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today's errands
Last fall, as you know (?), I spent several weeks barely sleeping. It sucked. I developed really fetching dark circles under my eyes; my skin broke out and got ashy and crumbly, all at once; and I gained about fifteen pounds. My friends were beginning to get annoyed with me for not going to see a doctor when I went on vacation, came home, and realized that the whole time I'd been on vacation I'd hardly had any coffee or any soda and had slept fine - so I went off caffeine and that pretty much did the trick. The dark circles went away; the skin didn't clear up as much as I'd have liked, but it did stop looking quite so grey; and I stopped gaining weight, though I had a hard time getting going on losing it again. This was sort of last October, really, so it was reasonable to expect that I'd probably stay pretty steady until after the holidays.
Then in February, I had a headache that wouldn't go away, and rather than subject you to another long story, by late March/early April I was in root-canal pain that woke me up at night for weeks on end - yep. Dark circles, bad skin, gaining weight. I ended up about fifteen pounds down from my original starting weight before all the weight-loss fun began a couple of years ago (from which I had, at one point, lost about sixty pounds, but really more like fifty on a consistent basis). Stuff I'd had altered obviously doesn't fit anymore, which is a huge bummer. But I'm okay with it. I have again stopped gaining and resumed losing, and I'm next to the idea that it's going to be a longish process, and in the meantime I've needed some clothes that do fit, because I got rid of a lot of too-big stuff the first time around, and it would still be too big now anyway.
SO today I was buying some clothes, and I came home with a cute red dress and a cute black dress and a cute skirt, and now I own things that fit fine in M and things that fit fine in XL, and that right there is why I brought it all up: what the hell, I ask yet again, is going on with women's clothing sizes?!
For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I found myself in the Feminine Products aisle even though I've got all the tampons I'll be needing for a long while. Y'all, I have not used pads in years and I was just about stumped by the variety. I wanted, to be honest, what used to be called 'panty shields', not even a whole pad, just something relatively short and very thin and, even though I know we're not supposed to, possibly scented. I had to look closely for ten minutes to find something that didn't have wings and swear it was good for overnight. Have they stopped making scented things? That's probably okay. But does everything have to be extra super? Honestly, some of us just don't need that much insulation, you know?
Then in February, I had a headache that wouldn't go away, and rather than subject you to another long story, by late March/early April I was in root-canal pain that woke me up at night for weeks on end - yep. Dark circles, bad skin, gaining weight. I ended up about fifteen pounds down from my original starting weight before all the weight-loss fun began a couple of years ago (from which I had, at one point, lost about sixty pounds, but really more like fifty on a consistent basis). Stuff I'd had altered obviously doesn't fit anymore, which is a huge bummer. But I'm okay with it. I have again stopped gaining and resumed losing, and I'm next to the idea that it's going to be a longish process, and in the meantime I've needed some clothes that do fit, because I got rid of a lot of too-big stuff the first time around, and it would still be too big now anyway.
SO today I was buying some clothes, and I came home with a cute red dress and a cute black dress and a cute skirt, and now I own things that fit fine in M and things that fit fine in XL, and that right there is why I brought it all up: what the hell, I ask yet again, is going on with women's clothing sizes?!
For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I found myself in the Feminine Products aisle even though I've got all the tampons I'll be needing for a long while. Y'all, I have not used pads in years and I was just about stumped by the variety. I wanted, to be honest, what used to be called 'panty shields', not even a whole pad, just something relatively short and very thin and, even though I know we're not supposed to, possibly scented. I had to look closely for ten minutes to find something that didn't have wings and swear it was good for overnight. Have they stopped making scented things? That's probably okay. But does everything have to be extra super? Honestly, some of us just don't need that much insulation, you know?