More Venting

[turnonmyheels]

This time clothing related! Exciting, yes?

Problem #1: Small ass, narrow hips, no waist. Not exactly an apple shape rather more boy like. Women's jeans that fit are difficult to find because of my lack of narrow/small waist. I often have to sacrifice.

1) do I want to make my ass look amazing [because it is totally amazing]

or

2) do I want to wear a fitted shirt?

Because I can't wear pants that make my ass look amazing and a fitted shirt at the same time, because the pants that look great 'cause muffin top, and the shirts that look great can only be worn with pants that make it look like I have an absence of ass. The opposite of ass.

Problem #2 Demon Lycra

Remember the days, oh .. 10+ years ago when your blue jeans didn't have any Lycra in them? You put them on, they fit exactly right but they'd relax a teeny, tiny pinch, and get that worn-in feeling. You could wear them more than once -- unless you got them dirty -- So if you bought a pair of pants they would essentially be that size and would *always* be that size.

Fast forward to present day. You go into a store, you try on jeans. You say to yourself WOW these jeans fit really, REALLY well. So you buy them. You wear them. Halfway through the day -- due to all the Lycra in the fabric -- they have stretched out and the ass is baggy, the waistband won't stay where it belongs, and you spend most of your time heaving them back up where they belong. You have to wash and over-dry the fuckers to get them to fit again. Except half-way through the day they've stretched out AGAIN. And then they wear out in oh ... 6 months? Because of all the stretching, washing, drying, and because Lycra doesn't last as long as good old-fashioned denim.

So the next time you shop for jeans you HAVE TO BUY A SIZE TOO FUCKING SMALL. [hello arch-nemesis Muffin Top] And the first four hours of wearing those pants is misery. At the end of the day, they look amazing. You can wear them more than once because you bought them too small. They only stretch out so far, which is the size that actually, you know *fit*. They will still wear out too fast, because your body is over-stretching the material. You don't however over-wash them, because THE FIRST FOUR HOURS YOU WEAR THEM IS MISERY BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO FUCKING SMALL.

Hello. I'm having a day from hell, please see previous work rant it's gotten *worse*.

My pants are too tight, but they fit my ass, I have PMS, my throat feels like I'm getting a cold, and in general I declare this a wasted day. I don't want a do-over though, 'cause it could get worse.

Comments

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Can I offer you some distraction of your choice? Because you need a distraction big time. Or possibly a call to the bossmen and tell them you are going home because it sounds like you really need that.

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[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

My boss is pissed at me because me and Manfolk#2 have *conflicting* stories over a $40k+ wallpaper order.

I can't even begin to explain this situation. But I am *right*. And if they wanted to order the fucking paper through the store in the first god damn place then that is what they should have done. Because once it's ordered? I can't un-order it and re-order through a different company and guarantee the same pricing. Or availability 'cause it takes the VWC people about 2 weeks to process a re-stock even if it hasn't actually left the premises yet. But I can, however, pay the bill through the company you wanted it ordered under and YES I KNOW THAT IS NOT PROPER ACCOUNTING. But hey, there's the paper on time and at the promised dollar amount.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

... so, wait, the guy who consistently screws this ups, comes perilously closer to lying about things, is claiming that you messed up and boss BELIEVES him?

Slightly shady accounting - and that's not even slightly shady, that's white with a faint, opalescent sheen of grey - vs getting what you want when you want it and for the price you want. How the hell is that bad?

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

You got me. But I am wrong. I called Manfolk#2 and reminded him quite strongly about what happened exactly and he was:

oh yeah. that's right. I'll buy that.

I can't even.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

How is this man still working for them? I've never understood that. I get how in some places people who are incompetent are kept on too long, but it doesn't seem like the business you're in would tolerate that. Given the job market, they could hire someone with, oh, actual computer skills (plus a personality transplant) easily.

Bah. Want a drabble? I think I can maybe get one out...

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

See, he's our 'rain maker' aka primary estimator. If he's doing something like that he's excellent at his job. When he was in the office I did all the other stuff *for* him and now he's got to learn. I'm most especially frustrated, because he hasn't been taking any notes.

I bet if he took notes he could refer back to them and not have to call me and ask:

Hey, Quicken wants me to back it up. Should I?


or

Hey, I'm trying to look at blueprints on the website here and it says, "Java X needs to be installed." Should I?

You know I'd *love* a drabble.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I work with people like that. Even *with* the notes it won't get better until he actually decides he needs to do this himself. And even then... not so much.

Librarians should not be luddites. I'm just sayin'.

Gimme specs for the drabble - fandom, characters, what have you. I don't want SOA but otherwise open season.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on that, 100%

Hmm.

Let me give you some choices. Choices are good, yes?

