Yes, this really is her kitchen. It looks like a stock photo from some magazine, but oh no, I have seen it and it is real. We had to discuss some pertinent celeb issues. Of course, there was the convo about Brangelina/Jennifer Aniston/John Mayer. We talk like we know these people. We don't.
We are unanimous in our feeling that Owen Wilson is very sexy, but only 1/3 in favor of Vince Vaughn. Have you seen that pic of Nicole Kidman in People where she's wearing white jeans and a little white shirt? She doesn't look like she was ever pregnant. We wonder if was all an obstetrical hoax. We also think that Katie Holmes looks terrible with her short hair, massive glasses, and even bigger Hermes bags; her Scientolo-gaze is just creepy.
We had a massive breakfast, went swimming, chased kids, laughed a whole bunch more, and even set up their blogs (yee-ha! links to come). We even got gussied up to take this picture:
While we were getting dressed, Candlelight stumbled on a skirt that she wore back in 1994. She saved it because she had paid full price for it at the Gap and is pretty sentimental about it. It was so tiny. Candlelight looked at the size:
Yep, that's a size 6. I immediately yanked off my Gap skirt to see the size and voila! Size 4.
Now lest you think that I am this tiny in real life, here they are by comparison:
Can you believe this vanity sizing? No wonder there are double zeros now! What's next...negative numbers? Is America the only country in which you can gain twenty pounds and go down a size?And finally some housekeeping notes...my mother told her dear friend from church about my blog. I'll call her Mrs. Regal because she is tall, beautiful, very chic, has amazing musical talent and impeccable taste. So, if you've found me...welcome Mrs. Regal. AND...if it weren't exciting enough to have a fab weekend and Mrs. Regal reading, my dear friend from high school has started a blog. We reconnected last week at the alumni walk of our dear, about-to-be-destroyed school building. Introducing FlowerGirl She's cool, you're gonna love her.
16 comments:
On today's post you are looking gorgeous fantasist
Sounds like an awesome weekend, and of course you and your friends look beautiful in that pic!!
That is shit about the gap thing.. they do run their sizes too big!
You're right, if you hadn't been in that kitchen, I would have believed it came out of a magazine. That's the kind of weekends we should live for. And, agreed, you guys look georgeous in that pic!! Dear Gap, what the hell are you trying to do to us?? That's the craziest thing ever. Something else I wouldn't have believe if I hadn't seen it. However, my dear, you are still tiny... :)
I agree on the vanity sizing. Who the hell knows what size any of us are anymore. The Europeans, I suppose, since they go by actual measurments. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that Katie Holmes has morphed into a woman who doesn't even really smile anymore. For constantly telling everyone how deliriously happy she is, you'd think she'd smile more, like her husband. But he is almost too smiley. A manic kind of smile most of the time. Obnoxious, the whole bunch of them.
So what does this mean when I STILL buy a size 9/10???? Crap.
KatieH: Scientolo-bot.
Vince V.: Would stay in bed with him drinking all day.
Vanity sizing is out of control. that is a great example! Candlelight's kitchen is AMAZING, I'm drooling!
That totally explains why I can still wear a size 6 but I've had babies and my legs are NOT sticks like they were back in high school and college. When I look at pictures from when I was younger I think, "Man! You so don't look like that now...so why do you still wear the same size?" Now I know.........
The clothes size comparison is crazy! But the vanity thing doesn't explain whay I can't fit in size 3 sh0es anymore and have to wear a child's two!! By the way, I donit get the Owen Wilson attraction thing, I'm afraid I just can't get past his nose, even though I LOVE his accent!
That kitchen made me salivate. I don't even COOK for God's Sake. I would chew off a pinky for a kitchen that looked like that. I could still use paperplates, right?
Glad you got to hang with you holmes!
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WOW - that kitchen is to die for. I love the rich colors (so much better than boring white). Love it.
Fun weekend!!!
And, shit, that's depressing about the sizes. I can't even think about what my current size would translate to. Shit.
Eddie Bauer- same problem. Of course, back then we wore the waistbands up underneath our bras, and now they are quite a bit lower....
Okay...channelling my inner Cliff Claven here.
I read on a blog once that the size thing is not really vanity sizing. 10 has to be the median size pattern so patternmakers can increase/decrease the pattern most efficiently.
Except we're getting fatter. So the middle-of-the-road size 10 is getting bigger as well. And since we added larger sizes to the mainstream, that's why 0 and 00 popped in.
Man, am I nerd or what...
Slacker Mama...I am so very impressed with your Cliff Claven-esque knowledge! Very interesting!
Oh Miss Lipstick... that is indeed a lovely kitchen! How wonderful to see that you two had a good time - you needed that! The photo of the three of you is great, definitely a keeper.
But the photo of the skirts from the Gap is awesome! That is one for the ages because it just lays it out there... how can you argue with that? It's just amazing! We are in the same state of fear scary mama is, terrified of thinking what our 'true size' would actually be today!
Great post!
TP
Okay, I'm really freaked out by the vanity sizing demonstration! Oh my! I've heard of it, but never seeeeeeeen it! Oh my- I'm speechless!
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