Know what I did today?

I wore a bunch of bling.

I never wear a bunch of bling.

I decided to wear this outfit that I've been called "exotic looking" in. It's just a purple top with gold and pink (floral) but it apparently plays well with my olive skin, and hazel eyes that I pair with dark rinse skinny jeans. And then, because of the gold in the shirt, I was like, what if I put on this gold necklace my mom gave me as a teen, which then led to adding prominent gold large hoop earrings, which then led to "I wonder if the rings my sister gave me when I was a teen still even fit me 30 pounds heavier than I was then..." (they do, just not on the same fingers I once wore them on).

When I had a meeting with my boss today, the first thing she said to me was "What's going on? What are you doing? I've never seen you like this, a necklace, earrings, rings. It looks beautiful but what's going on?"

I said "Nothing, just felt like it this morning."

She followed by saying, "But you never do this, all these years, you never do this."

So I said "Well, yeah, because I'm not a fuckin princess."
(We laughed and moved on)

Breaking my predictably was okay. Just gonna keep it simple tomorrow, though. I can only bling so much. Gotta razzle dazzle in other ways. โœจ๏ธ๐Ÿ’œโœจ๏ธ

@Wallflower
Well, that shook her up, didn't it?
Gotta keep them in their toes and keep them guessing. Especially, after the corporate office changed a long-term policy. ๐Ÿ˜‰

@ldmay65 ๐Ÿ’ฏ
I had another manager ask me today what I was thinking. I know they were trying to sense me.

I simply said, "I'm one of those people who are always calculating and recalculating. I know that I am an asset and carry a load here but I have not had a lot of perks, this flexibility has been one for at least 20 years for me. This is not performance driven. This will hurt my performance. So, I am in recalculation mode currently. No idea what I'll do, watching, learning, assessing. We'll all know when I make a decision, I need more data."

@Wallflower
Omg. You are brilliant. An honest well worded answer.
@ldmay65
I know that my departure would hurt this group. I figured if this was to sense what I will do, and after hearing there are managers freaking out trying to figure out loopholes, my best move was to contribute to their very concerns.
Calculating. Recalculating.
Always.