Okay, I'm posting the recipe, because this is really good, and it was ridiculously easy.

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I think one could probably cut down on both the sugar and the butter. If one wanted to.

I think a crystal-encrusted toilet sounds like a recipe for constipation.

(Am I the only person who keeps a stack of books and mags in the bathroom? When I first moved in with Dan, I kept taking my books out, but now there's a pile. Um. TMI?)

The only thing at Banana Repub that fit me are handbags, shoes, and certain sweaters. I am a 14/16 and their dresses and skirts don't fit my 38-31-40. I am soclose to hourglass -- it's the only number I even think about nowadays. And that, not much. I think I weigh myself twice a year now, which is much healthier. I lost about 15 pounds after the hyst, and have gone up and down about 7 pounds, holidays and such.

Occasionally the BID's will attack, but mostly not. It's much better. I look at old journals from the past 20 years or so and it's all FAT FAT FAT, and I don't think I've written a thing about my weight or body in two or three years. My BP is rock-steady, my fat levels (cholesterol?) are good. I need to stop smoking (PLEASE DON'T BUG ME, I KNOW) but I am strong as heck.

I would like gunnier guns and to regain some of my lost flexibility, though.

I have had beers at an actual Moose Lodge tonight, which was hella fun. And watched people two-step! I am a little buzzed.

eBay is also very overwhelming to me, which is pretty much all I retained from reading the last forty or so posts.

I think one could probably cut down on both the sugar and the butter. If one wanted to.

Looks like English, and yet

I am a 14/16 and their dresses and skirts don't fit my 38-31-40.

Eh, if those are really your measurements, you might want to try there again...I mean, granted you have a much more impressive bosom than I do (though I'm around 37--but my ribs are huge! :), but my waist and butt are bigger than that and I can wear their 14s, usually.

Allyson so sorry about the car craziness.

Sara, look on etsy, search for silk pillow covers and then maybe by color. I could grab you some silk from the sari shops over labor day and sew you some also.

Last weekend before school. I am way more excited than mac.

is there much of a difference between girdles and Spanx?

Yes. Girdles are heavily structured, and well-made ones have all sorts of different powernet and compression fabrics. Spanx are ... dumb.

There is nothing on God's green earth that could make my boobs look like Christina Hendricks'. I do not have a late-50s-early-60s body.

Trade you!

Signed, would like to look good in a flapper gown, but hasn't the figure for it.

Spanx have their place, actually. I would do Spanx under a loosely structured dress where I just need some smoothing, where a girdle I reserve for vintage wear.

Those are basically my numbers and I wear a bunch of BR stuff including my Best Jeans Ever.