Water works

It's the debut of one of the Richard Chai dresses I purchased from Target's Go International collection! I'm still in love with my Nine West shoes and I thought they worked great with the dress.

It was Roady's idea to go to this fountain so props to him for the great location and for the photography.






Photos by Roadystyle

Dress - Target, Shoes - Nine West, Ring - Forever 21
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Temporary Insanity

Its the debut of my semi-controversial new shoes! I decide to actually wear my purple AA dress as a dress for a change. The sweetheart neckline is one of my favorite ways to wear it. I usually freeze in my office and I don't like to make the men in the office all hyper so I had to find something to cover my arms. I hadn't worn my motorcycle jacket in a while so I ended up wearing that.

Yeah, I must've lost my mind.
Seriously, does anyone in their right mind wear a leather jacket in the middle of the summer?

I only lasted with the jacket till lunchtime...

Jacket - bonadrag.com, Dress - American Apparel, Shoes - Nine West

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Also, wanted to remind you all that I'm going to do a Q & A post! Get your questions in soon!

Nine West

Yesterday, I mentioned some issues I had with my recent order from Nine West.

Today, I was contacted via email by the Vice President for marketing of Nine West regarding my order. After getting a bit of information from me, she let me know that she would look into why I wasn't notified of either the back order status of the one pair or the shipment of the other pair that I ordered.

Next thing I know, I get a call from a representative of their company. She explained to me how their back order process generally works and their new system that allows them to ship merchandise from any of their stores rather than just from their website inventory.

It is also their policy that emails are sent out to notify of items being on back order as well as when the items are shipped. The email I received at the time of purchase does state "You will be contacted by e-mail when your order leaves our distribution center. At that time you will be provided with a UPS tracking number if you selected UPS Ground, UPS Express or UPS Next Day Business delivery."

The fact that I did not receive those emails is some sort of a fluke. The representative offered to waive all shipping charges, but I had already had a coupon code for free shipping so she offered a discount on my next purchase instead.

Shortly after that, I received another call informing me that they had located the pair that was on back order, that they would ship tomorrow at the latest and I should be receiving them within 5 business days. As stated yesterday, I did receive the first pair yesterday, on the third business day following my order. I love the shoes, like I've said, Nine West has great product.

As challenged, Nine West stepped up and has completely changed my opinion on their customer service. They went above and beyond to make sure that I, as a customer, was completely satisfied.

And I am.

Random Thoughts

I've got a couple of things on my mind lately, nothing really big that deserves its own post though. I'm going to get it all out here and now.

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I'm no blogging expert and I'm not a well known blogger by any means, but something has struck me kind of funny in my blog world recently. For now, I'm going to be vague about the details, There is a blog that I've subscribed to and read as often as they update. Recently one of their authors commented on one of my posts, stating that I was the first to bring this particular situation to her knowledge. The next day, she had written up a post about the same situation, reporting it to her readers without mentioning her source at all.
Do I have any right to be bothered?
I can't decide.

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Recently I've discovered blogs of people that I thought were friends have become private. Naturally, I'm bothered because I loved keeping up with their lives. After all, I was under the impression that we were friends. Now, I'm sure the switch to private was for safety and security reasons, I get that. I just was kind of stunned that I wasn't someone they deemed safe enough to read about their lives.
Maybe I'm just far too unfamiliar with the whole private blogs thing.
Its possible.

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I just wanted to share a few things about my blogroll. I use blogrolling.com to manage my blogrolls, I actually have two of them. They are display in this order on my blog: "People that link back to me" and "People that don't link back to me". I figure that the people that link to me deserve higher priority on the list than people that don't, right? Next, blogrolling has all sorts of settings to implement on my blogroll. The first list is set to display the top 15 of X amount of the most recently updated blogs. The second is set to display 7 different random blogs each time my page is loaded.
Anyway, my point is, if you want to be on my blogroll, let me know. If you want to be at the top of my blogroll, make sure you link back to me and get to updating!

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I ordered two pairs of shoes from Nine West last friday. I hadn't been too impressed with them so far. First of all, they haven't updated my order page since the day I ordered them. Second, one of the pairs of shoes I ordered was on backorder. I despise stores that don't notify you at the time of purchase when items are on backorder. I don't think its very good business practice. Well as I'm typing this up, the cute UPS guy shows up with one of the pairs of shoes that I ordered. I was pleased a bit because I love surprises. However, I was never even given notification that my order was shipped, no contact whatsoever. I think Nine West needs to bring their customer service up to the same level as the quality of their product.
More on the new shoes later...

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I accidentally deleted my clustrmap! (see bottom of my sidebar)
I had 2,800+ visitors since May 7th from places all over the world. Now I have nothing.
So sad.

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Finally, I've seen many blogs across the blogosphere that have been doing Q & A sessions. They seem so fun to me so I'm going to jump on the bandwagon. Now is your chance to ask me anything you've had on your mind. I don't really mind if they are serious or goofy questions, just get asking.
Later on, I'll do a post listing all of the questions along with their answers.

Thats all for now folks!