Swim Suit Confidence Week, y’all!

Click here to check us out strutting our stuff on Curvy Girl Guide.

Click here to find my suit (it cinched my waist like magic.)

P.S. Look for me on Wendy Williams today and Good Morning America tomorrow. I’ll be the one in the bathing suit…probably eating a Banana Chocolate bar from Dylan’s (OMG HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS, IT’S ORGASMIC.)

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This weekend I go back to New York City for our second annual National Swim Suit Confidence Week, wherein, I man up and appear on television in my bathing suit.

That’s all well and good, and I wasn’t even nervous (lie. airplanes and bathing suits scare me.) until I got my media schedule, and OMG DREAM COME TRUE Y’ALL.

Some people want to be on Oprah and Ellen, and I do, too, but my total secret guilty pleasure?

Bam.

I don’t know how we’re going to come out of this not being best friends.

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It’s not quite summer hot here in Ohio, so that means I can get away with cranking my oven up to roasting level a few more times without it turning my kitchen into a Native American sweat lodge.

Andy is generally displeased when I say things like, “we’re having cabbage for dinner,” or “I’ve made brussels sprouts!” If it were up to him, we’d have lunch meat and cheese product every day. But, when I don’t say those words, and just put the food on his plate and serve him like some sort of caveman, he eats it. Hell, even moans a little.

I actually grew up on cabbage and kraut dishes, as it was cheap and filling, which is a good thing when you don’t have a ton of money to feed a family. Now that I have my own family, I like to experiment a bit, outside the realm of boiled dinners, to find better ways to eat the stuff I grew up hating.

Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Brussels Sprouts
1 tbsp Ranch Dressing Mix Powder
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper

Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees.

Thoroughly rinse the sprouts, slice them in half, and then coat them with the olive oil, Ranch Dressing Mix, and Salt and Pepper to taste. Spread them out on a cookie sheet lined with foil.

Bake for 15 minutes, or until sprouts get caramelized and crispy looking.

Serve, devour, get seconds.

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I thought I’d start to do little fashion sneak peeks on the occasion I actually dress myself to leave the house.

As seen in my most recent Spring Dress Up collection, I love white pants, which is in direct violation to the rule that curvy women should stay away from white and stick to black. Fuck that rule. A well fitting, non-see through pair of white pants are great for summer, can be totally slimming, and make me feel dressed up, even when I’m not.

White Flare Jeans, size 14/32 Long, Gap Outlet $59 (currently on sale for 20% off*)
Ruffle Denim Button Up, size XL, Gap on clearance in store for $15.99
Wide Braided Leather Belt, Lane Bryant
Brown Wedge Sandals, Target

*If you have a Gap Outlet near you, spend the $6 on the reusable bag. It’s super cute, plus you get 10% every time you bring it in to shop.

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I just finished Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

Am I the only one who read this book, and then spent 7-15 hours googling around to see if Abraham Lincoln was, in fact, ever an actual vampire hunter?

Because dude, this is all totally plausible, and how bad ass would that be!? Also, why was he not a hotter president, I could totally get behind him being a super hot tall guy who kills people with an axe.

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