Musings

[ailbhe]

I really am sitting around doing nothing much today, I think; it's probably to do with radegund and family having gone away and leaving a mix of anticlimactic ennui and vast peaceful spaces behind. Since I last posted I've put a plaster on Emer's foot - she fell and skinned the crease behind her toes - and got myself dressed. Oh, and again with the laundry, and I put the spare room back to single-sofa-bed status.

For my next trick I need to get lunch, but I also need to dress the children, and I've been thinking about clothes.

While she was here, radegund remarked that I had an actual outfit on one day. I think I'm beginning to learn about them. It's kind of tricky; clothes don't come naturally to me, and I've always resented spending money on them or wasting time shopping for them when I need them but would rather be doing almost anything else.

biascut once told me, somewhere on LJ, that she buys things in sales. Not necessarily because she has a list of things she needs, but because she looks at things in sales and buys what seems good value that she knows she will use. I started doing a bit of that, and suddenly I have outfits.

I have two pairs of jeans which more or less fit (quite good going), and I've been layering tops of different lengths, so I have long sleeveless dresses with short flared-sleeve tops over them, for example. I have some jewellery which I sometimes wear, especially the stuff babies like to play with (they like my spiky leaf-necklace so much it's gone entirely as far as I can tell).

I'm giving a yellow top a final try today; I think it's ok, but it has 3/4 sleeves and the cuff doesn't give room for my muscles.

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[ailbhe]

I refuse to take particular pains with what I wear but I like to enjoy, rather than not notice, what I'm wearing. For me it's a process of learning to make it easy and painless.

I'm finding it kind of interesting. And made much easier by the local charity shops.