New phrase I coined this weekend:
Living with the numbers -- Becoming accustomed to increased weight.
"When I got on the scale at the beginning of the summer, I was disgusted by how much weight I'd gained. But now that I've been living with the numbers for a few months, it doesn't seem so bad."
"I saw Pepper Dennis on the street today. Remember how skinny she was in X-Men? She's totally living with the numbers now."
"He's going to need a lot of plastic surgery to sew up all the loose skin now that he's gone all Karl Lagerfeld. He looked so much better when he was living with the numbers."
Circulate at will.
It's so perfect.
Got it. Love it. Will use it!
Nice! Very nice, unforced, instantly cool-sounding, and super-accurate. Reminds me... in high school (when I was also a nerd) my BFF and I each had a crush on a boy whose initials matched with one of the elements on the periodic table. So like A.M. would be Americanium, and A.L. would be Aluminium. But then we got paranoid that people would figure out who we were talking about, so we referred to them by their atomic mass instead. But THEN we got even more paranoid and decided that people might be able to "guess through the science" and thus referred to our crushes as our "numbers." So it'd be like, "hey I saw your number at the drinking fountain during lunch." Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
That is so fantastically nerdy, I love it!