Desperation

Mar 13, 2009

Sunday night began a landslide of despair for me. Not in a bad way, but still stressful. I have spent the entire week trying on clothes, checking labels, literally tearing my closets apart. What did I find? NOTHING. I have NO clothes that fit! MONE! The only reason I've looked halfway decent two days this week is because I ransacked my mom's clothes in my guest closet. (Boy, was she furious about me wearing her blue suit...) Of course, on the up side I am officially a size 18. Did find a box of college clothes (freshman year) out in the garage. The But... they're all t-shirts and way too faded or casual to be of use now. The shirts are actually loose on me. It's my stupid tummy that keeps me in larger pants. I think what gets me is that I literally have shrunk beyond all of my jeans and slacks. ALL of them. It's casual Friday, the one day I can wear jeans to work... and I'm wearing Mom's khakis instead. They're petite, no less. Which means they're almost too short. *grumble*

So... now that I'm done complaining... on to the good stuff.

My sis and I are WoaM (Women on a Mission). We'll be heading out early to hit as many yard sales as we can find. If I find anything from 12-18 that looks vaguely decent, I'm buying it. As it's cold (from 80-something earlier this week down to the 40's today!) and rainy I doubt we'll have much luck. Which is fine, since we're also heading to Goodwill and Second Fling. The latter is a consignment shop, and we're going to try selling our clothes through them. Their prices are good enough that I'm hoping to pick up some shorts and things for the cruise as well.

Oh yeah, totally forgot to mention the reason I was in such a panic over my clothes this week. I'm getting a major promotion to a supervisory/management position. So on Monday I knew I would probably have my picture taken for one of the local papers (I did), then yesterday I had a meeting and needed to make a good first impression. Things are really taking off for me-- and I'm VERY happy to be able to say that it's because of ME-- my achievements and all that I put into my work-- not the weight I've lost.  

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