What not to wear

You know your wardrobe must be pretty bad when you search "Fashion Disasters" on Google Images and most of the people in the pictures are dressed better than you.



Except maybe this person. Although I did have a dress last summer that may have been as unflattering on me.

I used to have such a cute wardrobe. Now I just think I forgot how to dress. I blame it on the scrubs. I have some mighty cute scrubs and I love to mix and match the outfits. Maybe that's my fashion outlet. When you wear a cross between a uniform and pajamas five to six days a week, it's hard to put much effort into your at-home wardrobe.

Still, it's hard not to feel envious of other well-put-together women. I worry that my daughter will pick up clothing habits from me!



Most days I look like a combination of the two ladies above. Still petite, but not as, ahem, toned as I might have been in the past. This makes clothing shopping a challenge and more than a little traumatic as well. It makes me want to run to the internet and order the "Slim in Six" DVD set (does this work by the way?). And buy a new bra too. Foundation garments make all the difference or so I hear.

My friend Saucy offered to help a fellow blogger find a new wardrobe. Alas, time and distance work against me or I'd ask her for help too.

Any advice for a scrubbed up nurse who also wants to be a fashionista?

Don't even get me started on my hair.

April

I'm sitting here typing this post in my shorts! After a few days of nasty weather last week, we are back to nice weather. Better than nice really. I love Spring! Flowers are coming up. I think my flower bed is almost ready to be weeded.

March was crazy work-wise. I think I worked more hours than I ever have in one month. However, I barely saw my family, much less had time to blog. I miss blogging.

I was think about my resolution list for this year and how I'm doing so far.

1. Stop being guilty for doing nothing on my days off. - Well, becoming too tired to do anything on my days off really helps with the whole guilt factor.

2. Be nice. - I think I'm nice, but it's so hard some time. My major vice (well, one of them anyway) is GOSSIP. How do I conquer gossip?

3. Preserve something this summer. Pickles or jam or something like that. - It's not summer yet. I'm off the hook for this one for a few more months.

4. Play in the snow. Once, just once. - We had snow last week, but just the yucky slushy stuff. I didn't get out there once this winter. Honestly we didn't have that much really. Excuses, excuses.

5. Be patient. With people. With circumstances. With myself. - Patience? Definitely not making any progess here.

6. Learn to swim. - Need to sign up for those lessons.

7. Pray. - Working on it.

8. Accept my body. - Working on it. All the parts work, but the whole package isn't very pretty. Why is acceptance so difficult?

9. Cook more meals. - Ha! Must be at home to do this.

10. Start running again. - Got new shoes. That counts, right?

This is a very piecemeal blog post, but I really do miss this forum for my thoughts, so I thought I'd check in.

Miss O.R.