I tried to put my jeans on this morning. After two weeks of wearing tracks or leggings it was time to get back into 'outside world' clothes. And guess what? Whilst my back was turned - or rather while I was busy eating - some kind soul has been into my wardrobe, washed every single pair of jeans on a boil wash and shrunk them. I'm sure they were only trying to be helpful but why would somebody do that? Why?
I will be breathing in for a few days. And probably not breathing out.
Walkies anyone?
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ah you and me both. i am actually looking forward to my noontime salad today. it's so much easier to eat sensibly when i'm away from home all day.
happy new year to you and teabag and peggy! and the rest of your happy home!
I have the opposite problem. All my trousers are falling off me, and I can't put a belt on too tightly because it's still too ouchy. Can't win, can we?
I'm wearing so many layers of clothing it looks like I've put on stones!
Happy New Year to you all
xxPat
woofs Tim and Ted
I know the feeling! Walkies it is.
Happy New Year
lx
The very same has happened to me. I was happily eating all that brie, camembert, baguettes and Swiss chocolate... without doing all the skiing. Whoever knew?
lol, Lane! Don't you just hate those infernal Boil-wash Pixies that invade our homes same time every year!?
Oh, I'm so relieved Lane. I honestly thought I might have stuffed too many mice pies - washed down with sherry - down my gob.
How do we track down the Wash Fairy?
Am still in trackies as I don't have a proper grown-up meeting till tomorrow. However, I suspect that kind soul may have been to my house, too. I'll find out in the morning. Maybe if I just have a small dinner tonight...
Boil wash, of course! Why didn't I think of that! Nothing at all to do with the Nigella Lawson vanilla cake I made, or those mince pies with cream and certainly not those Baileys truffles...
Hope you don't freeze on those walkies, brrr.
Same here!
This DID make me laugh Lane. I am resigned to a pair of track suit bottoms with wait for it - an elasticated waist!! NOTHING fits. Off to walk an imaginary dog. Have a great 2010...Fx
and same here. It's so bad I actually went out and bought a new Rosemary Conley exercise tape. Ugh.
(whisper) I've got my stretchy jeans with the elastic waisttband on today. They are so comfy. I try not to look at my side view in case I think that I now look six months pregnant instead of just three.
xx
I feel your pain, Lane! Got on the scales this morning to an all-time high in many years. It's back to keeping a food diary--since I plan to be able to record my intake on something less than a legal pad--wearing pants with a zipper at least once a week and doing the Willie Walkies. And putting a lock on the washing machine. . .
Oh that happened to you too! How weird, ha. Oh to be 19 and dance it off every Saturday night...
x
Weird,but a sound explanation for what happened to my trousers.
Happy new year
This is a new development. An international epidemic. The same seems to be occurring in the South of Ireland! Maybe it's a new Christmas tradition to sneak into other people's houses and wash their trousers at the highest temperature possible?
Walkies definitely though I've got so many layers on I look like Michelin Woman xxx
Didn't I once tell you that I thought you needed to eat more? And now you're complaining? Sheesh!
I have to plan on fighting through the cobwebs to my exercise machines - the walker - the bowflex (shamefully I own one of those) and the scales. I'll have to see if I can find something to get into to follow my exercise video - (ya sure) or I can just do what I did last summer - exercise in the nude - only to find some repairmen up on a ladder looking in the window in sheer horror. I'm surprised the poor fellow didn't fall to his immediate death - or throw himself to it anyway!
I have one excuse and one only. I have surgery coming up and I'm not supposed to be doing any of that. Hahahahaha! Wait until afterward. They'll have to wheel me out of the hospital in a moomoo.....yes - spelling intentional.
Happy New Year to you dear Lane.
Ooh maybe they've done the same thing to my clothes too. I wondered what had happened to them.
I'm still waiting for the Clothes Fairies to bring me something expensive and exciting to wear when they're rummaging around in my wardrobe. Happy New Year to you anyway!
Happy New Year Lane and may the clothes-shrinking gremlin be banished by the end of January!
Happy New Year Lane! That shrinking clothes soul has been to my neck of the woods too! x
Turn thyself into Miss Pepperpot! ;-) TFx
They've been round my house too.
Happy New Year, Lane x
Ooh, those sneaky boil wash fairies do it to me every year.
Happy New Year!
Three magic words: South Beach Diet
It works!!!
They've been to my house, too. I can't understand why they're going to all this trouble and in so many different areas. Weird, isn't it?
Oh how I hear you Lane! All these comments made me chuckle too :)
This blog is very good.
Oh dear. Shrinky clothes are quite a peril. At least having to wear all out clothes at once just now means that, as Spring approaches and we peel off, it'll *seem* as if we're shrinking. TO other people at least, not to our zips, obv.
How cruel that someone would do that. It seems to be Nationwide.
I'm hoping that somebody is going to come and replace mine with nice roomy jeans that allow for full breaths quite soon.
In the meantime, I'll be walking more briskly when I'm out with Molly, just in case :o)
Erm...yes. me too. My Wii fit is my enemy at the moment because it insists on weighing me and bleating about my weight gain, every day!
Send them round my house please, boil or no boil!
You know...I think someone has been into my wardrobe and done the same thing!! We must hunt them down...
Diet starts next week...for both me and the cat!!
C x
Happy New Year Lane! I def know that feeling! Have been hiding mine with huge oversize jumpers! I will be doing lots of walkies and press upsies:)
I have layers and layers on and a scarf and I am indoors! And the washing machine needs a new hose and I am trying not to change clothes too often.
Keep breathing!
OH! That happened to my clothes too! I'm sure no one boiled them, though. Very mysterious indeed.
Funny that, all my trousers have mysteriously shrunk too. And they are the big-arse jeans I bought to replace the normal teeny skinny jeans I used to wear.
Sigh ... one of these days I'll sort all this weight gain nonsense out.
There is an award over at mine for you :-)
C x
have recently (finally) discovered the Wii - great way to get sweating while having fun and in the privacy of your home
No one has been boiling your jeans, Lane. It's time you faced the truth: there's a conspiracy in the clothes industry to make our clothes shrink so we have to keep buying more.
No posts since January 4th? The button on your jeans didn't pop off, rocket around the room and put your eye out, did it?
Oh lord, you too. I tell you, this boil the jeans beast has been travelling globally. I think we need a bounty hunter to hunt it down!
Lane, where have you gone? I've been reading for blog for such a long time now and so enjoy it. I love your wise and witty take on the world, and of course your little dogs (I have one just like them, but so far she hasn't got a mention in my blog - she could definately be a sister of your two though - ugly sister maybe, because she's a bit of a rag bag - but don't tell her I said that..). Also, massively impressed by your giving up smoking - I am about to embark on this (for the fourth time) sometime very soon. Post again soon!
Thank you chaps. I'm glad that fairy has been a visiting:-)
Janice -ouch. But very nearly:-)
Now We Are Seven - Thank you so much. You've got to mention your 'rag bag' soon. It's very good for their egos:-)
Good luck for when you go for the quit.
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