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I'm here and I'm on the mend
Nov. 7th, 2011 10:08 amBesides the pink-eye (which apparently no one but me has really noticed) I seem to be at about 90% in terms of recovery from last week's illness. This was the sickest I'd been in a couple years, so I'm glad this seems to be ending. Though it figures that my last undergrad semester would include a significant illness, because that's just my kind of luck. But I'm glad that I did decide to come home for the weekend, since we saw a production of a local theater group and it was just good to recharge. I can only take so much of the city before I start to go bonkers, and the last time I was out here was in August, so I was overdo.
I also got my hair trimmed for the first time since about March, and taking the split ends off really does help. I think I'm still gonna let it grow a little bit, maybe to the point that I can braid it. The hairdresser was complimenting me on the curls, which is the primary reason I'm growing it out. I used to try to straighten it, but I'll just let it do what it wants. The older I get the less I want to spend time fighting with it.
I also confirmed something that I'd thought for a while, mainly that I've dropped about 10 pounds since the beginning of the summer. I don't have a scale at my apartment, so when I said "10 pounds" it was a guess, but turns out I was more or less spot on. One of the plans for coming out here was to try and get some new clothes since some of my old stuff doesn't fit right anymore (like one pair of pants which quite literally almost fell down when I tried them on again after a while) but I was pretty unsuccessful at our local JC Penny's except for some new bras to replace ones that had worn out. In the past I've noticed that Penny's pants don't sit quite right on me, and that happened yet again. It's also always a little awkward for me to shop for stuff because proportionally I have short legs and a very long waist, so even though I'm not technically petite in terms of height I need to wear petite pants, so it's like I have the upper and lower bodies of two different people. Most people don't tend to notice that until I point it out, but it makes shopping a pain.
The other problem with Penny's seems to be that most of their stuff is aimed at women who are older than I am, and at my age it's a delicate balance between not dressing too young while also not dressing too old. I think their stuff tends to run large too, since I kept having to get smaller stuff than I was expecting. I used to be a medium in terms of shirts, but those looked enormous on me. And to be slightly vain, I want to show off the curves, I don't want to cover them up, but also retain a certain level of class (which is to say I don't like walking around with my boobs hanging out). When I was a teenager I was a lot less self confident, but I'm done with that.
I have been anxious about how Mari is doing without me, though she has K there and he would've called me if there was a problem. This must be what parents feel like when they leave their kids with other people. I have a feeling that later today when I get home Mari will either jump on me and meow and me for leaving her alone or do something ridiculous. I've never left her alone for such a long amount of time, but I know we both have to get used to it.
I also got my hair trimmed for the first time since about March, and taking the split ends off really does help. I think I'm still gonna let it grow a little bit, maybe to the point that I can braid it. The hairdresser was complimenting me on the curls, which is the primary reason I'm growing it out. I used to try to straighten it, but I'll just let it do what it wants. The older I get the less I want to spend time fighting with it.
I also confirmed something that I'd thought for a while, mainly that I've dropped about 10 pounds since the beginning of the summer. I don't have a scale at my apartment, so when I said "10 pounds" it was a guess, but turns out I was more or less spot on. One of the plans for coming out here was to try and get some new clothes since some of my old stuff doesn't fit right anymore (like one pair of pants which quite literally almost fell down when I tried them on again after a while) but I was pretty unsuccessful at our local JC Penny's except for some new bras to replace ones that had worn out. In the past I've noticed that Penny's pants don't sit quite right on me, and that happened yet again. It's also always a little awkward for me to shop for stuff because proportionally I have short legs and a very long waist, so even though I'm not technically petite in terms of height I need to wear petite pants, so it's like I have the upper and lower bodies of two different people. Most people don't tend to notice that until I point it out, but it makes shopping a pain.
The other problem with Penny's seems to be that most of their stuff is aimed at women who are older than I am, and at my age it's a delicate balance between not dressing too young while also not dressing too old. I think their stuff tends to run large too, since I kept having to get smaller stuff than I was expecting. I used to be a medium in terms of shirts, but those looked enormous on me. And to be slightly vain, I want to show off the curves, I don't want to cover them up, but also retain a certain level of class (which is to say I don't like walking around with my boobs hanging out). When I was a teenager I was a lot less self confident, but I'm done with that.
I have been anxious about how Mari is doing without me, though she has K there and he would've called me if there was a problem. This must be what parents feel like when they leave their kids with other people. I have a feeling that later today when I get home Mari will either jump on me and meow and me for leaving her alone or do something ridiculous. I've never left her alone for such a long amount of time, but I know we both have to get used to it.
