Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Today is the 15th day of the 4th month and the 106th day of 2016 with only 253 shopping days left until Christmas. We are currently in the pre-shadow phase of Mercury going retrograde. Today is also:
Get to Know Your Customers Day [this happens every quarter in case you were thining we did that already]
Income Tax Pay Day [except this year it is 04.18 because the DC government is closed for the Emancipation Day celebrations]
Jackie Robinson Day – in 1947 he started with Brooklyn Dodgers, the first non-white baseball player to play in the major league [versus the Negro League]
McDonald's Day – in 1955 the first franchised restaurant was opened Des Plaines, Illinois ((and they still have the grease))
National Day of Silence [please please PLEASE let the candidates celebrate this day]
With all the concern about Islamic extremists, we have to remember that Christians have a pretty bloody past themselves, neh? In 769 the Lateran Council [a synod held in the Basilica of St. John Lateran to rectify abuses in the papal electoral process] condemned the Council of Hieria [an ecumenical group that was trying to be all-inclusive for Christians – it was later dubbed the “robber council”] and anathematized [a form of extreme religious sanction, today we would say the participants were excommunicated] its iconoclastic rulings [translation -- they discouraged the veneration of icons].
My clothes are too big.
My daughter constantly tells me that what I am wearing doesn’t fit, but I don’t like things that bind. Got into the habit of wearing things loose back when she was a toddler as I lost well over 50 lbs through Diet Workshop and couldn’t afford to keep replacing items as my size went down, not even with the amount of sewing that I did back then. So today [and every Friday until mid-June], we get to wear jeans into the office if we donate a $5 a Friday. Needless to say, I sign up every year! And I took forever to get dressed this morning because I couldn’t find a pair of jeans that actually fit. There are two problems actually. The first is that most of the jeans that are in good shape are about two sizes larger than my current size and a belt may hold them up, but quite frankly, I look like crap in them. The second is that I have apparently gotten shorter – went from 5’4” to 5’3”. Not exactly sure when that happened either! So not only are the jeans very loose, but between not taking up as much in flab, my inseam just got shorter – and the jeans that do fit better now scrape the floor. No problem, I thought, I’ll throw on one of my denim skirts. HA! I searched and searched, high and low, and was forced to conclude that I had given my collection of denim skirts away when I was working in the Disaster Area. At the time, I know I was getting rid of smaller sizes, plus I was giving away all my western boots that I used to wear them with. All that I have left is a skirt I bought a couple years ago – and yes, it is way too big. Ended up pinning it to my bra and throwing a top over it and grabbed a tooled leather belt.to put over it all.
I left the bedroom a wreck. I am going to have to go through and weed out the really large jeans, then I am going to dump the almost fitting ones in the washer/dryer and use the hottest settings to see if I can shrink them a bit. I have learned it is not a good sign when you can pull up and take off jeans and pants that don’t have elastic waists without unbuttoning and unzipping – looks like it may be time to retire some items. I will say that with the reduced weight, I am starting to take more interest in what I am wearing day-to-day again…..
And thanks to my daughter, I have now joined the league of Lularoe leggings fanatics and can actually rock the look!
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