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[slemslempike]

Someone in the office keeps leaving Weight Watchers magazines by the microwave in the break area. I keep hiding them under other papers. I feel that Weight Watchers magazines should be something sought out by choice, not displayed where you're getting your food.

Yesterday lunchtime I got stuck in a dress. I was trying on a shift in a shop, and was having a bit of trouble with the zip at the back. I couldn't work out why, as the two sides were meeting reasonably well so it didn't seem like it was too small for me. Then I realised that the teeth underneath the zipper had come apart from each other, and the zipper was wedged firmly right in the middle. The assistant had to cut me out with scissors. She seemed fairly sanguine about the whole affair, I don't know if it's a common occurence for her.

I'm going to see Pericles on Friday! Last weekend I was reading the Scottish papers over brunch with my parents, and saw in a listings section that the Bard in the Botanics programme included Pericles, which I haven't seen. I feel that this is very fortuitous, as it wasn't listed on the Birmingham webpage of Shakespeare productions. So the lesson is that you should always have weekend brunch, probably involving both bacon and syrup as mine did, in order not to miss out on important cultural events.

Also this weekend - having my feet pedicured by nibbly fish with yiskah. Who will be also getting her feet eaten, not eating mine, to clarify. I keep wanting to call them cannibal fish, but of course I am not a fish. (Now I have been reminded of a comment thread in which [Unknown site tag] insisted I was a horse, that made me laugh like a drain. I am not a horse either.)

Comments

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

This entire post is full of brilliant TRUTH, like it being rude to leave weight loss stuff by the microwave, and bacon and syrup leading to important cultural events. I am getting very grumpy about all the "healthy" eating messages which are EVERYWHERE, such as a link on the council website when I was trying to find information about rubbish collection, and it all makes me want to scream because: a) I already know; and b) none of it constitutes healthy eating for me.

I am glad the assistant was matter of fact about the shift dress. I hate zips that do things like that - I have a fleece that does that all the time, but fortunately I have managed to mostly rescue myself out of it and sort the zip out.

Ooh, fish pedicure! I have wondered about such things. I'll look forward to hearing an update.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the bossy, inappropriately one-size-fits-all messages being everywhere. I went to the NHS website a couple of weeks ago looking for reviews of my doctor's surgery and it kept giving me horrible popups of 'sign up now and get weight loss tips daily in your email' and I kept thinking 'Has anyone involved in coding this website considered that they might be visited by people recovering from eating disorders, not to mention people who just hate sodding popups?'

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Urk to that website. That is really not thought through at all. Bad enough to have posters/links but annoying pop-ups are even worse.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am quite excited about the fish! And the healthy eating signs are up in the canteen here, but not so brashly as elsewhere.

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

Zips do that to me ALL THE TIME. Luckily it's usually in the front where I can reach to sort them out.

[jekesta]

I'd forgotten when you were a horse! YOU WERE LOVELY.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Either the firm being bossy or someone being bad mannered.

Re the dress: the assistant's reaction does make it look as though this had happened before.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Oooh, fish pedicure. Please let me know how it goes. I am supposed to be going and getting one with daydreamweaver the next time we both have a free weekend at the same time, which will probably be about 2046. I keep wondering whether they just put you in a room and invite you to put your feet in a bucket or whether it's all more high-tech and spa-like. And also where they keep the fish the rest of the time.

Re the Weight Watchers magazines, I was at a Pizza Express a few weeks ago because it was the only convenient place near the theatre and for some reason I had a voucher, and there were horrible, dog-eared A4 Weight Watchers posters everywhere - it made this place that someone had clearly spent reasonable amounts of money converting from a run-down pub into a chain restaurant look instead like some ghastly institutional canteen. Baffling.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

There used to be a place in the shopping centre next to work that had a fish peducire thing in the middle, just where anyone could see. This one, according to LivingSocial where we got the coupon, you sit in a swish place and sip sinw and possibly watch a movie.

Ugh. I am sometimes quite happy when places mark out lower calorie options, as it makes me feel better about having ALL THE PUDDING, but weight watchers should sod off.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Ooh, where did you get stuck in the dress? I got stuck in a dress in Zara on Princes Street once (Prince's? Princes'?) and although I didn't have to be cut out of it, I did require the assistant's help in manhandling me to freedom. She was also very sanguine about the experience; I asked her if it happened a lot and she said "you'd be surprised".

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Yep, Princes. (Some people just call it Princess Street, which is even more wrong.)

Fish pedicure sounds fun. My feet require me to take pills for 6 months, bleah, and they may not even work. I'd rather have fish.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I remember you telling me about that! This was not even as upmarket as Zara - in BHS, but also on Princes Street. It is clearly a centre of menace.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I had to be cut out of a pair of faulty-zipped trousers in River Island once. This was when I was seventeen and could only afford River Island clothes if I saved up for ages. I was mortified (but in retrospect it was quite funny). Luckily the assistants were very nice about it!