full-figured and full of...

okay, it had to happen sooner or later... my first slam post.

let me just put it out there... i am overweight... a "full-figured" woman, if you will. the moment i actually started taking some action against my state of full-figuredness is the moment i was able to finally admit that i am, in fact, full-figured.

that being said... i was searching all over the web for the perfect bathing suit for "fuller" women. not fun, by the way. as a full-figured woman, what would YOU look for in a bathing suit? maximum coverage right? something not so embarrassing to you and not so offensive to others? something like a moo-moo you'd wear in a pool, right? yeah, me too. so i'm looking for something specific, obviously... some kind of swimdress, perhaps. something that doesn't have a plunging neckline or backline. the search is producing mediocre results. i did find a really great one, but it was sold out (of course). and then i remember... lane bryant! they're a plus-size department store! so i hightail it over to lanebryant.com to discover they carry two (2!) swimdresses... and they suck. lane bryant is the biggest joke i've encountered in my endeavor. and thus the title for my blog...

a quickie...

...to keep everyone posted. if you haven't heard already, justin started his job at honeywell on july 14th. he loves it... and so do i! he loves his schedule, the people, the pay... he says they really seem to care about their employees and are always trying to show it. i love all of the same things he does... my two favorites being 1) that he finally has a job he likes going to as it makes him a happier person all around and 2) the benefits as that make ME a happier person all around! we've been uninsured for some time now, so to go from no benefits to great benefits is an even greater perk. it also means we're another step closer to having kids, since that was one of the bigger reasons for postponing. it's all very exciting and i wanted to share it with yall before it became old news. more later...

hubby's funnies (#1)...

so my husband is, by far, the funniest person i know. but, i guess, because i don't always laugh at him anymore, he doesn't think i find him funny anymore. completely untrue... it's just that he and i have been together for 11 years this saturday and, frankly, i've heard it all before! either he's said/done it to me in different variations, or he's said/done it to someone else while in my presence! i tell him he just needs new material. ;) but seriously folks... he is still very funny... it's just that it's usually when he doesn't realize it.

now some bloggers are doing "flashback fridays" and my friend lindsay has started her very own "mortified mommy moments" in leiu of the "flashback fridays" (very funny, by the way, go check out her blog)... so i got to thinking that whenever hubby says/does something that actually makes me laugh out loud, maybe i should post about it... perhaps titled "hubby's funnies". let me know what you think.

so for the first one...
it's lunch time; i'm sitting at my desk; i'm eating a brownie, which is rare as i'm not a big chocolate kind of girl; hubby, on the other hand, loves chocolate (loves peanut butter too... and if you mix the two for him, he'll roll over and let you scratch his belly!). so i take a picture of said brownie and send it to hubby's phone with a text...

me: look what i'm eating!
hubby: u suck balls u lucky punk
me: can't finish it too much chocolate... u want it?
hubby: sure put it in ur pocket napolean dynamite

and i laughed.

what blog?

just a quickie to apologize for my lack of posts this past month. i've been a little too busy for a blog lately. we've got the office move coming up at the end of this month and our trip to wisconsin immediately follows.

more to come after our july 4th trip to wisconsin.

until then... go check out some of my friends' blogs!