What's been going on and why I just can't deal with my grandmother right now.

( Wah wah wah. )

So I waited as patiently as I knew how to see what New Guy would decide. He felt confused and all that and wanted a few days of radio silence to think. I gave it to him, and he called me tonight. And just like that... it's over. No fight, no obvious problem, just a moment of doubt that led to two and three and four, and then... he doesn't want to ( Read more... )

I did a little experiment.

See, it all started with these really sexy Kenneth Cole peep-toe pumps. They are a normal width, and a normal length. They fit perfectly. I love them. It's the first time in a very LONG time that I've been able to wear normal width shoes, let alone normal width sexy shoes. When I put them on, it was like a jolt of raw ( Read more... )

All about the struggle for new clothes and some other random news.

So the huge box came yesterday. Most of you guys who see me socially sort of chuckle to yourselves as I hold up my britches. I've lost them more than once, and so far, the pants I have now are 6 whole sizes smaller than I started at and they are still huge. I pulled the trigger and ( Read more... )

Tagline: It's the heartwarming tale of a girl, her hatred of her pants, and how she changed her life. Rated R for strong language, adult situations.

So about 2 years ago I had a really frigging horrible car accident. After that happened, I was hurt, it took me a while to to get mobile, and I was so depressed that I put on a ton of weight. No, like ( Read more... )

About my insanity:

So, yeah. A bunch of you know I'm diabetic. Type 2 (the fat person kind), and I've been controlling it with diet and exercise. Nice. I've lost a ton of weight in the last year, but my doctor wants me to do more more more. Hey, my A1C is 6.1 ! Gimme a break!

So this is the conversation, almost verbatim, that happened today:

"Well I ( Read more... )

My mother is in college. She's brilliant, and she was taking an economics class last semester and learned about utils. For the uninitiated, here is the definition:

util (plural utils)

1. (economics) a hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction

My mother made this brilliant leap of logic - could weight gain be related to the utils in a person's life? As in ( Read more... )