I gave up on strapless bras long ago and now wear full-torso corset thingies when I need to be strapless. Not the most comfortable feeling, but definitely doesn't slip down.
And yeah, sister sizes are a bit of a lie. My sister sizes are okay, but nowhere near the perfect fit my actual size is. The cups just always seem a little off, even if the band fits.
I leave mine on until bedtime usually, unless for some reason it's bothering me (it is the middle of summer and it's too hot, etc.). The exception to this rule is my full torso corset thingy that I wear when I need something strapless (cause strapless bras inevitably spend the day falling down every 10 minutes). My current one is a teensy bit tight. I can still wear it and all, but my goodness, it feels great to get it off.
No one believes me when I tell them I am a 32 C, because everyone expects C cups to be fairly sizeable, but yeah the bras fit perfectly. They always look at me like I'm crazy until I explain that as you go down in band size, the same exact cup goes up in size.
So I was in a restaurant on Sunday, and they had the news on. My boyfriend and I were sitting there watching the news, just sitting in silence because nothing could really be said. Suddenly the restaurant radio started playing "Another One Bites the Dust."
And that song has officially been ruined for me.
The number of suicides by gun is one of the three main reasons I wish we had better gun laws in the U.S. (the other two are household accidents and domestic violence). Because as much as pro-gun folks like to claim that the world is safer if the good guys have just as much access to guns as the bad guys, the fact is that sometimes the "good guys" obtain guns totally legally and still do tremendous harm with them.
My boyfriend's brother committed suicide by gun. My boyfriend owns six guns. He's a grown man, and he's allowed to have a different emotional reaction than what I would have had in his place. But I don't know that I'll ever fully wrap my mind around that one. :/
But it must also be said that Trump is making exactly zero effort to address wealth inequality. Quite the opposite, in fact. So yes, the double standard is a little absurd, but it doesn't hit the same potential hypocrisy buzzers.
I mean, I know we're good at some good things, too, but now you have me focused on the bad things and I can't think of them right now. But I don't think we're hopeless. I think we DO have good things to offer. We just have to actually DO IT, which for way too many people, sadly, is easier said than done. :(
Also a member of Scaredy Cat Alliance. I won't even do Bloody Mary. I am a grown woman, and I am STILL freaked out from that time in second grade that these two boys swore up and down that their Bloody Mary stories were real.
"The comments and “encouragement” I saw in cards and Facebook posts were horrifying. “Can you imagine how much worse it could have been if God wasn’t watching over you?” “Satan tries his hardest to knock us down, but we have to get right back up!”"
Uggggghhhhh! I HATE those kinds of "encouraging" comments. I know they come from a place of good intentions, and I know some Christians (and maybe members of other faith traditions) don't know how to do faith without Calvinism and similar "God was/wasn't watching you" lines of thinking. But it really can be so discouraging and hurtful and just make you angry at God when people keep insisting in so many words that something terrible happened in your life because God wanted it that way. I'm sorry this happened to you. I'm glad you found a faith tradition you feel at home with.
I did go to a vinegar bar in Seattle once where they sold a myriad of fancy flavored vinegars. I don't think they were for just drinking straight (though that IS how we tasted them), more for pouring on your salad and such, but they DID tell us some fun drink recipes you could do with a few of them where you mixed a little in with your lemonade or tea or whatever. They had samples and it was actually pretty good!
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