Reminiscing … and Some Really Good Deals
Every now and again, I miss the old days when I could blog alot. And I mean to spell that “alot”. So, here, let me throw a bunch of stuff into one random post!
1) Shoes are a better bet than some items for online purchasing. New to The Space Between My Peers affiliate shopping family (where you can support me in some small way by using my links to purchase): ShoeSteal.com! That sounds appropriate, doesn’t it? Well, not the stealing, but … you know what I mean.
Coming Soon: Three Day Sale!
Save an additional 25% off sitewide at ShoeSteal.com with promo code STEAL25. Valid 10/25-10/27/10.
2) Is This Modest? is giving away a skirt from the Modest Mom. 16 different patterns and a couple of great skirt styles…
AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AND LEAVE A COMMENT!
3) I wanted to let you know about two Old Navy sales. Starting tomorrow 10/22, get 30% off Hot Trends or 40% off Hot Trends when you use your Old Navy, Gap, or BR Card. Enter promo code ONTRENDS at checkout. Offer ends 10/28..
Starting tomorrow 10/22, get Get Free Shipping when you spend $50 or more on OldNavy.com merchandise. Enter promo code ONSUPER50 at checkout. Offer ends 10/26..
4) Unfortunately, I didn’t get this out before the last day, but …
Have a wonderful weekend! And pray for me, if you are so inclined. I have many decisions ahead of me, including what to do with my virtual real estate and content here. 
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Paradoxical Encomium: Muffin Top
For my rhetoric class, I was required to write a paradoxical encomium. I chose my subject thinking you might find it amusing.
Muffin Top
Glamorous I am not; moreover, my sartorial sense lacks sophistication. Any words I bring forth must be utterly unequal to the praise of my weighty subject. Praise, however, I must try. For no contemporary fashion phenomenon exceeds the gentle elegance of the Muffin Top. Reminiscent of home-baked treats, in both cause and effect, the sightly bulge billows above the waistband of the chic.
Born an Australian colloquialism, progeny of a protean pelvis and hip huggers, Muffin Top’s meteoric rise to celebrity extends to all English-speaking countries. Indeed, except for the woman falling into either deficiency or excess regarding modesty, Muffin Top has swept the globe! Could the 1997 Seinfeld episode entitled “The Muffin Tops” have foreshadowed the birth of our auspicious champion?
As to the glory of our hero’s early years, Muffin Top was crowned “Word of the Year” by Australia’s Maquarie Dictionary in January of 2006; concurrently, The American Dialect Society, in its “Word of the Year” vote, recognized the expression as one of the Most Creative. Only a year prior, literary luminaries William Safire and Hadley Freeman had profiled our protagonist in The New York Times Magazine and The Guardian, respectively. Safire praised Muffin Top for filling a “lexical void” and elucidated the term’s etymology: “As every baker knows, a muffin is a small cake that rises above its metal container. When removed from the pan, its shape is round, with the top hanging over the base of the cake like a small, harmless mushroom cloud.”
And like the mushroom cloud, Muffin Top has the ability to bring about an amiable end to conflict. What but Muffin Top has the courage to war and bring peace in the modern woman’s struggle with freshly-laundered jeans? And what else embodies the wisdom of abandonment, like the bra burning of yesteryear, as well as the justice of impartiality? Indeed, Muffin Top embodies temperance in female modesty: keeping the pants from falling off, all the while revealing delicate, cake-shaped curves.
To what can Muffin Top be compared? The inelegantly-phrased “Love Handles” bears the nearest resemblance, yet Muffin Top clearly surpasses Love Handles by describing not only hip rolls above the waistband but also belly bulges and those – ahem - behind.
Verily Muffin Top transcends other stylish phenomena. We should all be so accessible, so well-rounded, so unrestrained!
A blessing on your head,
Muffin Top, Muffin Top,
to see your midriff spread,
Muffin Top, Muffin Top.
And such ubiquity
the like we’ll never see
when tailored pants come in style!
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Somatotyping and Myers-Briggs
The very first thing I have written in my notes for Nonverbal Communication:
What are you saying and do you mean to say it?
Nevertheless, I have found our study of somatotypes slightly disturbing . The idea that people would draw conclusions about our personalities from body-type seems somehow un-American or something.
Somatotyping is the system of body typing and constitutional psychology based on research by William Sheldon in the ’40s. Most of us have heard the terms endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph. What we troubled me was research showing the following characteristics related to body type:
endomorphy
softer, shorter, old fashioned, warm-hearted, less strong, amiable, talkative, dependent, trustworthy
mesomorphy
stronger, more masculine, better looking, adventurous, younger, more mature, self reliant
ectomorphy
very thin, very tall, very ambitious, suspicious, tense, pessimistic, stubborn
Yikes! How many of us would fit these descriptions? And do we tend to get grumpy and difficult when people assume things about us that are not true?
But look at this chart I found at mySomatotype.com, overlaying somatotype with myers-briggs personality type.
At first glance, this fits at least myself and the hero fairly precisely. How about you?
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