Shop 'Til You Drop

I HATE to shop. I do. I would be so happy if I never had to go shopping ever again in my life. I ESPECIALLY hate shopping for clothes. And I have different levels of hate for shopping for different types of clothes. Dresses being #1 and Jeans being #2.

Ok, so I lost a lot of weight right before I got pregnant with Addison. Then I lost it again after she was born. That's a good thing, right. And I am not complaining about that. However after she was born and I lost the weight I got rid of pretty much all my clothes. So I bought a couple of new dresses for the spring/summer. I did not buy any for the winter. Right now, it's winter.

I have this one dress that I thought would be ok to wear in the winter if I paired it with black tights. I have been wearing it that way and you know when you think something looks cute, then you get a good look at it in a mirror and realize you were incredibly mistaken? Well that happened to me a couple weeks ago. So I have another dress. And aside from the few weeks I have been wearing the dress with the tights (which I'm not doing again-it is definitely a bare leg/strappy sandal type dress) I have been wearing this other dress. And I am so sick and tired of it that I am about ready to burn it.

I have tried to buy another dress, but you saw where shopping for dresses ranks with me. Today however, I told Steve that I had to go buy a new dress or I wasn't going to go to church tomorrow. Now I know that that sounds really shallow. And really I would have gone to church anyway. But I just really would feel better about it if I had something to wear.

So I went shopping. Woo Hoo! I tried on at least 82 dresses. I kid you not, I tried on every dress they have a Macy's except for the ones I knew were too revealing. This is what I have to say about it:

• It will be a very long time before I try on another dress again.
• It is the year 2008, why do they still make dresses with shoulder pads in them? Because that went out of style 20 years ago. Sorry people, but it's true. Get out your scissors and hack away.
• There are far too many retro polyester dresses on the market at this time.
• Half of the dresses I tried on looked like pajamas. They were very comfortable though.
• All the dresses that actually looked good on me were about 2 inches too short and it really made me mad.
• I had plans to try on jeans too but after 2 1/2 hours of trying on dress after dress there was no way in heck that was going to happen.
• There is nothing like a shopping trip to inspire you to lose those holiday pounds.
• I did finally find a suitable dress and it was 60% off!
• I was about to say that I really wish Kristy would move here and do my shopping for me, then I thought about Kristy's decision making skills and realized that I would rather do my shopping myself.