DarkEmeralds and the Wonderful, Fabulous, Not Bad, Very Good Day

[darkemeralds]

• Wonderful: Scale shows a reduction for the third day in a row
• Fabulous: For kicks I tried on a pair of Land's End straight leg jeans in size 18 tall, to measure how many more inches I would need to melt off to button them. None, apparently. I'm wearing them now.
• Not bad: this damn cold has sloped off ten times faster than it sloped on and I'm feeling mostly human today
• Very good: I came home last night to find that Leroy, the neighborhood handyman, had been by to complete a yard task that he began about a month ago, and while he was here he fixed the flat on Clyde's back tire! (Poor Clyde has been flat for a couple of months because I hate changing the rear tire). It was such an unexpected gift!

So next we're making a family excursion--sis and BF, mom--to Ikea for some kind of little shelf on which to display my Fibonacci plates. And it's not even 11:00 a.m. yet.

Excellent Saturdays FTW!

Comments

[tehomet]

I'm glad you're feeling better!

[darkemeralds]

Me too. Thank you!

[kis]

:D

[darkemeralds]

We're just heading out for IKEA now.

[kis]

Your poor credit card!

[darkemeralds]

Nah. I'm just buying two funny-named shelves. Maybe a towel or two...

[executrix]

Just one more size to 16, which most regular-not-Omar-the-Tentmaker-stores carry! (Leg length will be an ongoing problem tho.) Although if you like the Lands End 18-longs, you can significantly extend the time between store visits by just buying a couple of pairs of those, and then switch to the 16-longs in a few months.

[darkemeralds]

The beauty of my closet situation is that I've got similar jeans (Penney's St Johns Bay line) in sizes 14 and 10 hanging there. I figure I'll wear these 18s till they're sadly baggy, then skip to the set of non-blue size 16s that are hanging there (olive green, white, taupe), and transition back to indigo when I get to the smaller sizes.

Barring unfortunate paint accidents, I don't need to buy jeans for a year or more. \o/

That said, you're absolutely right in principle: find a line that fits and stick to it like a burr until radical fashion changes take it out of the running.

[roseambr]

Can't wait to see the "new" jeans in person! And to wear them on an excursion too! Whoo Hoo!

[darkemeralds]

This shopping in my closet thing is developing a lot faster than I'd anticipated. For so many years now, these jeans and the other things that are easily fitting now seemed completely out of reach, like part of another person's life. I only hung on to most of it because it was some of the best quality stuff I ever owned.

I'm glad now that I did.