My mother was the polyester queen. When I was growing up she was in real estate and had a gold blazer (Century 21 colours). She's definitely not a good fashion influence (although she's better than she was). I still have a horrible tendency to wear looser, baggy clothing that I will eventually have to get over.
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I don't think we'll have time for shopping. I am leaving Sunday at zero dark thirty and coming in on Thrs night. Perhaps Friday but I doubt I can be talked into shopping on that day. For one thing I might be slightly hung over, but more importantly I will want to spend some quality time with some new friends. Shopping is not really on my list of quality time. That said.. The hotel is smack in the middle of this amazing shopping complex so..... If I do enough drinking perhaps.... LOL!
There ya' go - we'll get you drunk and take you shopping
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When I get close to a goal weight I'd consider coming to Ohio and see if you and Jane could dress me.
(How sad is that?)
Not sad at all - and it's a date - c'mon down to Ohio and we'll outfit you up in style!
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Hey, now, don't get down on yourself.
I mean, I had a really butch lesbo mom, so I didn't know how to do anything but butch, slutty, or "tshirtjeanssneaks" for a loooong time.
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My mother was the polyester queen. When I was growing up she was in real estate and had a gold blazer (Century 21 colours). She's definitely not a good fashion influence (although she's better than she was). I still have a horrible tendency to wear looser, baggy clothing that I will eventually have to get over.
OMG, my Mom is so NOT into fashion or style... she doesn't own makeup or a hairdryer, and is into comfort. Which often means she clashes in style, color, pattern - or all 3. Polyester floods or sweatpants (with elastic ankles), bright large-patterned leisure suits (or whatever the female version is), matchy-matchy outfits or the opposite - plaids with stripes, purple with orange, etc etc... Almost always fits badly (too tight or too big, gaping if it has buttons), "sensible" shoes... It took me YEARS to even begin to recover from her influence. I'm still a work in progress!
You have to pass through Michigan to get there and you KNOW I'm practically a professional shopper!
Oddly enough I don't. With where I live I'd cross near Buffalo and come along the lake. I'm about 4 hours from Cleveland, 6 hours from Columbus. Having said that I'm only a little over 3 hours from the Ambassador bridge.
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Hey NOW! What about me? If you come to Ohio, I need to meet you, too!
I knew there was someone in Ohio I was forgetting! We're talking next year though (at least).
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Girls really... I despise shopping. I will have to be drunk to concede to this. First thing I'll do when I wake up on Friday (about 10:00) is go for a 15K or so run. Then I'll eat... Then I want to laze around by the pool and digest. Then swim. Then I'll eat again and IF I start the booze at that time there is a slight chance that I'll be tipsy enough to do this horrid thing you guys call shopping. If not, then I will get a good lift in with David (prolly at the local 24 Hour) before I shower and have dinner and go out and get into some other sort of trouble. Now if you girls really love to shop you can go out and buy them for me while I am swimming. Now that would be cool. You will hate shopping if I am in tow. I sulk and whine, turn my nose up and am reluctant to try anything on. Unless you want to go shopping with a little kid, I highly advise against it....
Last year at our annual internet (guitar forum) weekly get together (very similar to this summit thing only a week long) the girls thought it would be fun to dress Karla. They thought it was fun because I am so little and cute now... It was horrible... There were three of them in the stores and the sales girls all picking up this shit, holding it up and and shoving it at me to try on... UUuuuuuuggghhhh! Kill me now...
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LMAO @ Karla: you & me both (high 5!): by now my SO has bought about half of my new wardrobe without me.. I'm sure the gals won't mind picking up something for you if they get your size correct.
Bytsi, an upset stomach can mean your hydration/salt levels are wacky so that explains your water wt gain.
My own wt gains are either nearly completely hormonal (ovulatory gains & right before TOM-gains) or caused by fiber, esp. legumes that just won't absorb and suck up a ton of water. So again.. chill
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You will hate shopping if I am in tow. I sulk and whine, turn my nose up and am reluctant to try anything on. Unless you want to go shopping with a little kid, I highly advise against it....
Shhhh, I haven't told then yet that I think I'm a little like that myself. I swear I haven't bought a piece of clothing from a store in maybe a decade. Now, partly that's because of size and availability (also I prefer natural fibers and poly blends seems to be a favourite of plus size stores). But I kind of like the idea of picking what you want and having it show up at your door....
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Glad it went down a bit overnight, but still way too high... now I just need to get back closer to VT.
LISS today... although staying in bed and curling up for a snooze in the blankets was tempting...
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Kids just have to play when mom is away.
And here I thought the only kids I had to deal with were the ones who live in my house
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I would imagine after dealing with dragons and virgins one would need a massive shopping excursion.....
So...how was karate???
Shopping!!!!!!!!!!! Oooooooh!!!!!!
Karate was good, thanks. We practiced escapes tonight - getting out of wrist grabs, chokes, hammer-locks, etc... Pretty much any night that we don't have to fall is good with me
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Just stopping by to say Hai! You are looking good!
Thanks Jen!
Hai!
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Girls really... I despise shopping. I will have to be drunk to concede to this. First thing I'll do when I wake up on Friday (about 10:00) is go for a 15K or so run. Then I'll eat... Then I want to laze around by the pool and digest. Then swim. Then I'll eat again and IF I start the booze at that time there is a slight chance that I'll be tipsy enough to do this horrid thing you guys call shopping. If not, then I will get a good lift in with David (prolly at the local 24 Hour) before I shower and have dinner and go out and get into some other sort of trouble. Now if you girls really love to shop you can go out and buy them for me while I am swimming. Now that would be cool. You will hate shopping if I am in tow. I sulk and whine, turn my nose up and am reluctant to try anything on. Unless you want to go shopping with a little kid, I highly advise against it....
