I have a good attitude towards menstruation

I love Dave Foley so much. He cracks me up every time.

I love Dave Foley so much. He cracks me up every time.

Yeah. That sketch is so much funnier when you see him do it.

I've known guys embarassed about buying condoms. If anything were a clearer indication of having a womaaaaaaaaaaan than pads or tampons, it's condoms. What the hell is there to be embarassed about that?

Actually, tampons are a clearer indication of having a woman. Condoms are a more clear indication of having a someone.

Yeah. That sketch is so much funnier when you see him do it.

I was totally replaying it in my head as I read it. It is made that much funnier because it's him saying it.

Condoms are a more clear indication of having a someone.

True enough.

If GC and her DG run off to Canada and wed I'll show up in the thing, doubt it not.

Well, our pictures would be damned funny if you and I were BOTH wearing it! Hehehehehehe.

Hey peeps! I finally caught up. Lily and Annabel are just adorable. As is little Emeline, for whom I would gladly have sat tonight. So sorry for your dad (and you, too), Susan. Juliana and her gramps are heartbreakingly sweet. {{{Lilty}}} Perkins is evil for linking to bluefly. I found several pairs of shoes and a few cashmere sweaters that I am desperate for now. t cries and cries

I am hanging at the homestead going through Comic-Con booty and listening to the Pixies. Last night I went to Lush and got a Big Blue bath bomb, Angels on Bare Skin face cleanser, Rockstar soap, and a sample of Alkmaar soap. I have the bath bomb in a dish in my bathroom and it smells soooo good. I sometimes forget how much I love Lush.

Went to the mall that's ten minutes from my house to see if I could luck into an appropriate dress.

I left when I was nearer crying over body image issues than over the fact I was shopping for my father's funeral.

I found two dresses that would have been perfect--one a tailored dress so dark a sage that it was more of a muted forest green, the other an understated black with burgundy geometric print, both at massive end-of-season markdowns. And they fit every part of me but my stupid, oversized, flabby, post-maternal breasts. Ugh. I think my stupid breasts are going to force me into separates, much as it feels like I ought to wear a dress, because any dress that doesn't strain unattractively across my chest is going to hang like a potato sack on the rest of me.

and I brandished the sanitary towels at them and announced loudly "My friend is bleeding from here" (pointing at ladyparts) "She needs these. Now."

I t heart Fay!

Juliana, I hardly recognize you in those pictures. Cute one of you and your grandfather.

Not a feminine product thing, but tonight I was in pain and out of advil [because I have been downing them like candy lately], and the minute I mentioned it Dave asked if he could go get me some. Of course he couldn't because all the stores around here suck and are closed by 10, but I still thought it was sweet. Also I just noticed the bookmark he is using is the ticket from our trip to Mystic Aquarium from ages ago, which I also thought was sweet. t /carrots

Ugh. I think my stupid breasts are going to force me into separates, much as it feels like I ought to wear a dress, because any dress that doesn't strain unattractively across my chest is going to hang like a potato sack on the rest of me.

Get a boob fitting size, if you think it is something you'd wear again for non-funerals, and have it tailored down to fit the rest of you. Probably cheaper than trying to find separates and *still* having the top too large.

I'll definitely consider that, which pretty much leaves me with Nordy's or getting the dress one place and the alterations elsewhere, huh?

Except for my breasts I'm a 14 or a 16, usually a 16 for anything remotely fitted at the waist. Which would probably put me getting an 18 or a 20 to fit the ridiculously oversized girls. And may I just say I really hate being a size 16? It's the limbo size. I never know whether I should be looking in plus or regular sizes. I need to either buckle down and diet myself back down to a 12 or else just give up and put on another 10 or 20 lbs.

Anyway, tomorrow I have a meeting in Bellevue, so I might try the mall there, and failing that, head up to Alderwood Monday or Tuesday. The helpful Nordstrom's saleslady thought I might have better luck at the department stores there because they're bigger, and their Nordy's has a special occasions department.

Frankly, I'm finding that all sizes between 10 and 20 are limbo sizes. There's just a weird range of fits from 12-18 that I don't remember from back when I was an 8/10, even with my short torso and other fitting issues.