It is day twenty – six of the forty day Mumu project and only the most outlandish and oversized of my collection remain to be worn. At this stage of the game I am finding the project testing my will to leave the house. When one is wearing something spectacular and out of the ordinary to say… the shops or the pub, one attracts a lot of attention. But the kind of attention where the eye of the passer by is caught, their gaze lingers long enough for it to be noticeable, but they quickly dart their eyes away to avoid being accosted by the ‘crazy lady’ in the ‘strange clothing’. And that just about sums up my overall ‘look’ of late: CRAZY LADY!!!
To make things worse, I have just moved to a new town and I am meeting a lot of new people. At first I didn’t want my every social interaction to involve a conversation about the mumu, so more often than not, I didn’t bring it up, unless they did. But now that I am wearing the kind of garment that screams, ‘This woman is either the owner of 100 cats or she is going to tell your fortune then suggest swinging with your husband’, I inform whoever I am talking to about the Mumu Challenge in 10 words or less. Then try to steer the conversation to other things…
