You may have heard of the show before, or you may not have. It’s a drama TV series on AMC about an advertising company and their employees placed in the 60′s. I’ve gotten addicted to it, the show and the fashion of the 60′s.

Working in a clothing store – especially working under my job title “Unload and Merchandising” I see and touch nearly every product that arrives at the store, and being the clothing/fashion lover that I am, you can imagine how hard it is to not stop and look at a really cute shirt that I just took out of it’s box every now and again.

I hadn’t personally taken this dress out of it’s box so I hadn’t seen it until it was on the wheeled rack we put the hanging clothes on to then scoot them out to their proper departments, I saw the color of the dress out of the corner of my eye, this deep turquoise, I instantly doubled back to have a looksie. It was love at first sight! It was the dress I had been looking for for months. It was so completely perfect! When I clocked out I searched the stock room for it and grabbed my size and put it on hold until I was ready to buy it the following week.

My apologies for the low quality picture, but it’s not exactly easy to take a self portrait when you’re trying to get from your head to your toes in the picture.

After I put the dress in my cart, ready to buy it, I searched the shoe department for a pair of cute matching shoes and the jewelry department for a much needed necklace to go with and got the matching earrings and bracelet to make it a whole set! I say “much needed necklace” because it’s a very high neckline as you can see in the first picture and I didn’t currently own any good big necklaces to help make use of the space.

I just need to work on the 60′s hair style a little bit and it’s perfect! Definitely an outfit I’m proud to own though, I was so thrilled with the completed look :)

I’ve certainly come a long way from the 14 year old who used to wear nothing but boys clothes that were 2 sizes too big haha! I actually found some pictures from those days not too long ago, I wanted to hide my face in shame haha I thought I was so cool back then, but didn’t we all when we were preteens??

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In life though, I spent the majority of my day going through jobs listings and looking into college (more like talking to my mom about what I should do about college haha). Filled out an application, it’s the job I want the most out of the ones I saved so I’m going to wait until I’m sure they won’t hire me til I apply for other jobs. I had both of my parents helping me on the application, it turned out to be a pretty badass job application if I say so myself!

As for the college, I’ve always been on edge about it because I was homeschooled from second grade and on, and my mom had an unusual way of teaching me and my sister. I’ll summarize: I’ve written two maybe three essays in my life and only done a small handful of tests, never had to do projects either. So the thought of having to do school like most people have their whole life has always made me uneasy, I was never able to decide if I wanted to go to college or not, I didn’t want to just jump into it you know?

Also my complete lack of knowledge on college on how it works didn’t help the matter haha. But that’s what my mom is for! I wasn’t aware that you could make a traditional 2 year course (for an associates degree I think?) take four years if you wanted it to. I never understood credits and how they work very well they’re so confusing haha. So I’m going to start myself off with one class that I’m really interested in taking that’s possibly relevant to what I ultimately want to do for a career (climatologist or something along those lines), geography or maybe history, I haven’t quite decided yet. And if I decide that I want to continue with college, I can go talk to someone at the college to figure out what all classes I would need to take to be able to get me where I want to be since I’m not entirely sure which classes would be required, some science and math classes I imagine, and then pick up the classes at the speed I feel comfortable with!

I feel so relieved finally! I finally know where I’m going and have a rough idea of what steps I need to take. I’ve always been concerned that I’d never really move forward, that I would get stuck at this job and stuck living with my parents because I don’t have a substantial career – love them to death of course! Just don’t want to be living with them when I’m 30 haha and I know that they certainly don’t want that either! Part of why I was worried about it is because there were so many careers I wanted to pursue! I’d still love to be an astrophysicist or working for FEMA or a cinematographer, medical scientist, computer technician. The cinematographer is so awkwardly there haha I have diverse tastes, what can I say! But I figure, I’ll go for the one that I’ve been fascinated with the longest and should I change my mind about it at some point, I can always take a few classes online, get another degree if needed and go for a different one! The sky is the limit!

At that note, I end this much longer than I originally anticipated blog entry and bid you adieu :)