Wear|Weary

1. Realize that it's 4PM and you haven't eaten anything since breakfast. Debate if you should bother with food or just stick it out until roughly dinner time. When your stomach answers the question for you, get up and rummage through the fridge. 2. Try to figure out what sort of food doesn't sound too difficult or completely unappetizing. Ignore the frozen dinners and leftovers. Grab a box of pasta. 3. Try to figure out how much pasta to put in the pot. (It will be the wrong amount.) 4. In a brief spurt of motivation, grab a handful of frozen spinach and toss it in the water to cook. It will turn weird and lumpy and cool down the water from its boil. Still counts. 5. Find a block of cheese in your fridge. Slice off the moldy parts. 6. Cut your finger on the cheese grater moving it from the counter to the sink. 7. Realize you forgot to set a timer for the pasta. Pick a number that sounds like roughly the correct amount of time. 8. Strain your pasta. Briefly worry that...

I picked these leggings up from the pile on my floor because I knew the stretchy material would give me enough leeway to not activate my body dysmorphia. If there's one thing I hate about jeans, it's how sometimes when I bend over and the waistband pinches my stomach slightly, I'm thrown into a pit of low self-esteem for the rest of the day. Waistband sizing, amiright?! Make sure to shove the pile of unfolded laundry out of the way before taking glamor shots. Some may say that leggings don't count as real pants. To them, I say that whatever gets me out of the house with all my bits covered counts as real clothing in my book. Throw a cotton dress on over your leggings to make it look like you're trying to dress up, or just pair them with a sports bra and yet another event t-shirt to show you've got nothing to prove (and probably wouldn't have the energy to, even if you did). ----- Body dysmorphia is common in women and femmes, but isn...