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Month in Review: September 2022

As the recent months have been, September was relatively uneventful. I did turn 62, which is a significant birthday for me. It means that I COULD start collecting social security and retirement money. I’m NOT yet, but I COULD. It’s nice feeling there’s a Plan B. The birthday itself was quiet. A
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ September 29, 2022

It Was a Day. But really…all those poor people that got hit hard for Hurricane Ian, my heart goes out to them. At the last minute it shifted west a bit and Katie was saved from the hard hit she expected – she was without power for a little over 24 hours
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ September 28, 2022

I may as well just wear this dress every day. It feels like I already do. When I look at my TikTok profile it’s like 3:1 green polka dot dress to anything else. I’m in that “am I going? aren’t I going?” limbo…I was supposed to be flying down to Katie’s in
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Sep 21, 2022

Guh. I hit the wall on Wednesday before I could get this posted. Sleep is a little challenging lately. I’m TIRED. I can’t stay AWAKE in the evening. I fall asleep practically as soon as I close my eyes. But then I wake up repeatedly through the night. And THE DREAMS! My
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Sep 20, 2022

First, apologies for the upcoming cell phone pictures. It’s just a (much) faster process than using the nice camera and right now…being able to cut 10-15 minutes from one place and add it to another is…a help. I can (maybe. on a good day.) write two Korean sentences either in an assignment
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Sep 19, 2022

Annnnnd fall is right around the corner! How can I tell? THE BLUE CHAMBRAY SHIRT IS BACK. It was ever so slightly on the cool side this morning when I checked Weather Kitty for how I should dress weather appropriate. However, by the afternoon it was needlessly warm and humid. And now
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Plus Size Outfit of the day ~ September 15, 2022

I did not disappear again! We Had our Adventureland (amusement park) event last night and by the time I got home I was sweat-soaked and crippled, ha ha. I take pictures there, so I just loop around and around and around the park for three hours. Walked 2 miles, which is a
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ September 13, 2022

Ooh! So many Bettyes! I wonder how many times, really, I’ve worn this dress. I bought it in June of 2017. And I wear it a lot. A LOT. I’m so hungry. Squirrel. I have an anxiety hangover from yesterday and now just feel sorta crashy. And hungry. Dress: Junarose, 22. 2017
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ September 12

Annnnd she’s back. Summer vacay’s over, time to get back TO it. TODAY, I am at high anxiety. With a side of low blood sugar jitters. NOT a good way to go into the afternoon with all I need to do. Mondays are “dialogue reading” in my Korean group. Usually there’s just
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Month in Review: August 2022

Hello, Friends! I’ve been MIA for a bit and thought I would kick-off my return with a little catch-up of what I’ve been up to. Not much. Ha. Not much is what I’ve been up to. August is when the heat finally found us here in NY for real so I mostly
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Where Bloggers Live: Blogging Inspiration

  Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, and more! This month we’re talking
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 26, 2022

It’s The Last Day Before Vacation Dress! Why am I wearing The Last Day Before Vacation Dress, you ask?? BECAUSE IT’S THE LAST DAY BEFORE VACATION!!! Nuff said. Last Day Before Vacation Dress: Junarose, 22. 2017 Last Day Before Vacation Sneakers: Converse Shoreline slip-ons. 2021 PS – this is me “trying” to
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Aug 25, 2022

I have a lotta nerve. Putting THIS picture on here. This outfit. Like I’m Miss La Dee Dah, look at me, I’m on style blogger on the internet! In my defense, it was “cleaning up day” at work…so I knew I needed to dress to get dirty. I had to scrounge around
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 24, 2022

Two more days of having to get dressed for work. You know, before vacation. I’ll be pretty much wearing the same two outfits every day next week. I look forward to it. Remember when I used to do the “what I bought this month” posts?? HA HA HA HA HA. I bought
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 23, 2022

I just got home. It’s late. I went to Korean bar-b-q and hot pot with a loonnggg-time friend who lives nearby and I haven’t seen in like 5 years. Totally my fault. This is how long it’s been since we saw one another. I still had a dog. I did not have
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 22, 2022

So, 12 years ago today I took my tiny baby to college. She was rooming with her close friend from home so I felt better about just driving away and leaving her there. Three days later I learned that CFfH was having way too hard a time and dropping out and returning
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 20, 2022

Wow. I had my mother’s hair this morning. Ha ha. I couldn’t look at that. Figured I hadn’t done a weekend ootd in a while, so…this is Summer Weekend Uniform #1, that is one of two outfits I’ve worn pretty much every weekend day, and after work during the week. The nightgown
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 18, 2022

I don’t think I have the energy to write a post (she says as she writes a post). The day started with discovering that my checking account had $200 less in it than I calculated it should have. More specifically, I thought I had $200…and the bank says I have $2.94. THAT’S
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 17, 2022

It was mismatched day at work. I prefer to call it Pattern Mixing but…and I feel like that’s a norm for me 🙂  Maybe not so much in the summer as I’m not layering much in the heat, but… In honor of the day I’m wearing my grey and white stripe button-down
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 16, 2022

Another lovely dry, not hot day. Ahh. I didn’t even turn the ac on in the car! I ALMOST snagged the Junarose dress on the falling-apart 1940s rattan porch chair I have in the living room. I have many pieces of beholed clothing from that chair. I keep having the thought “let
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