New Found Shopping Joy!

Ok guys, its happened for real. I was hanging out with a new friend I made at work on a Saturday and we ended up in an Ashely Stewart store. I browsed around the sale racks and found some jeans for $14.99. I had $20 in my purse, so I could but them if I wanted, the only problem was that teh jeans were size 18. I've now lost about 130lbs, and ALL of my clothes are now huge on me. I really want and need a new pair of jeans, and a size 18 might fit, so i tried it.......and........SUCCESS!!!

I pulled them up and zipped them up, and I didn't even have to do the belly suck in. I had a flash of the last time I wore a size 18 jeans........I was in 7th grade and I was walking around town with some of my friends. My thighs had been rubbing together the whole time and the jeans were really really tight. My thighs had rubbed together so much that the jeans were worn thin and broke open. My friends and I were still pretty far from home, so I just had to keep on walking. My skin was rubbed pretty raw and it was pretty painful walking, by teh time I got home it was pretty bad. I remember taking them off and looking at the number on the label, 18.

So after that story I guess you can appreciate how much a size 18 jean means to me.

For those of you of the Mormon persuation, you can undertsand how cool it was to buy new garmies and be able to buy all the pairs I wanted right at the temple store,and not have to buy only one or two and order the rest because they only had a few for my size on hand.

AND I'd like to comment on the joy of buying new bras, right off the rack, the ones on sale for $6.88 at Wal-Mart. For the longest time, I counted myself lucky if I could find ONE bra, hidden all the way in the back, on the bottom rack, in my size. They don't stock lots and lots of 44D people. BUT they DO stock lots and lots of 36D, in the super cute colors and styles!

Ok, so enough about my underwear.............

Its nice being able to shop at the regular store. Not to say that I might still peruse Lane Bryant, but its not the only store I CAN shop for clothes. I can shop just about anywhere now, and I can go ahead and buy that size L t-shirt.