OCTOBER MODE

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Luxor Living and Style
Johnny Was kimono
Johnny Was in The Woodlands
The Woodlands shopping
Stephanie
Top Houston blog
Luxor Living and Style
Johnny Was kimono
Johnny Was in The Woodlands
The Woodlands shopping
white blonde, silver blonde
Stephanie, Gucci belt Bosscat lashes

Top Houston blog
Luxor Living and Style
Johnny Was kimono
Johnny Was in The Woodlands
The Woodlands shopping
Stephanie
Top Houston blog
Luxor Living and Style
Johnny Was kimono
Johnny Was in The Woodlands
The Woodlands shopping, Michele watch, blue nails, edgy look

It’s a wonderful time of year because the humidity is gone, the air is crisp and life is worth living again! This was a fabulous embroidered kimono jacket that I got months ago. The tunic dress doesn’t really match match but that is by design! I have a tendency to over match so this is me being understated. No, really.

The cut on this jacket is a classic so I can probably wear it at 70. Until then, it’s just a fun embroidered item to throw on and have fun with!

The booties from Freebirds Stores are my newest piece of rebellion wear. They are not a boot but not a sandal yet not a heel but not a flat. Love the nonconformist attitude!

I am truly looking forward to the holiday season more than ever! With everything going on in the world and politically speaking – if you know what I mean! These days you’ve got to grab a little joy wherever you can get it! My circle is getting smaller and smaller as it is growing increasingly difficult to have real, deep friendships with people who have any level of understanding as to the world stage. People do not read or research anything anymore. They mostly parrot what they hear others say. It’s a bit depressing. I recently met a young guy at a car rental place, and he stated, “It’s getting hard to know who you can talk to about real things anymore. Nobody wants to learn how I make my money, they just want me to give them some of it.” The kid was 26 and had made a lot of money in Lightcoin and such. ( Yes he showed me his trading balances and accounts on his phone.) He based his investing on Biblical prophecy and we shared the same view points about most everything. When I meet someone like this I think, wow, someone I can actually talk to! It’s rare and special. In the meantime, clothes and fun stuff take the mind off of some of the harsh realities we face today so I will just stay over here in my corner, mind my own business and keep my harsh but true political and spiritual viewpoints to myself! Oh, and blog some really cute outfits. There’s that.

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On top of the all of the hats that I wear…I also have this little side gig called a full time job.  The stylists and managers that work with me are from a wide array of backgrounds and hear me when I tell you that each person brings their own personality with them in their handbag to work every day.

I am proud to say that we have a full time school teacher in our midst, who just enjoys the brand we represent, Johnny Was.  We also have another part time stylist that works full time at a doctor’s office. There are others among us with college degrees or makeup artist backgrounds, or both. Whatever the case may be, we all basically feel like we live together.  I guess that’s because we actually do. We spend 8 hours a day together which is probably more time than I see my husband.

On this day, I was trying to up the amp on a typical mandatory store meeting.  The deal was that we would do a mini photo session before the meeting for fun.

There is a really cool blank white wall, outside our store in Highland Village, that bloggers come by weekly to use as a make shift “studio” because the lighting is perfect most any time of day.  It’s like trying to herd cats, to get more than 3 people to look acceptable in a photo, but we had fun and it was something different to do.

I always tell young people that if you can do retail for any length of time, it will prepare you for absolutely anything the world has to throw at you in the future.  No matter where you work in the future, there will be challenging personalities in the workplace. Integrity and basic sanity are my top two prerequisites for hiring.  Insanity is far too disruptive in the workplace and you have to be able to get along in order to be relatively happy and productive at work. Integrity is everything.  If a person is the most intelligent being on the planet yet holds no integrity…what good are they? Everything else can be taught, but I can’t force integrity into a person. That was your parent’s job.

In the past, I’ve gone through spells of being self employed and working from home.  I actually missed being at a job and having work people. For the past year, these have been my work people. My days consist of making sure Fetus Randy’s mom doesn’t do any heavy lifting, sharing the joy in Haley’s engagement (and big ass ring) , wondering if Miranda’s cold is going to get us all sick,  and blending everyone’s life together through holidays, birthdays, weddings, deaths, vacations etc and keeping it real about why we are all here and what we are expected to do. Oh, and hell no…you can’t be off every Saturday. Are you insane ?

The ladies all decided that it was OK for them to star in my blog. Well, as long as they looked good. I thought it would be fun to show a peek into who I spend my days with. This is our #workflow.

-SDS

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