I've been having an issue lately. It is focused around my jeans. Throughout the years of my life that I have actually purchased my own clothing (maybe age 15 to now) I have always gone through phases with my jeans. I don't think I'm really that out there on this one. I feel like this is something a lot of people do. What I mean by "phases" is that, I search for a pair of jeans that I like, and then I basically replace all of my old jeans with variations (different washes) of that same pair of Jeans. The first jeans that I began to do this with back in my Junior year of highschool was the Low Rise Boot Cut from American Eagle. I love those. I pretty much had almost every wash of those jeans that didn't come with complimentary gaping holes at the time of purchase. I stuck with those for a long time. You can see them in this incredibly Gay picture of my from Freshman year at OSU.
After those came a dark phase of my life. I moved on to the Levi's. This was at the bequest and recommendation of Joseph Harvey Hanson. Let me preface my following comments about these jeans by saying that Joe pulls them off. It's not that they're horrible, it's just that they were horrible on me. The problem with my Levi's phase was that I went with the 514 cut (Slim Straight). I wish I could say that the 514's were the extent of the problem, but the real problem came when I switched to the 511 cut (Skinny Jean). Let's just say that I was rockin a pretty emo, chicken-leggy look for a while. This is a picture of myself apparently getting my limbo on in the 514's. These aren't even as skinny as they got.
So tight. Ugh. So, needless to say, I was happy to move on from those. The reason that I think I gave up on that look was that it just literally wasn't comfortable. No thank you for really tight jeans. However, at one point I did have about 8 different washes of those jeans. They were really cheap online...
Next came a short phase where I got into Gap's low rise straight leg jeans which were still not loose but definitely not as skinny as their predecessors. I'm not going to linger here though just cause the real point I wanted to make with all this jeans talk is completely unrelated to all this stuff so far.
So now we come up to last year. I finally found them. Fossil's Relaxed Boot Cut jeans were straight up heavenly. Just the greatest ever. I wore them straight for over a year and a half. Like I completely dumped all my old jeans and just wore my pairs of Fossil jeans all the time. I even purchased the exact same pair of jeans two times so that I'd have two pairs of them. Anyways, this past January or so, Fossil started making a new "Slim Boot Cut" which I love even more than the original boot cut. So of course I had to purchase a couple of pairs of those. So as of right now, as far as jeans that I actually wear, I have two pairs of the Slim Boot Cut and 3 pairs of the Relaxed Boot Cut. However, the Slim Boot Cut pairs get a lot more play time these days.
This brings us to the issue I have been having lately. The Relaxed jeans have one button and then a zipper like normal pants would have. But then the Slim jeans (which really aren't that skinny FYI) that I love, have 4 buttons on the front instead of the traditional button and zipper. Now, I'm totally cool with the buttons. They really don't bug me at all. Honestly, I think I might even like them more. The issue I have been having though is that, with the button button button button jeans, I can just undo my belt and then basically pull on both sides of the pants at the front and open up all the buttons in one smooth move. And I have kind of gotten used to that motion. It's easy, simple, it works for me.
The problem arises in that lately, when I have reverted back to the original Relaxed jeans with the button and zipper, I instinctively try to "rip open all four buttons" and I have caught myself basically trying to rip open my zipper (which does not work anywhere near as well as the buttons). This became a very clear and present problem last night when I actually ripped one half of my zipper off of my jeans about halfway down. Ugh. So today I had to sew half of my zipper back on to my jeans because they're one of my favs. The point of this story: Life is tough.
And for all of you out there (cause there are so many people that actually read this...NO) who think it is ridiculous that I'm so aware of my jeans and what style/cut they are, be honest with yourself. I don't feel metro at all for caring what jeans I'm wearing. If you can say to me that you've never had a pair of pants that you just really liked and that made you feel more confident when you wore them, then I think you might be a liar.
That said though, I really can't believe I just talked about my jeans for so long. That was supposed to just be a short quip about how I was annoyed that I had to sew my zipper on today.
Coupons!! Coupons are something that, if they are readily available, you're kind of stupid not to use. Like, if there are coupons basically laying all over my house and yet I refuse to grab the "free medium drink with purchase of regular sub" coupon for Quiznos but then proceed to go to Quiznos and purchase a regular sub and a medium drink, that is just stupid. (as a side note, I always get the Baha Chicken at Quiznos because it is delish. And who am I kidding, I'm a fattie and I almost ALWAYS get the Large sub.)
I'm getting off point though. Coupons. OK, so yeah, you're almost just stupid if you don't use a coupon that is readily available. However, it is not the end of the world if you forget to use a coupon or if you fail to realize you had a coupon available. Not that big of a deal right? Like if I had a coupon for 20 cents off of a package of sliced turkey at Walmart but I forgot to use it when I came in yesterday and bought my sliced turkey, I'm not going to freak out about it right? Right.
Now, I thought that that would be the general consensus across the board. BUT NO! I forgot about a very special demographic that is unable to be OK with themselves if a coupon goes wasted or if every coupon is not utilized. That would be the Old Woman demographic.
Here I am, standing in line at Walmart waiting to pay, and this woman walks up to me and asks if I mind her cutting in front of me to quote "fix a problem". I don't know how anyone has ever said no to a cute old woman ever. I said yes. I then heard her tell her story to the cashier which went something like this. "Ma'am, I was in here yesterday and I bought some sliced turkey breast (insert long and irrelevant description of the exact kind of turkey breast here) but I forgot to use my coupon. It expired today though and I don't want to waste it. Is there any way I could redeem it now and get the money back?" The cashier looked about as bewildered as I was feeling. This woman had literally come all the way back to Walmart solely to try to redeem this coupon that she'd forgotten to use the day before. IT WAS A COUPON FOR 20 CENTS OFF!!! It is a guarantee almost that she spent more than that just on gas to get back to Walmart.
Now, under normal circumstances, I'm guessing that the correct answer for the cashier would be "Ma'am I can't take care of that here but if you go over to the customer service desk, you can see if they could help you." And I'm guessing that the cashier would be saying that with full knowledge that the customer service desk is NOT going to give a refund. I mean it just doesn't make sense. However, this cashier seemed really nice. She kind of shot me a look as the old lady was explaining her situation (I think it was during the very detailed description of the turkey breast) that was kind of like "is this really happening?" I shot her back my best "hahahahahahaha" face. After the woman was finished, instead of giving what was probably the correct response, she just opened up her cash register, pulled out two dimes, and gave them to the woman in exchange for the coupon. She said something like "ok ma'am I can just get that for you right here." The woman was very grateful and then walked away and out the front door with an air about her that communicated that her business was completed. The whole situation blew my mind. I loved every bit of it.
Gosh this post is so long. The last thing I want to mention is that I recently read a blog post by a legit ex-roommate of mine who is on a sweet year long missions trip called the world race. The blog post is here:
http://danielstinson.theworldrace.org/?filename=loving-like-the-father
I read this the other day and it overwhelmed me almost. Maybe it's just cause I know Danny so well but it really moved me. I just feel like I could really feel the love of the Father in it. As I was reading it, I found that tears were rolling down my cheeks before I even realized how much it was touching me. Anyways, I just wanted to spread it around because I feel like God really connected with me through it and showed me a piece of His heart that I have really been treasuring these last couple days since I read it. I figured you might get something awesome out of it as well. I really had wanted to talk about it a little more but I am getting all kinds of sick of typing right now and class is quickly approaching.
Thus, I think I'm just going to have to peace out.
BTW though, I just reread through this post and I feel like when I talk about jeans, it's even more boring for you than when I talk about music. Thus, that will never happen again.
Love life.
Peace out.
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