So okay hi. Yes I am *still* here. I know. Shut up! All 20 of you shush it! (Not that I’m bitter about losing readers… I just feel angry about it…)

So today was a big day. I cleaned my closet. (haha) And my dressers. Anything size 38 waist on up… gone. Anything size XL… gone. Anything I don’t wear… gone. Anything from prior employer… gone. Anything with cargo and/or tool pockets and straps… gone. Stained (why did I still have it?)... gone. Two hefty sized bags of clothes, shoes, belts, and flip-flops are going to be soon donated. Why? Well, a few reasons. 1) I now cannot afford to put weight back on. Literally. 2) What I have left are things I feel good in, things I haven’t been able to wear. 3) I needed the space.

I now have no clothes in the guest room. Haha!

It was also an emotional purge. I was held at gunpoint at my prior company. Ditching all the product was well over due. I don’t touch it or wear it. It had to go.

I am looking forward to a little bit of shopping. Something I rarely did the past few years because I wasn’t *quite* in control. I think I am now. It feels good. I feel good. And clothes are starting to look good on me again. Yay. I now take “shopping breaks” at work. It’s really fun… Cause stuff fits. EVEN MEDIUMS!!! But I am not quite ready for mediums yet around the love handle area. I will be soon tho!

In the meantime, today is a day off from the gym and I have had in addition to my usual food: 2 servings of Kettle Chips and 2 Vodka Crans and a piece of Pepper Jack cheese. I think I may need to purge… J/K I would never! Well, I have before but I totally won’t tonight… LOL

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For some reason we have decided to finally get bedroom furniture. Not that we don’t have any furniture, we aren’t sleeping on the floor or anything.. but out of all the rooms in our home wherever we have lived, we have not invested any money in the bedroom. Even the guest bedroom is fancier. Well, that isn’t totally true. We did get an amazing mattress and box-springs so that part is good… but the night stands are these weird metal Pier 1 things that fold up. We have no dresser, in fact not a drawer to speak of. All of my clothes are in the guest room. Richard’s are in these Organized Living hanging shelf things in the closet, that take up hanging space, so the balance of our clothes are hanging in the garage. It didn’t used to be like this. When we were up north, all the apartments had tiny bedrooms with enormous walk-in closets. Bedroom furniture was not an issue. But clearly now it is.

So we are looking. There is no urgency to buy, we’ve survived this long… But it is good to get out and figure out what look you want and stuff. Keep watch on prices and stuff, right? So we were scouting out the furniture stores today for the first time in like 6 months or more. Funny, what we are interested in has totally evolved. We used to only like that dark Z Gallerie - Pottery Barn stuff, but today we went totally opposite. We fell in love ith the Tommy Bahama Home collection. Oh my gaaaaawd. It’s wonderful. So perfect for our room. AND soooo expensive. Like really expensive. Damn!

But now we know what ‘look’ we want, right? Then you go out and find it for less? Right?

Why am I not convinced?

Do you know that with the Tommy Bahama dresser there is a little metal plate in each drawer with the Tommy Bahama logo? And a false bottom drawer for you to keep your secrets?? I love those little touches. Sigh. I need a better job yo.

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