She borrows your posting style, you borrow using cute titles...it's all fair.
Kathi, could you put a few things wrinkle resistant things in a duffle bag or somesuch for easy access, just in case? Or maybe get a cheap used suitcase to keep a few things in: basic makeup, skinny jeans, wrinkle resistant top, Nine west stilettos.Knowing that Kathi is going to have to be packed away for awhile (we listed our house this weekend, and the realtor told us to put excess stuff into storage),
Nothing wrong with chasing rabbits.There is a big jetted tub with a gas fireplace next to it. Can you imagine sinking into a nice scented bubblebath on a cold night with the fireplace going and some pretty candles? Ahhhhhhh!
There I go, chasing rabbits again. Sorry.
It's January! You shouldn't have packed the boots!Anyway, I went home, did my makeup and hair, and waffled between outfits for awhile. "It's cold! I wanna wear boots! Boots are cute!" my petulant inner voice said. Well, my black boots that went with the outfit I was wearing were already packed,
MySQL, it's got to be. :-)Wow, once again, I have to ask - how do women keep track of all this stuff.
It was really "bad dye-job" dark though.What an awesome thing to do for them.While we were having fun, I mentioned something I had said last time, about advertising their services to our community in a local alternative newspaper. They had actually thought about it, and were almost ready to submit the ad. I looked at what they had and helped them with a few things (like adding "discreet" wording, talking about after-hours appointments, etc.). They were quite appreciative. Heck, since I sold my ad agency, what else am I going to do with this knowledge?
Which looks great, as always.and two of my shopping outfit.
Wow, you're really becoming open about "This thing of Ours".
And she's right!She told me that she loved my shoes and asked to see them. I showed her and she said, "Don't you just loooove heels?" I agreed, saying that I did, even though I shouldn't as I am already too tall and people notice me that much more. She accused me of thinking like a girl and said not to worry if all the eyes in the room were on me. She said that my height wasn't the reason they were watching me, it was because I looked stunning.
I think so too.Part of it, of course, is accepting yourself. I think that people instinctually understand and accept that.
You're REALLY open about "This thing of Ours"My next stop was my local bank.
If the duck looks like a trophy wife and shops like a trophy, then the duck is a trophy wife. :-)She said, "Shopping again, my little trophy wife?" I laughed and said I certainly wasn't pretty or young enough to be one of those. She replied, "None of us are, are we? You come pretty darn close, though.
Everyone loves kittens!
Those aren't Ugly Man Arms...these are Ugly Man Arms:OK, here's the deal; In many of my posts, I have bemoaned the fact that I have UMA - Ugly Man Arms. They're bulky and brawny and totally unlike the rest of my skinny body. usually, I hide them in cute sweaters and shrugs. This picture will definitely let you know why.
Once again, look only if you dare!!!!!!
:-)
And it is very cute on you!
Go! Unpack the boots!Gee, if only I hadn't already packed away my black boots, it would have been a totally cute outfit!
Can I borrow the skinny? Just once I want to wear single digit sizes and shop at Bebe and WHBM.Here are the pictures from the front and side. I usually don't show myself in profile because you can see how pathetically skinny I am.
I don't think it makes you look guyish at all, it's so snug and girly!Oh yeah, I'll also throw in a "bonus" picture of a zipup hoody I tried on. It was cute, but not cute enough to buy. I think it made me look too "guy-ish."
I agree...of course. :-)
My job involved that, though much less so now.I see the same thing with yours, don't think you have so much to worry about. So do what I do...avoid manual labor & heavy lifting.
We ARE Fashionistas! Qapla!
I am just going to have to codify the rules. But I can understand moving expenses and the troubles of packing and unpacking.I'm sure I'll catch hell from Veronica for not buying it as cute as it was (it is the Fashionista way, after all ), but since I'm planning on moving in a few months, I need to keep my expenditures down a bit (as my wife reminded me last night.
You could always try: "Well dear, it would be easier to justify the purchases if I wore only girl stuff." :-) I am so naughty."You realize that you've spent hundreds of dollars on girl stuff in the past year or so, right? You know that you can't continue at that rate, right?" My reply is, as always, "Yes dear."). Sigh.
I like it!It was a cute purple sweater. Yeah. I know. Purple! Me!! It was very cute though, and not too gaudy.
