Skirt weather

Apparently I’m not done complaining about clothing – Skirt weather, it is not.  I spent far too much time yesterday thinking about how much I hate pants, and how much I can’t wait for it to be warm enough for me to wear skirts all the time.  And when I left the house today?  Hail.

Pants Rant

So normally I respond privately to comments, but for some reason I sort of got on a roll with my reply to Mamma’s comment, and it turned into a rant, and while I don’t normally post rants I’m curious as to what the response to this one will be. Does anyone actually understand what the @&$ is going on with current fashion?

First, Mamma asked whether I wound yarn or went dancing. I did both – skipped out of work a little early, wound one skein of yarn, went to the dance a little late, and wound another skein of yarn when I got home. And I didn’t sleep much. =)

Then, she said that as for my laundry woes, I could just buy more underwear and thus delay the necessity of laundry. I’ve done that in the past, a lot, so now I actually have plenty of underwear – the problem is that I don’t have enough pants, and I just tried to buy more pants but it was a very depressing experience resulting in no new pants and necessitating the purchase of therapy yarn. Bah. One of these days, clothing manufacturers will make pants that actually fit real people! What the @#^&*# is up with “low-rise” and “ultra-low-rise” pants, anyway, and why can’t they still make normal pants for people who don’t enjoy showing the entire world their butt-cleavage? (And now I’m imagining the Google traffic I’m going to get from talking about butt-cleavage…)

Really, though. What normal-shaped woman can actually wear low-rise jeans? My butt is (gasp!) bigger than my waist. Really. It is. This means that there needs to be fabric to cover my butt, and then there needs to be waist shaping that comes in over the top of my butt, so that my butt doesn’t hang out. For those who do wear low-rise jeans, what underwear can you wear with them? I wear bikini underwear, which covers me all the way to the top of my butt-cleavage. Low-rise jeans don’t, which means there’s this expanse of white cotton sticking out over the top of the jeans – very stylish! The only other option I can see is to just not wear underwear at all in these jeans, which means that there’s an expanse of butt-cleavage sticking out over the top of the jeans! Not really the image I want to give – I am neither Britney Spears nor a plumber.

And I’ve probably talked about my butt plenty – this is, after all, a knitting blog, not a Real Women Have Curves blog. But I’m still angry. And I need to do laundry.

Stupid holiday consumerism!

So I went to Circuit City last night to buy a digital camera (after seeing online that Best Buy was sold out of just about everything), and CC had exactly two cameras that were in my price range and seemed appropriate. And of course they were sold out of both of them – because everyone except me seems to have gotten a camera for Christmas! I dropped hints… hints like, “Mom, I want a digital camera for Christmas,” but instead I got a toothbrush, so go figure.

Thus I feel justified at ranting about holiday consumerism – mine was unfulfilled, thus it… um… never existed? Everyone who did get a camera is therefore evil. Because I said so.

Anyway, the guy at Circuit City said they’d be getting another shipment in today… so this time I will call before going, and with any luck tonight I will be the proud owner of a Samsung Digimax S500 or S700 – haven’t decided yet. Anyone know if those extra two megapixels will make a difference to close-up knitting shots? I know that for any other snapshot-type things 5 megapixels is plenty, but I think the price difference was only $20, which might be worth it if it makes a difference for my blog pictures.