NaNoWriMo?

[sprite6]

Everybody's been posting about NaNoWriMo lately, and loser that I am, I had no idea what the name stood for. Somehow I imagined the "NaNo" as nonsense syllables (a la "na na na boo boo") and the "WriMo" as standing for "Write More." I finally googled it today, and the real name is a bit of a letdown. Never mind-I wish everyone participating in

Comments

[luvtink21]

Ha ha!! I didn't know what NanoWriMo stood for until I just finally asked someone.

I'm glad you found some jeans that fit. I always feel so bad when women come into the store I work at and try on so many different kind of jeans and don't like the way any of them fit.

[mrs_muggle]

I heard a friend talking about her NaNoNovel and thought it meant a particularly small one!

I also get infuriated by how easy it is for men to buy clothes. My husband rarely buys his own trousers or shoes - he just tells me the colour and style he'd like, I buy something in his size and it fits. I have to trail around for hours trying things on (which, of course, drives him mad if he's with me).

[lyras]

Huh - want to swap? My boyfriend likes to go shopping with me, for some reason, and I end up trailing behind him for hours as he inspects every bloody pair of jeans in the shop. Whereas I might be ridiculously picky about my clothes, but at least I know within two minutes of entering a shop whether there's anything I'm interested in.

[sprite6]

I have to trail around for hours trying things on (which, of course, drives him mad if he's with me).

One of my exes actually wanted to go shopping with me, but I always refused to buy clothes with him for just this reason. Finally I gave in, but after trying on stuff for two hours I couldn't find anything that looked good on me, and he got annoyed. I ended up buying one shirt just to appease him. He never asked again.

[lyras]

It feels like everyone's doing NaNo, doesn't it? I gave up on the idea at the last minute, as attempting to write 50,000 words while moving out of our flat and staying on friends' floors doesn't seem too likely...

And I congratulate you! I've not had a pair of jeans for years; they just don't fit me.

[sprite6]

attempting to write 50,000 words while moving out of our flat and staying on friends' floors doesn't seem too likely...

I hear you - I'm not sure I could manage that many words period, much less if I were moving. Where are you moving to?

[lyras]

From the UK to Sydney if all works out with visas and things over the next few weeks! But we're giving up our flat in two weeks, with the general idea of travelling round a bit and staying with friends/family.

[sprite6]

Wow, that's a huge move! How cool! I hope everything goes smoothly and you have a great time traveling. Your timing's perfect - you get to go from fall straight into summer. Which I'm sure was paramount in your mind when you planned this. ;)

[labellerose]

Whenever men tell me they can go into a store and buy pants just by checking the waist and inseam measurements, I want to throw stuff.

Grrrrr...me too. It's the 'vanity sizing' in women clothes that drives me bzonkers- the more upscale the clothing line, the more generous the sizing-This is presumably so that one can flatter oneself the we are still a size 7, darling. I have one brand of trousers (size mumblemumble cough)that I buy almost exclusively as they zig and zag where I do and the petite length
requires no hemming. With my luck they will probably stop making them.

[sprite6]

I have one brand of trousers (size mumblemumble cough)that I buy almost exclusively as they zig and zag where I do and the petite length
requires no hemming. With my luck they will probably stop making them.

This happened to me - I got my last pair of Gap jeans in Colorado while visiting my family. They were perfect - straight-legged, wide in the thigh, and just the right length - and I liked them so much I tried to get another pair here in New York a week later. And the clerk told me the style had been discontinued. It was so frustrating.

[amethystphoenix]

Somehow I imagined the "NaNo" as nonsense syllables (a la "na na na boo boo") and the "WriMo" as standing for "Write More."

I had no idea what it meant either, but I like your version better, so in spite of being educated now, I may continue to think of it that way. :)

Whenever men tell me they can go into a store and buy pants just by checking the waist and inseam measurements, I want to throw stuff.

Ditto. Plus, what is up with the 16,000 different styles of jeans that all contain the phrase "low rise" sometimes in combination with "ultra" in their description? I work in a high school where I see more girls' underwear than I even care to think about. This trend of jeans that sit so low you need a bikini wax to wear them is responsible for this and I have such a problem with it. And I miss wide leg jeans. I should've stockpiled in the 90s. You just can't find them anymore. I shopped for jeans this past weekend, too, so I could rant for a REALLY long time, but I'll shut up now. :)

[sprite6]

Plus, what is up with the 16,000 different styles of jeans that all contain the phrase "low rise" sometimes in combination with "ultra" in their description? I work in a high school where I see more girls' underwear than I even care to think about

WORD! That's what I mean about the Gap clothes looking too young - how many of us over the age of, say, fourteen, are willing or able to show our underwear in public? The same goes for your point about wide leg jeans - it like all jeans now are designed for prepubescent girls whose thighs haven't rounded out yet. Don't designers realize that grown women have curves? It's a miracle we all aren't ranting about this all the time. *sigh*