September 21, 2007
· Filed under Acting up
I just can’t believe they left out Bambi. I had scenes and songs from that movie on an LP record and it still scared the crap out of me. Watership Down sure belongs on there, though. I think I still have a streak of white in my hair from that one.
Some kids’ movies traumatize us as children; others traumatize us as adults. The moral of Beauty and the Beast? You can turn a monster into a prince, but only if you’re good enough. Yikes. Try viewing one of your regretted 20-something relationships through that lens. I think I’ll gently steer my future daughters away from that one… What movies do you plan on keeping from your kids?
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September 13, 2007
· Filed under Acting up, Simple daily living
Nope.
Once again, Erin at Dress a Day cries out to be quoted. Pointing out lovely, full, multi-tiered dresses at Fashion Week (see post for the photos she put up — they are pretty, and a gal of any size could rock them) thus she spake:
If you’re going to leave a comment that all those tiers would make you look OMG FAT!!!!, please don’t bother. There is more to life than the bogus imperative to minimize your apparent body weight at all times. Just for a minute, put down that burden, okay? Think about how that gorgeous fabric would FEEL. Think about how it would SOUND. Think about how you would MOVE in it, where you would GO in it, what you would put in the POCKETS, even, and not on some imagined optical illusion of a few more inches here or there. Now imagine feeling like that all the time — imagine the question “Does this make me look fat?” didn’t exist. How would that change your life? What would you do differently? Would it get you to wear this beautiful dress?
Man, I love her. I’m almost getting to this point myself, though it’s been a long time coming.
And speaking of that.
I am not losing weight for my wedding. Have not, will not, have no plans to. And I am, in medical, technical fact, about 50 pounds overweight (I’m 6′2″ — I have lots of places to stash it). Yet I keep finding myself drifting back to the fact that I really don’t hate the way I look. The “no, must shrink!” impulse is growing fainter as I get older, and feeling more artificial and forced. So why force it?
I still care about health — you need to skim only a few entries on this blog to figure that out — but it’s not the same as wanting to be thinner. I love to eat enough of the good stuff to prolong my life, and just enough of the bad to make it worthwhile. I love how working out makes me feel, and I love, love, weight training. I love feeding my body plenty of good fuel, and then burning it, and building muscle with it. Shrinking doesn’t really come into play. The only size I want to be is the one I’m healthy at, and that’s probably never going to be smaller than a muscular, curvy size 14.
So I’m not going to show up as a starved, nervous bride who’s terrified of how her arms look in her sleeveless dress. I am just going to show up as me, and chalk it up as another “so there” to the wedding-industrial complex.
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September 6, 2007
· Filed under Uncategorized
Not me. Yet.
Apologies to anyone who’s been checking and wondering where the heck all the thrifty household tips have gone — as most of you who are reading this know, I am getting married next month. And even though I am planning a very low-key event (how could you expect otherwise), I still have a lengthy to-do list that takes up a lot of my free time and brainspace. And let’s face it, over the next six weeks, it will only get worse!
I know most people will think I shouldn’t even bother explaining my busy-ness six weeks before I get married, but I feel like I need to justify it a little, because I swear I’m not being princessy! It’s just a lot of stuff to do and remember. Things like reminding people to make hotel reservations, not just whether the cake frosting matches the tulle (it won’t).
So I’m just being upfront that posting will be sparse for the next two months or so. In the meantime, if you are craving a good read, check out some of the links on my sidebar. WiseBread is a particularly prolific frugality site, and for some neat recipes and awesome photography, check out 101 Cookbooks. Thanks for checking!
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