A Figs Store Review + miscellany

Is the Figs store worth a visit?

I talked about this a little bit on Friday, but some of you had more questions!

So, let’s do a little walk-through of my opinion on the matter.

First: the store is rather small.

I was expecting, I dunno, something more like a warehouse. Ha. But the one in Philly, at least, has a fairly small footprint. 

Because of the small size of the store, there is a limited selection of colors and sizes to try; I ended up having them ship a pair of pants to me because there were none in-store in the color I wanted.

However, it was super-duper helpful to be able to try on a bunch of different scrub styles; they did seem to have most sizes in most of the styles, as long as you didn’t care about color. 

So, I tried different fabrics, cuts, and sizes, and that helped me rule out a lot of stuff.

This pair of joggers, for instance, are the high-waisted style and they’re a little too tight.

But the regular waist style is just fine:

Honestly, that was the best thing about going to the store: the elimination of options for me. I know what sizes didn’t work for me, and I know which styles and which fabrics I hated.

(Notably: their new FormX line. The fabric feels great, but I loathed the styles on me. I looked like I was wearing double knit polyester pants from the 1970s. BLEAH.)

Anyway…now if I want to hunt down Figs scrubs on eBay, I know what to look for. And if Figs has a great sale, I can shop with confidence.  

But it’s not like I need to own a bazillion sets of scrubs; I will maintain a small collection and I’ll manage by keeping up on my laundry. 😉 

(If you do visit a Figs store, bring along a set of old scrubs to recycle, and you’ll get a $50 credit. If you don’t have any old ones, ask some co-workers for a set. 😉 )

Oh, and since someone usually asks: on my unit, we are allowed to wear whatever color of scrubs we want. Lucky us! 

“Look what I bought!”

I texted that to my friend Jena, and she was expecting a picture of a new car to follow.

But I have not even had time to try to buy a car. Instead, I was showing her a picture of the protein pasta I bought:

She’d served me a pasta salad using this Barilla high protein pasta (which has real flour in it) and it was actually GOOD (unlike the 100% chickpea flour one they sell at Aldi.)

So. Some non-disgusting, high-protein pasta salad is coming with me to my night shifts this week. 😉 

The biggest hole in most conspiracy theories

This is an extremely random topic, but hey, this is miscellany. Anything goes.

So, at work the other day my coworkers were discussing flat-earthers, and how they think everyone is conspiring to make us believe the earth is round, when it’s actually flat.

(Note: it is not flat.)

And I said what I always say when conspiracy theories come up: there’s no way people would cooperate well enough to pull this off.

Humans honestly are terrible at keeping secrets and terrible at cooperating. And to keep the flat-earth thing a secret, humans from many different countries would have to cooperate over a long period of time.

UNLIKELY, I say. 😉 

I think this is true of smaller conspiracies too; for instance, I knew someone who thought a sports team had failed to win the World Series in many decades because there was a conspiracy to stop them (Using, I dunno, the umpires? Players on the team? Coaches?).

And I thought the same thing about cooperation…could you get this many people to cooperate and keep a secret like this over dozens of years?

UNLIKELY. 

In an odd way, people who embrace conspiracy theories have a more optimistic view of humans than I do. 😉 

(Something else I also always say when flat-earth theories come up: roads in the Midwest have grid corrections to keep them going straight. And that’s because the earth is round. 😉 )

An online walking club for October

My blog friend Elisabeth is kicking off a new round of her Cool Bloggers Walking Club on October 1st, and she asked me to invite you all (and you don’t have to be a blogger!)

The goal is just ten minutes of intentional movement each day. You can walk, stretch, dance, march in place while your coffee brews…whatever works for you. People will be joining from all over the world, and she’d love for you to join.

There will be weekly recaps with photos so you can see what fellow walkers are up to; from quiet neighborhood strolls to scenic hikes.

Here are some of Elisabeth’s from last year:

It’s low-pressure, just for fun, it’s free to participate, and Elisabeth made a printable tracker to help keep everyone motivated.

I’m joining in this year; I do already knock out at least ten minutes of walking each day, but I haven’t formally tracked this and I haven’t taken pictures before. 🙂 

(Fair warning, some of the days will just be me walking the hospital halls!)

Click here to get all the details + join in!

Might I suggest a breakfast salad?

I think this idea first occurred to me at Fincon in 2021, when I went out to breakfast with my friend Whitney (from the Money Nerds podcast). I ordered avocado toast, and it came with a side of greens, dressed with a vinaigrette. 

Before that, I hadn’t really considered lettuce as a breakfast option! Since then, though, I have often added a simple salad to my breakfast of eggs + toast.

Usually, it’s just greens, a vinaigrette, and some Parmesan if I have it on hand. 

The nice thing about this is that even if the rest of the day’s meals go haywire, you have had at least one serving of vegetables. Before 9 am, even! 

And you can feel quite satisfied with yourself about that. 

Have you ever tried greens at breakfast? And of course, any topic in today’s post is fair game. Discuss!