34 days... The inches are already built in!

I've been looking on the internet for answers to make-up questions and discovered that there are entire worlds out there in cyberspace that I never knew existed! There are bulletin boards about She-Hulk, fan fiction etc. and some very helpful people. Some of the discussions about why there should be an animated movie about this character, instead of a live action version were interesting, especially about how hard it would be to add a foot to most body builders or other women!

I had to laugh at this because I have always lived with those extra inches and couldn't just take them away with special effects! I actually met Marv Wolfman, back when he was writing the Teen Titans comic series that I collected at Halcon in Halifax. He stopped me in the hallway with the comment "Oh My! Now I finally know what She-Hulk or Starfire look like at the mall!" Apparently the sight of me walking down the hallway in garb, a head above most of the crowd, brought that home in a whole new way that drawings just didn't quite capture.

If I was an introvert, I would probably be bothered by the extra inches I carry, but as an irrepressible extrovert, I just LOVE them! People who get to know me and spend time with me on a regular basis adapt. Today, I met a few people who were just baffled by the extra inches and wondered how on earth I survived. I guess I've never known anything else. I've always been tall and I am perfectly average in my family, so I just see it as being built on a different scale.

Tonight my oldest daughter started asking about dances that she'll be allowed to go to this fall in Grade 5. That brought back a wave of memories of slow dances where the guys put their heads on MY shoulders instead of vice versa... but that's just something that both my daughters will have to take in stride. These inches aren't going anywhere, so we might as well have fun with them!!