Has anyone seen that movie "Elizabethtown"? It's about this guy, who in the beginning of the movie reveals his recent failure at developing the perfect running shoe. (Which is kinda funny because I used to dream of doing that!) Apparently his error in design (or something else? they don't really say) caused his company to lose about a billion dollars. He called it a "fiasco". Well this week I had a similar occurance at work. True, I didn't cause my company to lose a ton of money, but it seemed just as bad. I made a huge error in judgement. I'd rather not go into the specifics, since one: it's pretty boring to non-engineering facilities type people such as myself, and two: I'm just really tired of talking about it. The word of the week for me was definitely humility. There's no telling how many times I said the words "I'm sorry". I even had to apologize to the president of the university!! But that's life I guess. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. There was a bright side to my fiasco, and that would be the realization that I have the best husband and parents in the world! Eric was right there to comfort me and make me laugh again. And my parents were on the phone right away ready to listen to the long drawn out story and just offer encouragement and support. Where in the world would I be without the three of them?!
Today I did my favorite thing in the world to do while Eric is at work: shop! I love to go shopping by myself because I can just spend hours looking at anything and everything. Usually I go to Kohl's and Target, mainly because they're really close to my house. I was in Kohl's for a whole hour and I didn't even buy anything there! I just like to look. But Target, that's a whole other story! I spent about 2 hours in there and came out with a whole cart full of stuff! I would say that I'm really frugal when it comes to shopping. I usually only buy stuff when it's on sale or if I have a coupon for it. And I have zero fashion sense by the way. I'll look at all the new trendy stuff and think, "wow, that would look great... on someone else!" I'm not very adventurous. Sometimes when I'm shopping for clothes I have to try to put myself in someone else's shoes. I like to think of one of my friends who is particularly well-dressed and imagine what they would buy. Or I love to go shopping with friends like Katie M., who always makes me try on things that I normally wouldn't glance at. And when I'm staring in the dressing room mirror thinking, "I don't know...", Katie will say, "Go for it!" I really like that.
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Shannon, I just wanted to say thanks for writing on your blog. I always enjoy reading it. I'm sorry for whatever happened at your work this week, but I don't think anyone could be upset with you for long (if they even were at all) because you are so nice and humble to begin with. I bet you admitting your mistake probably made them like you more anyway. On another note, I like going shopping by myself too because I can take as long as I want trying to decide on something or figuring how what is the best deal on something or which coupons to use, etc. Sometimes I take it a little too far, though, and about drive myself crazy trying to be so frugal. So I'm learning to loosen up a little in that regard and just go down the street to Publix more often for more things even if it is a little more expensive than WalMart Supercenter or SuperTarget. Tomorrow I get to go grocery-shopping by myself while TJ watches Bauer and I am really looking forward to that.
Hey! So sorry about your work fiasco. I hav such a hard time letting go of things when stuff like that happens - i am glad that you felt supported and can begin to move past it.
I ditto yours and Ginger's shopping experiences. I went shopping this past weekend to try to get a few clothes that fit my everchanging body size since pregnancy and felt completely out of the loop - it's been so long since I have shopped for regular clothes - all of the styles look foreign to me and I too feel like some things look super cute.... on someone else!!!! I just tend to stick to jeans, khakis and solid color t-shirts....wish I had the nerve to break out more. And I too get a bit obsessive about sales and coupons, which is wierd to me because my mother never cut coupons and I do it religiously.
Hope you find a new Hard Times that lives up to your standards.
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