Last year at our annual internet (guitar forum) weekly get together (very similar to this summit thing only a week long) the girls thought it would be fun to dress Karla. They thought it was fun because I am so little and cute now... It was horrible... There were three of them in the stores and the sales girls all picking up this shit, holding it up and and shoving it at me to try on... UUuuuuuuggghhhh! Kill me now...
Sounds like YOU might hate it, but we won't
Think of it as a chance to meet and hang out with some wonderful people that you've only "spoken" to online. We'll just bond in a mall instead of in a coffee shop or gym... I'm not even arriving til Friday afternoon, so not sure there will be time, but you will definitely have time to be drunk first if that's necessary .
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Shhhh, I haven't told then yet that I think I'm a little like that myself. I swear I haven't bought a piece of clothing from a store in maybe a decade. Now, partly that's because of size and availability (also I prefer natural fibers and poly blends seems to be a favourite of plus size stores). But I kind of like the idea of picking what you want and having it show up at your door....
Anne... you WILL come visit to shop when you are ready. And you'll be amazed at how good you look when the clothes really fit you well and emphasize your hot fit body .
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1. Great job this month Bytsi. I know you are frustrated but the pics are telling the story.
2. I do not recommend drunk shopping from personal experience. Inhibitions are lowered as well as the restraint on the credit card. But, if you don't care waking up the next day wondering what the hell you bought of have lots of money to throw around then it is a BLAST!
3. I would love to come shopping with all of you. I am not a group shopper, but if it would mean getting to meet all of you I would be game. Maybe a trip to the Mall of America should be considered.....
3. I would love to come shopping with all of you. I am not a group shopper, but if it would mean getting to meet all of you I would be game. Maybe a trip to the Mall of America should be considered.....
I'm no good at clothes-type shopping (clueless) and it's something I have to force myself to do even though I love it when I get something that works. But if there's ever a Mall of America excursion count me in.
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2. I do not recommend drunk shopping from personal experience. Inhibitions are lowered as well as the restraint on the credit card. But, if you don't care waking up the next day wondering what the hell you bought of have lots of money to throw around then it is a BLAST!
OMG--that cracked me up! I can just imagine the conflicting feelings of "I got some great stuff" and "I've got to take some of this back cuz I spent WAY TOO MUCH!"
OMG--that cracked me up! I can just imagine the conflicting feelings of "I got some great stuff" and "I've got to take some of this back cuz I spent WAY TOO MUCH!"
1. Great job this month Bytsi. I know you are frustrated but the pics are telling the story.
2. I do not recommend drunk shopping from personal experience. Inhibitions are lowered as well as the restraint on the credit card. But, if you don't care waking up the next day wondering what the hell you bought of have lots of money to throw around then it is a BLAST!
3. I would love to come shopping with all of you. I am not a group shopper, but if it would mean getting to meet all of you I would be game. Maybe a trip to the Mall of America should be considered.....
Thanks Bree... I wish the pics showed more, but at least it's not backward, right?
Drunk shopping - yikes! That sounds like an interesting story you might want to share . Good thing I'm not a drinker... although maybe Karla could use a few to get her in the mood to shop, right?
I would LOVE to come to Mall of America sometime - definitely a girl's vaca though, cuz my H would die of boredom there... whereas I'd need a MAJOR windfall to afford all the fun shopping I'd want to do.
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I'm no good at clothes-type shopping (clueless) and it's something I have to force myself to do even though I love it when I get something that works. But if there's ever a Mall of America excursion count me in.
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OMG--that cracked me up! I can just imagine the conflicting feelings of "I got some great stuff" and "I've got to take some of this back cuz I spent WAY TOO MUCH!"
LOL! Honestly, I'm pretty good... I put back most things I look at, and rarely buy something I regret. And I'm good about returning it if I do have remorse... I often go just to walk around (and get NEAT in bad weather) and enjoy seeing stuff I'd like to get one day, but I don't buy...
In fact, today, I stopped to see what my fave new resale shop had, and there was a pair of R&R jeans that ALMOST fit (they zipped, but it wasn't pretty) and I was gonna get 'em cuz they were sooooo cute too, but in the end I walked around with 'em in my hand for 10 minutes and then decided to wait til I'm at my final size. There will always, if I wait and watch, be another pair, right?
138.5.
Gack.
Yes, it's down 1/2#, but am I gonna have to fight off these same 2# all over again? I thought I already did this... a couple of times...
On the other hand, despite the mean old scale, my jeans are fitting better and I'm wearing a pair I didn't think I could fit into a few weeks ago, so...
THE SCALE IS A DIRTY ROTTEN MEAN LIAR!
(but I'll still use it as a measure/monitor)
Karate tonight - sparring, so it should be a very tough and sweaty workout...
We use the scale as it's convenient, but not necessarily the best measure of progress. If you looked better, felt better, and were in a smaller size, would the scale weight really matter? (just asking)
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Do you take measurements along with the scale weigh-in? Like measuring waist size etc? Might help to show some progress when the scale's being uncooperative.
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Do you take measurements along with the scale weigh-in? Like measuring waist size etc? Might help to show some progress when the scale's being uncooperative.
What he said...and...and...my scale is a liar too...
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