I’m back! Now I know its been 9 months since I last posted,
and while I have no real excuse for my absence let me explain where I’ve
been.
I graduated in May of 2012, and with no job lined up I moved
back into my parents house one state away.
While living at home I continued to looking for jobs and interviewing,
moved from my childhood bedroom to the massive bedroom in the basement. Yes, I
was the jobless 22-year-old living in my parents’ basement. In June I got an internship with a former
colleague of my dads working for his start up consulting company. I mainly did marking for the company, but
since it was just the owner and I, I did a lot of other random tasks. I was
lucky enough to have a boss that encouraged me to continue to look for a full
time job because despite wanting to bring me on as a full time employee, he
just didn’t have the resources yet.
In September I received an email from a company I had
applied to months before and since I never heard anything back, I’d given up on
them. To my surprise they wanted to do a phone interview. The interview happened the next week, and the
week after that I went for an in person interview, and a week after that I was
hired. Finally I had a full time job! I
had to relocate back to the state I attended college, the biggest catch? I
started in two weeks. New city, new job, chaos ensued.
I wasn’t able to find an apartment I like within those two
weeks and I didn’t know the area well enough to know exactly where I wanted to
live so I moved into a hotel. Spent two
weeks there until I found an apartment.
And not surprisingly, the main reason I chose my apartment…it has a walk
in closet. I moved, with no furniture, just my clothes, TV, bluray, laptop and
air mattress. I spend about two or three
weeks furnitureless until slowly my bed and couch were delivered and my parents
were able to move my stuff from home to my new apartment. By November I was pretty well settled into my
new apartment, and basically after that I have no good excuse as to why I’ve
been MIA.
But I’m back, and in full force…I hope. I have so many ideas for new posts. The main
reason I really wanted to get back to blogging, is I’ve developed a rather
severe addiction to shopping and over the next month or so I want to go
shopping free or at least do much, much less shopping. This of course doesn’t include grocery
shopping and such but I’ve accumulated so many clothes and shoes and
accessories over the last few months that my new walk in closet is
exploding.
So I’m counting on you guys to keep me in check. I’m going
to take this month by month, some months may be no shopping, some months I
might give myself a budget, some months I might make a list of the items I want
to buy and must stick to that list, and who knows what else.
You’re probably saying, “but Ali, if you’re not going to be
shopping what are you going to be blogging about?”
Great question. I’ll
be posting my outfits of the day, maybe doing a closet tour or apartment tour.
Don’t worry, I’ve got plenty of ideas.
So for now, I’d love your support in my almost shoppless
June, and please help me not buy anything off my tiny list I’m working on
creating. (Post to come soon)
Until my next post, here are some instagram OOTD, real
working girl (kind of…) style.
