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Where Bloggers Live: The Ugliest Bathroom in All the Land

  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! Welcome to this month’s theme, the
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Week in Review: Weeks 281 & 282

And suddenly, it was August. MONDAY Early morning accidental pocket dial resulting in FACE TIME with someone (me) who sleeps in the buff OH DEAR GOD. TUESDAY So much erranding lately. Today was the oh so very far away camera shop to see if they could fix my non-focusing wireless shutter remote
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 31-Aug 6

The Big Win of the week was managing to NOT wear the J Jill linen shirt four of the seven days. Go, Me. SATURDAY Okay. Love. In reality, the pants are not as green/mustard as they appear in the photo – they’re more a mustardy gold. Still. Other than being like 1
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Happy BTS-aversary to Me!

13 months ago you could not have convinced me that I would become a BTS fan/stan/army/WHATEVER and that that interest/obsession/adoration would last for A YEAR (with no signs of stopping)! But here I am…me…who usually steers clear of “popular” things and usually looks for the things that others don’t seem to notice
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 24-30

Still wearing clothes. It’s getting a little boring. Trying to come up with an alternative. And please forgive the poor picture quality lately. My wireless shutter remote/lens got more and more rebellious until I finally had to take them all to the training center for a refresh. I’m waiting on a $90
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Week in Review: Week 280

It was a weird week. MONDAY Uhm. Not much going on. TUESDAY I borrowed the landlady’s dog-sitting charge for the evening. I forgot her name so I just called her Sophie 🙂 It was nice to have a dog in the house. AND…I got this text today from the police department. It
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 17-24

The week. The clothes. SATURDAY It’s hot and humid. I want to stay cool. I don’t really care how it looks, haha. My personal comfort is my Number One Priority. Light blue and white LOOKS cool (temperature cool, not “I’m so cool” cool) (cuz I’m so NOT “cool” cool). Lightweight, loose-fitting Tencel
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Embracing My Inner Schlub

I started this blog a little over five years ago…and thought about it for six months before that. I was tired of always being a schlub. Noun[edit] schlub (plural schlubs) (chiefly US, informal) A person who is clumsy, oafish, or socially awkward, or unattractive or unkempt. I was fat and lazy and slobby. I’m STILL fat and lazy and pretty slobby. The difference now
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Week in Review: Week 279

Every day is pretty much the same these days. Except the one day I go out for fun. Otherwise I’m just here in the apartment doing the things I do. MONDAY Uhm. I dunno. Everyone else came back to work today for the first day of summer session (which is exactly the
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 10-16

Starting with Monday this week as I just could not get it together to photograph either of my weekend outfits. Plus, they were really nothing special. Jeans and tee shirt. Envision as you wish 🙂 MONDAY OOH! OOH! NEW SNEAKS! I LOVE THEM! Yes, yet another pair of Converse Shorelines…and these are
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Color Combining for Interesting Outfits

There are many characteristics (qualities? is that the better word?) of clothing that contribute to creating a pleasing or interesting outfit: shape, texture, pattern, fabric, etc. But probably the most noticeable is color. And probably a lot of people stop at color when putting together an outfit (“this red sweater goes with this
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Week in Review: Week 278

Managed to squeeze some life in. Of course, at the expense of other things. I can never get it…balanced. Or. forget BALANCED, I just want to get some things DONE. Every time I want to do THIS, I have to omit THAT. So I keep swapping things in and out to try
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 3-9

Another week of Plus Size Summer Outfits: Casual Edition, as most of work is still closed and we are in the building pretty much by ourselves. And it’s hot. SATURDAY It’s July…but it’s cool today. ALL THE YAY. So, I got to layer it up for my deli-run. With open sandals. If
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Where Bloggers Live: My Favorite Books

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’s theme is “Favorite Books.” There’s
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Week in Review: Week 277

Let’s see if I can squeeze a little more “life” into my life. I was talking to my friend yesterday about how I THINK I want more relaxing, easy time, but then I constantly pack myself with new things, classes, activities, etc. While I *am* always getting interested in new/different things, I
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ June 26-July 2

This might end up being a more casual week as the school is closed so the only people in the building are administrative staff, there won’t be visitors, etc. OR…maybe it will be an opportunity to experiment, We’ll see. SATURDAY I REALLY didn’t feel like making an effort today as far as
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What I Bought: June

Why does it seem that every post starts “I can’t believe it’s already ___!!!” Ha. Well, I can’t. Believe it’s July. Fortunately, it hasn’t gotten super hot yet, cuz…clothes. As usual, there was a lot of buying and returning. HERE’S WHAT I KEPT J Crew Classic Fit Cotton Voile Shirt in Rose
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Week in Review: Week(s) 275-276

Ahn yong ha se yo! (hello) I’ve skipped a couple weeks cuz there WAS nothing to review! Pretty much life has been work, class, study/homework, blog/tiktok, repeat. On a positive note, I’ve been pretty disciplined about getting all my stuff done every day. Which is not my usual MO. Just a couple
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ June 19-25

I felt a little sartorially organized this week. For the first time in a long time (I’d given up the habit during the Work From Home era last year and just never picked it up again) I selected my week’s worth of outfits ahead of time so I wasn’t fumbling around in
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Inspired By: Something in the Rain

Something in the Rain is one my top three favorite kdramas. It was So Good…but SO PAINFUL. The main couple, Jun Hui, played by my favorite actor Jung Hae In, and Jin-a, played by the lovely Son Ye-Jin, from Crash Landing on You (my TOP favorite kdrama), was BEYOND STAR-CROSSED. And by
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