We had pajama day at the school today. I don't like dressing in pajama pants or sweats when I'm out in public. I just feel overly exposed. Until a few years ago, I refused to participate on pajama days, using them as an excuse to wear one of my Hawaiian shirts (as I did nearly every dress up day). Now that I wear Hawaiian shirts on a more regular basis, I've started participating more in the dress up days.
I happen to have a pajama shirt that I don't otherwise use as I don't like wearing long sleeves in bed. However, it is clearly a pajama shirt. I wore a pair of grey sweatpants for the bottoms. Even though I have actual pajama pants, I use them as my pajamas, and I didn't want to wear them through the school day. To deal with the feeling of being exposed, I wore my cargo shorts under the sweats. For extra measure, I wore my Punisher T-shirt under the pajama shirt. There's something about knowing that, despite being in the pajama outfit and carrying an oversized teddy bear, I had a skull design underneath which brought a bit of ironic joy to my day.
As for the oversized bear, I asked Rowen to bring me the largest stuffed animal that we had. The bear was about three feet tall and had a red bow tie. I held him facing out so that, as I greeted students in the hall, I could surreptitiously wave his arm in greeting as well--one student asked if he was a puppet.
I wasn't prepared to answer questions about the bear, so when students asked me his name, I said, "Nunya." "Nunya?" they would ask. "Yep. Nunya Business."
It was a good day.
I happen to have a pajama shirt that I don't otherwise use as I don't like wearing long sleeves in bed. However, it is clearly a pajama shirt. I wore a pair of grey sweatpants for the bottoms. Even though I have actual pajama pants, I use them as my pajamas, and I didn't want to wear them through the school day. To deal with the feeling of being exposed, I wore my cargo shorts under the sweats. For extra measure, I wore my Punisher T-shirt under the pajama shirt. There's something about knowing that, despite being in the pajama outfit and carrying an oversized teddy bear, I had a skull design underneath which brought a bit of ironic joy to my day.
As for the oversized bear, I asked Rowen to bring me the largest stuffed animal that we had. The bear was about three feet tall and had a red bow tie. I held him facing out so that, as I greeted students in the hall, I could surreptitiously wave his arm in greeting as well--one student asked if he was a puppet.
I wasn't prepared to answer questions about the bear, so when students asked me his name, I said, "Nunya." "Nunya?" they would ask. "Yep. Nunya Business."
It was a good day.
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