Vampire Diaries: Damon. Damon getting his snark on while he undaggered Elijah, or post undaggering, the conversation the two of them were bound to have about how Elijah broke his word

Lost Girl: Kenzi/Dyson is my favorite pairing as well as friendship. Remember the episode when they body switched? Something related to that.

Chuck: Casey/Chuck/Sarah -- when Sarah remembers she realizes what was missing all along -- Casey in their bed.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Wow, clearly I am a lot behind on lost girl! I knew I was one behind on tvd but I hadn't expected elijah (no worries on spoiling me; I had actually known that before the ep aired *g*)

Hmmm. I will give those a try.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

:D

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Did you see the series finale of Chuck? Cause I think I can work something off of that...

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

I did, that's what I was implying with when she gets her memory back.

This last season largely pissed me off, but the last two episodes/2 hour finale made it better.

Phoenix pt 1

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I loved the finale. Especially because there was a lot of Sarah kicking ass again and while I am down with her wanting to give up the spy life and start having kids, it had to be slightly less Disney...

Please keep in mind I've never written in this show before. That + rusty is going to equal weird.



"Verbanski?" Sarah shines up her best doe-eyed I Had My Memories Erased Help Me look. "Aren't they a covert spy for hire organization?"

Fake. Faker. Big, agenda-y faker. Chuck doesn't narrow his eyes only because that's one of his worst tells. She's learned most of them in under a week and a man has to have some secrets. So, too, does a lady but-- come on.

Verbanski Corp was a big name five years ago. It was a big name ten years ago.

Plus, Chuck knows a lot of her tells. In fact, he'd probably venture to say he knows most of them.

"Yeah, but that's not the real attraction for him. You know... and I mean that totally as a figure of speech, not how you're supposed to know anything, because obviously, you know, the whole," he gestures at her head.

Yup. The doe-eyed look doesn't fade but there's the tiniest hint of a smile on that petal-pink mouth. "Okay. So what's the real attraction?"

Screw it. Chuck narrows his eyes, because even two-day-old-Intersect-Chuck wouldn't have fallen for that.

"Who told you?"

Sarah concedes (mostly) gracefully and settles back on the sofa. "Alex. She seemed to think it mattered where he went."

"Well, yeah. We're--we're family. I know you don't remember that, but Casey is one of your closest friends."

One who is in the possession of amazing shoulders. A few months of working out has given Chuck a set he is no longer ashamed of, with the potential of more, but he hasn't dedicated his life to defending the nation with every bit of strength or cunning he possessed. That was a recent decision.

Casey looks like an All American Hero. Rambo, without the steroids and the artful Hollywood muscles. Even Awesome pales in comparison to the sheer virility that is John Casey.

"That's what it is," Sarah murmurs. The soft musing jerks Chuck back to the present and oh, crap.

"What is? There is no is. Or a what! There's just Casey being... Casey. And that's not a guy you can pin down, you know? Which I know you don't, but just go with me. You'll remember. You're remembering a lot."

Sarah smiles, patting his hand the way she used to, the one that says dork but possibly also favorite dork. Chuck loves those little touches.

Casey hadn't done anything like that. Not at first. A chance encounter that had happened more than a few times, and Chuck really needs to stop thinking these things when Sarah is studying him this intently. Because, as mentioned, the doe-eyed Save Me, Obi-Wan look is a fake, and she is smart. Freakishly so. Maybe not about computers or why a light saber is the most awesome weapon, as an example, but still. She's incredibly smart.

And she may not remember Chuck, but some things don't require the conscious memories to explain things.

Phoenix pt 2

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

She picks up Chuck's hand and squeezes it. "How long?"

"Not--very. A few times before we got married."

"And after?" So soft, that question. So lulling.

Eyes closed, Chuck tries to see only the negative impressions of blood against thin skin. "A lot more. He needed to get away from Morgan and, well. You guys are. I mean, it isn't that it's bad with-- you and me. After the last couple of days, I hope you know that--"

"Chuck," she says, the way she always says his name. Fond and beloved and just a little annoyed. "He and I are what?"

"Rougher." Scarlet as the shirt he wears, Chuck pries open his eyes. "A lot. I sort of like to watch."

Sarah nods, because Sarah is very thoughtful. This one is, at least, carefully weighing and measuring everything Chuck tells her against some internal scale that he still can't figure out. Oh, he will. But it's only been a week and change (9 and a half days, 85 minutes and he can do the seconds, but even in his head that seems excessive) since the kiss on the beach when Sarah decided that he was trustworthy. The kind of connection they have takes time to reestablish, especially when there aren't any more life and death pressure-cooker situations.

Those were really great at accelerating things.

That's also one reason Casey left. Chuck debates on adding that to the conclusions Sarah is obviously reaching. The lack of adrenaline, the rush that obliterates good sense, reminds Casey that intruding on a married couple is probably not the wisest course of action.

