When I was a kid and you had to have surgery, they knocked you out with ether. Ether is some nasty shit. My first experience was when I had to have some baby teeth surgically removed when I was about 6 years old. I remember them putting some kind of mask over my face and…
You want to know the hardest part of making my little Dikke Dame (fat lady) dolls? It’s sewing the f*cking crocheted eyes on – because I have to use a thread that won’t show. So I use clear plastic thread. This stuff is so useful, but it is a f*cking nightmare to work with. First…
Back in my high school days (lo these many many years ago), in summer we had something called the Summer Enrichment Program (SEP). SEP was kind of summer school – but made fun. For someone like me, who loved school, it was a little piece of heaven. I also loved it because they did two…
After I graduated high school, I went to a community college briefly. I went to Delta College in University City (yes that was it’s fucking name), Michigan. We referred to Delta as “Tri-High” (because it served the Tri-Cities of Bay City, Saginaw, and Midland, Michigan). I loved school, but I found college to be pointless.…
There has been some hoopla in the fatshion world about Universal Standard offering extended sizes (up to size 40) in many of their clothing options – including jeans. I have heard that Universal Standard really went all out in trying to get input for their jeans, including hiring models that could actually wear the sizes…
I moved to Los Angeles, California from Bay City, Michigan in 1978. I was not a naïve cherub. But there was a lot I was not prepared for. I moved out with a gay (now ex) friend. Our first apartment was in the Hollywood Towers (or as we referred to it the “Hollywoo Towers”). Our…
So, I am one lucky fat old lady in that I get to work from home. I am not so lucky in that I work with attorneys. These are people who charge their clients hundreds and hundreds of dollars an hour. There are highly educated and trained people who are paid to know the law.…
Does anybody remember Lee Press-on Nails? Are they still a thing? These were chunks of colored plastic you stuck onto your fingernails with double-sided tape. This was back in the day before you could get a beautiful set of acrylic nails at six different places on each block. Back then, your basic choices were grow…
Many fat people are told by healthcare professionals that we have to lose weight because we are going to die by 30 – by 40 – by 50. I mean, everyone knows there are no old fat people, right? Wrong. If there is no one else in your circle of family and friends who is…
My latest Dikke Dame Doll – Razzy (so called because of her raspberry hair). And as you can see the carpet and drapes do match. (And yes she has hair under her arms too, because that’s just the kind of gal Razzy is.)
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I loved Hollywood Boulevard. This was before it was all cleaned up and made Disney-friendly. It was full of wonderfully crazy and bizarre people; and wonderfully crazy and bizarre stores, and you could easily spend an afternoon wandering up and down the Boulevard. Right across from Mann’s Chinese…
We are going to be flying to Las Vegas this summer. As usual, we make our travel plans well in advance. This includes our flight reservations. Usually we fly American Airlines, but for reasons that I cannot fathom, American has no direct flights from San Jose to Las Vegas (WTF American?). So, we decided to…
