Lightweight Eats

I've been quiet recently. That's because I've been spending a lot of time job and apartment hunting. Although we love our apartment dearly, Dan and I are looking at other housing options. It's currently that largest part of our monthly budget and when our lease ends, that rent will go up. Financially, it's just not a smart decision to live here anymore.

I've also been working on finding work.

Because of our training schedule, there are significant constraints on work possibilities. Of course, I could easily make sacrifices to work a full-time job--train on either side of work and rarely see Dan or decrease my training volume, for example.

Fortunately, we are not in a place where I have to do those things. Instead, I've been on the hunt for part-time work, and recently stumbled across an awesome gig.

Today was my first day working as a fit model for a local clothing company. Basically, I act as a human mannequin, discussing the fit of the sample garment with the design team and the pattern maker. It's really a lot of fun.

The clothing is all sized to fit my dimensions, more or less, so they give me an item and other than a few tugs or pulls the garment fits. Of course, the point of my being there is to fix all the tugs and pulls!

In the first day, I feel like I've learned so much already! I'm going to have a completely new appreciation of what to look for next time I go purchase clothing, and a better understanding of what goes into making things fit and why they might not fit me correctly.

Oh yea, I've also been busy training a lot, too, but that's the norm.