Just a bit of venting on a Sunday morning - although it bugs me every morning...
I'm a big dude, although not freakishly so. I'm 6'2" and weigh about 220. It's a good size, and I like it. What I don't like is the way my shirts blouse up at my pants waist.
See, I have to wear extra large shirts. This is due largely (pun intended) to my chest and shoulders, as well as my arm length. But the shirts I have found tend to drop straight down from under my arm to my waist, as well as having that weird pleat thing just behind the yoke - you know the one, that travels down the spine about 2" wide... All this extra material ends up blousing up right at my waist. And, while I don't have the trimmest of waists, I don't need extra baggy shirts making it look bigger, either.
I found some shirts once that were "sport fit" shirts that didn't do this. They were ok. They were also very difficult to find.
So what I do is pull the excess away from the front and try to tuck it in around the back. It makes my gut look better, but unless I'm wearing a jacket it makes the back REALLY baggy. Sigh.
First world grips, I know.
Does anyone even blog anymore? I remember when it first got started and everyone was having a blog. I like writing, and I do a lot of it in my professional life, but not everything makes it onto this blog, which is where a lot of my personal thoughts come out. I put more into Facebook lately, too, because it's a little easier. But there's something to be said for this long-form writing exercise, and I think I will continue here periodically. You don't mind, do you? Well, in my last post I wrote about how difficult things were for me at the time. That changed in July when I finally got a job working for the State of Utah. I was the program manager for the moderate income housing database program, and that meant I worked from home a lot but also went in to Salt Lake when needed, mostly on the train. It was a good experience, for the most part, and I'm grateful for the things I learned even in the short time I was there. In October I started working for Weber County in t...
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