The well-fated resolution didn't even come to me until well into the year. I'm taking that as a lesson not to rush the resolution. If it is meant to be it will come in it's own time. The resolution was to "not dress like I'm camping ALL the time."
I don't think I'm exaggerating when I admit that my casual dress had gone a bit too far. FREE t shirts! Sleep on wet hair and it's sticking out all funny? That's what hats are for! Why spend hard earned money on shirts when they give us free Pepsi branded t shirts at work? Yeah I am 5 foot, 100lbs. Free gimmee t shirts are usually extra large. So what? Did I mention Free shirts?!
The thing that finally got to me was fear of that TV show What Not To Wear. Have you seen this show? Friends and family set some poor fool up. They secretly film the subject shopping and working in their embarrassing crappy clothes/hair. The hosts of the show then stage an ambush where they take this person completely unaware. The do offer a $5000 shopping trip, fashion lessons and make over in New York in exchange for forcing the victim to watch the embarrassing video and even watching the hosts of the show throw away all their current wardrobe while verbally trashing it.... piece by piece. I love to watch it. Is that evil?
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| IMDB Photo - Clinton & Stacy trashing a wardrobe on What Not To Wear. |
It is so funny when it isn't you. Ha ha ha. What waaaas she thinking? Clinton holds up a hideous lime green... um... thing. Stacy wants to know how you managed to fit "the girls" in that ... is it a top? Is it a doily from your gramma's dresser top? Har har har har.
I'm not the kind of person to change my entire life style based on unwarranted fear of some TV show. However valid FEAR of a TV show is a dress of an entirely different color. Both of my children watch that TV show and were very open about their opinion of my style or lack of same. They would turn me in. Other friends at work watch that show as well, but that is still not enough to really scare me.
I work in advertising in Dallas. Our office is in a high rise in downtown that is mostly other advertising agencies. There are camera crews shooting stuff all the time in and around our building. I don't know what half of it is. Could be tests shoots for commercials maybe? Rough draft kind of shoots for a sales pitch maybe? I don't know. The agency I am in doesn't do TV commercials. But lots of other agencies in the building are... apparently. So I was finding myself actually being paranoid that the work going on in the lobby / on the sidewalk was actually Clinton and Stacy preparing to "get me".
So that is how I came to find my self making the New Year's resolution to "not dress like I'm camping ALL the time." I did it too! Even started doing the make-up thing.
I'm going to dare to make a resolution for 2011.
This year I am going to try to post on this blog a couple of times a week.
I hope I can do as well this year on the resolution thingy.
Love and Purls
Pfluffernutter
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