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Love the update. Yeah, wish I had an excuse like you for my pudgy tummy. I do get it about the clothes though, they figure if you are bigger, then you must want to look like a grandma or something. Give me a break.
I hear you about the manual locks, whatever did we do before they came along? And power windows...remote controls...dial button phones...kids nowadays have it so easy.
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Love the update. Yeah, wish I had an excuse like you for my pudgy tummy. I do get it about the clothes though, they figure if you are bigger, then you must want to look like a grandma or something. Give me a break.
I hear you about the manual locks, whatever did we do before they came along? And power windows...remote controls...dial button phones...kids nowadays have it so easy.
I was in Destination Maternity (it's Pea In A Pod and Motherhood all in one store) yesterday, finally giving into the need for a pair of maternity jeans. In addition to the fact that they charge a billion dollars for maternity clothes, they also don't carry talls!! Gap does, but only in larger sizes in the store, so I can't try them on, I have to order them. Old Navy does, but they aren't long enough. So what do I end up with. $120 jeans. I'm taking them back. It was a desperation purchase, and I don't even like them, but they were long enough and I was blinded by the fact that I could get them on.
WHile I was having a heart attach about jeans (I get expensive jeans, really I do, my everyday favorite jeans when I'm not exploding are from J Crew and I paid a lot, but I've had them for three years and I love love love them...and they don't have designs on the butt and they are made for grown ups!) the sales girl brings me this 'outfit' she says is really cute.
I don't want to be cute. I'm tall and 40 and a professional. Cute isn't on my radar. I'll take attractive, heck, I'll take MILF now that I'm going to be the M, but cute is not how I need the 21 school districts I work with to see me. She brought me a pair of yoga pants with an almost camo sort of print waist and a matching very thin thermal hoody of the same print. Where the heck am I wearing that? Yoga pants are the one thing I don't have to buy in maternity stores, they are already low slung and stretchy. And fake camo thermal hoodies? What am I? 15?
She said it was fun too. I told her that back when I worked retail (Casual Corner, ladies, remember?) we used the term 'fun' to describe clothes we didn't like but customers seemed to love. So that animal print with sequins and neck tie blouse that the older ladies were on like it was crack: "Oh, that's so fun, you can totally wear that." See, its sounds like a compliment, but its really just a statement.
Disclaimer: If a customer asked me what I thought I told the truth--no, you shouldn't wear pleats, yes, you need a bigger size, no, yellow is not your color. But if you loved it, really loved it, what was a girl to do?
Kim you crack me up, I hated maternity clothes and I got big really quick, you see fat girls like me aren't supposed to show when they are pregnant but I did, it was awful, I was a charge nurse in a car factory and I used to get car paint on the belly of my maternity clothes because I'd try and lean over my patients and hit the belly everytime.
I booked Artist Point just a few weeks ago so I'll eat some potato for you sweetie.
Kim you crack me up, I hated maternity clothes and I got big really quick, you see fat girls like me aren't supposed to show when they are pregnant but I did, it was awful, I was a charge nurse in a car factory and I used to get car paint on the belly of my maternity clothes because I'd try and lean over my patients and hit the belly everytime.
I booked Artist Point just a few weeks ago so I'll eat some potato for you sweetie.
Yes!! I get crap all over the front of me!! I had no idea I dropped so much food!!
And you must order the potatoes, I found the recipe online too. Becareful when they first come out, they are super hot, but you will not be able to stop eating them!
anyway, it was all about breakfast from the Boardwalk Bakery and how they said the egg sandwiches were pre-made and so I couldn't have one on a bagel instead but then they made me wait because they had to make more sandwiches...I assume they meant 'heat up' more sandwiches...
Then there was the part about the Disney Food Blog scavenger hunt and how we never noticed the Disney touches of naming all the streets in the countries or giving businesses proprieters...
and then we ate our way around the world, including Lobster and Scallop Pie with a Guinness (oh, to be not pregnant!), Baklava (which was good, even considering we live close to Dearborn, MI, where middle eastern food is a way of life and there is not, as Sharon Angle of Nevada would like to believe, sharia law...), beer for jake, dessert samplers for me, peirogies, stuffed cabbage, kimchi and short rib from South Korea (an excellent version maintaining flavor but being palatable to americans who don't like stinky pickled cabbage).
And then I got hot and bitchy.
And then we ate more, including the pecan bread pudding from the Sam Adams booth, spicy tuna roll from Japan, and one and half waffles from Belgium. Jake dropped the first one half way through when he was awestruck by an elderly woman in a leather mini-skirt. Then he sent the pregnant lady back to Belgium to beg for a replacement. It worked.
And I was still hot and bitchy.
So off to the pool, where I continued reading the Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest (I wish these books didn't end, I loved them all!!) and took a nap. Also I learned that pregnant lady skin is way more sensitive to sunlight than non-pregnant lady skin and managed to get a bit too much sun.
I assure you it was better hte first time I wrote it and right after I invent a time machine I'll retrieve it and you can enjoy what surely would have been a prizing winning trip report post.
For now I'll let you think about that the next post is going to be about V&A and a super duper awesome surprise!!
Sorry you lost the big post! And sorry it was hot and you weren't in a good mood! Sounds like you still had some great eats along the way! Can't wait to hear about V&A's!
Hot and Bitchy, yup pretty much sums it up! But, you seem to go with the flow and I can't imagine what V&A will do to a pregnant lady but I hope you could control yourself KWIM?
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And sorry it was hot and you weren't in a good mood! Sounds like you still had some great eats along the way! 
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