Fat Lady Stuff

I think I'm going to take up bicycling this summer. truemajority mentioned that she and her family (and pinksox007, yes?) will be, and I thought I didn't have a bike but remembered yesterday we have my aunt's. I am in such horrible shape that I don't know I'll want to actually bike with anyone, but I'm getting used to the idea, lol. Even just getting the bike out of the basement wore me out a bit (but then, there have been times in my life when I've actually been in reasonably good shape and I still wouldn't have brought the bike up myself. But no one else was home).

I've gotten over a lot of the stuff fat people are supposed to internalize about how awful we are, but the one thing I have a really hard time shaking is the shame over being out of shape. Which probably stems in part from a whole lot of fat people defending themselves with "sure, some fat people are unhealthy, but I'm not", as if it is bad bad awful wrong to be fat if you're not the picture of perfect health. We get it from both sides, there. So I get weird about displaying just how out of shape I am in public (and as much as I call myself lazy, I get really iffy if most other people call me the same).

IDK.

Also Lane Bryant is pissing me the Hell off. I realized I wasn't signed up for their mailing list, and I wanted coupons, so I signed up on the 5th...and they sent me a coupon that expired on the 3rd. So I sent an e-mail...and got a response about what to do if I had trouble printing the coupons.

Uhhhh even if I were having trouble, which I'm not, and your tips helped, which they didn't because I wasn't having trouble, PRINTING THAT COUPON WOULD'VE DONE ME NO GOOD. It. Was. Expired.

I've sent round two. Maybe they'll send me instructions for how to redeem my expired coupon.