New Beginnings

 

Gap blouse, Forever 21 earrings, thrifted skirt,
belt from Wish (closed), Banana Republic wedges

This has been an amazing week. Aside from getting a new MacBook, I also got a new job! I received an email last week from Texas Monthly asking if I was still interested in a fact-checking job. A few months ago, I'd emailed my old boss from my TM internship, but they didn't have anything available. I'd kind of forgotten about it, so was super excited to hear back from them. Now that I actually have the job, I'm pumped!

In order to make time for the 20-30 hours per week at Texas Monthly, I'm leaving Gap. I'll be sad to let go of the awesome discount, but I think it's for the best. I've been spending way too much money at Gap and Banana Republic instead of thrifting. I justified each Gap Inc. purchase by saying it would be silly to not take advantage of my discount. I also didn't have much time to thrift because I'd work as late as 9 p.m sometimes. I'll definitely have more time now because I'll only be working office hours during weekdays.

I'm keeping my job at Alfred Angelo for the weekends. I've been making pretty good money and I'm not ready to let go of that just yet.

Even though I wasn't actively looking for a new job, I'm looking forward to a change.

Mixed Feelings

Banana Republic top and flats, Gap cardigan and skirt, vintage pearls found
by my step-mom at an estate sale

I've been dealing with a lot of feelings lately. I haven't had a day off from either of my jobs since February 14 and I think it's starting to get to me. Honestly, I don't think I can do it much longer. Luckily, I have this weekend off for the Texas Style Council and I couldn't be more excited. I don't know if I'm more excited to have three days off in a row or to be attending such an amazing event. All I know is that I can't wait to meet and talk with some of my favorite bloggers. Fortunately, my excitement for this weekend is totally overpowering my feelings of being overworked. I'll worry about that next week.

Pink Lace

vintage dress from Buffalo Exchange, vintage blazer from Cream Vintage,
thrifted Nine West wedges from the Goodwill Blue Hanger, vintage pearls from my step-mom

This is an outfit I wore to work at Alfred Angelo yesterday. I was working with a bride who wasn't really into lace dresses, but wanted to try one on to be sure. After trying on about five mermaid dresses, I put her in one of our best-selling lace dresses. Although she liked it, we both knew it wasn't really her. She was a really vivacious hairdresser with red hair and a va-va-voom body that begged for a fitted mermaid gown with some bling. The whole time she had the lace dress on, I kept describing it as sweet, girly, and romantic. It was only after the fact that I realized I was wearing lace myself. Pink lace, at that. I never really thought of myself of the sweet, romantic type, but I do love this dress.

Maybe my clothes tell me more things about myself than I thought...