{"id":2392,"date":"2006-03-22T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2006-03-22T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T08:45:08","slug":"lets_pretend_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/lets_pretend_we\/","title":{"rendered":"let&#8217;s pretend we&#8217;re in antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/digicam\/0576-habitat.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"0576-habitat.jpg\" title=\"mm, wood.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>last night, i decided that some retail therapy was in order.  i&#8217;d been putting off clothes shopping for months in hopes of more dramatic body shrinkage, but if i&#8217;m to listen to Stacey and Clinton of <i>What Not to Wear<\/i> i should dress the body i have now, not the body i want in three months.  so, i did.  i found three pairs of pants (plain black jeans, cool tinted jeans and SUPERAWESOME stripey pants &#8212; i can&#8217;t wait until they&#8217;re shortened so i can wear them) and a new pair of shoes (black, leather, comfy pseudo-mary janes).  i&#8217;m not sure why, but i always seem to find either lots of tops and no bottoms or lots of bottoms and no tops.<br \/>\ni tried to stop by another store on the way home, but it was closed.  i hope to hit it today after work, along with a department store or two in hopes of finding new bras.  god, i hate bra-shopping; but, with the current state of my boob-holders, i can&#8217;t afford to wait any longer (i actually have a mark from where the broken underwire in one continuously pokes my dug. ow.).<br \/>\nwhat i&#8217;m really looking for, and probably will never find, is a new jacket.  something nice.  not too dressy, not too casual.  not too heavy, not too flimsy.  something a little funky, but still wearable in any situation.  something around a 3\/4 length car coat, with pockets, but not too many embellishments.  the problem i have with buying most anything one-piece-like is my top is smaller than my hugemongous butt. so if it fits my upper torso, it doesn&#8217;t fit the bottom and if it fits the bottom, it&#8217;s all baggy and saggy up top.   i realize that i could probably find something and then have it altered, but i don&#8217;t know just how much altering can be done to a garment to fit my crazy pear shape.<br \/>\noh, to be rich enough to afford a personal tailor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last night, i decided that some retail therapy was in order. i&#8217;d been putting off clothes shopping for months in hopes of more dramatic body shrinkage, but if i&#8217;m to listen to Stacey and Clinton of What Not to Wear i should dress the body i have now, not the body i want in three <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/lets_pretend_we\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}