Tag Archive: shopping


Winter’s Here to Stay

I just walked the dog around the block, and it is really beautiful outside. Big fluffy puffs of snow are falling and there’s already a thick layer covering the ground. Of course, this just means I’ll be out shoveling the sidewalk and driveway tomorrow morning after my husband leaves for work… but I kind of enjoy shoveling snow. For the first few minutes anyway.

Seeing all the beauty out there just further frustrates me, however, because I’m STILL waiting for my tax return present (to myself) to arrive. I ordered a camera, a fantastic digital SLR that I’ve been wanting forever, and I thought I had found a great deal on it. Then I got an email from the web store I ordered it from saying it was backordered. Indefinately.

Is that legal? Instantly I was concerned that they were trying to pull some bait and switch maneuver where suddenly the price I clicked on isn’t right, or there’s an additional cost to get the camera to me. The email said that it would be overnighted at no charge and my account would not be charged until it came in stock, but that they couldn’t tell me when that would be.

Oh my god, I want to take pictures of so many things! My 8 month old is standing up on furniture now, and my 5 year old is becoming quite a ham. The dog’s cute as a button (when she isn’t crapping on the dining room floor) and the world outside is covered in fluffy white snow. On top of all of that, I’ve really been wanting to take a “before” picture of myself in underwear so that I can hang it on my bedroom wall and scare myself into exercising and eating right.

I want my camera!!!

It’s a Fat Bottom Shame…

I am severely disappointed in Old Navy. A few years ago they introduced a section for Plus sized women, and the model for their plus sizes was actually *gasp* a plus sized woman!

Most stores take their typical size 2 prototype of each style and just add however many inches it takes to make it a 12 or an 18. The problem with that is most women who wear “plus sized” clothing are not shaped like a size 2 woman. There is a distinct difference between size and shape. Size is a reference to how big something is. My ass, for example, is pretty big. But shape is totally different. My behind, as large as it is, is not box shaped or flat like a slope. It is round, rotund, curvaceous.

So the plus sized clothing at Old Navy was a dream come true for a fat girl in the midwest who’s really not satisfied buying a circus tent from Wal-mart and trying to make it look stylish. Granted, many discount stores have been making efforts to “fashionize” their big-girl departments in the past few years. Still, though, it’s difficult to find clothing in my size that doesn’t bring to mind my mother in her elasticized pants and print t-shirts.

Today, however, I was at Old Navy with gift cards in hand, ready to find some great deals in their clearance rack. I was doubly disappointed to find that not only are the discounts less than deep this year -but the size 4 girl who was working there politely informed us that they “got rid of” the plus sizes. Thanks a pantload.

I guess it’s back to saving up for three weeks just to buy one really nice looking shirt from Lane Bryant. It’s okay, though. I still make someone’s rockin’ world go ’round.