the Holy Spirit will help us out, yeah?
LOVE. YOU.