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Week in Review: Week 286

MONDAY Actual Vacation Day #1. Do Nothing. Eat. Read. Watch shows. TUESDAY I may or may not have spent the ENTIRE day on the computer (except for deli and bank runs). This may seem like a big time-waster, but a) I enjoy it, so it’s a recreational activity for me, b) I
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Aug 28-Sep 3

It’s a vacation week so keep expectations low. There might be some nightgown-all-day days. SATURDAY Alrighty. Sick of my weekend dresses + sick of jeans equals leggings. Also an example of column dressing. Black underlayer with a contrasting item over top. An easy-peasy formula for when you have no think. Chambray Button-down:
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Week in Review: Week 285

  MONDAY It’s disgusting out. Like living in the rain forest without the pretty birds. I’m at work this week, but the school program is closed so there’s only a handful of staff in this building, and no students. So there’s less going on than usual. My office-mate is on vacation this
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Aug 21-27

SATURDAY Hot. Drizzly. Earache. Main goal in life is getting breakfast sandwich from the deli and then staying on sofa all day. I think I’m dressed appropriately. Dress: Junarose, 22. 2017. Linen Shirt: J Jill, 4x. 2019. Some colors and sizes available at QVC. Sneakers: Navy Converse Shoreline slip-ons. 2021 SUNDAY Pass.
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Week in Review: Week 284

MONDAY I am feeling helpless and sad. The horrifying news out of Afghanistan today, the scenes from the airport, all unimaginable. And yet. It is happening. I can’t even conceive of my home being taken over by enemies – I know this is more complex than that, but. And when you hear
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Aug 14-20

SATURDAY The Saturday Shirt. And the 25-year-old pants. Linen Shirt: J Jill, 4x. 2019. Available at QVC Pants: Elisabeth/Liz Claiborne, 20 petite. 1995 SUNDAY Pass. MONDAY Monday. A normal Monday. At work. Not like Africa hot outside. Normal. A normal dress for a normal day. Dress: Junarose, 22. 2019 Cardigan: Old Navy,
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Week in Review: Week 283

Well. I hadn’t planned for THIS week. MONDAY Theme of the Day: I don’t feel good. Don’t think it has anything to do with the thing last week, but more with the fact that I didn’t eat any protein yesterday, so by this morning I was just…limp. I know protein is my
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ Aug 7-13

It was a week. SATURDAY Another pale outfit 🙂 And look! I’m wearing the white linen J Jill shirt! Alert the media! Dress: Junarose, 22. 2017 Linen Shirt: J Jill, 4x. 2018, While J Jill is currently out of stock on most colors/sizes of this shirt, QVC actually has several colors and
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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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