tonight i celebrate, dammit!
so my man and i got all our test results yesterday and got the official green light to start rolling condom free, woofrigginghoo! to celebrate, a mama friend that lives next door is going to take my daughter overnight so we can have a "date" night and i can stay at my dude's house, and we went shopping this morning so i could pick out some lingerie...black and fire engine red, fucking HAWT. i never wear nice lingerie, partly because i really don't have any and partly because i'm usually comfy in mama panties and a tank top. i mean, having a kid means i don't have the opportunity to really go nuts and have crazy fun with sex very often; it's not "mmmm, hang on, let me slip into something sexy", it's mostly us on the couch going "okay, i think she's asleep! hurry up, let's do it now before she wakes up and comes out of the bedroom again!" and then making sure that we stay covered with the blanket, and kind of watching the door in case she gets up.
but watch out world, because tonight... miss phoenix is gonna get her GRRRRR on!
ETA: and, oh oh oh, one comment on lingerie shopping... we stopped into victoria's horseshit so i could look at their basic cotton panties (all my undies are a bit, um, snug lately) and they're all out on this giant table, and when i was looking through them trying to find my size a salesgirl came up and said "can i help you?" so i told her i was having trouble finding any size large, and she looked at me like i'm a moron and said "oh, we don't put the larger sizes out in the display. those are in the drawers down below." and then walked away.
ohhhhhh, i see. because anything larger than a medium on display would just be like...eww, icky, right? and not for nothing, but they're in the BOTTOM drawer of this thing, on the GROUND, so i had to literally get down on my hands and knees in the store to find my "larger sized" underwear.
fuck them.
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Stop it, you're making me jealous 
Oh, I think we totally deserve a lingerie shot..... just sayin.
*Blushes* I feel so honored!
Oh, and on a completely different note, I've finished up little Phoenix kid's bags, so she's got that going for her 
i totally forgot about L's hat!! i'll get crackin' on that this afternoon so i can hopefully have it out to you by the end of the week!
msg me and let me know what color you want, i can't even remember what we had talked about?? man, i'm so flaky it's ridiculous!
Haha, it's totally fine! Honestly, it's already getting warm here, so you don't have to worry about it. Just consider the bags a belated b-day/x-mas gift for the little lady
How was your night?!
He had a dinner and wine on the table when I got there, so sweet. He cooks in his jammies and slippers, I love it.
And we watched movies (Zombieland = awesome, loved it and the "guest" cameo was hilarious) and ate mallomars and snuggled and made out and got it on all night (and this morning too, haha). It was exactly what I wanted/needed! I debuted the new bra and undies and got my hawt mama grrr on and it was fun fun fun; getting away overnight like once a month is so good for me, seriously.
DD was hilarious when I came home this morning, she asked "You slept over B's house last night? Was it like a slumber party?! With ice cream and movies and sleeping bags and flashlights?!" I told her yes, obviously, and she was clearly thrilled at the thought. She's so damn funny.
And I'm glad you guys got some warmer weather down there, but I still feel bad I dropped the ball on L's hat...I'll still make it so he has it for next year.
That night sounds just about perfect. I too cook in my jammies and slippers, so this is a very good sign in my book
Yeah, everyone around here is shitting their pants happy about the warmer weather, they think anything under 60 is freezing. But I miss the cold already. I so love it when it's cold out, makes me feel more alive. The heat makes me feel like I just want to wilt away, so depressing and heavy and just gross. Cold makes me feel invigorated and happy. But I realize the cold I endure here is nothing compared to you guys, so I'll quit bitching now!
If you have brown yarn that would be awesome! But really anything you have on hand, we love all colors
i'm a little girl, and when i shop (ed, shoppED because it's been years)i did notice that the smaller sizes were in the drawers. the size 5-10's were out on display. i didn't take it as them calling me icky, i took it as them placing out prominently the average sizes, because it's more practical for a large volume seller of mass-produced goods. i also actually liked that any stuff i'd be buying would be out of the line of fire of people's sneezes, snots, spilling drinks, etc.
When you put it that way...yeah, I guess having to get my undies out of the bottom drawer means at least people aren't pawing through them all day with their grubby flu-infested hands!
But at victoria's horseshit (which is, from thus forth, what I'll be referring to that store as) the XS, S, and M is what's out on the display. Is the "average" woman really an XS through M?! I would assume there's more women who are in the 10-14 range than in the 0-2 range, maybe I'm wrong. But then, when I consider their demographic, they're more angling for the high school-ish demographic it seems. I doubt they have my needs in mind when they design their shit, or their store layout.
Still, I find it a bit (nah, A LOT) demeaning that I had to get down on my hands and knees in the middle of the store to look at underwear that would fit me. Would it be so horrible to fold up a couple pairs of L, or (gasp!) XL, to put behind the others? I just don't get it.
