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So I have two cats. A good one and a bad one. Well, he really isn’t bad. He just doesn’t know any better. He gets into and on everything he shouldn’t. One night I had several friends over and my cats usually hide until they get used to strangers being in their home. The first cat that appears bounding down the steps is the bad one. One of my friends says to everyone, “Hey look, here comes one of the cats with a toy in his mouth. Isn’t that cute.” Everyone turns to look at my cat and the prized toy he has in his mouth. Only it wasn’t a toy. It was one of my tampons that he took out of the closet in the bathroom. He was so proud of himself showing off his prize to everyone as I chased him around the room. I now have to keep my tampons on the top shelf or one day I will find my living room scattered with them.

If anyone knows of any new designers that specialize in plus size clothes, please let us know. We are always looking to include new plus size designers, but they are hard to find. That’s why it is important that when we do find one, we  give them exposure on our website, so other women can find them too. So if you do know of any, get the word out to everyone by telling us.

I just read a press release about a recent study on the Positive and Negative Media Image Effects on the Self published in the Journal of Consumer Research. The study indicates that “looking at moderately heavy models actually lowers most women’s self-esteem, while looking at moderately thin models raises it.” “Looking at moderately thin or extremely heavy models led to an increase in self-perception of thinness and an increase in self-esteem. By contrast, seeing extremely thin or moderately heavy models focused women’s thoughts on how heavy they felt. “
And they conclude that this is the reason “why magazines featuring only plus-sized models don’t have the success of the magazine that feature slim models: ” …campaigns featuring moderately heavy ‘real women’ might not be as inspirational (or effective) as expected,” conclude Smeesters and Mandel.”
I think we need to know more about how that study was done and to suggest they do a new one. In their random sample of women participating in the study, did they have any plus sized women? If there were, I would be interested in how those women responded to the images they were shown.
And as for the lack of success of the “plus sized” magazines, come on. How many of them are out there compared to the “slim” magazines. And the “slim” magazines have been out there and established for how many years compared to the “plus size” ones. That’s like comparing the New York Times to the Tinytown Gazette. So I recommend that they do another study using only plus size women and then let’s hear what those results are. After all, what size women is actually reading those “plus sized” magazines?

Years ago I had worked for a large company with over 500 employees in the building. The building had one of those open floor plans so you could see from one end of the building to the other. Shortly after I started working there, I was to attend a training class at the other end of the building. My desk was at one end of the building and the training rooms were all at the other end of a long hallway. As I started walking down that long hallway I thought I would stop in and say hi to my boss. You know, to brown nose and impress her a little. I was wearing a nice new suit that I had purchased just to attend the training. I had my briefcase full of pads of paper to take notes on. I was looking like quite the professional business women. After a few words with my boss, I proceeded down the rest of the hall, turned a corner and walked into the training room. Being new to the company, I scanned the room for a familiar face. There was only 1 out of the 30 plus faces I knew, so I waved and loudly said hi to him to get his attention. He turned to say hi and then asked ”what’s that around your feet?” I looked down at my feet, as did everyone else in the room, to see my slip resting on my feet. I was mortified. I almost tripped as I ran out of the room to the nearest bathroom. It must have been falling down during that long walk down the hallway. So not only did everyone in the hallway see me with my slip falling down, but my new boss I was trying to impress and a room full of coworkers. It was such a comfort to me as I walked back into the training room, to know that everyone would now refer to me as “Slipgirl”. So, moral of the story is to make sure you buy clothes that fit and don’t slip. 

Why is it that shortly after my cats have eaten their morning meal that they are literally bouncing off the walls? Is there caffeine in their kibble? After my boys eat, the youngest one will race from one end of the house through the kitchen and dining room into the living room. Once in the living room, he flies through the air landing on the top level of his cat tree making it crash into the window. As the cat tree bounces off the window, he leaps off of that onto the coffee table (bad cat) and then races back through the dining room and kitchen and into the back room slamming into the back door. There he waits in the “attack mode stance” for the other unsuspecting cat to walk by. And when that happens, the professional wrestling match begins.
I began reading the ingredients of their kibble thinking that they must be sneaking caffeine or sugar into the food. But I did not see any, unless they are disguising it under some other mysterious ingredient’s name.  I guess their burst of energy after they eat is just natural for cats. At least it seems to be for my two boys.