Frustratingly gratifying

I've said before that I've lost a little bit of weight, wherein we discussed different jean sizes and a doctor's office scale. In fact, when the doctor asked if I was doing anything in particular to try to lose weight, I mentioned that I was trying to completely avoid as much high fructose corn syrup as humanly possible.

His response? An extremely emphatic, "Good!!"

So I'm gonna continue staying away from high fructose corn syrup. My doctor thinks it's bad for me.

At this point in time, we're going through the changing of the seasons up here, and wet and cold is giving way to wet and warmer. Pretty soon we may even get warmer and dry. Yoo-hoo!!

In any event, I needed a few things: a skirt and a couple skorts for warmer weather, and a rain jacket that isn't also designed to keep its wearer warm. I make enough warm, all by myself, that my rain jacket doesn't need to help out; well, unless it's wet and cold outside.

Went to the REI website and placed an order to pick up at the store. The order came in, and this afternoon I went to REI to pick it up, and try everything on before I took it home.

It was ALL too big. The size XL REI skorts nearly fell off my hips; the Large Columbia Sportswear skirt DID fall off my hips; the XL North Face rain jacket had enough extra room that I could have gotten Ed in there, too.

The skirt/skorts I could swap out for a better size from the stock there in the store. The rain jacket is on backorder, and I won't get the size Large for another couple of weeks. The REI skorts were swapped for size Large, and I'm pretty sure they're not too big. The Columbia Sportswear skirt was out of stock in the Medium, so for the hell of it I pulled a size Small on over my jeans.

I brought home a size Small skirt. Way to go, me!!

5/13/09 P.S. --- Really, I should also have thrown in that my sleeping tee shirts, which fit well, are size XXL. The dichotomy is mind-boggling.