gives erikaj a little goose just to be sure the cushion is working well.

Ooh. Again, not exactly new(Although my mother tends it with the same passion she brought to her garden once) but it's been a minute.

OK, this is funny/sad. It has been so long since I have been fully turned-on by anything for more than a moment that when it happened to me yesterday, I didn't recognize it. It was a little more intense, given that all my equipment has been fully installed, and little-girl me, wondering why those camera ads made her tingle sometimes, also never had the words or cause to wonder whether her hormones were all right, but in some ways it was like being back there. I mean, I was beginning to feel that I like Ali Wong's comedy, but I didn't realize that I *liked* that comedy show on a very visceral level. Dirty talk about women getting everything and getting to step out, too. Kind of does it for me, I guess?(Not exactly shocking, but I'm also not the postpartum chick she's talking to either.) Even more than most, that would have been a hella awkward gynecological visit.

From the department of randomness: How is it that I've lost 60-70 lbs, yet I'm only down 1 size? I feel like I hear diet commercials with people bragging, "I'm down 30 lbs and 4 dress sizes!" Are non-plus sizes *that* finely tuned? Or are the commercials, as so many commercials are, full of crap?

there is a certain amount of arbitrary in sizes. four seems like a lot.

Someone once commented that dress sizes were designed by 16 ferrets on crack. Doesn't sound impossible.

I don't pay as much attention to size as I do comfort of late, so I probably take a larger size than needed. Also, yes, sizes make no sense. When I buy something on line I have to read all the reviews to see if they run small or large, usually it is small.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure some of it is people who went from a 10 to a 6 counting it as 4 sizes rather than 2 (can they be that dumb?) But still - 60 lbs was from size 20 to 18 (or a lot of 2XL to XL). Seems like it ought to be more. Though the wardrobe that I don't have to *completely* replace says to be thankful!

Someone once bought something online ... I think it was a crocheted vest. She posted a picture of it being worn ... the size was so ridiculously small that it would only fit on her cat.

Epic, I have the same reaction. In my FB group for the program I’ve been doing there’s all these people who are like I lost 12 pounds and two sizes! Like what??

I think there’s a few things happening here. For me personally, I carry a lot of my excess weight around the middle so while my waist has shrunk, it had further to go Also, I think a lot of my clothes, didn’t really fit all that well, and were either stretched out or maybe too snug in the waist to begin with.

But I also think you’re right on that the gradations in sizes are smaller at the lower end.

That, or else people are fudging their data, or squeezing into smaller sizes that they don’t really fit just yet.

Probably all of the above.