This is what I look like today. A great pair of pants, if you discount the fact that they wrinkle. They are pretty high on the list of acceptable pants because they fit! They are nicely made by Eli Tahari and I can't recall what I paid for them, but let's say $250. The first day I wore them I got a smudge on the leg just below my knee from the car which doesn't come out. Why did I buy light colored pants? Perhaps I was thinking it would be like my fabulous boot-cut white Cambio jeans. They were always getting dirty too, but looked so great. Sadly, they were size 8 and there just came a moment where I couldn't pull that off anymore. I don't really know which changed first--the jeans or me; okay it was me, but I went from hot to muffin top in an eye blink. Thanks to long legs and Pilates I wore them past 50, so I can't really complain, but in the past year every single pair of real jeans I own has become unflattering. I have a pair of "jeans" from Michael Kors which look great on me, but they aren't real jeans. So now if I am leaving the house I usually wear slacks or the faux jeans. I look okay, but never do I feel like I look hot anymore. Sometimes I forget and think I look hot, then I see myself and realize I was thinking of myself as I used to be.Today I'm just going to lay it out. That pooch on my right side--it's me, not the top. I artfully arrange whatever I'm wearing to minimize this, but there it is. And I'm in my best Pilates posture (not good, but the best I can do). Clearly an answer might be to lose some weight, but I have to say that is less appealing than, say, breaking a bone. I should be getting more exercise, but I have all the usual reasons not to do that too. I have committed to putting my old hybrid bike in the trainer on the bedroom deck and trying to do that, but like everything else, it requires at least three major things besides just dragging the damn bike and equipment up to the top floor.
I'm using the Photo Booth on my Mac, so I have limited options, but I thought I would try getting a sense of what the rear view looks like by climbing up on a chair. I'm not a good photographer, so perhaps the limitations of essentially being in a photo booth are a good thing. Anyway, I am not sure I can comment. I finally get a less-than shlumpy photo, but this isn't the rear-view I remember!
I'm not sure how to rearrange the photos, so they are all kind of stacked up. And the paragraph you just finished reading should have been at the top, but I can't figure out how to rearrange text either.
