{"id":2218,"date":"2010-10-08T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/08\/fight-the-frump"},"modified":"2010-10-08T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T21:00:00","slug":"fight-the-frump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2010\/10\/08\/fight-the-frump\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight the Frump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about post-partum and feeling like a frumpy house-frau?\u00a0 I have to wear blue and black, bleach and blood stained baggy clothes to work.\u00a0 When I&#8217;m home I either wear baggy comfortable clothes, or a mish-mash of things bought over the past 15 years that don&#8217;t fit very well, are out of style, or are plain unflattering but purchased because they were such a steal.\u00a0 This needs to stop.\u00a0 In the words of Twist, &#8220;Stop feeling like a fat, ugly failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After two weeks of tenuous consideration I marched into Old Navy today and tried on 9 pairs of skinny jeans.\u00a0 I hated this trend three years ago.\u00a0 But seeing that it is still around, and all my bootcut pants hide my legs (my one good body feature I have left), and reading online that bootcuts are becoming the new &#8220;mom jeans&#8221; I took the plunge.\u00a0 For $16 each it isn&#8217;t a big risk.\u00a0 I bought two pairs and I&#8217;m wearing them around the house today with tags on to see if they will really work.<\/p>\n<p>High on my triumph, I went to Ulta to find new foundation.\u00a0 For years I&#8217;ve used a drugstore powder.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to upgrade.\u00a0 I was in the store for only 90 seconds, but accosted by 4 glowing, beautifully made-up women offering me help.\u00a0 I started sweating and felt like hiding my unmade face and tangled hair, quickly becoming overwhelmed by the many expensive foundation options.\u00a0 I retreated to the car, vowing to return with my sister for moral support, and a nicer outfit and base face. If skinny jeans took me 2 weeks and 9 pairs, I better do my research before returning to Ulta.\u00a0 One step at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not even talk about my hair problems.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, here&#8217;s a cute picture of my baby!\u00a0 Distraction!\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to knit and watch 30 Rock! <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/43baf-dsc_4100.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/43baf-dsc_4100.jpg?w=300\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about post-partum and feeling like a frumpy house-frau?\u00a0 I have to wear blue and black, bleach and blood stained baggy clothes to work.\u00a0 When I&#8217;m home I either wear baggy comfortable clothes, or a mish-mash of things bought over the past 15 years that don&#8217;t fit very well, are out of style, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}