"To bring this back, Chuck, Verbanski...?"

"Gertrude. There's maybe a thing there. It's just starting, despite nearly a decade of foreplay, and she might be good for him, but..."

"But she isn't family. She isn't us."

Impulsively, Chuck leans forward to cup Sarah's face, kissing her softly. Then lingeringly, plus maybe a few more adverbs because Sarah doesn't fight him anymore. She doesn't question and evaluate the touches they share. This is just enjoyment.

The way it (was) should be.

That a geeky nerd with floppy hair and no future has become someone who can please (pleasure) this incredible woman who is, currently, inching closer to his lap, has always been one of Chuck's greatest accomplishments. When passion takes over Sarah has no artifice left, no mask she can wear. It is pure and primal and her enjoyment is utterly unfeigned.

He loves that. "I love you," he tells her, breath mingling. "Sarah, I love you."

"And him? I remember..."

"Hey, gonna give me a complex."

Against his lips, hers curve into something so sweet it could be mythical ambrosia. "Liar. But I remember we wanted to get a bigger bedroom."

There's no logic to her returning memories. "We'd only discussed the bed part, but yeah. We did. Do we still?"

"First tell me why we let him fly off to Romania?"

One does not let John Casey do anything. Rather than say that, Chuck leans back, heart squeezing when she goes with him, nestled into his side like she used to (will again). "Because it's more fun to hunt him down, after?"

Sarah laughs, and it's real, so real, familiar as waves that lap warm over his skin, and he kisses her again because he can't not. This woman he loves that shines up at him without a trace of anything but love. There's love there. She may not remember the depth of it, yet, but it's all still there.

"Did I ever tell you about the time I put all our money with a crooked financier, because I didn't ask you first?"

"Hmm. Sounds like something you'd do. What about it?"

"Well, we got it back." The General had pulled quite a number of strings. Happily. "Plus some interest."

"Enough for two tickets to Romania?"

"Yup. And a one-way addition," Chuck nods, and leans back, his (almost) wife warm and solid in his arms, the plans for their future that he'd thought left to ash slowly, surely, being resurrected once more.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

\o/\o/ *awesome*

Yeah, Sarah and Casey suddenly needing *help* [coughintheformofMorganJeffLestercough] in any sort of situation at all pissed me the hell off. When Sarah put on the glasses to get the intersect because she and Casey couldn't get out of that? My blood boiled.

and boiled and boiled. Sarah Walker was the best spy in the world from the very beginning and for her to become incompetent in the last season to make the plot work better pissed me the hell off.

Don't get me started on the pussification of Casey.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I agree on Casey - he never had anything but his country and his gun for a really long time. Opening him up to friends and family means opening him up to a grey area he's avoided for a very long time. I think the whole "be who you used to be" part was shit, although it got a nice moment out of morgan.

I never understood the part where he and sarah were "trapped" and she had to use the glasses. they should've forced a much more dangerous situation. Watch Sarah go hella badass afterword made up for it, for me.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

It wasn't him getting friends and family, it was more like what they did with Sarah. He went from a bad-ass who could beat anyone hand to hand, not to mention was the greatest sniper in the world, to someone who had his ass handed to him All. The. Time.

I liked him being a dad. I loved all his scenes with Alex.

It's very similar to one of my MANY issues with Supernatural. They're supposed to be the best. If they're the best, why do they have to call Bobby for help to do everything up to and including wiping their own asses?

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Worf Complex. They create these characters to be the most badass of badassdom but the problem is, that's not really maintanable on a tv show that thrives on creating flaws and weaknesses, the way most modern shows do. So they have these formerly unbeatable characters and they make them beatable. It happens all the time. I hate it, because it's a cheap way out. You can make Casey be a dad without turning him into a pansy. You can even make him someone who works better with a team than on his own. That doesn't mean he has to lose fights, it means he has to win them better.

But that's hard to do, writing wise. And even though I truly loved the final two eps, both they and this whole season had a lot of "I want X character to make a great speech/save the day/do Y" and in order to do that, chess pieces had to be moved around. It's stupid, but it's not unusual at all, sadly.

I call it the Worf Complex because I first really noticed it on St: NG. Worf was supposed to be this awwesome badass fighter and yet he hardly ever won a fight. It annoyed the hell out of me.

