And now back to the outifts....

Hopefully I can get settled and back into my outfit picture routine now!!


Here's yesterday's and today's outfits:


Monday: 


Dress: NY&Co, $12
Cardi: JCPenny I think
Shoes: Nine West

Today:


Sweater: NY&Co, $9.99
Pants: Limited from Marshalls, $10
Shoes: Kenneth Cole, $35

Look at that awesome office in the background!!!

Extreme office makeover!

And the after.....


Looks like a whole new place and I LOVE IT!!!!!

The new gig!

The first week in Music & Dramatic Arts flew by! It was definitely trial by fire, but not in an overwhelming way, I just quickly learned that no one knew/knows much about the things this position does and is responsible for so even on my first day I was having to field questions I really didn't know answers to. I decided to create flowcharts for each of the concentrations within the curricula, which map out the courses students have to take each semester. That helped me tremendously to begin to feel more comfortable with the course advising aspect of the job. Everything else is learning by doing. Trying to figure out who teaches what instrument for music, etc... It'll come along, it's a learning process.


One of the top priority items for sure was "fixing up" my office. It was a horrible light blue color with nothing on the walls and no decent furniture. Mom came down for the weekend and was my busy little worker bee and without her help, this project would've been really miserable!! 


I'll post these outfit pictures not to really focus on the outfits, but so you can see the office in the background, since I didn't take the "before" pictures. I'll have to steal some of those from Mom.


Here's my first days' outfits/ the sad looking office in the background...

Pulling up to the building on my first day:

 My second day. Hoping I look so pale tired because I'd just finished re-arranging some furniture... I'd like to think I didn't leave the house looking this washed out!

Notice the sad blue walls and lack of well, anything!

 Even my fab scarf didn't help the surroundings! :)

 The view out of my window

Decisions, decisions.... no one really liked the darker paint sample, and even I was a little hesitant but I went with my gut and I'm so happy I did!

The last day

Of course, who would've thought that my last day would go smoothly? It didn't, but there is no point dwelling on the ridiculousness of it all....


Here's a "happy shot" of me on the way to work for my last day in Science:

 I ended up making that day a half-day and it was probably for the best. It was a Friday and it gave me a 2 and a half day weekend to be ready for my first day in MDA!

Destin!

Well, you could never sum up Destin in a blog, so I'll just throw a few pictures on here to tell the story.

I got the job!

So, yes, I got it!!! I got an email on Wednesday.. just long enough after my interview to be an absolutely excruciating wait. The Dean emailed me, then we played phone tag and I finally got him on the phone at about 4:45 on my drive home. He offered me the job, I negotiated for a tad more (just a tiny tad) money than his initial offer and it was all she wrote! It was mine!!! Thursday morning, I had the pleasure of telling my boss that I had been offered and accepted the new job and that was that. (Hardly any guilt trip at all!) That meant that I had the next day (Graduation day) and 4 days left in the office because after the very long graduation day, we were leaving for a week in Destin!!


These pictures are me from that Thursday... after I'd gotten my pre-Destin spray tan Wednesday night.... :)