a watch story

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Warning - this post makes reference to the Nordstrom semi-annual sale.  Proceed at your own risk.

Raise your hand if you wear a watch everyday?

Yeah.  That's not me.  I'm a big-time admirer of pretty watches, but as I tend to rush out the door in the morning wearing zero accessories as it is, they've never been a big priority in terms of my style.  My mother suggested I might want one as an appropriate graduation present a couple years back, and since then the idea of owning a nice watch has been a bit more on my radar, I suppose you could say.  My aunt bought me a really cool purple one from Betsey Johnson that I love, but you couldn't exactly call it a versatile piece of jewelry because hey - it's purple; I also have a little rose gold contraption that I bought at Target with a birthday card that I love because it's rose gold, but it sometimes feels a little bit overly bulky, I guess?  I don't know.  As much as I like my current selection of watches, I don't find myself reaching for them very often when I'm trying to get ready, even on dressier days.

Last month, while attending a conference in Destin, I bought a new watch at Kate Spade [this watch, to be exact], because the outlet was offering 50% off everything in store [that's also when I picked up this purse, because apparently spending money I don't have is a big hobby of mine].  It was delicate and neutral and smaller and feminine, and basically everything I didn't know I wanted in a fancy watch.  I bought it on Friday, wore it all of three days...and then I had to go and crash my car, and because said watch was in my purse instead of on my wrist, it ended up lost to the wilderness.  I searched and searched and searched through my rescued belongings and through my poor wrecked car itself but could not locate my watch anywhere.  And then I went home and sobbed, because my lovely new present to myself was gone, and I was left empty wristed to mope over the loss of $100 - and being a broke student, that's a painfully sizeable chunk of money to have disappear from your life.

All of that is to say, it's been almost a month and I'm still mourning the loss of my lovely watch.  I've set a price alert on it, on the off chance I get lucky and it goes on sale, but in the mean time I'm left to simply feel crabby and miserly about the situation.  I've also been window shopping watches currently on sale at Nordstrom, because a girl can still dream, right?  And then of course I put together a post on it, because can I still call myself a blogger if I don't?  But really, I am literally spending all of my money on gas driving back and forth to clinic this summer, so the few meager cents I earn from links being clicked counts as something important.  [Thanks for always being supportive.]

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