I have recently found the perfect pair of jeans. It is a high-waist, barely boot cut. Let me tell you why it is perfect. Remember the post on “My body, My rectangle” (if not Read Post Here), well I could rewrite this post pandemic to read “My body, my rectangle with a bulge in place of a waist”. So the beauty of the high-waist jeans is the bulge around my middle is hidden inside the higher waist of these jeans! The barely boot make the leg appear longer and slimmer, especially when paired with same color shoes. This is not my opinion, it came from the experts on TLC’s What Not To Wear, so it must be true. Having struck gold at Talbots, the perennial older woman shop, I quickly purchased 3 pairs, black, blue and white. Oh the JOY! After 40 years the perfect jeans! I know the price is a little steep but I will probably have these jeans for a decade; I calculate that's about $10 per year per pair - cheap! Guess what? I can only find black jeans in the high-waist category on-line today! Oh the HUMMANITY!
GenX Gets OLD
Lifestyles of the middle aged, middle incomed, middle generation genXers.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Susceptible to Infomercials?
Does age make you susceptible to infomercials? I have always considered myself immune, but lately…we ordered window cleaning crystals (I will let you know if they work.) As I write the word “crystals” I already feel confident I have been HAD! Just this morning we were oohing and aahing over Gotham Steel Pots. I mean they can go in the dishwasher, you can use metal spatulas on them and they stack! So the reasons I think age makes you susceptible are these: 1) The cache of name brand, expensive stuff has worn off. For example, I am over the limitations of my Caphalon pots and pans like hand washing and the need to use plastic or wooden spatulas. 2) As discussed previously home maintenance has become painful and tedious. Hence the window cleaning crystals, I mean they say you don’t have to remove the screens. It will clean the screen and the window in one fell swoop. We had to try it. Are you considering more products “as seen on TV”?
Thursday, August 6, 2020
My Flowers are Conspiring Against Me
I am sort of a gardener.
What I mean is a lot of square footage in my yard is devoted to
flowers. In recent years I have been
trying to convince my husband we should dig up some of these and either give
them away or replant elsewhere and turn some of the gardens back into grass
that he mows. Maybe some of the flowers
overheard this because this year they are blooming one at a time. So what I am experiencing is a lot of green with
very little color.
This gardening thing was something I was very excited about
when I moved in to my first home. In
addition I loved interior design make-overs and had even pictured myself
throwing dinner parties; this was basically my version of the American
Dream. It has soured. I can count the number of dinner parties we
have hosted on one hand (family holidays don’t count in this dream land), the
flowers have lost their allure and per several previous posts home improvement
is painful.
My new middle aged American Dream is to move to a townhouse
with a homeowners association that will mow the postage stamp of lawn out front
and maybe a patio out back with one or two pots that I water full of
flowers. In this dream I am retired and
spend several months a year hiking at various places around the country.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Arm Tights?!?!!!
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Obscene Product Placement
I am obsessed with a new product! It is called Dove Exfoliating Body
Polish, I am calling it my new slathering sauce. Yes, like my other product reviews
1) It is readily available. I bought mine at Walmart. 2) It is inexpensive. I
paid about $6. This stuff is
amazing. Do you ever put your arm around
your child and think how soft their skin is?
Well this stuff makes yours softer.
I won’t promise the fountain of youth, but it is pretty nice. I bought the pomegranate, but the smell is
mild and not sure I really notice it. It
is a very fine grained scrub with more grains than others I have tried. I did have to wash it off with soap
afterwards as the product directions recommend.
Try it and let me know if you like it!