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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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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 15, 2022

Wow, we’re halfway through the month. And the heat wave has broken. I feel like in the past few years (5?), once the extreme summer heat & humidity broke in mid-August it just never came back. I wouldn’t be mad at that. 80 degrees and low humidity is just fine with me
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Where Bloggers Live: Childhood Memories

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 childhoods. I
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 10, 2022

IMPORTANT BUSINESS: I have a retraction to make from yesterday’s post. Re yesterday’s horoscope, I DID have a woman visit me (via text), bringing information involving new scientific or metaphysical studies that I found fascinating and that I wanted to share with others, in the form of some newly-discovered geographical information: I
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 9, 2022

My horoscope for the day. I’m a Virgo. Aug 9, 2022 – A female visitor who needs some sympathy could contact you today. She may want advice on some problems, Virgo, but she could also bring information, possibly involving new scientific or metaphysical studies that you find fascinating and that you’ll want to
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 8, 2022

Annnd we’re back. How does Monday come around again SO FAST?? Apparently it is death-defyingly hot outside today. I wouldn’t know. I am only going from air conditioned bubble to air conditioned bubble. That’s what July and August are for me. So, swingy-away-from-the-body sleeveless dress with linen button-down worn unbuttoned. And wouldn’t
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 4, 2022

Ooh it’s a big day, I’m straying from the prescribed summer outfit rotation. I’m not thrilled (shocker). I’m not a fan of “tee shirt on its own” AND it’s a pretty hot day for jeans. BUT I needed to save the linen pants for tomorrow cuz it’s a laundromat day and it’s
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 3, 2022

04 It’s Green Dress Day (aka Hump Day). Just changing it up a little with the chartreuse (which I know sometimes reads as yellow on camera, but trust me, it’s chartreuse) over top. It’s so floaty, it’s almost like a kimono. With buttons. How did I know these two very different greens
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 2, 2022

I can NOT get myself out of bed on time these days. Weekends, I jump up at 6:30am. Weekdays? The alarm starts going off at 6am…I hit snooze, snooze, snooze…next thing I know it’s 7:25 and I’m going “just a few more minutes.” NO! No more minutes! I should be walking out
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ August 1, 2022

It’s a Brand New Week…and time to start wearing my same five outfits again, ha ha. At least with this black dress I have a LITTLE variety, cuz I can wear it under the lilac linen button-down (as here), the white linen, the blue chambray, or the beige/white stiped linen button-down. So
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 28, 2022

So, I’m wearing Summer Outfit #4 on Day 4. I have essentially 5 summer outfits that I am wearing on repeat, week after week. It was A Day. This morning, while waiting in our student-run coffee shop, I said hello to one of the students that doesn’t really know me because he’s
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 27, 2022

I’m wearing the green polka dot dress. AGAIN. I just wore this last Friday and Sunday but I didn’t show you cuz it was the weekend. I was thinking about this dress this morning. I spent a lot on it. Probably more than I’ve ever spent on any single clothing item in
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 26, 2022

Day 2. I think Tuesday should be called Day 2. It would be easier to keep track of where we are in the week if we used numbers vs names. I’m always forgetting where we are in the week, what day it is…and there’s nothing worse than THINKING it’s Wednesday then discovering
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 25, 2022

First, I got my scan results back today, and I am UNREMARKABLE. Which is a good thing. Remarkable in medical terms essentially means “nothing to be concerned about.” I’ll take it. No human said to me, “you are cancer free, now get out of here.” But I’ll take “unremarkable.” And I’ll happily
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 20, 2022

So, Last week I finished paying off Every Single Credit Card. Every one, to the penny. Go me. Today I took my car for an oil change and ended up putting almost $300 back on a credit card. Sigh. I got the oil change, a bunch of other blah-dy blah things…and one
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 19, 2022

Dressing for A Scan Part 2. This was my optimistic attempt at NOT having to put on the (always too small) gown for the scan, which is always a miserable experience. But this time I got to scan dressed (just sans bra cuz of the metal hooks), so yay. It all took
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 18, 2022

It’s like soup outside. So a dress would have been nice. But I knew we were going to be taking pictures outdoors in the grass, so…jeans made more sense. At least this loosey-goosey gauzey top floats away from my body and doesn’t TOUCH ME. Cuz when I’m sweaty, DON’T TOUCH ME. Don’t
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 14, 2022

The Junarose dress lives on! As light and floaty and easy to wear as ever. I keep waiting for the fabric to just wear thin and pop a hole somewhere but so far, knock on wood, no holes. This is it’s 5th year. LONG LIVE THE JUNAROSE DRESS. Dress: Uhm, Junarose. 22.
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Plus Size Outfit of the Day ~ July 13, 2022

A hot day + many pictures to take + schlepping from building to building = LINEN. All the linen. SUMMER linen, not heavier autumn linen. So what am I doing these days with my “extra” time that used to be spent TEFL/Ebaying? Not much, ha ha. Spending a little more time “studying”
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