As for Supernatural, I never actually thought they were supposed to be the best? Just one more pair among many. Who have... extra issues, comparatively. I think the dependency on Bobby came later because it was such a two man show that they *had* to get a third character in there, consistently. And instead of keeping awesome characters like Ellen and Jo (yes, I am STILL BITTER about that), they went for the easy way out. And I loved Bobby. He was a great addition and he played a really important role for both boys, beyond the shortcuts he offered. But he allowed too many short cuts.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Worf Syndrome is exactly it. And it is the province of lazy story telling. Chuck wasn't high-art tv, but it was fun, *funny*, and until it's last season kept everyone growing. Chuck's growth was obvious, he had to become a spy. Sarah and Casey had to grow to let people in. They went from getting it right most of the time, to getting it completely wrong. And it was like it didn't matter because it was ending.

As for SPN, they were pretty explicit in the early seasons that Winchesters were the end all/be all. And I know the show went on longer than they thought and they couldn't get JDM back and all that, but god show people, learn to look back on the canon that you've already established and work with in it. PLEASE.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I am still so reluctantly a SPN fan that I will take your word for it. Particularly as I had to wince my way through the first two seasons often with my hands over my eyes. I do not like scary shit. Horror is NOT my genre.

Which is why I like the later seasons. They aren't good by anyone's estimation, but they are entertaining to me. Especially the whole no, I won't let you go to Hell, no, I won't let you go to hell.

Plus, I like rubbing Sam into this tiny little wreck of shame a lot.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

:D

[ldthomps.livejournal.com]

Oh, man - yes to all of the above! I just have baggy pants at the end of the day because I don't have a great ass anyway, but I Hate lycra. I've heard tell of people making plain cotton jeans, but then people are talking about how they have to soak in them in the tub and not wash them for, like, months so they hold their shape. And I'm all - what happened to inexpensive but nice jeans? How was that so hard?

UGH. Here's today going quickly, and tomorrow being much better.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

I don't know why the clothing industry decided that every damn piece of clothing in the world needed Lycra. Some types of clothes do, for sure. And maybe even some people who would prefer to be in pajamas really do want the super soft comfy jeans that stretch out and bag.

I am not one of these people. I can't find a brand of jeans under $75 a pair that doesn't have that shit it it. And I'm sorry. I shouldn't have to pay $400 for a pair of what essentially used to be Levi's -- a work jean -- in order to have something that fits.

So. Pants too small. Hopefully I won't spill anything on them or get them dirty in any other way, 'cause they'll feel really good tomorrow.

[viverra-libro.livejournal.com]

Uh. It kind of seems to me like you have a popular body type for the way clothes are cut right now. From my perspective, it seems like most clothes are cut to have a 9 to 10 inch change from waist to hip, b/c they are always way big on me in the waist (I have just about always had a 12 inch change from hip measurement to waist, no matter what the actual measurement). Does something that fits in the bust and right under the bust work? Or are you looking for something that is fitted thru the upper hip as well? Or, does a knit work? I wear a lot of lightweight sweaters that I kind of force out of shape when I try to squeeze them around my hip. So maybe on you the fit would be perfect? Let me see if I can find some examples and I'll post them in the next few days. Xoxoxox!

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

And that's where you would be completely wrong. The 'best' my hip to waist ratio has ever been in my entire fucking life is 6". When I'm heaving it's nearer to 3". I didn't wear any sort of pants from the women's department until I was in my mid-twenties. I always shopped the men's department because the smallest my waist has ever been was 29 and a 30 was comfortable.

This is why when I buy pants one size too small to fit my ass the muffin top is truly, truly horrific.

Things that fit under the bust and skim down the body to flare in an A-line look really nice. But again, my proportions are whacked, my chest is *small* so I often wind up having to buy a size too large if I go with pants that fit and then the top sags and my bra always shows.

Now, when I lose weight down to the perfect size and get my waist between 30 and 31 the worst of it disappears with the weight loss, but my proportions still get off: 34, 30, 36.

[i-am-pondering.livejournal.com]

I think the plan is we need to go shopping. :)

Lycra is in just about every pair of jeans and is so freaking annoying.

Low rise is my first thought, but that would be what you are talking on the muffin top issue. So I offer up this, find a pair that has no lycra that fits the widest part of you and then pay the $10 to have them altered in the waist. Really easy alteration and for a perfect fit on your jeans to show off your fabulous ass it is completely worth it. :)

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

Like, I like Lycra in my blouses because it can help to eliminate wrinkling and me + iron = non-existent.

Low-rise has gotten out of control with the lowness. I normally buy hip-huggers or pants that sit below the actual waist. Which is funny because on me, even if I buy a petite, the below the waist part is actually on my waist.

Now. I've never actually thought about having jeans altered. Mainly because there aren't any good affordable seamstress/tailors around here. But that is an excellent thought for jeans that won't wear out with in six months.

[i-am-pondering.livejournal.com]

A higher end jean will cost more, but they'll last longer too and would be worth the tailor cost. Maybe a trip into the city is in order to find 1 or 2 perfect fit jeans for that fab tooshy. :)