have i mentioned the dress i\u2019m planning on wearing for the wedding? it\u2019s pink. it\u2019s very beautiful.<\/p>\n
i tried it on about an hour ago and have been putting this off because i know i\u2019ve gained some weight in the past few months. but in the past few days i\u2019ve decided that i\u2019ve been losing weight.<\/p>\n
HOW do i think i\u2019ve been accomplishing this? all the going out to dinner? all the bowls of sugar-free BUT NOT FAT FREE ice cream? all the glasses of wine and chocolates while playing boggle at randy\u2019s? all the other bowls of ice cream? more going out to dinner? going out to lunch? going out to brunch???<\/p>\n
OF COURSE i haven\u2019t lost any weight.<\/p>\n
I CAN\u2019T ZIP THE DRESS UP.<\/p>\n
i can get it halfway up, exactly.<\/p>\n
IT USED TO ZIP UP.<\/p>\n
when i bought it, anyway.<\/p>\n
i recall that it was slightly tight, but looked really really good.<\/p>\n
DON\u2019T PANIC.<\/p>\n
panicking is making me want to EAT A BIG BOWL OF ICE CREAM.<\/p>\n
damn. damnitall.<\/p>\n
ok, i have nine weeks.<\/p>\n
NINE WEEKS.<\/p>\n
after i tried on the dress i decided to take mollie for a walk. besides this urgent need i now have to exercise more, i figured mollie has been cooped up all day because it\u2019s been so hot.<\/p>\n
it\u2019s still hot, but at least the darkness give the illusion of more coolness.<\/p>\n
after we walked for about three minutes i got bored and said to mollie LET\u2019S RUN. so we ran instead, for about 23 minutes, which is a paltry amount for us, but it WAS hot and it was also quite dark. i worried a little about the darkness, afraid i was going to fall on my face, but i only almost tripped one time. <\/p>\n
incidentally, i did manage to catch myself before splatting on the ground, and i remembered that this was the exact place, a buckle in the sidewalk, where i had actually fallen down a couple of years ago. and that was DURING THE DAY. <\/p>\n
maybe i\u2019m getting more agile as i get older.<\/p>\n
uh huh.<\/p>\n
Winnie is sleeping on the chair next to me and he\u2019s very happy and untroubled because he has NO DRESS TO FIT INTO THAT HE CAN\u2019T ZIP UP.<\/p>\n
he just wishes i was a little smaller so he could have more of the chair cushion.<\/p>\n
i\u2019m going to go not eat a big bowl of ice cream now.<\/p>\n
NINE WHOLE WEEKS. NINE WHOLE WEEKS.<\/p>\n
ok, one more thing, when i was looking up tent places today (THE TENT IS GOING TO COST QUITE A BIT), one of the sites had a heading called “wedding countdown” and i KNEW i shouldn\u2019t have looked at it but i did and was of course not happy because they listed stuff like “12 to 18 months before the wedding” and “nine months before the wedding.” I DON\u2019T THINK MFH AND I WERE EVEN TALKING TO EACH OTHER TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE WEDDING. i know that wedding plans were not in our future at that time.<\/p>\n
deep breaths. the dress will zip up, you\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
i could always wear a mumu, instead.<\/p>\n
goodnight.<\/p>\n
july grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
have i mentioned the dress i\u2019m planning on wearing for the wedding? it\u2019s pink. it\u2019s very beautiful. i tried it on about an hour ago and have been putting this off because i know i\u2019ve gained some weight in the past few months. but in the past few days i\u2019ve decided that i\u2019ve been losing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-au","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}