Thumbs Up: Decide to go to dress shopping. Frocks made me happy.
Thumbs Down: Decide to go dress shopping. Trying on numerous items and scrutinizing my every last flaw in a mirror? Not so much.
Thumbs Up: Find cute dress at Forever XXI. After the red dress fiasco of 2007, this is reason to celebrate.
Thumbs Down: I'm not busty enough for said dress. Let me reiterate -- I do not fill out the bust of this dress (Hi. I'm Jaime. I'm 4'11" tall, weight 100 lbs and have a 32D chest. Even an atheist can see that God is mocking me here).
Thumbs Up: Leave Forever XXI mumbling curses under my breath. This gets a thumbs-up because I am no longer surrounded by inept employees or ear-bleedingly awful techno music.
Thumbs Down: Leave Forever XXI dress-less.
Thumbs Up: Enter Charlotte Russe, having been seduced by huge sale banners. HALLELUJAH! Find a super-cute black and white polka dot frock in my size!
Thumbs Up: It's on sale!
Thumbs Up: It's on sale for $4.50!!!!! (For me, this was like waking up in the morning and finding a decaf skinny vanilla latte on the nightstand and John Krasinski soaping up in the shower. For you, this might be an orange juice, a smoothie, a nice cup of tea, Krasinski, David Beckham, Jennifer Aniston or my fiance's personal favorite, Kristen Bell).
Thumbs Up: It fits!!!
Thumbs Down: The zipper is broken.
Thumbs Down: The zipper is broken to the degree that I can't fix it.
Thumbs Down: The zipper is broken in such a way that I can't MacGyver the dress together via a complicated pastiche of safety pins and fabric tape.
Thumbs Down: Face the inevitability of leaving yet another store, dress-less. Face the inevitability of not purchasing a ridiculously cute dress for a ridiculously low price.
Thumbs Up: Call Paps and ask him how much it costs to have a zipper fixed (He's in the business. He'd know).
Thumbs Up: Paps says not to worry about it and to mail the dress to him where he will not only fix the broken zipper, but also have my dress cleaned and pressed.
Thumbs Up: Being a drycleaner's daughter is awesome. Being Paps' daughter? Even more so.
I won't be able to wear the cute new frock to the wedding tomorrow, but I've got my stand-by dresses available and they should suffice (Stand-By Dresses: A black Donna Karan and a my pink 'Jackie-O' dress -- always appropriate and always flattering).
Lesson of the story: Be nice to your drycleaner.
Oh and why do I think I like Pumpkin Spice Lattes when I hate pumpkin pie?
Thumbs Down: Decide to go dress shopping. Trying on numerous items and scrutinizing my every last flaw in a mirror? Not so much.
Thumbs Up: Find cute dress at Forever XXI. After the red dress fiasco of 2007, this is reason to celebrate.
Thumbs Down: I'm not busty enough for said dress. Let me reiterate -- I do not fill out the bust of this dress (Hi. I'm Jaime. I'm 4'11" tall, weight 100 lbs and have a 32D chest. Even an atheist can see that God is mocking me here).
Thumbs Up: Leave Forever XXI mumbling curses under my breath. This gets a thumbs-up because I am no longer surrounded by inept employees or ear-bleedingly awful techno music.
Thumbs Down: Leave Forever XXI dress-less.
Thumbs Up: Enter Charlotte Russe, having been seduced by huge sale banners. HALLELUJAH! Find a super-cute black and white polka dot frock in my size!
Thumbs Up: It's on sale!
Thumbs Up: It's on sale for $4.50!!!!! (For me, this was like waking up in the morning and finding a decaf skinny vanilla latte on the nightstand and John Krasinski soaping up in the shower. For you, this might be an orange juice, a smoothie, a nice cup of tea, Krasinski, David Beckham, Jennifer Aniston or my fiance's personal favorite, Kristen Bell).
Thumbs Up: It fits!!!
Thumbs Down: The zipper is broken.
Thumbs Down: The zipper is broken to the degree that I can't fix it.
Thumbs Down: The zipper is broken in such a way that I can't MacGyver the dress together via a complicated pastiche of safety pins and fabric tape.
Thumbs Down: Face the inevitability of leaving yet another store, dress-less. Face the inevitability of not purchasing a ridiculously cute dress for a ridiculously low price.
Thumbs Up: Call Paps and ask him how much it costs to have a zipper fixed (He's in the business. He'd know).
Thumbs Up: Paps says not to worry about it and to mail the dress to him where he will not only fix the broken zipper, but also have my dress cleaned and pressed.
Thumbs Up: Being a drycleaner's daughter is awesome. Being Paps' daughter? Even more so.
I won't be able to wear the cute new frock to the wedding tomorrow, but I've got my stand-by dresses available and they should suffice (Stand-By Dresses: A black Donna Karan and a my pink 'Jackie-O' dress -- always appropriate and always flattering).
Lesson of the story: Be nice to your drycleaner.
Oh and why do I think I like Pumpkin Spice Lattes when I hate pumpkin pie?
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