Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ May 23, 2022
Think I can make Monday feel how this outfit looks?? Like, WHOOSH! We’re fun and loose and breezy!
Think I’ll ever take another in-focus picture again??
Think we’ll make it through this week to the 3-day weekend?
This is a little “break-from Korean” week while I focus 96.9% on TEFL…I’m SO CLOSE to being done with the course, I can taste it. I’ll be so relieved when that is behind me!
It just occurred to me tonight – I wonder sometimes why I tend to pile things on myself…and I always had a sort of theory about it being a replacement for a PERSON… – but tonight I thought…my mother had an EXTREMELY small life, pretty much from the time I was born…and it just got smaller and smaller over the years. The last…20 (?) years of her life…and especially the last 8 after my father died…she did NOTHING. She read the New York Times, kept track of winning lottery numbers in spiral notebooks (SO many spiral notebooks filed with lotto numbers!), and watched tv. Once in a while she’d go to a nearby garage sale, and she went to the market, And that was IT. She had no plan or goal for the future, she wasn’t working towards anything…she just lay in bed with her NYT and lottery numbers. And I’ve always said I did NOT want to end up like her. So maybe this is, in a way, being as UNlike her as I can – doing all the things, learning all the things, making all the plans. I never really put all those pieces together before like that.
Anyway. Just something that was on my mind earlier.
Green Dress: Osei Duro, 3x. 2020
Lilac Cardigan: BP/Nordstrom, 3x. 2021
Sneakers: Converse Shoreline slip-ons. 2021
Pauline
Love that green dress.!
Marian
Some of us are wired for productivity. Doing All The Things may partly be a response to your mother’s relaxed lifestyle. But it also means you are curious and have many interests. We live in different times than our parents and especially thanks to the internet, our worlds are filled with possibilities. We are also surrounded by overly busy people and that is contagious. But it is hard to regulate the perfect amount of commitments all the time.
Enjoy All The Things as long as you can.
Such a great dress! Bye bye black sneakers, hello white.
bettyewp
Ha ha, for the first…55 (?) years of my life, I NEVER would have referred to myself as “wired for productivity.” And I’m pretty selectively productive. Most people would look at the state of my home, car, health care, financial plan, etc, and say WHAT’S SHE BEEN DOING ALL HER LIFE?! But when it’s something *I* want to do…watch out 🙂
Definitely a challenge to find a balance…if there even IS truly such a thing.
Jodie Filogomo
I almost see my mom like that. Not that extreme, but she doesn’t like to try new things. That’s why I twist her arm all the time to style things differently, and to go exploring. And you thought it was all for my recreation, haha!!
OXOX
Jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
PS. I LOVE these colors together!!
bettyewp
Maybe it was that whole generation. Although my mother would be much older than yours…100 this year. But it could be the whole “stay at home housewife” mindset?? Anyway, it’s good she’s getting out now…even if you’re having to shove her out the door!
Marceline Miller
I am always admiring all the sparkle you add to your life, Bettye. I fear the “small life” thing as well, and even though I’m the same age as you, I feel like mine is already shrunk to some extent. I’m on the hunt for the things that will give my life oomph, like you, Bloggers like you and Jodie Filogomo are such an inspiration to me.
bettyewp
Aww, sparkle 🙂 What would you LIKE to do..if nothing could hold you back?