Stockholming: Day Four

There is something seriously wrong with me this morning--I'm taking a picture in the morning, and posting before I go to work instead of at work. Actually, the fact that I am takign pictures of myself routinely makes me think I'm a little sick. I hate pictures of me. Don't get me wrong, I spend all kinds of time in front of the mirror, but to have it caught forever in digital celluloid...that's just weird for me. I don't J take any pictures of me, and make him delete the ones that he does take. Though in my defense, those pictures tend to be rear views when I'm bending over. Who does that? Oh, right--every man that loves a woman and thinks she'll find it funny. Just because I did, though, doesn't mean it gets to stay there. Those memory chips are HUGE. Someday he'll loan it to someone, they'll look for pics they can delete, and there will be my ass. I think not.


Anyway: the reveal.


Welcome to the guest bath. I wiped down the mirror immediately after seeing this picture. I am also standing on a step stool in the picture--closer and closer to full length. I may get there eventually.


I'm writing this as I finish watching What Not to Wear and much as I love the show, occassionally I just have to disagree. I am not going to go out and purchase loung wear for the house when my sweats work perfectly well. No one--seriously, no one except the most meagerly-busted women--looks good bra-less in a tank dress. You're just out there, and we all know it and ignore it. And you small-breasted women that we envy who can do it? You should still wear something under a white dress. Just think it through. And if someone is outdoorsy? Don't chuck all their hiking clothes. Those probably cost more at REI than the faux couture they're in now.


Oh, yeah--AND STOP PRETENDING THAT YOU'RE THERAPISTS. There's a lot to be said about the connection between clothing and self image (thence the show and the Stockholming), but stop trying to dissect these people on the show. Sometimes it's not style or mental obstacle: it's money. Most of us cannot spend $75 on a skirt and then another $30 on alterations, especially now when so many people need to spend $25 on jeans and their remaining $80 on rent, or gas, or food. No matter how good the new clothes would make us feel, having something good to eat or somewhere safe to live is, for most, a greater concern than whether our pants fit or we have the proper neckline.


Right. Now to work.