Short Hills Mall

Did I tell you that my boss lost her mind yesterday?! Well, she did. The story is long so i'll spare you all the details. Short of the long of it goes like this - lunch was left to just Jeanelle and I yesterday since the rest of the girls had a meeting. Normally, Jeanelle doesn't go out with us because she's Jackie's niece and Jackie rides her hard. Jackie doesn't really like all of us going out together anyway so to have Jeanelle go out with us would just send her through the roof. But, I thought that since it was just me, I would invite Jeanelle out since she never does come with us and that it wouldn't be a big deal. Well, she tagged along with me to Best Buy during lunch so I could get a new cell phone. It ended up taking longer than I expected and we showed up at the office about 20 minutes late. Jeanelle got ripped a new one and I felt bad because it was my fault she was late. So then I got called into the office and got ripped too. I tried to take the heat for Jeanelle but Jackie has it in for her niece so there was nothing I could do to save Jeanelle. Ultimately, it really wasn't a big deal. It's not like we purposefully took advantage. I should have known though because Jackie was in a bad mood from the minute she walked in. It was actually the first time I ever got lectured like that by her. Normally she's really cool. Oh well - what are ya gonna do.

Speaking of cell phones - I dumped Sprint yesterday and joined the Verizon network. I'm very pleased with my decision especially since I LOVE my new phone. I purchased the LG enV with the new plan.

Onto more shopping adventures....

Last night Sarah and I trekked to Short Hills Mall to get me a new business suit. First of all, I always get confused trying to get to it because there's about 4 exits that lead around the mall and only 1 or 2 roads off the exits that actually go to the mall. I jacked it up again last night so we traveresed the area around the mall for a good 20 minutes before actually parking. A little note about Short Hills Mall - it's not a mall i'm comfortable in. It's VERY upper class and normally really quiet. I'm used to the ghetto malls. Anyway, it's now the closest mall to me so I had no choice. So, we walked through Bloomy's and headed towards Macy's. I love Macy's because you can always get great deals. We locate the suit section of Macy's and I have to tell you guys, I completely LOVED having Sarah with me last night. Not that I normally don't love having her with me but she was like my own personal shopper (and she's REALLY good at it). She dug through the racks and picked out really great suits. So after trying on about 10 of them we found one that was perfect. Here comes the best part of the story and major props to Grace the lady in the women's suit department. The suit was orginally $320, marked down to $220, then marked down to $99. I picked up a purple tank for underneath which was originally $22, marked down to $14.50, marked down to $7. We get to the register, she rings me up, then gives me $25 off my entire purchase just because. My budget for a new suit was $150-$200 and last night I got a new suit for $82. How AWESOME is that! I've got to go online to Macy's and give Grace some really good feedback.

I've decided to try to make myself more presentable at work - which means actually doing my hair instead of throwing it back into a ponytail, makeup, some nice shoes, etc. Not that I normally don't try to look ok but I'm more into comfort than anything and sometimes it reflects sort of sloppy. But what a difference just a little sprucing up makes. I feel better about myself and I've gotten a ton of compliments this week. Not that i'm all about a pat on the back but it sure does make a woman feel good to hear those kind of things.

I'm spoiled by my local Starbucks. The Westfield Starbucks is so quick and efficient. Normally there's a line out the door and you wouldn't believe how fast you get through it. Not only that but the coffee doesn't suffer for the good service. Sometimes you have quick service and crappy coffee but not in this case. So I now compare all Starbucks to mine and I have to be honest - i'm really disappointed. The Starbucks in Short Hills last night was dead - we were 2 of only 3 people in the place ordering coffee. Not only did the entire process take 15 minutes but I went to order my first CAC of the season and they were all out of it. Disappointment all around!

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