Up Early

Hmmmm... it's quiet here. But that's good.

As much as I like sleeping in, I also really enjoy being up early. The house is quiet, and I can have extra time to get ready in the morning. While the BF sleeps the day away, I can have breakfast, spend time getting my outfit ready, do some makeup and be ready for the day ahead.

Today we are going to be old ladies, and do some mall walking. He wants to get some new contacts at his eye doctor, which means that I get to go walking around Barnes and Noble (swoon), and all of my favorite stores today.

I like this time of year, all of the new Spring clothes are out. I love looking through the new styles, and seeing what would look best for my body type. But that also means that I have to try on clothes... my biggest dread ever!

I hate trying on clothes. I go into those little rooms, feeling confident and ready, only to try on a pair of pants in the size I ALWAYS buy, and have them not fit in the slightest. It gets frustrating still when I am currently wearing a pair of pants that are a size smaller than the ones I am trying on.

Last summer, I was wearing a pair of my size 16 shorts, I couldn't get a pair of 18s to come up past my thighs... that was a great feeling. I felt more pissed about the store trying to pass a size 14 as a size 18 than anything else. Clothing sizes are so jacked anyway. It should be about how you feel in your clothes than what size you wear, but it never seems to be that way. So much of my life, and everyone else's, is tied into what number is sewn into our pants. I wear a 16, usually, and an L or XL on top. Depending on the store I go into, I could need a M top or an XXL top. Sometimes I need an 18 or 20 pant, WHILE I AM WEARING MY 16 JEANS!! That just doesn't make sense to me! Shouldn't sizes be more universal than that? Who out there decided that the 16 were just too big and needed to be about 2 inches smaller?

I watch old episodes of I Love Lucy, she wore a size 12. 12! She would talk about her size during the show all the time. But sizes were different back then. Now they are fuel for mocking. I know that it's a way to measure weight loss, but still... these arbitrary numbers should change. I am size Curvy. I'm hoping to be size Fit. That is how I am looking at it now.

Better get going, I have to eat breakfast, and put together some things for dinner before I go to the mall with the BF.