Life Lessons
Why do some lessons in life never stick?
Lesson 1: sexy underwear makes you feel sexy.
DUH! It has been so long since I’ve felt like my body was worth clothing in anything remotely sexy. Pregnancy, nursing, fatness. . . it all does me in. My order came in today and I have new underwear that is the right size, looks cute, and isn’t hanging all over the place. My old underwear was at least 2 sizes too big. How did I not notice how uncomfortable that was?
I also tried out some different bra sizes and am thrilled to discover I’m down to a D cup! Maybe even a C cup because the D cup is sagging a little! I’ll go to the brick and mortar store to exchange the bras that don’t fit and I’ll try on a C cup while I’m there. Unless you have big boobs, you have NO IDEA how exciting this is. After I had Elsa I was wearing a GG cup. My boobs were entering the room a full 30 seconds before the rest of my body.
After my little shopping excursion today I’m feeling much better about myself. I also found a black shrug that works perfectly with my sleeveless purple dress, so I’m all ready for tomorrow. I bought some sparkly silver jewelry and some black nylons. I have some fancy shoes from a couple of years ago. I will not be dowdy or frumpy. Whoo-hoo!
You know what I hate? Dress Barn has good quality clothes that are usually cut perfectly for my body. But they are all frumpy! Lane Bryant has the type of clothes I want, but they are all really poor quality and aren’t cut in the most flattering fashion. Bah. Why can’t they trade goals (or whatever it is that causes them to carry those types of clothing).
But we were talking about life lessons.
Life Lesson #2: I can accomplish so much more when I have a list to check off.
I can’t believe how much crap I got done today. I started with a huge 20 item to-do list and got through 14 items. If I wouldn’t have written it all down and had the pleasure of marking it all off, I probably wouldn’t have accomplished anything.
[Three hours later. . . wow! Got even more done. Wrapped a bunch of presents and was really smart this year. I’m still not sure exactly what we have, so I put post its on each present so I’ll know what’s in it and can divvy it up a little better when I have everything. For the past several years we’ve used fabric gift bags, but I can never resist buying clearance wrapping paper. This year I am going to try to use some of it up. I’ll still use the gift bags for awkward gifts. I’m kind of tired of looking at them.]