I am just posting another OOTD today. I was at some computer training  for a hospital my agency wants to get me into. ( Outfit of the training )

( Dear Fatshionistas... Thanks for inspiring me. 235 lbs, 5'6 )

i'm a little nervous! My family wasn't totally "in love" with the outfit, quite the opposite, so i'd love to hear your guys opinion's and constructive criticism. I'm self cautious of my knees/legs so I wanted to try wearing a skirt without the leggings or covering them up.

( pic behind here!  )
and i also wanted to say how much i love this community, I totally lurk here but all your posts are so inspiring! so thanks so much! : )

We managed to get back from the farmer's market with only four varieties of cherries, and having spent only about five minutes singing along with the busker who was doing Amazing Grace to the tune of House of the Rising Sun, Blind Boys style.

Good times.

And now it's just me, a sofa, a laptop, a cup of strawberry peppercorn tea, a Saturday, and forty student manuscripts.

Excelsior.

(348 miles to Isengard.)

Does anyone else find it funny that he was held on a cash bail of $10,000?

Son of 'master counterfeiter' arrested
The 18-year-old son of master counterfeiter Art Williams Jr., whose life is chronicled in a new book "The Art of Making Money," has been arrested on charges of passing fake $100 bills.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31687706/from/ET/

I'm not sure is anyone remembers, but the wonderful fatshionista ekatarina sent me a pair of boots. Since I didn't want to wear them with my thrifting outfit , I tried on the faboo boots wearing a little dress that I only wear around the house since I don't wear sexy dresses a lot of the time  (Mainly since my style is more Victorian/(future!)Librarian).
( And so I wore boots . Lots of arm, boob, and thigh showing.  )
Have a wonderful fourth, Americans( USA!USA!). Also, have a nice weekend, the rest of the world(Yay World!)

Put down your red white and blue spatula for 6 minutes and listen...

I have two bras (three, really, but one is reserved for exercising) and they're all several years old, faded, stretched out, underwires broken and removed.... I have not been able to find new ones that fit. I need about a 50 band - 48 would be ok with extenders - but only a B cup. I recently ordered a 50B from Roaman's during their semi-annual bra sale. That was a waste of money and it's going back. When I removed it from the package, I thought they had sent the wrong size, but the tag is clearly stamped "50B". I'd love to know in what universe those are B cups! They're really at least a C, possibly a D. My B-cup breasts were floating in them! (Also, they were stiff and padded, not something advertised in the catalog, and I hate padded bras.) I had a friend look at it and she confirmed - definitely not a B cup. Any ideas about where to find bras with a large band size and a true B cup? Or has anyone tried doubling up on extenders? How did that work out for you? (I do have a couple of unworn 42Bs that I might try that with - if it works, problem solved. Though really, I'd rather just have bras that fit!) It's so tempting to go braless but that's a look that wouldn't go over too well at work....

Any fellow fats at rothbury fest this weekend? comment and we will meet up!!! perhaps a trip through the sherwood forest...

there aren't a whole lot of fatties but the ones i have seen are GORGEOUS! and we got lucky it's not over 75 degrees so less sweatiness will ensue!

i got a walking boot, so i'm off the sofa and back into the real world again! yay! i'm still very slow and my foot hurts when i walk on it, but i don't care. inactivity disagrees with me. my trip to the doctor was not traumatic, so i was very glad about that. the only asshattery was them taking my blood pressure after i had to crutch all the way from the car, half way across the building, and then into the specialist's office. no surprise that my heart rate was slightly elevated. but at least they didn't say anything about it. so yay for that.

today i ventured out to my fave mexican restaurant. on the way out, a handsome young man was watching me walk (and i use that term very loosely!) out while my hubby fetched the car. he checked out the walking boot, smiled in a friendly manner, and said 'uh oh, no more soccer for you!' well i thought it was sweet he was sympathetic to my foot. but also i thought it was awesome that he assumed the fat chick was into playing sports of any kind!


shirt: torrid
pants: torrid
super sexy footwear: curtesy of the broken metatarsal

Just got back from a really delightful Clarion West Party, and I have realized over the course of a wonderfully social day that I am still thinking--and telling people--about gregvaneekhout's debut novel Norse Code. I was talking with friends today about something that the book does really well, which is that it gets a peculiar and wonderful aspect of Norse mythology: Einsteinian time. Time as a navigable dimension,as it were (and I love that he has Fenrir, among others, explaining this.)

Essentially, in Norse mythology, all events are inevitable because they have already happened and are eternally happening. A wyrd or fate is not an inalterable future, so much as a part of the present we have not yet experienced. It's a tremendously fatalistic worldview, it's true, and so inimical to modern American culture that it's rare to see it done well in English-langage fantasy, or even touched upon--acknowledged--at all.

Greg does a great job with it, and that delighted me, and I meant to mention it before.

What's also tremendously cool about Norse myth is the way things are both symbolically and literally their names. So Thor (as an example) can be an individual--the god of thunder, who carries a hammer which strikes like a thunderbolt (which IS, in fact, a thunderbolt, Mjollnir that smashes...); and he can also symbolically be the god of thunder, a personification of random violence and flash-fire temper; but he is also, all at the same time, quite literally, thunder in his own person.

Ahem.

Anyway, it's really really cool.

There was a recent post about FA and family. It is really such an emotional and elusive topic because families are so dynamic and mean so many different things to different people. It will take me forever to figure it out. But I do want to show you all a photo of me with my best friends: my sisters. ( a bunch of girls )

Hey all!

So I'm going to NYC & Boston on the 14th, and was wondering where to shop!

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I remember there being a post similar to this a while back, but I can't find it for the life of me. If anyone can find it, that would be awesome.

Failing that, I seek the resources of this fine community. My Nana is a size 24/26 and she has specific needs clothes-wise. She only wears skirts that are around calf length (elastic waist is a plus) and longish shirts. She likes the typical "grandma" look, but in saturated colours and cool patterns. Does anyone know of good sites to find this kind of stuff on? They need to ship to Canada and not be insanely expensive.

Thanks in advance!