Budget Thursday: Ruched-Sleeve Single-Button Blazer
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This is a really nice blazer that is also a great deal! This would match everything in my closet; I like wearing black pants, and it’s hard to wear a black blazer with them without looking like you’re wearing a mismatched suit. That’s why I love to have gray-toned blazers in my closet, and this looks like a good candidate.
I like the mix of classic and modern — the longer length and classic lapels combined with the ruched sleeves and single button. For the price, I don’t think you can beat it!
The blazer is on sale for $39.99, marked down from $139, at Macy’s. Ruched-Sleeve Single-Button Blazer
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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OMG our schools now seem committed to saying closed and providing their s*cky glitchy online offerings until there is no threat from COVID anywhere to anyone. Which is basically forever. Locally, some museums that typically offer summer camps are offering limited K-5 school-day “camps” where the adults who are usually camp teachers and staff monitor kids on computers doing their work and let them eat bagged lunches. I have an elementary schooler and a middle schooler, so this helps some people at least.
I feel really bad for school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and specials teachers, all of whom are likely getting laid off now that they’ve abandoned the pretense of even trying to open school on a rotating 1/3 capacity. It kills me though that they are still pretending to teach remotely (my older kid had one social zoom a week, zero live instruction, the slightly younger one had two social zooms a week this spring, again with zero live instruction). The teachers would send links to stuff on YouTube, which was a b*tch to police, since my kids can watch a video that is educational and then go down a rabbit hole of memes (so my job is . . . watching them watch YouTube videos to police for slacking for the duration of this pandemic).
I hate 2020.
I’m realizing that I have a lot of pent-up frustration with DH for how this stay-at-home situation has gone. He loves it, and why wouldn’t he? He sleeps in until 7:30 and wanders into his home office at 8 after dropping the youngest off at daycare. Meanwhile, I’m up early to exercise and have already thrown in a load of laundry and emptied the dishwasher by the time he’s gotten up. If it doesn’t get emptied in the morning, then the whole kitchen counter is covered in breakfast dishes until at least lunch time. IDK, I do not love how my homekeeping and work worlds have collided.
And I also have a lot of resentment about the spring that I can’t let go of. I’m the one who made our daily schedule so we could actually cover for each other when we had meetings. When we’d just wing it, it was a freaking disaster. I’m looking ahead to fall, and it seems REAL likely that school will close again at some point — if/when that happens, who’s going to help our kindergartener with distance learning? He keeps saying that his boss is going to be “really flexible,” but I guess I’ll believe it when I see it?
The pandemic has sent us backwards, in terms of division of labor, but I really doubt he would see it that way. And it’s not like he’s lazy and doesn’t do stuff for our family, but THERE IS SO MUCH MORE mess right now with everyone at home all the time. Since it bothers me more, I end up taking care of it.
I am really rambling and I don’t know what my point is. I’m tired of scorekeeping, I’m tired of being the one who notices everything, I’m tired of having the weight of the pandemic on my shoulders and being the worrier/problem-solver. He is SUCH a problem-solver at work; why can’t he apply that to the homefront?
I need a positive thread this morning. I started bullet journaling last night. I just use a cute little Target day planner and colored pens. I write down: something fun we did with kiddo, what we ate since I’ve been trying new recipes this week in an attempt to avoid work, and my workout. It’s not earth-shattering, but it brought me some calm. What’s something that’s bringing you peace or joy this week? Can ofc be a cute kid story – the ones yesterday had me rolling.
We just visited daycare in advance of reopening and it turns out the staff are mostly a earing clear plastic face shields instead of masks. I fully support anyone who wants to wear both, because I realize face shields protect the wearer’s eyes and masks don’t. But aerosols can float out and around face shields in a way they don’t with masks, so masks protect other people better. Would you complain to the school about this? I don’t want to be a pain in the A but I feel like if my toddler can wear a mask all day the teacher should be wearing a mask (plus a face shield if they want). At the same time, my kids classroom has only 3 teachers and I know the odds of one of them getting infected are small. I’m not worried about exposure to people not in our classroom. And I understand there are benefits to not having the teacher’s mouths covered in terms of children learning language and how to read emotion.
Last week, I posted that our area’s public schools were planning to return in-person 5 days/week for K-5, and 2 days per week for 6-12. The teachers are now requesting that in-person instruction be delayed and are considering a strike. They wrote an open letter with 165 questions about how safety recommendations will be implemented–https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/jft-letter-to-school-board-july-2020-final-1596052126.pdf. There are some good questions there, and it’s also crazy that school is supposed to start in 10 days, and the district presumably does not have answers to those questions. Clearly, this specific case is not just the teachers having a knee-jerk reaction of “We can’t go back until there’s zero risk to anyone.”
It’s a moot point for my family. We decided about a month ago to enroll Kiddo (entering kindergarten, has special needs but no formal diagnosis and no IEP yet) in a small, private school for students with exceptionalities. Since the school already has small classes and few transitions, they’re able to follow most of the recommendations without too much disruption. We didn’t think public school would be able to provide special education resources to the same extent (plus we’d need to go through their formal evaluation process, which could take months). Other private schools might not be able to accommodate an extra adult in the room after maximizing class size, and it turns out that the behavioral assistants we’re on the waiting list for aren’t planning to provide any services this semester.
I’m agonizing about sending my 1 year old back to daycare! I know a lot of people are in this boat. We need childcare in order to succeed at our jobs. But increasing our chances of getting sick is so worrying! We’ve held out for over 5 months but something has to give. I know it will be good for us, I’m just torn.
Late in the day, so I’ll try again tomorrow… remind me what the latest thinking is on out of office for maternity leave? Do we give an end date, mention the reason? And did you block your calendar as out of office the entire time or just leave it?
I think last time I just said, “I am out of the office on leave. Please contact xyz for blah blah blah etc” and I definitely didn’t block my calendar. But, I was an individual contributor and not involved with leadership and multiple initiatives beyond my immediate org like I am now.