That store pisses me off anyway though, for a reason having nothing to do with sexy shit: they have a known repuation for frowing upon breasfeeding in their stores. A couple years ago in a local MA town there was a big to-do when a woman sat down on a bench near the fitting room and nursed her baby while a friend tried on some bras. A saleslady came up and told her to put her tits away or leave (although I doubt it was in those words). The woman freaked out, tried to file some civil lawasuits against them, but it turns out that MA has *no* laws protecting breastfeeding women in public places; it's at the discretion of the business.
What makes me want to kick something is the fact that it's VICTORIA'S SECRET. Hello, the annual Angel Fashion show?! It's a fucking barely-covered-tit-parade. They're seriously, with a straight face, going to say "put those away! Those are dirrrty!" The woman this happened to staged a sit-in with her local le leche league and they all nursed outside the store; VS stayed firm in their "boobies are only okay when they're paraded down the runway!" stance.
Ever since then they've pissed me off, and the only reason I go near that store is when I need new basic cotton panties and nothing I get anywhere else is comfortable. I hate the fact that their stupid Pink line makes the most comfy bikinis ever.
Btw, mr phoenix dude is sitting and smoking a bowl right now so I figured I'd take advantage of my crackberry and entertain myself. He just asked who I was "texting" with and I told him what I was talking about and he said he's pretty sure that MA has since enacted laws protecting breastfeeding mothers. Good to know, I guess. Still though...fuck victoria's horseshit.
/end ramble!!
there are more women in the 10-12 range, but i also know that when i used to shop there, i would never find my size on the display. particularly in the bras. i decided that this was because they were so jealous of my boyish figure.
i dislike VS for just... what they are. all their bras have wires so people with perfect boobies like me are like left to fend for ourselves. and what's with the foam? why is a D cup going to go around with foam on her tits, is she not hot enough carrying that around? it's like walking around with two pillows strapped to your chest. these women look ridiculous. i can always tell when someone is wearing their ridiculous shit too, it's like they have boob, then some shit floating on top of their boob, then their shirt.
i quit them before the whole angel thing, so i'm only vaguely familiar with that. in fact i quit all mall stores years ago. i'm a fan of the cotton underpants from cheapo stores, and making them hot with my own hotness. that and white cotton nightgowns.
fuck VS and their pillow bras.
I stopped going to VS ages ago. Cos they literally don't have my size bras and even when they did - when I was younger and had smaller breasts - the bras, I now realize, fit for shit. No support. And I'm sorry if you are a D (as I was/thought I was), that's just not gonna work. My bra size never was on display either, just in the depths of some drawer...and really 36D is not all that large! I never wore their underwear cos their cotton ones just gave me wedgies. And I only do cotton. So.
I've had a long standing hate-hate relationship with the place.
ANYWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAY, I hope your night was fantastic, Miss Phoenix and that you woke up with a big ol' smile on yr face! 
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. -- Emily Dickinson
You want to do what you think is right and what matters to you, and if other people don't like it, as my father would have said, they can go fuck themselves. -- Amy Bloom
victoria's horseshit can suck it. i'm done with them. i need to find some comfy cotton undies somewhere though...ive always found theirs to be the only ones that DONT give me a wedgie actually! but i'm kind of bootylicious, and the elastic fits right into that fold under my butt cheeks where i could probably store, like, a pen and some loose change if i wanted to. any good recommendations for comfy cotton undies though??
and holy crap, btw...looking at that ticker just made me realize that T is actually FIFTEEN MONTHS OLD?! insanity. it was just yesterday that you were pregnant, wasn't it?!
While I HAVE noticed that B.S. about the sizes, and become annoyed by it, especially because their idea of large and mine are totally different...
I'm a size 8-10 and I wear a large in there just because I'm a black woman who has inherited the bootyliciousness of her ancestors.
Anyway Miss Phoenix...hope you had fine despite the Vickie's Sickie's bullshit.
"But is it my manner that keeps her from hearing, or the threat of a message that her life may change?"
-Audre Lorde
I love VS but hate the retail stores. A few years back I was looking for some vacation lingerie and was told they didn't have anything in my size. At the time I was 150, size 12-14, the average fricking American woman. Now, two kids and ten pounds later, I wear their cotton panties (ordered online) and bras (online) and am mainly pissed off that bras in larger sizes cost more. But for the salesgirl in the store to size me up and claim they had nothing for me? I stayed out of their stores for years and have never been back to that one actually.
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i'm like a ninja when it comes to looking hawt...i need to be undercover and maintain my sexy bitch identity. but mayyyybe i'll send you a top secret shot via facebook, if you're super lucky.