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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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May 29, 2005

trauma permalink

Today has been an odd day. I overslept PFit and vacillated between really enjoying that and really feeling guilty.

Sweetie and I went to breakfast at our current favorite place, and just as we were planning out the rest of the morning, I remembered that the dog was due at the groomers in 20 minutes. So I ran outta there, scooted home, collected dog into the car and off we went.

Once I got home, I did some therapeutic cleaning, the ritual mowing of the grass (or at least as much grass as our aging electric mower's battery can handle), then some therapeutic weed and shrub destruction. It was beautiful. I so love the hedge trimmer.

And then I came in the house, saw an envelope from a friend who I haven't talked to in a while, who enclosed only a death notice for an old boyfriend. Ack!

I immediately did some websurfing, hoping I could find some more information. He was 49. Pretty outrageously young.

In the rest of my life, people die, usually of something clear cut like cancer. And by and large, people my age don't die. But that's not the case with my old cab driving friends. One was shot and killed in a robbery. One committed suicide. One died of lung cancer. And now Tim is dead, who knows why?
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That wasn't my only trauma. I read Lara's reference of Megan's question of shorts that don't ride up. And immediately, I thought of Women in Motion's shorts—both the bike-style shorts and the running shorts—how they are intelligently designed for women. I wear their products daily, and I love them, they're well designed, and, the price point is reasonable. My only complaint has been the lack of pockets.

Until now. They are no longer selling from their website. They are selling a couple items from Jun0nia, priced about twice what they were at the WIM site. And, they're selling from G@rnet Hill, but I couldn't find any of their stuff either.

Just thinking about this makes me want to cry. I guess it was too good to be true.

Posted at May 29, 2005

Comments

I hate it when I find somethign that works and then it's gone!

Posted by: neca at May 30, 2005 5:19 AM

So sorry about your friend. But ... what an interesting life you've led/are leading! I think one of the results of a varied life, with all kinds of people that you've met, is that you are affected by the sorrows as well as the fullness of those lives.

I vote for cabdriver stories!

Posted by: Megan at May 31, 2005 6:53 AM