The amazing shrinking woman (I hope!)

Button up skirts are EVIL!!!

I wore a skirt that buttons up the front today that was a bit big for me, but I figured I'd wear it just this one last time, then pack it away to be hauled off later on. The weather was pretty ugly today, and I was wearing an oversized men's flannel sweatshirt that goes just barely below my butt, and my huge subzero snow boots that go up to my knees.

Well, after work I had some shopping to do. I wanted to hurry and get home before it started snowing again, so I was flying around the store at mock 10 with the cart, throwing stuff in left and right. I was almost finished when a lady comes up to me and says "Excuse me ma'am, but you're about to lose your skirt! I looked down and was HORRIFIED to see that the buttons had come undone on my skirt and I was dragging it around by a corner that was tucked into the top of my pantyhose! I hadn't even noticed! I couldn't really feel that my skirt was more or less missing because of the somewhat long sweatshirt (not not NEARLY long enough after all) and the tall snowboots.

I am NEVER going back to that store EVER! I'd hate it if someone recognized me or something!

Excuse me while I go crawl into a hole and die of embarrassment now!:blush5:
 
OMG you poor thing Tigs! That would have to be my absolute nightmare!

You look absolutely FANTASTIC in the photos! Love your outfits too, especially the jeans :)

Lol about the pull ups, congratulations!!!
 
Bless her heart that she was kind enough to come up and warn you before it fell to the ground!!!
Can you imagine? Poor Tigs, there you'd be- wandering around in the produce aisle, wondering why your hinder is feeling so darn cold!
 
Haha, oh dear Tigs! Never mind hey, you're all skinny now so much less embarrassing than it would have been before ;) Those photos of you are wonderful and congratulations on your first pull up! *hugs*
 
Thanks everyone for your kind words, but I keep replaying the whole incident over and over again in my mind and I just become mortified all over again!

How could I have NOT noticed?!?!?!?!

I keep having visions of my picture ending up on some widely distributed e-mail all over the world of the horrible things people wear when they are out shopping. I know I've seen tons of them and laughed myself silly over some of the outfits I've seen. Now it'll be me that people are forwarding all over...

Gosh I hope no one managed to take a picture. Curse those darn cell phone cameras all over these days!

I could have killed hubby when I came home for lunch today. He was in the office on the computer and hollered for me to come quick and check something out. I went in there and he said he found my new theme song and turned on "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off" by Joe Nichols. :cuss: I don't even like Tequila that much! I should have never told him what happened - now he'll never let me forget it!
 
You never have a dull moment Tigpuppy....

Thanks for brightening my life with your crazy stories. Gosh if it was me I'd be so embarrassed I probably wouldn't tell a soul and just live in silent shame for the rest of my life!
 
It's kind of funny because I always feel like I lead such a boring life, but people are constantly telling me that I should write a book about my life and all the crazy stuff that happens.

I just keep thinking what's the big deal? Life happens, and it happens to everyone, doesn't it?
 
My how time flies! You are the posting queen! Love it!

You have been doin awesome!! Great work...and great pics!! (and great stories!!!!) Thanks for sharin! Congrats on the pullups!

Take care!
 
Tigpuppy said:
I just keep thinking what's the big deal? Life happens, and it happens to everyone, doesn't it?
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Yes it does Tiggy....but some of us keep it to ourselves while others (like yourself) have developed a confidence that overrides the cautiousness.

I think its well earned. Congrats!
 
FLUMES!!!!!!! (runs over and gives him a HUGE hug)

It's so awesome to hear from you!!! I've really missed you! How have you been sweetie?

I used to always think I was stupid for sharing so much with people. Sometimes I'd tell people things, then regret it thinking that I may have lost some respect in their eyes - especially if it was people that I worked with. But then about 5 years ago I was supposed to receive an award for 10 years of service to my job and was asked to write a short bio type thing about myself for my manager to read aloud while I was getting my award. I knew most people wrote about where they went to college, how long they'd worked for our department, which projects they'd worked on, etc. Boring stuff. Instead I wrote about how dedicated I was to my job, as evidenced by the time I rolled by car on the way to work, but still managed to make it in only 15 minutes late. And how I loved being able to use my creativity to come up with innovative solutions to problems. I wrote about the fact that sometimes we all hit mental blocks when faced with a challenging problem, but I kept a special momento on my bulletin board to remind me to think outside the box. I had included this little momento with my bio for them to show everyone. It was a poster with a pair of pantyhose taped to it, with a caption that read "GIANT RACCOON EMERGENCY REPAIR KIT" that was given to me by a fellow coworker when I had hit this HUGE raccoon on the way to work one morning. The bumper of my car had come loose on one side and was rubbing against my tire when I drove. I needed to get to work, and didn't want to ruin my tires, so had to figure out how to get the bumper tied up and out of the way. The only thing I had that I could think of to use was my pantyhose. So I took them off there on the side of the road and tied my bumper back into place and continued on my way to work.

The day after I got my service award, I received a personal thank you card from the CIO of our department thanking me for sharing such humerous stories and having the courage to not only laugh at myself, but allow others to share in my humor. Since then I'm not so afraid to tell people of the sometimes bizarre things that happen to me.

Life happens, and sometimes it's dang funny!
 
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I agree with flumsey, I love to read about your life and your family. It's great to be allowed into other people's lives. :D
 
Tiggy...I don't know what is making me smile more.....admiring your creativity or picturing your repair job! Poor beaver! Tooo funny!

Thanks for sharing.

I made alot of mistakes etc. in life....most of which I keep to myself. But it seems the more confident and content we are with ourselves...the easier it is to reveal those mistakes and give them the ol' "Oh well!"

