Filling in the gaps

Wow... as I read through my posts, I realized I jumped from having my house sale fall through to suddenly owning a condo downtown. In case anyone is actually reading any of this, the house did finally sell about 4 or 5 months after the move. Whew. And I did sell the car right after the move so everything eventually worked out. I went almost 2 years without driving at all.

Oh, and the job offers.... I had taken the offer with the smaller company and gave that a try, but discovered that I am too set in my ways. I NEED the bureacracy of a large company, with all their standards and rules and ways to do things. I gave the small company several months but I felt like I was strugging the entire time and finally had to give up for my sanity. I lucked out when I called the other company back and asked if they still had any openings. They hired me right away which was a relief and I'm much more comfortable with my worklife now.

I do miss the floor-to-ceiling unobstructed view of Lake Michigan that I had in the first job. That almost brought tears to my eyes after 10 years of working in a basement with no windows. Now I still have windows but I get to view other building windows about 20 feet away. LOL.

Beginning again

Okay... 2 years hiatus already?? wow. So much for the idea of blogging about the culture shock and shift of living in the city.

I now have a condo downtown and I am thoroughly enjoying downtown living. I walk to work (or if I'm lazy I can take a train for the 8 blocks) and take public transit everywhere. There's something going on every night to keep busy if I want to.

I experienced my first formal runway show... They had Fashion week here a couple weeks ago and I managed to be one of the last ones to fit into the tent for one of the nights of the fashion shows. Very cool!

Also, the local museum is doing a big exhibit on couture fashions in history so I had a chance to go look at a lot of historically significant fashions, and on top of that I went to a book signing by Isaac Mizrahi this week. I must admit, for a book signing that took place in a large bookstore that does several booksignings per week, it was a frustrating and chaotic mess to get the books signed and so I have no pictures of me with him because they decided they were running out of time. He was there a grand total of 1-1/2 hours from start to finish which was very disappointing considering the turnout of people that were spending money on his book and looking forward to the signing.

As part of the fashion week, I also attended a seminar on how to get a fashion line produced. It was very informative and makes me seriously consider making a sewing pattern line to sell. If I could just find some time to get to it along with all the other things I want to do (such as keeping up on a blog??!)

And about a month ago, I finally had a chance to get out to New York City and enjoyed a chance to get through the FIT museum. The clothing exhibits were nice, but I lucked out and they were having an exhibit of goth throughout history... from historical mourning clothes to current goth fashions to goth fashions incorporating future technologies. There were some STUNNING clothing examples there, and also some grunge goth yucky styles. If anyone is in that area, I strongly recommend seeing it.