Okay, so this is my problem.
I really like to look cute, but I just can't do it all the time. I went out recently and bought a whole bunch of cute summery clothes. And I love them. I really do. But there are lots of days when I'm not going to go ANYWHERE, (or at least anywhere that anyone would know me...) and I just want to wear jean shorts and a tank.
Now, I know, the "What Not to Wear" people hate shorts. And I'll admit, they really aren't too flattering. It's that whole thing they do where they sort of stay sitting after you stand up - with the creases in the crotch area and the winging out on the sides... But heck - it's summer. And if I'm going to get any sort of color on my legs (which, by the way, I never actually pursue, but never mind when it happens), I can't be wearing pants all the time. Or skirts... now skirts would certainly allow for some color to happen, but it's a skirt, and how the heck are your going to sit "criss-cross applesauce" on the grass with your kids in a skirt? It just doesn't work.
Now I do have one ADORABLE summery skirt that I bought on my recent shopping spree. It's a brown and white hawaiian print... LOVE it and I wear it as often as is possibly couth... (which is a word that I just looked up, and it actually isn't a word, but I think if uncouth is a word, and I want to be the opposite of uncouth, then "couth" should be a word. How can you be uncouth if you can't be couth because it's not in the dictionary? But I digress...) I really wish I could just take that skirt and duplicate it in about ten different fabrics and wear those all summer...
So today is a very unfashionable day. Jean shorts and a tank with (GASP!) horizontal stripes. But here's the deal, I'm going out of town next week and have to save the really cute summery stuff for the trip. I wouldn't want to wear it now and then have to wash it again. I do way too much laundry as it is.
I'm not cute today. But I'm comfortable. And the kids certainly don't care. And hopefully we won't bump into anyone we know.
I really like to look cute, but I just can't do it all the time. I went out recently and bought a whole bunch of cute summery clothes. And I love them. I really do. But there are lots of days when I'm not going to go ANYWHERE, (or at least anywhere that anyone would know me...) and I just want to wear jean shorts and a tank.
Now, I know, the "What Not to Wear" people hate shorts. And I'll admit, they really aren't too flattering. It's that whole thing they do where they sort of stay sitting after you stand up - with the creases in the crotch area and the winging out on the sides... But heck - it's summer. And if I'm going to get any sort of color on my legs (which, by the way, I never actually pursue, but never mind when it happens), I can't be wearing pants all the time. Or skirts... now skirts would certainly allow for some color to happen, but it's a skirt, and how the heck are your going to sit "criss-cross applesauce" on the grass with your kids in a skirt? It just doesn't work.
Now I do have one ADORABLE summery skirt that I bought on my recent shopping spree. It's a brown and white hawaiian print... LOVE it and I wear it as often as is possibly couth... (which is a word that I just looked up, and it actually isn't a word, but I think if uncouth is a word, and I want to be the opposite of uncouth, then "couth" should be a word. How can you be uncouth if you can't be couth because it's not in the dictionary? But I digress...) I really wish I could just take that skirt and duplicate it in about ten different fabrics and wear those all summer...
So today is a very unfashionable day. Jean shorts and a tank with (GASP!) horizontal stripes. But here's the deal, I'm going out of town next week and have to save the really cute summery stuff for the trip. I wouldn't want to wear it now and then have to wash it again. I do way too much laundry as it is.
I'm not cute today. But I'm comfortable. And the kids certainly don't care. And hopefully we won't bump into anyone we know.
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