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Week in Review: Week 185

This week was a LOT. It was Week 1 of Sugar Detox, it was the week before our big golf outing, I went to Brooklyn on a school night, and I started doing Camera Club at work Every Day (and twice on Thursday!). It was just a LOT. By the time Friday
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It’s That Time of Year

No, not FALL. We’ve all heard that enough by now! But right around this time every year, I get so TIRED. And I hear others say the same. I think it’s the shortening of the days, the increased darkness, the slight coolness to the air now. All those things cause animals to start
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Week in Review: Week 184

It was a pretty uneventful week. I didn’t go out. I was reading a lot. Work is getting busier as we ramp up for our big golf outing on September 23. Monday I went to Target for a couple things and did a little try-on video for Instagram stories. Do you follow
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My Favorite Summer Outfits

I’m calling it on summer. Yes, technically there are ten more days until the autumnal equinox, but…it sure feels like fall already. So I don’t think I’m really jumping the gun by taking a look back at my outfits of this summer and choosing my favorites. My summer wardrobe (sw) felt a little
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Farewell, My Love

Sugar. Sugar is my love. SWEET sweet tea. Crunchy coffee. Bottle Caps. Pasta. Brownie dough. Frosting. Two years ago I read this blog post by The Sequinist about how she gave up sugar. I was intrigued. Of course it’s no secret that Sugar is the Devil, but I had never really considered trying
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Week in Review: Week 183

Before I get into the week I’ve been meaning to ask, do those of you who comment, get my responses sent to your email? I think I “fixed it” a couple weeks ago and kept meaning to ask if it was working. Jodie, I think you said you’d gotten my response to
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HAPPY NATIONAL READ A BOOK DAY!

Before I realized THIS important day was upon us, I’d started writing another blog post about reading, so please indulge me this one now and another in the not too distant future. HAPPY NATIONAL READ A BOOK DAY! I was always a big reader. I was an only child, I was a
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Happy Birthday to Me!!!

She’s’a my Birthday! I’m turning 59. Wow. My last year as a fifty-something. I can’t even conceive of the fact that next year I will be SIXTY. Sixty-year-olds are OLD! Ha, sorry. What I mean is, when I was younger, 60 SEEMED SO OLD. Like, grandparents and even GREAT-grandparents are in their
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What About September?

September is: The birth month of ME I mean, let’s just put the most important thing right up here at the top, shall we? I miss the days when Katie was in jr high and high school and by the time I would get home from work, she and her best friend
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Week in Review: Week 182

After a full weekend (the first weekend of vacation, last weekend) of laying on the sofa reading, only going out twice just to get food, I figured I better start being a little productive! MONDAY So here’s my To Do list, it’s not too bad, and I did most of the stuff on Monday
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It’s Not Fall Y’All!

BUT – I learned my lesson last year. If I wait til it’s actually cool out to look for fall clothes, everything is sold out! I’m not gonna make THAT mistake again! Shop now, wear later. That’s my new motto. Don’t Be Bettye. So, I have some things top of my mind
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I Think I Love You: Match Made in Seven

Welcome to the monthly edition of Match Made in Seven! We are an international group of fashion bloggers who meet virtually once a month. One of us chooses a theme each month, and that can be anything: a book, music, a color, a movie. And then we all style an outfit based
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Week in Review: Week 181

Trying something a little different this week – trying to remember to write a little synopsis of each day on that day, so I don’t get to the end of the week and realize I can’t remember what happened 6, 5, 4 days earlier. Also, looking back at this post (on Sunday)
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A Year Ago at This Time

A year ago at this time I was reeling with the realization that I had been ghosted. I can’t believe it’s been a year. It was not easy. I wrote a LOT of emails that I never sent – sometimes that’s the best form of journaling for me. Asking and saying all
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More Good-byes

Just last week I had a little rant about the plus-size industry not moving forward fast enough (for me and many others). And I don’t want to go on and on again about that (just yet) but on a related ironic note, I saw in the news today that Avenue is closing
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Week in Review: Week 180

I really need to start making notes during the week. I can remember there were things I wanted to tell you guys but for the life of me cannot remember what they were. The work week was both physically and emotionally draining. It was the final goodbye week of one of the girls
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Goodbye Gwynnie Be-eee-ee

Ever since I decided to name this post “Goodbye Gwynnie Bee,” I’ve had an Elton John “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” earworm. It works if you make “Bee” be like 3 syllables. I mentioned in a post last week that I was ready to let go of my Gwynnie Bee subscription after 4½
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Week in Review: Week 179

Two more weeks til vacation. Just thought I would lead with that. Always a little sad to leave Janey on Monday morning. Current reading situation. Just started A Man Called Ove. I TRY to put new books on the bottom of the pile as they come in. But those bottom two have
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Is the Plus Size Industry Really Moving Forward?

Those of us older plus-size women can remember a time when “mail order” sack-like house dresses, Lane Bryant, and the men’s department were the main shopping options for our size. We were told to dress all in black or navy because dark, solid colors were considered more slimming; god forbid anyone see
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No Buy July: The Rest of the Story

So, in an effort to rein in my shopping a bit (which, in truth, is a lot of buying but also a lot of returning…and not a lot of keeping),  I did a  “No Buy July,” during which I was to buy No Clothing. I managed to buy nothing right up until the
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