celebratory spending

I don't mean to be all "I am so great look at my benevolence" but being in an, I don't know, flush of community good feeling sort of mood, I just split some donation money between the Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth, the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance who do a housing program for LGBTQ homeless young adults, and the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, who run a program called "Youth on Fire" in Harvard Square for homeless and street-involved youth. Honestly I know jack shit about these groups and they might be horrible scams or hopelessly inefficient - Charity Navigator didn't have anything - but I just looked at like a hundred rainbow flags and I have really strong feelings about queer kids getting rejected by their parents and I'm posting this to encourage anyone who *does* know what the hell they're talking about and has money for spontaneous donation to consider doing something similar, like, let's all buy the United States a wedding present or something.

pants

The hotly awaited verdict on pants! The regular 16s were in fact a little snug for my mighty thighs and hips but fit pretty well in the waist. The 16Ws were great in the thighs but at first seemed very too big in the waist... buuuut... it turned out they have the same kind of adjustment-elastic-with-holes-on-a-button that my kids' pants do! Adjusted, they were great, and how awesome is it to have my very own pants with this sensible technology. I am super proud of myself for, like, obtaining clothes to put on my body instead of just bewailing the baffling nature of the size-determination quest.