{"id":352,"date":"2009-05-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/05\/the-incredible-changing-woman.html"},"modified":"2009-05-19T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T03:00:00","slug":"the-incredible-changing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/05\/the-incredible-changing-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Changing Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m quite impressed — in 2 1\/2 weeks I was able to go from this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2009 04 07 Muff_My_Last_Week<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2009 04 24 AFWA_DiningOut<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

(Do I look like one of those ladies from the cast of Dynasty just standing around in a formal gown?<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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I made it home from the desert in time to go with Dave to his office’s “dining out”<\/a>. For some reason I emphatically proclaimed that I wanted to wear a dress instead of my mess dress. This is the first time in 15 years I’ve been to a military formal NOT in my mess dress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2006 03 26 NCSU AFROTC Ball Pic<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Also, I have to express how impressed I am that I’m wearing a NINE YEAR OLD DRESS! Whoo hoo! It’s still in pretty good shape, structurally, and (most importantly) IT STILL FITS ME!<\/p>\n

Lucky me, I found this picture of me in the dress from almost exactly 9 years ago: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2009 04 24 AFWA_DiningOut<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Pardon the strange-looking makeup there.  I look like an unpopular geisha or something…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m quite impressed — in 2 1\/2 weeks I was able to go from this: From 2009 04 07 Muff_My_Last_Week To this: From 2009 04 24 AFWA_DiningOut (Do I look like one of those ladies from the cast of Dynasty just standing around in a formal gown?) I made it home from the desert in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[625],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-air-force-wife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t