Thursday, November 20, 2014

Lemon Meringue Pie

IMG_2344_www Wednesday was going to be a very big day out en femme for me. I was going to take the train to New York City to attend a conference with my boss and her boss: three business women in The City for the day.

Needless to say, I was looking forward to the trip, but late on Tuesday, the conference was cancelled and so was the trip to NYC.

Handed a lemon, I decided to make a lemon meringue pie.

Wednesday morning, I phoned my boss and told her I was taking a vacation day. Then I shaved, showered, did my hair and makeup, dressed (new sweater dress from Dress Barn, black opaque tights, black Payless Karmen pumps), grabbed my coat and my bag and headed to the malls.

I arrived at the Westfield Mall in Meriden (CT) a few minutes after it opened. Usually, the mall is very quiet when it opens on a weekday, but it was very busy yesterday. I assume the now perpetual Black Friday had something to do with it.

Wow! How I have changed!

Only a few years ago, I would carefully strategize my mall visits. I would use an entrance with the least amount of foot traffic and sit in my car until I was sure no one else would be entering at the same time as me.

After the all-clear, I would enter the mall and avoid any males who might be traversing the mall and I would avoid eye contact with any human being I might encounter. I would be all business and go directly to the store(s) I was interested in visiting and not browse, window-shop and enjoy my shopping experience.

That version of Stana is so foreign to me now. Now I do the mall just like a typical civilian woman does the mall and I enjoy every minute of it!

Westfield Mall is in decline. JCPenney closed its doors earlier this year and its large footprint remains unoccupied. There are other vacancies throughout the mall and most of the replacements, if any, are of the dollar store variety.

However, one replacement is now a favorite spot for me to shop: Fashion to Figure. They have a nice variety of clothing for fuller figure girls like me, yet their price tags are very reasonable. And they were having a buy one item and get the second item at 50% sale.

I spent an hour trying on clothes in Fashion to Figure and cashed out with three new dresses and one new jumpsuit for $125. (I hope Stana gets invited to some holiday parties this year because two of the dresses are too party to wear to work.)

By the way, the sales associate was so helpful and enthusiastic. She picked out some excellent items for me to try on and when she helped zip me into one of the dresses, she noticed I was wearing my Squeem (she was wearing hers, too), yet she was mum about the stray hairs poking out from the top of my Squeem.

After Fashion to Figure, I exited Westfield and headed to West Farms Mall to continue my day out en femme.

 

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Source: Brahmin

Wearing Brahmin.

 

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Actor and professional femulator Libor Landa in the 2003 Czech film Kamenak.

10 comments:

  1. I have found that with age comes confidence/courage/foolhardiness -- whatever you want to call it. On a recent trip out of town (I find my confidence grows proportionally to the distance from home) I was out rather late and noticed my gas gage was blinking (rental car). Not knowing how long I had, I found a gas station and just walked in to pay for gas (I prefer using cash when out and about). Didn't even think twice about it! I've come a long way in a few years, I guess. Your stories are an inspiration to those of us still battling with hesitation, sweetie! Thanks.

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    1. Reminds me of the good old days when I would use a credit card to pay at the pump to avoid contact with a human being... One time the pump rejected my card for some reason and I was forced to deal with a human! LOL

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  2. Again what a lovely pic.

    What a disappointment that you weren't able to begin your "dressing to work" with a bang!

    I'm sure you will find another occasion to wow them.

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  3. Yum yum, i love this. So delicious, thanks for sharing this recipe.



    Simon

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