Yes, very cute.I went back in to change into a purple and gray argyle crop top. I liked it. It was really cute, and fashionable - for now, at least.
Geekbabe is what I usually use, and the geekbabe.com domain is owned by "one of us" as you probably know as it's the domain of the Diva Las Vegas website.During this, she said, "I'm going to have to ask you for technical support again." In the past, as she had gotten to know me, she found out I was a geek (geekette?), and I had helped her with computer problems in the past.
Heh.Windows and computer problems - they go together like peanut-butter and jelly.
Wow!"You know what? That's perfect, because in this outfit, I look just like a cute young college girl!" I came out and got a "Wow!" out of her. She was right. The short crop top seemed to bring in my waist and made me look almost curvy.
Snow! You shouldn't have packed away your boots! Go, shoo! Unpack them! Keep a suitcase of Kathi stuff handyIt wasn't until I stepped in a pile of snow and got a little bit into my pumps that I realized what I was wearing outside.
Bwah ha ha ha. But you'll need the regex skirt from thinkgeek. There's enough of us that there could be franchises!I helped her with her computer problem and she said, "Wow, you're good at this. You should go into business. You could dress the way you like, and make those lonely computer geeks drool over you." I said that would be a great idea, and even had a name - GeekBabe - with the slogan, "The closest thing to a real girl you'll ever have!"
Me too!
She said, "Honestly, your body is fabulous! I know that I'm envious.
You have to go back and buy the purple sweater and argyle one too. I'll wait. :-)I gratefully paid for my jacket and scarf (both on sale for $48.00 after a "technical support discount". Score!!) and was off to meet J at her new salon.
I'm too insecure (and fat) to shop there.
Personally, I think I couldn't resist coming out to the GGP (at least in a private one on one basis) if I was a part of it. If any of them are "aware" they might have guessed "something" is up.It was a girl from church - and not just any girl, a member of the Gorgeous Gossip Patrol (GGP). The ones who have accepted me into their little women's clique. I saw her - mostly with my peripheral vision - but I don't think she saw me. Quick as a bunny, but with extreme ladylike deportment, I sashayed my skinny hiney out of there! I had always wondered what would happen if I was "caught" and this was the closest to it I've come.
Oy, don't get me started. For some years when I was young, late teens/early twenties I was a skinny lil thing. 5' 5.5" and 125 pounds. Yeah...ouch. and I didn't go out in public. And my best fitting and looking oxford shirt was one my mom had pointed out to me at a thrift. It was a women's shirt in the wrong section. 100% high quality cotton, soft, billowy and a soft pale pink.(I don't have a choice - even men's small shirts are too large, and don't get me started on men's pants!!)
[/quote]I asked her how she felt now. She said, "Oh, I am totally comfortable with you. It's so easy to relate to you as a woman. I usually have trouble thinking that you're a man. Even now, in those clothes, you are, in my mind, a woman. It's weird. I guess it's just your pesonality" she said with a smile. She said she could see why I did this and then wondered if I was going to be like another customer of hers. I knew who she meant. She has a customer that had, as she put it, ". . . had the operation." I told her no, and told her more about the spectrum of people that did this, and where I fell on that. She told me not to rule it out as she could tell that I was "obviously a woman on the inside" and, of course, how fantastic I looked.
She's right.
Yep.I told her that the qualities that I had in me enabled me to be a better man, a better husband, a better father. She said she could see that.
More rabbit chasing! Don't stop chasing the rabbits!Enough rabbits for now. Back to my day:
I really think you should keep a few Kathi things in a suitcase/duffle that's easily picked up/moved.I then went on my way home to put Kathi away - for what could be a long time. Gulp! I feel that I can make it through this "dry spell" knowing that it is not only for a good cause, but that it is not forever.
Tell you what...I'll "try" to get to the salon in the next few weeks if I have the cash to spare...and get my color and highlights done. and I'll "try" to go en femme. Just for you. :-)I will now be living vicariously through you! Don't let me donw, girls! Get over your fears and your feelings that you're not pretty enough. get out there and have some fun in this world. Happiness awaits! Don't let the minutes, hours and days go by without grabbing some if it for yourself.
And thank you for another great thread.
Veronica Rogers