There are two air conditioners on full blast, and at 10 am it is 76 degrees in my office.
… The heat in here has officially broken me. Two days ago, (because I couldn’t stand it anymore) I went clothes shopping. For shorts. Which was horrible in and of itself, minus the hit to my bank account…because clothes shopping is from Satan anyway…never mind when you’re being forced into purchasing an article you despise, on top of it.
I haven’t purchased shorts in over 16 years. I have never worn the one pj pair I had in public, even to take trash out or get the mail, because of all the body image things I can grouse about, my legs are number one.
I have Fitbitted my damn ass off, and still have yet to achieve any forward momentum in achieving leg-awesomeness. (Which, yes, I am extremely bitter about…cuz I’ve got a damn badge announcing I just hit 5,000 lifetime miles this week, since clicking the fucker on my wrist, and you’d think that would be enough to counteract and retro fix a few bags of potato chips here and there.)
… But I digress: shorts.
They are evil.
… As are overhead dressing room halogen lights. And tiny, helpful teenagers wearing a size 0 who want to help “get you another size” because all that weight you lost a year ago didn’t stay lost, and virtually everything you try on, stops at half-mast, just under your ass.
… So desperate was I, two hours into the enterprise, that at some point… when I’d gone delirious from clothing OD, having broken out in a sweat which made everything even harder to get on, and look worse if I ever managed to achieve it… I reached out to a sundress and threw it on the stack.
A sundress.
… An item I have never purchased in the entirety of my life. Ever.
Because I don’t really “do” girl clothes, and by that I mean: I’ll wear them if a costumer throws them at me, or I’m going to an Opening, but not on a voluntary basis.
… Yet once on… besides the super-naked-underneath feeling of having nothing squishing my ass and hips like a butt girdle that is a pair of jeans…I hated the visual affect about 10% less than the shorts, so ended up buying them.
Three.
Three “summer dresses. ”
One of which I am wearing, for the first time, today.
… Which feels odd. And bottom-naked. And you have to move and sit differently. And I’m overly-terrified I’ll accidentally walk around with some part of it all caught up in my underwear…like all of a sudden I can’t be trusted to pee like a grown-up or conduct myself with correct dress-wearing acumen.
… Because I only do this girl-clothes thing, kitted up in spanks and nylons, in a theater environment, two hours at a time. An 8-hour day of willy-nilly pant-commandoism, in the real world, where breezes happen at whim, and chairs have cold or sizzling seats, and you can’t bend over into a filing cabinet without underwear-mooning the room, are things I now have to worry about. After I’ve learned I have to. Because something embarrassing has just happened, regarding those things, bringing them to my attention.
… Which is all to say: I kinda feel like an alien wearing a suit of people-skin… all foreign and pretend blend-inny. But at the same time…it is, at times, a welcome breeze in the nether-world. *
(*Shout-out to my “Underpants” crew.**)
(**Which sounds way worse than I was intending it to. So, naturally I’ve left on purpose. But also wanted to make sure I pointed it out. Cuz “funny” is only funny if you slam it over the head ten or twelve times, then point at it and say, “Get it?! Do you get it?!”)
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