...have kept the committment of MomsRising t-shirts daily during this period of chaos.  I have three colors and find that I am switching colors daily to allay any suspicions concerning my personal hygiene   Still having trouble being much of a billboard on cold days as I unconsciously zip up whatever coat or sweater I am wearing but the weather is changing.

 

I need a new color though.

Seattle has been in the throes of an uncharacteristic cold snap for the past week or so.  Unfortunately I am finding the weather is adversely affecting my effectiveness as a human billboard.  I have put away all my pullover sweaters, sweatshirts and fleece.  Each chilly morning I grab a flannel, zip-up sweatshirt or fleece coat.  I vow to leave my overgarment open all day yet find myself at the end of the day buttoned or zipped up tight.  I don't recall hiding Rosie but that's what happens every day.  Guess I need some screened sweatshirts or a quilted dickies coat with Rosie and the URL on the back.

Woke up early to go to work today and realized I didn't have the confidence to make another transfer shirt in the wee hours of the morning and still get out the door in time.  Fortunately I washed my one transfer shirt the night before and the dogs woke me at 4am so it was dry and ready to go at 6am.  Not quite desperate yet to mix it up however I did some wishful thinking and tried on the XLs in my wifes collection thinking somehow they might be really baggy.  Guess I learned there really is a difference between XL in women's and men's sizes.

As my wife mentioned in her post today, one side effect of taking on our pledge to wear MomsRising.org shirts until family leave passes in Washington state is the simplification of the rest of my couture.  Understanding that we could be doing this for a year or more, I realized it didn't make much sense to store all my non-MomsRising.org shirts for that long.  Last night I cleaned out three dresser drawers, packed up a box for Goodwill and said fond farewell to many old, cherished shirts.  Note the soon-to-be-rare sight of me in a non-Rosiefied garment.

Yesterday was the first day back to work after the holiday and there was no mail service due to former president Ford's memorial.  My always-creative wife put together some custom artwork from the MomsRising.org site and, through the magic of Avery t-shirt transfer technology, made us some snappy MomsRising.org shirts to tide us over.  The only glitch came due to my forgetting that the artwork had to be reversed before going on the transfer.  We have a really cool backwards multiple version that I am sure will fetch a high price from eBAY collectors after the project is over.  In the meantime we are set with making as many of these as we like - just grab a blank shirt and an iron every morning.