Okay, so tonight’s post is actually inspired by my new “fat jeans”, which prompted me to do some quick research on “fat genes”. Puns play a pretty central role in our family’s humor, so the association was inevitable.
It all started with a pen leak in my pocket a couple weeks ago, resulting in a huge black ink stain that didn’t come out whatsoever in my only pair of jeans. Okay, in the only pair of jeans I own without holes and that I can fit in. So, I had to buy a new pair of jeans – or heaven forbid I wear slacks to work. My wonderful wife called me up a few days later and said she was at the store and there were some jeans on sale. Then the magic question – “what size do you need me to get?” Gulp… 38×34. Okay, so I officially got my first pair of “fat jeans”.
On to the topic at hand. Fat genes. In my initial scan on Google, it came up with a few articles of interest… one from 2000 and another from 2007. The short of it is that there is some data that shows a correlation between certain genes and increased propensity to be obese. I’m not sure where I would fall in this categorization, since I haven’t analyzed my DNA recently, but I figure either way it doesn’t matter – it can’t be an excuse to stay fat. Gotta push through and drop 30 pounds.
Hey, so if you write with a ball point pen on your clothes, you can get it out, just use aerosol hairspray (kind that is horrible for the ozone) on it and rub/scratch it until it comes out. I’ve not tried it on a huge ink stain, perhaps depends on the type of ink.
Sorry I couldn’t get that ink stain out for you hon. I tried the hairspray trick, along with a few others, but only succeeded in making it worse.