Love shopping at Target (among other places)

It is great to walk through Target and look at all the things they sell.

I really do look in the Women’s Department … hey, they have Isaac Mizrahi.

But, really they have some wonderful dresses and skirts and tops. And the price is right for a budget.

In some ways my eyes get a bit twinkly, my heart beats a little faster, and I might start salivating ever so slightly. I like the affordable prices and convenience. It’s HUGE and it has everything I’m looking for, including affordable accessories and more.

Issaac Mizrahi Taffeta Couture Dress

Isaac Mizrahi Sateen Sheath Dress

Shibori Print Cardigan

Mossimo® Irene Peep-Toe

Mossimo® Patchwork Ballet Flats

Merona® Elani Demi Wedges – Red Patent

Merona® Maurine Faux-Crocodile Moccasin Pumps – Tan

Mossimo® Vanecia D’Orsay Pumps – Natural Snake

My fervent wish is to carry some of them off.

Like, no love bald men

Some men look extremely sexy bald.

Others, like Howie Mandel, don’t.

Over the years there have been quite a few good looking and sexy bald men.

My tribute and choices are:

Sean Connery

Djimon Hounsou

Yul Brenner

Ving Rhames

Telly Savalas

Michael Clarke Duncan

Bruce Willis

Montel WIlliams

Mark Miller, lead singer Sawyer Brown

Surely not a complete list … but those that come to  mind to me.

At 5’8″, guess I am a tall woman and in good company

Some really beautiful women to emulate. To watch them on TV or the Silver Screen and begin to see more of myself.

5 ft 8 in:

Lenore Aubert, Kate Beckinsale, Marti Caine, Tia Carrere, Ciara, Jill Clayburgh, Marcia Cross, Ellen DeGeneres, Shelley Duvall, Jane Fonda, Heather Graham, Veronica Hamel, Mel Harris, Anne Hathaway, Christina Hendricks, Jill Hennessy, Faith Hill, Paris Hilton, Whitney Houston, Helen Hunt, Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diane Keaton, Diana Krall, Anna Kournikova, Jessica Lange, Angela Lansbury, Ali Larter, Kelly LeBrock, Michelle Lee, Judith Light, Andee Macdowell, Ali MacGraw, Pamela Sue Martin, Debra Messing, Maureen O’Hara, Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Rihanna, Molly Ringwald, Tanya Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Isabella Rossellini, Rene Russo, Meg Ryan, Cybill Shepherd, Vonda Shepherd, Mary Steenburgen, Sharon Stone, Emma Thompson, Jo Ann Worley, Daphne Zuniga

(other heights too at http://www.geocities.com/staciannhunter/myadv13.html#ffoh)

I dress to please myself

I don’t dress the way most believe I should. I pretty much straddle the line between male and female … an androgynous look. I guess the closet that come to me is from the old movie ‘Annie Hall’. I cover my self up pretty much and try to show very little.

Baggy trousers (many times with the cuff rolled up) and over-sized button down collarless dress shirts. No hats, no ties, no vests … maybe a corduroy sports jacket. Of course sunglasses and I do iron my clothes and not wear them all rumpled.

It does work for work and meetings in the business world as I’ve had no complaints from bosses. Just told that a business atmosphere doesn’t include jeans and that’s fine with me. Jeans are a totally different story anyway. I’m pretty much accepted at work as maybe a little eccentric but presentable. At home and elsewhere I told I should dress up with a shirt and tie. A nice suit. No thank you, it’s a misrepresentation of me.

The Annie Hall look comes closest. It puts me in-between and allows me to be somewhat feminine but not overly or overtly. I have been thinking of stepping a bit further into the feminine realm, but hope not to cross the line fully. I am not ready to ‘come out’ but I am ready to spread my wings a bit more.

I want to start dressing ‘differently’ at work. Although I’m not ready to ask to be allowed to follow the ‘Woman’s Dress Code’ though … I’m ready to express myself more. Just small things: pants, a shirt, my shoes – nothing dramatic: one thing here and there. So my appearance would still be androgynous but slightly feminine, but not dramatically so.

I do so want to wear all the pretty dresses and skirt and tops, all the time. A nice blue or light gray skirt suit would be darling for work.  Well, since that can’t be that person just yet … I’ll go for this in-between look and at least I can feel comfortable and be closer to me.

So I was thinking a pant suit. They can be versatile and work very well in the office. Some would be too overtly feminine and that is not what I’m seeking. Some just look horrible too and I definitely do not want those.  Just something subtle and so I was thinking maybe like these outfits.

Now remember no purse or high heels (schucks!). But if the trousers are baggy enough a small chunky heel shoe (possibly a low wedgie) could be in the offering. The pant length should be long and cover most all the shoe, maybe a small flair leg.

Wearing something like this, I hope, would not put a sign one saying “I’m a woman and what you to realize that!” Both short and long length jackets work well too, I think. And the color would need to be blue, black or maybe a pinstripe. Even though a nice blue or yellow or white outfit appeals to me more.

