tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post5111158594939177743..comments2023-06-16T06:29:26.827-07:00Comments on Notes from the Belly: when the best thing ever gets sullied by the worst thing ever... in front of 11 strangersbellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02149962176995053822noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-21824835837889389462011-09-16T09:45:58.532-07:002011-09-16T09:45:58.532-07:00Don't be discouraged cause of one bad experien...Don't be discouraged cause of one bad experience. Nobody like's embarrassment but it's part of life.organic meat winnipghttp://www.mcdonaldfarm.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-16300503552363773032008-04-29T14:44:00.000-07:002008-04-29T14:44:00.000-07:00i would have left after the first five minutes. ku...i would have left after the first five minutes. kudos for you for sticking with it, and good luck! don't let some stupid instructor get the best of you. take care!iCANdothishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03816616612514938034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-22464331057374139012008-04-27T15:26:00.000-07:002008-04-27T15:26:00.000-07:00What in the world? I too would have been ,mortifie...What in the world? I too would have been ,mortified! Are you planning on going back? I think he really is insensitive and I am not sure you need to subject yourself to that...gosh, people are just so oblivious to others. Good for you for taking it well and making a joke at it too. But WOW.K.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11781918535467346780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-2417087249203416272008-04-23T19:26:00.000-07:002008-04-23T19:26:00.000-07:00aw shucks, lasserday. you say the sweetest things....aw shucks, lasserday. you say the sweetest things. thanks for the glowing nod.<BR/><BR/>jenny - coincidentally, my mom told me this story about her first sewing experience in 1950's catholic junior high... sounded equally traumatic as your experience... and heck yeah i'm going to do my own alterations!! i haven't yet found a tailor who nails it.<BR/><BR/>thanks for your comment, heather. you know, regardless of all the fit vs. size talk that the instructor did, i still like him... he's so unabashedly sassy. how can you not love that in a gay man?<BR/><BR/>thanks, jtf! i tell ya - i was this close to bailing after the first class. it's nice to have a passion stir inside of me that has deeper roots than my insecurities. i feel like my ability to stay stems from a lot of the recent work i've been doing around positive self talk. kind of nice to see the me-love in action!<BR/><BR/>bikinime - i heart you, too! but i would rather die that model the *gag* drawstring pants that we're learning how to make... i will, however, be happy to post photos of my next creation... and maybe even be brave enough to model it for the camera:) purely for the sake of the visual, the elastic waisted and drawstring pants that the instructor made was borne of the most hilarious material i've ever laid eyes on... cartoon style firemen in various phases of taking their pants off or already in their skivvies, flexing their bountiful, chiseled, cartoony muscles. SO awesome!!bellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02149962176995053822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-16797028910957365362008-04-23T09:52:00.000-07:002008-04-23T09:52:00.000-07:00After I read this entry, my first thought was, "Yo...After I read this entry, my first thought was, "You are so beautiful!" You have incredible strength, intense courage -- gawd,I'm totally girl-crushing on you right now, hope that doesn't creep you out. :) <BR/><BR/>Also, I am asking please-pretty-please that you take a photo of yourself modeling your sewing creating when it's finished and post it for us all to ooh and aah over. (btw, what are you sewing?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-73268725182887211802008-04-22T20:48:00.000-07:002008-04-22T20:48:00.000-07:00The entire time I was reading this post, I kept th...The entire time I was reading this post, I kept thinking... "ok... here it comes..." just *knowing* that you would end your tale by vowing never to go back to the class again. And why was I so certain that this would be your response?? Because it would have surely been mine. That said, your bravery, and ability to take a terrible experience, and completely deflate it with the sheer sharpness of your resolve, utterly astound and inspire me. You are truly a rock star! Bravo, you.<BR/><BR/>jAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-33492334193511774732008-04-22T17:15:00.000-07:002008-04-22T17:15:00.000-07:00how horrible! you have so much courage to stay the...how horrible! you have so much courage to stay there and go through all that and to keep going back. I agree with the other commentors though...of course he is focusing on size because that is his life, his world, and rarely probably sees the person behind that size. you show him that you are more than just a size.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02938217552213908906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-84571969530163566812008-04-22T14:29:00.000-07:002008-04-22T14:29:00.000-07:00Great story, a marker of your weight loss story an...Great story, a marker of your weight loss story and your descent down the sizes - at least you'll be able to do your alterations.<BR/><BR/>Sewing classes conjur up memories of deep humiliation for me too - for cutting a seam in the down the front of the nightshirt where there wasn't meant to be one, and then being shouted at loudly for several minutes for the sin.<BR/><BR/>Glad to hear the experience hasn't put you off as it did me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932448282210684590.post-80212509881724176412008-04-22T11:12:00.000-07:002008-04-22T11:12:00.000-07:00there is no size you could be that would take away...there is no size you could be that would take away from the wonderfulness that you are. i know that was horrible for you but once again you have surprised me with your quick wit and sweetness. don't let a morally neutral thing like the number of inches to get around your hips make you feel like a bad person or ashamed of yourself. i hope you learn to sew great wonderful pretty clothes, i am so jealous!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com