– I can put on all the make-up I want, make my hair up nice and wear a pretty dress, without DH I am still missing the part that makes me look my best.   – I am a grown woman and I am actually capable of dressing fancy and acting relatively classy for a night, even on my own.  – The fact that as a grown woman I borrowed my formal dress from the teenage girl who babysat for me can be our little secret. – The allure of dressing up is mostly lost after you make the Kraft Dinner for the kids and get out the boots and the brush to scrape the snow and ice off the mini-van. – Any sense of formality that might have been left is gone once you get out at the gas-station and hike up your dress to fill the air of your &*^%#& leaky tire that you haven’t fixed yet. – A good entrance is always important, especially when you’re aready nervous, so I don’t regret my decision to walk across the snowy parking lot in my 4 inch heels so that I wasn’t wearing my boots when I walked in.  I also don’t regret how long it took my toes to defrost afterwards. – Some women might be offended by tradition that holds that no woman should walk around un-escorted.  I am not one of those women.  I made me feel just a little bit important. – I felt slightly less important when I had to announce my need to use the bathroom to the unfortunate guy who was assigned as my ‘escort’ for the evening, who then had…