I could do this subtly.

Maybe one day I will be braver and choose a pretty skirt and blouse with may favorite heels. Maybe like this:

About my favorite colors

I want to be Pretty in Pink!

Pink is so delicious and feminine and simply a color i love.

It is wonderful wearing anything pink, for me.

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I want to be sexy in red!

Red! Oh yes, I love it.

Red a deeper shade of pink and it does express a deeper sexier side of me.

The side that wants to break out every now and again!

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I want to be beguiling in black!.

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Oh, and lest I forget the combinations!

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And a combination of black and white I adore

Absolutley adore children

I can’t help it when I see a child I just want to protect them.

They are innocent and deserve to just enjoy life.

Well, yes I do want to hug them and hold them close. And babies! Oh, my yes. I need to hold them.

It breaks my heart when I hear about children who get hurt, even if by accident.

It really frosts me when I hear of parents hurting theirown children.

I treat all children as if they were my own. Don’t know any other way to care for them.

Love the color black … in many ways

I have always loved the color black, in clothing and other things.

Don’t know why, but I always wanted to go on a date to a really nice restaurant and wearing black.

A black dress, black nylons, black heels and a black handbag.

Maybe this

Or this (minus the hat and sunglasses)

Others maybe

Yes, black is a favorite color of mine.

I love fashion, women’s fashion

I really do. I always have.

I love shoes, high heels especially. I love my hair being just right. I love clothes.

I remember when I was young going shopping with my mother while she looked for dresses, skirts, blouses, heels … you name it and I was there. Listening to her and the sales ladies talk about the material or the style and just wanting to try them on. Of course then we would have to go to the Children’s Department, not the Ladies, but alas we didn’t.

I remember one time being in the changing room as she tried several things on. It was heaven as I got to hold them and hand them to her. As she tried them on she gave me her thoughts on each item. I got to feel the material and see the different designs and styles close up.

As time went on, i didn’t get my own but i started wearing my mother’s clothes. They were beautiful and gorgeous and made me feel the same. Even at a young age dressing up I felt as though I was in the changing room. Smoothing them here and turning just so to see all of me in the mirror.

I could spend a lot of time shopping and spending money, if I had it. i don’t … but it is still wonderful just shopping, window shopping. Looking at all the beautiful things and imagining. Imagining the clothes on me. I once found a beautiful black A-Line skirt and immediately felt good. I knew it would look great on me and I’d love wearing it.

It kinda spoke to me. Do clothes speak to any of you?

Well, I like to imagine various combinations of pieces in my mind. Not to look perfect or impress others but rather as a creative outlet for me. A challenge that I enjoy, some inner satisfaction.

I like looking good. i like feeling good. I like the confidence it gives me.

I don’t think clothes make the woman but rather women make the clothes. Cause something that looks fantastic on you might not look as good on me, and visa versa.

Maybe it’s a knack one learns or maybe it’s an inner conciousness that always there. I don’t know.

I just know i’m alright making these mental calculations and of course, wearing women’s clothes. It’s just natural.

Men are delicious

There have been times when i see a sexy handsome man and know he is looking at me …

well my skin actually tingles from the soles of my feet to my navel, over my chest and down my arms.

Oh, it is such a good feeling.

He’s gorgeous and he is smiling at me.

Wonderful sensations.

Not often, but enough to know how nice it is.

All things considered … I enjoy being a woman

I do so enjoy being a woman. I adore and love being this way.

I realize that some may disagree but then again these are my thought and my opinions on being me.

Being a woman allows me some freedoms and pleasures that as a man I’m definitely not afforded.

So to begin with I can indulge myself and be soft and sensual at all times and I can also do it so freely. I can even choose the times I want to express it.

I can pamper myself with a long hot bubble bath not just on some special occasion.

Or I paint my nails, style my hair and change clothes 5x in a day. (Within moderation for me, but still doable)

I can flirt without saying a word. (And I guess on occasion I have by the results. )

I find great joy in being a comfort to those in need and those I love.

I can share all of my feelings and not feel weak, even if I would seek advice or anything else from another person.

On the other side I do have bad moods from time to time, high emotions and such almost all month long. (Guess some other thoughts and desires fit in here too.)

Another wonderful part of me is my growing breasts and round hips. (And I have a waistline!)

Personally, I enjoy being a woman and expressing that part of me every day. (It comes out so very naturally I’ve been told. )

Of course some drawbacks right now are that I would love to be affectionate, be spoiled by someone, and most of all making that someone know that are important to me. (I would feel so feel loved and happy.)

Sure, you can show me things that may not be positive, but I believe I can show you an upside to them.

I have been blessed being born female. I adore being sensitive, loving, compassionate, strong.

God made me this way, a woman placed in the body of a man for a reason. His reason. I have learned of two worlds, felt emotional and physical pain, love and loss in deeply personal ways. Through it all God gave me room to grow and fulfill his purpose.

And I feel great about being the woman God created me to be.