May

6

Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog

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My first day at work? Surprisingly gratifying. I am, at the moment, glad to have Workplace back in my life.

(I wore jeans, low heels, and a fake wrap shirt thing, and that worked fine, except for the briefly terrifying/humiliating moment when I tripped on the stairs and nearly plummeted to my death. I am not used to wearing shoes, what can I say.)

Real quick-like, I thought I’d let you know that the fitness/health/etc blog I mentioned earlier is up. It’s hosted on Gather.com and sponsored by Boca Foods; my entries appear under the “Featured Articles” section. I’ve got three articles published at the moment, and the idea is to continue updating at least on a weekly basis (I’ll add another RSS widget thing to my site here at some point). This is where I plan to do most of my blathering about workouts, dieting, and my progress with fitting back into my Joe’s Jeans (current status: am able to button the waist, but cannot yet sit down without rupturing an internal organ).

Also, there will be progress photos. Dear god.

Anyway, please go check it out if you’re interested. I think you have to be a Gather.com member to post comments, but you can always email me if you have Blog Topic Requests.

May

4

Turn to the left

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The Keens/White Socks Travesty is still going on, people. I may need to take drastic measures, like having that chipmunk-looking doctor from Intervention come out and help me deprogram JB. “If you won’t accept the help that’s being offered,” I’ll say, gulping back tears as I read from my carefully worded letter, “then I can no longer support your abominable fashion choices by helping you launder your eleventy jillion pairs of nerdy white athletic socks.”

(I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but Intervention has totally been my guilty maternity-leave daytime television, uh, addiction. Maybe two or three times a week I’d put that on in the afternoon while feeding Dylan, and weep my way through whatever horrific personal tragedy was unfolding before me. Especially during the ubiquitous footage of the ruined adult as a young, innocent toddler, galloping around with a sunny grin, no indication whatsoever of the terrible future awaiting them — then I’d really get going, blatting all over Dylan’s soft spot and wiping my nose on a burp cloth. Cathartic, in a soul-crushingly depressing sort of way!)

Speaking of fashion or a lack thereof I go back to work tomorrow and I have no idea what to wear. I have all these new dresses but it doesn’t quite seem like the right weather yet and my jeans sort of fit but they sort of don’t and everything in my closet just seems LAME. I work in an extremely casual office (as in, some of my coworkers have been known to shuffle around in sweatpants and slippers) but I have been living in yoga pants for three straight months and I’m vaguely thrilled to have an excuse to wear something without elastic, and yet I’m already wondering if there’s a shirt that can be paired with my trusty Lululemons because ARGH.

You guys always know best: it’s your first day back at work, you want to look nice, but not Trying Too Hard nice, and you want to make it through the day without your waistband exploding. What do you wear? What do you wear?

PS: Thank you for the music suggestions — so many great recommendations in there! My iTunes bill is going to be fierce, and what great timing, right when we’re pretty much broke from my paid leave being over. Come on, economy stimulus check! Mama needs another Kate Nash song!

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