Random Thoughts IV
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Seriously...how the heck do I get in trouble for buying my wife things?!?!?!
She had 2 pair of yoga pants (that I bought her), one black and one grey. She said she liked them, and wears them more than once in a while (but not all the time). Somehow, the black pair went missing (WDSM...I'm looking at you, bub), and she said it would be nice to have a black pair, since she can't wear the grey ones with everything.
So this week, that fabletics was having a clearance sale, with leggings going for $15-$20, but since she's the perfect frame for yoga pants (at least in my mind), the selection is limited to the weird colors or wild patterns, and mrs. 00clone is more of the quiet, reserved type...so nothing looked good to her.
Just out of the blue this morning, I happen to wonder if maybe VS has them on sale, that's where the other ones are from and she thinks they're comfy. So yes, they are. I find some and buy them..again, $15-20. Then, I get an e-mail from fabletics that they added accessories to their clearance sale, and I look. These seamless skivvies are on sale, a 3 pack for $10, and she wears them a lot, and has mentioned how they're comfortable. So, I get some of those.
She also hates shopping for herself (partial cheapskate, partial body image issues), so I think I'm doing a nice thing here, but apparently not...she got all quiet after I told her I got them...
Uggh.
She had 2 pair of yoga pants (that I bought her), one black and one grey. She said she liked them, and wears them more than once in a while (but not all the time). Somehow, the black pair went missing (WDSM...I'm looking at you, bub), and she said it would be nice to have a black pair, since she can't wear the grey ones with everything.
So this week, that fabletics was having a clearance sale, with leggings going for $15-$20, but since she's the perfect frame for yoga pants (at least in my mind), the selection is limited to the weird colors or wild patterns, and mrs. 00clone is more of the quiet, reserved type...so nothing looked good to her.
Just out of the blue this morning, I happen to wonder if maybe VS has them on sale, that's where the other ones are from and she thinks they're comfy. So yes, they are. I find some and buy them..again, $15-20. Then, I get an e-mail from fabletics that they added accessories to their clearance sale, and I look. These seamless skivvies are on sale, a 3 pack for $10, and she wears them a lot, and has mentioned how they're comfortable. So, I get some of those.
She also hates shopping for herself (partial cheapskate, partial body image issues), so I think I'm doing a nice thing here, but apparently not...she got all quiet after I told her I got them...
Uggh.
Haven't you gotten in trouble for this before? Did you not learn from the last time?
Sorta on topic, I found an ex of mine on Facebook about a month ago. Now she's a total biker chick. Profile pic had her in a black tank top, bandana and a sleeve of tats, sitting on a Harley. That was an interesting 180 from the skimpy dressing club-girl that I remember.
Sorry that she's seeming upset with you, but it seems like a nice thing for you to do.
Ya know, I sorta feel bad that BDK isn't still on here to drink in all of this knowledge on relationships that's flowing around.
I feel like CW needs to do a "Where Are They Now" segment on former posters.
I feel like CW needs to do a "Where Are They Now" segment on former posters.
obviously you know your wife better - DH and I are both very, very picky about clothes. Enough so that we just know not to buy that type of stuff for each other. (Now if his parents could learn that.....mine learned by age 12!) so in a case like this where I might see something DH likes and could use more of - I probably would have shot him a text saying "hey! those pants you like are on a great sale right now, want me to order you a pair?" Also because I know things that I think look great on him, he may not love on himself yet. It took me quite a while to get him into a better fit of jeans and a couple nice non-dress button down shirts. I think he looks great in them, but he took a while to warm up to it and probably would have resented it had I gone ahead and bought them for him. Same with me and skirts/dresses. He's always wanting me to wear them more, but I'm not there yet.
It's possible that she feels you are pushing something that you like on her but she isn't completely in on yet. Might be worth asking her about since it sounds like they should be things she'd be fine with you getting her since she's already had both and said she liked them - or wanted another pair in the case of the yoga pants.
speaking of which, the one pair of nice jeans that DH bought in Vegas, I think - while his luggage was traveling the countryside - he found a hole in them yesterday. I told him tomorrow he needs to go find another pair! Turns out he's been wearing them pretty much nonstop for the last two years. So yeah, maybe he should buy two pairs!
He would have just said "These ******* need to know that I'm the best they're going to get, and if they don't like my party lyfe, they can get out!"
Then gone back to self gratification to Japanese cartoons.
00, the Mrs. is obviously pursuing the nudist option and you are cramping her style. Try showing up at the dinner table tonight wearing nothing but a smile in support of her decision.
All of this HS talk. I can beat CG’s wallflower since I was actually totally invisible to the teenage female visual spectrum until college. I was in shock my first quarter at ISU to find that I was not actually invisible at all!
Exactly! Her "What, you can see me!" reaction is me my freshman year. :smile:
High schoolers all are dumb to some extent due to raging hormones. Oldest is in grad school now, the undergrad school was very prestigious and expensive.
The girl was exceptional in every way. Talented and gifted herself, mature, sweet and kind. Homecoming queen two years after the oldest graduated, so beautiful and popular too.
I really feel those Missouri plates explain a lot. Also maybe some kind of brain injury.
Went to normal school, but just great in every way.
It is terrifying to have high school aged children. Like walking a tightrope every day. Also incredibly rewarding. When the oldest was home a few months one summer before starting grad school, he actually dated the smart movie theater girl a bit. They keep in touch, but distance is a problem. My boys seem fine with smart girls. One says his dream is that he finds one that is smart enough to make a bunch of money and he can just do whatever he wants.
I hope that my boys are secure enough in themselves that smart women do not intimidate them. Guy in college dumped me because I got an A in Calc I and he thought he was going to be an engineer but got a D on his second try at it. *******.
I do think life is a little easier when your teenagers are nerds. Got a niece on my husband's side that had a baby at 15 and both potential babydaddies were in juvie for armed robbery.
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I believe I hit the milf jackpot. Some kind of convention at the hotel with a ton of nice looking women.
I don't know if Mrs. 00 feels this way, but it just would creep me out when my husband would buy me anything like lingerie. I don't feel comfortable wearing that stuff, and told him so, and he stopped. I sleep in an old t-shirt that some kid or another has outgrown and gym shorts. I guess I might think it weird if he felt compelled to buy my panties or even go to VS. Not sure if Mrs. 00 is as weird as me or not.
No, the trouble the last time was telling her that CG and nickels suggested a certain kind of yoga pants.
CG: On being picky...she's not picky, she's just cheap and hates shopping, so IDK...
thinking about it on the way to work, I think she's maybe upset I spent the money. She's kind of been worrying about her job, her employer (a grocery store) opened a new location in another town, it hasn't been doing that well, and 2 new grocery stores that are competitors have been hitting their sales pretty hard the last few months. She's part time, so she thinks she'd be the first out the door if they lay off, but I don't know...to me, she's the rock in her department, her one co-worker is a curmudgeonly old lady who hates every change and isn't that far from retirement anyway, her other one is pretty new, and kind of a flake. We're also going to be spending a couple hundred for a mini-computer to hook to the TV for streaming sports, so I think she thinks we're spending too much. She acts like we're broke, despite our household income being 2X the state average and we're pretty much saving her salary entirely. I like that she's not a money waster, but when she gets stressed, she goes overboard.
Oh, I ain't even trying to buy lingerie, although I would. This was just pants and normal skivvies (albeit seamless ones).
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