Today’s installment of “What my Dyson sucked up”

You’d look at this and think I never vacuum. But I did. Last week.

I love you, my Dyson.

How not to get work done

1.  Have an entire marching band set up shop outside your window.

Does looking like you have the runs sell sweaters?

Victoria’s Secret apparently thinks so. I got this in my email today:

Here are my issues with this ad:

1. She looks like she has the runs
2. She is not wearing pants
3. Is she wearing a negligee with her charcoal gray sweater?
4. Those pockets are as big as her face!

Who wore it best?

Pete	Suede

I am a terrible gardener

Apparently, a neighborhood rabbit agrees.

I told you the storms were bad

Niza and Adobo and I went on a walk this afternoon, and saw that one of my favorite big trees fell victim to the storm last night.

(note the house in the background for size comparison)

(look how small Niza is compared to the tree!)

On the good side, it smelled like pine throughout the park.

Dear Old Navy – I am not fat.

I lost 20 lbs over the past year and a half. I worked really hard to do it – I was on Weight Watchers online, and I worked out by using the FIRM (transFIRMer system), then added Spin classes, and I walk a lot with my dogs.

The side effect of weight loss is that your clothes don’t fit anymore. With few exceptions, my entire wardrobe is too big. Its not like Stacy and Clinton have handed me $5,000. I can’t replace everything at once. Thank goodness I can sew so that I can alter my own clothes.

Last weekend we went on vacation, and I had to break down and buy some new tank tops. The old ones were baggy. Those, combined with my baggy shorts made me look like I borrowed my chubby older sister’s clothes.

So I went shopping at Old Navy. My old Old Navy tank tops? Larges. My new ones? Extra Larges.

That’s right, I lost 20 lbs, and went up a size in tank tops at Old Navy.

So I got home and compared my old tank tops (size L) with my new ones (XL)

(the old one is the green one on the bottom. The new one is the blue one on top.)

That’s right, Old Navy shrunk the tank top, and raised the size! I estimate my old Large tank top had FOUR more inches around the chest than my new Extra Large tank.

I don’t think shrinking clothes is a good marketing strategy.

Just had a good storm, but I don’t have scary cloud pictures

because I was in my basement. That was a super scary storm. Tornado sirens were going off. This is exactly why I hate midwestern weather.

Even Adobo was scared.