I ain’t gonna lie, change is definitely not at the top of my list of favorite things. I tend to be a creature of habit…
THE STORY
…In the last few months I have been putting major effort (and successfully I might add) into going new places and trying new things. I’ve gone to knew places, eaten at new restaurants, bought tickets for concerts and events and tried new locations for blog photos. And I have to say that I’ve really been enjoying the bolder braver new me.
One area in which change is still, and probably always will be, difficult for me is in my day to day life. You know what I mean…the nitty gritty of it all; the way in which I do things at home, at work, run errands, what I eat on a regular basis, when I have my coffee…the daily minutia that makes up how I do things in my world.
Two things have recently shook up my regular routine. One of which I’m working on and will definitely get the hang of (if for no other reason because I have to) and the other I just now threw in the towel on. The former I’ll get into in a minute, but the latter? The Gutenberg post editor on WordPress…for those of you who blog and are on WordPress, do you feel me on this?
After all the years I’ve been blogging, I’ve gotten the production of a post down to a science. I know what I’m doing and how to do it. Over the weekend I finally updated WordPress, which I’d been avoiding because I was aware of the new block editing format, and dayum…now I know why I avoided it. Learning anything new is always a challenge and that’s not a bad thing, but right now it was seriously just more than I wanted to deal with. There were a few things that were glitchy and I don’t currently have the time nor patience to mess around with trying to figure out the issues. And the format was just, well…different. After working on this post for three days, I finally just installed the plugin to enable the old editing format. I’ll save Gutenberg for the Summer when I have time to play with it.
The other change is actually on a much bigger scale than a silly blog post editor and it’s a change which I can’t avoid by installing a plugin. I had been having major digestive issues since last Summer. Initially I chalked it up to being “nothing” and lived with the pain and discomfort. But as things often will, the issues worsened to the point that just about every time I ate I was miserable. I’ve had issues with dairy in the past and on my own I determined that my occasional sensitivity had become straight up lactose intolerance. I cut way back on all dairy products, but the problems persisted…even when I hadn’t eaten dairy.
I talked with my doctor about it at my appointment last month and after some testing we discovered that not only am I lactose intolerant I also have a rather significant sensitivity to gluten. Gluten? Seriously? Do you know how many things contain gluten? Honestly, I didn’t until I was told I could no longer have it and started paying attention. Of course there are the obvious culprits like my beloved Oreo Double Stuffs (which I love with a big ol’ glass of milk…sigh)…Cheetos…bread…donuts…pasta…all the yummy things in life. But then there are the not so obvious; most restaurant french fries which are often coated in what I now fondly refer to as “gluten sludge”, Mexican food, salad dressings, Starbucks drinks…the list seems endless. Talk about jackin’ up my routine. I have an appointment with a nutritionist, and until then I’m educating myself and muddling through. If any of you have suggestions feel free to share…
THE OUTFIT
I’m not sure why, but it’s been quite awhile since I wore one of my tulle skirts. Actually it was last April to be exact so the time had come to pull one out of the closet. This pretty candy colored cropped sweater from Target was in my opinion the perfect partner for my ivory tulle skirt. I considered the pink tulle, but it was just too much…I don’t know…sweetness maybe.
The sweater is actually super lightweight and will be perfect for Spring as well as cool Summer nights. Honestly, the day I wore this I kinda jumped the seasonal gun and was freezing most of the day. It was worth it though because it’s even prettier in person. Since I’m not a total lunatic, I wore my over the knee boots and a pair of leggings so at least my bottom half was warm.
THE TIP
You are never ever too old to wear a tulle skirt, or anything for that matter. My favorite way to wear tulle is dressed down for daytime like I did with today with the cropped sweater and boots. Simply add a casual top and basic pumps, boots or even sneakers and you have an easy daytime look with an unexpected twist.
THE LINK UPS
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