If you want to eat flayed beloved cartoon characters, I think you've earned it. I loathe dealing with finding new bras.

This is what I believe.

And it had been years since I'd done it, so of course I didn't wear the same size as the (stretched out, completely worn) current bras I have, so I had to have a mini-meltdown in the fitting room. But I steeled myself, went out there, brought another batch of another size back and handed them to the (male, elderly) fitting room attendant again. And this time half of them fit. So go me.

I ended up going to six stores, but they were all in one strip mall, so even though I was hoping to take, like, forty-five minutes and it it took three hours, I'm still calling it pretty damn good.

Teppy, do you have a Trader Joe's nrby (I should clearly already know this from history, but I skim like a skimmer)? If so, grab some bags of different nuts- super hi protein, easiest snack in the world.

Right by my office. I go once a week, like clockwork (today, as a matter of fact). They have great nuts at really good prices.

Liese,

I hope you don't go through my bra stage. The fitting - which is agony alone - and the next stage is week 2 after wearing them: "the noisy bra" stage.

OH MY GOD. I am peeing ALL THE PEE! Every 10 mins, yo, and I have been sipping steadily, but nothing that should necessitate this Niagara of micturition!

Strix will next be seen starring in the upcoming remake of A River Runs Through It.

Ha, wait, what is "noisy bra" stage?

I wish I could tape it and play it, but my bra is NOISY. creaky. just about every movement, I hear my bra. It's embarrassing.

I did not know this was a possibility!

I wish I could tape it and play it, but my bra is NOISY. creaky. just about every movement, I hear my bra. It's embarrassing.

Yes! I have some awesome bras that (I can't lie) make my rack look AMAZING. But they creak like hell. I assume there's so much structural support (boning, underwires, whatever) that there's bound to be some creaking.

Oh, maybe that's why I don't know. I tend to hate underwires. But three out of the four I bought today have them, I think. Although I must say it seems like underwire technology has moved on since I was last in the market, because they were much more comfortable seeming. At the store, anyway, we'll see how they hold up (ha) in real life.

I third the issue with creaking bras.