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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ January 17, 2022

I’m home from work for Martin Luther King Day. I’m just running up to get coffee. I managed to not “deli” over the weekend but Saturday I wanted a coffee so bad that I finally said to myself JUST MAKE SOME INSTANT COFFEE AND STOP YOUR WHINING. I didn’t even have milk
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Week in Review: Week 301

MONDAY 1.10.22 Apartment Therapy January Declutter: Day Something. Today’s post started with “Humans are designed to become desensitized to things they see most frequently.” YES. And I don’t think that’s limited to “seeing,” but that’s another topic. But…haven’t we all walked past piles of junk, sinks full of dirty dishes, chairs heaped
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ January 13-14, 2022

Yay for a non-bitterly cold day 🙂 and I’m back in one of my favorite autumn/winter outfits. I still love this cardigan so much. In my mind I want a black one and a cream one and a burnt orange one but I haven’t actually assessed my wardrobe to see if those
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Where Bloggers Live: My Home Away From Home ~ My Car

  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? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, and more! This month we’re taking a look
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ January 12, 2022

Another cold one! We’ve been fortunate…it was mostly mild (of course, I do prefer the colder temperatures) right up through the new year. But now is that time of year when I WISH I HAD MORE CHUNKY TURTLENECKS! This 2-month period – Jan-Feb – is when that’s all I want to wear.
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Tuesday, January 11, 2022

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2022 Oh, this was not the plan. I knew it was going to be VERY cold today, so today was supposed to be my WARMEST get’up…but then I realized that a) my black cashmere crewneck is missing (WHERE DO THESE THINGS GO???) and b) I didn’t really want to
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Monday, January 10, 2022

Surprise! I’m trying out something new. Instead of a weekly round-up of all my outfits from the week, I’m going to post one outfit each day. So there will be MORE posts…but they’ll be much shorter. Also, I’m going back to only sharing M-F outfits and cutting myself a little slack on
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Week in Review: Week 300

Woohoo, Week 300! That’s a lotta weeks! MONDAY 1.3.22 Back to work. I’m flying solo as we’re going remote for a couple days while everyone gets tested after holiday gatherings and travel. So I’m in the office but it’s nice and quiet. With my usual beginning of the year optimism, I am
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Jan 1-Jan 7, 2022

Since I was on the last legs of my vacation and I didn’t leave the house once all weekend (not even for deli breakfast), my nightgown and I never parted ways…so. Yeah. Let’s just start with Monday when I actually put on clothes and left the house. MONDAY 1.3.22 We had a
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The One Where I Went to a BTS K-Pop Concert

!!!!!! Finally! Ha. This has been…just a BEAR to complete. I almost didn’t WANT to complete it cuz it was like…once it’s all down on paper (ykwim) and released into The World…it’s out of my hands…there’s a THE END at the bottom, it’s done, it’s OVER. But…it’s already been over a month
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Week in Review: Week 299

I feel I will have no think until I return home Wednesday, so how about we just look at the pictures til then, hmm?? SUNDAY 12.26.21 MONDAY 12.27.21 TUESDAY 12.28.21 WEDNESDAY 12.29.21 Annnnndddd…my flight home was canceled. Sigh. At least I’m getting lots of practice in on “going with the flow.” Rolling
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Dec 18-24

SATURDAY True Confessions. This is what I wore yesterday…but I didn’t photograph it cuz when I got home that night I was in the grips of kidney stone hell and just wanted ALL THINGS OFF MY BODY so I could get in bed and try and zen my way through til the
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Week in Review: Week 298

MONDAY 12.20.21 Here’s what today was: A Big Nothing. Dumb work stuff. Grocery store. Continued working on 12,978,386 Korean vocab flashcards (there’s an app for that…but I still have to put all the words in there). The funny of the day was watching the new Korean tutor I want to use (our
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Week in Review: Week 297

The Weeks! They just keep on coming! MONDAY 12.13 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. TUESDAY 12.14 You ever have one of those days where you feel like everyone is annoyed at you?? Sigh. WEDNESDAY 12.15 Braved another haircut today, ha ha. I gave THE MOST EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS EVER. And
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Dec 11-17

I’m finishing this up Friday night WITH A KIDNEY STONE so if there’s stuff missing (“if” = there is stuff missing), sorry. Kidney stone. SATURDAY   SUNDAY MONDAY This was one of those WHATAMIGONNAWEAR days cuz it was work…then into the city to walk around and look at Christmas things. So…from hot
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My First BTS Concert: Part 1

Sorry, it’s Just Too Much to put all in one post. November 28, 2021 – SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles, California It’s been two-and-a-half weeks since the concert, and when I say I am not done processing it all, I mean that. There are so many elements to the day…and I think I’ll
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Week in Review: Week 296

MONDAY Oh, No! Matthew the Korean Tutor got a new job in S Korea and is going back there in January! Damn! He was so patient about going over and over and over and over and over things with me…and understanding about how long it takes my brain to retain something. I
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day~ Dec 4-10

After a very low-key weekend I think I’m feeling “normal” again. Relatively speaking. MONDAY Look at me, looking like someone that works in an office! Ha. I can clean up once in a while 🙂 I love this color blue paired with black. I call it French Blue but I have no
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Where Bloggers Live: Favorite Holiday at Home

  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? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, and more! This month we’re sharing our favorite
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Week in Review: Week 295

AKA: Quite Possibly The Most Boring Post Ever. I was just trying to recover from the previous week and get my feet solidly on the ground. Why do I feel like I’ve been saying that for like 6 weeks? MONDAY 11.28 I got picked up by Uber at 4:30am and whisked off
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