Since When Is Foam Acceptable Work Footwear?

Unless you work at a beach or a pool, I really don't think flip flops should be appropriate work attire.  Now I will admit, there are some situations where it cannot be avoided.  I work with more than a few women who, in their last several months of pregnancy, couldn't get anything else on their feet.  However, if you don't have some kind of medical condition which necessitates wearing flip flops or similar footwear, I don't think they should be worn to work.  The same could also be said for crocs.  As I walk through the halls of the multi-million dollar company I work for, I see entirely too much foam.  I seriously wonder what goes on in peoples heads in the morning when they are picking out this attire.  Is this convenient? Did they walk out of the house this morning without shoes and this was the only thing in the car? Do they think that footwear choice is actually appropriate? 

When I sit at my desk and hear the familiar flopping noise, I cringe.  Don't get me wrong, I love flip flops just as much as the next person.  I wear them when I finish working out and generally whenever I can in the summer.  I just don't love flip flops at work.  The argument always rages on in my department about attire.  We are desk people; we sit on the phones all day and aren't seen.  That being said, I don't want to go to work looking like a slob on the rare chance that I might meet someone important and that might be a connection I want to make sure I made a good impression on some day.  I wouldn't want to be wearing flip flops and torn jeans on the day I happened to meet the CEO.  We wont get started on the torn jeans rant, that is a story for another time.

Sorry for the total lack of posting lately.  I have thought about posting several times, does that count?  You're right, I guess it doesn't.  I think we can almost officially say we are moving.  Everything is good to go on the house we are buying, we could literally close tomorrow.  Ok, maybe we couldn't close tomorrow, but we have everything lined up.  On the selling end of our house, things have been a bit of a nightmare.  I guess all can't go smoothly.  We have a buyer that we had to go back and forth with on the offer, which almost tanked the whole deal. Luckily for us, we have an awesome realtor who worked some magic to make this thing happen. 

Then, we had to wait almost a week for the inspection report to come back from the buyer of our house, and that came back with a bunch of stuff the buyer wanted fixed; including a radon mitigation system.  The buyer had our house tested for radon, but it was on a weekend where it rained almost all weekend.  From what I have been told, and what I have read, rain can really mess with those tests.  We went back and forth again for a while and in the end decided we were going to have to give a little if we wanted to move.  The latest stressor with our buyer is that as of earlier today, the appraisal on our house hadn't been ordered by the buyers lender.  We have had a purchase agreement signed for almost three weeks, I'm not sure what the hold up is here.  Close date is supposed to be July 17th, someone needs to light a fire under some butts.  Can you tell I have no patients for this kind of lax attitude? 

I hesitated for the longest time to get things set up to move: moving company, time off work, transfer utilities, etc.  I wasn't sure the deal was going to go through.  Even now, I'm slightly concerned about the appraisal, but there is really nothing I can do about it and I can't prolong setting these things up anymore.  At this point, I will cross my fingers and hope for the best. 

The house we are purchasing is a three bedroom, two and a half bath two story home with a finished basement.  We will have a large yard with a wooded area on one side of us and a green space belonging to the city behind our house.  We really couldn't ask for a better property.  We will be getting the formal dining room we have wanted and a larger open kitchen.  I'm excited to have more than one bathroom and a master bedroom that we can fit a larger bed in.  Last weekend, we found an amazing deal on a king sized bed in the clearance center at a local furniture shop.  The bed and the mattress were each about half off.  My quest now is to find new bedding that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.  TJ Maxx will be my best friend for the next couple of weeks I think while I peruse the shelves. 

Yay for mature trees all around the property!

The view from the two tier deck to the back of the property. 

Awesome granite counter tops and lots of counter space!

We will have our fireplace back and a vaulted ceiling in the living room

 

Here is the new bed!

 

 

There are just a couple of teaser photos, we will of course post more after we move and things get settled in.  Andrew has claimed his library, so he will work on that first thing while I work on unpacking the kitchen.  I will try to update on here on a regular basis, but we are going to be in the packing frenzy for the next three weeks I imagine.