Have a great day bud! (And thanks for the hug)
 
Hey peeps! I just finished my run and feel awesome!

We are in the middle of yet another snowstorm. BLECH! I went out earlier with hubby and helped to feed the cows. The snow melted down last week, then re-froze, so there is a layer of ice under all this new snow. Normally we role out bales of hay for the cattle out in the pasture, but with all this ice and snow, it's not a good idea because they could slip and fall. So instead we decided to feed them inside the shelter - but can't get in there with the big tractor. So we had to unroll the bales by hand. Each one weighs around half a ton. After we finished hubby was huffing and puffing and he asked me "So - did you get enough exercise yet?" I laughed and said no, not really. My idea of exercise is where you get your heart rate up and break a sweat and that hasn't happened yet. He said oh really? You want your heart rate up huh? Then grabbed me and stuck snow down my front!

It got me to thinking though - he's always been fairly thin, but the last few years has put on a bit of weight and isn't as physically active as he used to be. He used to be around 170 and would go hiking and rock climbing. But over the last 10 years or so he had gotten as high as 215 lbs and the only physical activity he gets is whatever he does for working on the farm/ranch. Since I've changed my eating habits and switched our family to whole wheat breads, lower fat options of lots of stuff, etc he has gotten down to about 190 lbs or so. Well, I looked it up the other day and for his height he's actually considered overweight! With his other health issues (he's prone to blood clots) and the fact that he's not getting any younger makes me concerned for his health. We have 4 young daughters to raise and I really don't care to take on that job by myself. I could probably get him into some weight training, but I can't imagine him doing much for cardio. It would be SO awesome if I could talk him into being my running buddy or something though.

Maybe in my dreams....
 
The poor cows must be freezing! Sounds like hard yakka (work) Tigs!
I'm in the same position with my hubby, cos he's 20 years older I really worry about him getting diabetes or something. His gut has gotten pretty big over the past few years :(
Well done on getting yours to lose a bit by changing his diet too.
 
It's my dream for my hubby to be my running partner too! I think it would be so fun to go outside for a nice little run together. One day maybe.
That sucks about the snow - the same thing has happened here - melt, then freeze then snow some more. I can't wait for Spring to be officially here!
Nice work getting your runs in - your very consistent! Keep it up Tig!!
 
healthyjess said:
The poor cows must be freezing! Sounds like hard yakka (work) Tigs!
I'm in the same position with my hubby, cos he's 20 years older I really worry about him getting diabetes or something. His gut has gotten pretty big over the past few years :(
Well done on getting yours to lose a bit by changing his diet too.
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Jess - I love some of the words you use! LOL!

Sounds like you have a thing for older men too... There's something about them, isn't there? My hubby's only 12 years older than me though. I always tease him and ask him if when he was a senior in high school was he scoping out the first graders and thinking to himself "Someday I'm gonna marry one of those snot nosed little brats!" LOL!

Now that I'm an old married woman it's not that big of a deal, but we caused quite the scandal in our small towns back when we first hooked up. Lots of people frown upon a relationship between a 15 year old girl and a 27 year old man. And when we ran off and eloped the second I turned 18, everyone thought the worst - that I was pregnant and that it would never last. But I think we've been the exception to all the rules over the years - we got married because we wanted to, not because I was pregnant, and I put myself thru college and got myself a really good paying job. Nearly 20 years later I'm pretty certain that the people that said it would never work out are eating their words now. :sifone:

But being married to older men I think we have to face facts too - chances are good that we'll be caring for them in their old age - and that task might be a LOT harder to do if they don't take care of their health.

It would be nice if we could just nag them into taking care of themselves, but as the old saying goes - you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. I think we all know from our own journeys to a healthier lifestyle that a person has to want it for themselves in order for it to really work. Otherwise the chances that they'll stray from the path to healthy living are pretty high I think.

We just have to live by example I guess.

And maybe nag them a LITTLE bit... :reddevil:
 
WHAT THE HECK??!?!?! When did I become a senior member on this forum??!?! I just now noticed that when I posted.

WOW! Where has the time gone? And what have I been yakking about for over 1000 posts?!?!?!
 
chubbygirl said:
It's my dream for my hubby to be my running partner too! I think it would be so fun to go outside for a nice little run together. One day maybe.
That sucks about the snow - the same thing has happened here - melt, then freeze then snow some more. I can't wait for Spring to be officially here!
Nice work getting your runs in - your very consistent! Keep it up Tig!!
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I have got the most comical image in my head now of my hubby going running with me. If you look in my gallery you'll see a picture of him with me - he's the hairy biker dude type. And has scrawny chicken legs. The man does not own anything except jeans. No shorts, nothing like that. And owns nothing but cowboy boots, and an old pair of rock climing shoes (which you can't walk in, let alone run in) so you can see why this is so amusing to me. I just can't see it ever happening.

Besides - I might die laughing! :smilielol5:
 
I don't know why but I've been really struggling lately with getting my work outs done. I ran a little over 3 miles right after work, then tonight I did the bodyweight challenge (or as best as I could manage with a pulled muscle in my ab area). But I just could NOT seem to make myself do the rest of my regularly scheduled weight training today. I was just too pooped.

And after the girls bugged me half the day on Sunday to make no bake cookies I caved - so we have cookies in the house now. I ate WAY too many of them today. Normally I make stuff like that on Sundays, have a little then, but know that I'll be at work all week, so won't be around it and won't be tempted by it. And by the weekend the kids usually have it gone. But we are snowed in today, so I had to work from home. Those cookies were just WAY too tempting. They were SO good - but I think I blocked from my memory exactly how many of them I scarfed down today.
 
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