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July 3rd, 2008

I’m off work tomorrow! Woohoo!! Now, I’ll pay for that day off at work on Monday, but today, I just don’t care. All I can see are three days of glorious jammie-wearing laziness.

And because the fates are looking kindly upon me, there’s a “What Not to Wear” marathon tomorrow. I love that show! Now, I sometimes think I shouldn’t watch it because it reminds me that I’ve kinda let myself get all slobby with my attire at work. But maybe it’ll be a good incentive to work a little harder with the way I present myself (or course that always makes me wanna go shopping).

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my self-image. We’re scheduled to make a trip to Arkansas in August to see my family, and visits with them always remind me of how overweight and out of shape I am. Now, those are negative thoughts. Of course, rethinking some of how I think about myself and my appearance probably wouldn’t be a bad thing. If you do a search of my blog and ’self-image,’ you’ll come up with quite a little listing.

But Kellie at La Vida Dulce wrote a really good post this week on the numbers game of weights and measures which came at a really good time for me after my little numbers rant last week. She mentions the True Campaign, and it’s an interesting concept. It’s actually a theory that mirrors my own philosophy about other people’s appearances. It’s my own that needs a little acceptance. :)

So maybe tomorrow, while I’m wearing my jammies and watching WNTW and smelling the smokey yummy smells coming from Mike’s grill, maybe I’ll go into my closet and see what I can do to update and enhance my current look.

Or go shopping. You know, whichever.

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A Quick Thanks

May 16th, 2008

To everyone who left sweet comments and who sent emails about my Fear and Loathing post. I appreciate it. I went in with a positive attitude this morning, and that helped. We had lots of technical problems today that none of us could control, and it set us all behind. And yet, I didn’t get discouraged, and I never made a single derogatory comment about myself.

I’ve had this feeling before at various times in my past. I know that I need to do a few important things…

** I need to be reading my Bible and praying, even if I don’t feel a complete connection yet. I’ve been reading my Bible this week and working on Kay Arthur’s “Lord, I Want to Know You” book.

** I need to exercise more. Even if it doesn’t result in me losing any weight at all, it always makes me feel stronger and healthier. And I’m working on that, too.

** Now, this last one is WAY shallow, but I’ve got some shallow aspects. Live with it. I need to put more effort into how I look. My current job requires ‘business casual.’ It’s so much more casual than business. I now wear things to work that would have previously been in my weekend wardrobe. And I’m dressed just fine. I work in a call center environment, so I’m not at liberty to do much walking around. I fidget. I move around in my chair. I put my legs up under me and wrap them around the chair and anything to keep moving a bit. And it’s not easy to do that in either heels or a dress. So I’m pretty much flats and capris. Which is fine. But I know that - for me to feel pretty - I need to add a bit more jewelry and (talking all the time wears off my lipstick like you wouldn’t believe, so I’ve switched to just using the best lip balm ever during the day at work) whatnot.

I’ll keep you posted with my progress in all of this. I know this is a woman’s struggle that isn’t particular to me. I feel better knowing that. I also feel better knowing that I’ve had problems feeling bad about me in the past & have overcome them.

And now… this is quite enough posting for me for one night. We’re deep into Indiana Jones excitement here in our house, and we’ve agreed to let Griff watch the first three movies this weekend. We’re finishing the first one now & are about to start the second. And I’ve got jewelry to make.

Again, thank you. I’m grateful.

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