scrubber

scrubber: hmm - well that's not right at all. I was going to write the urbandictionary.com definition for scrubber here to describe how i've been dressing at work lately, but it is most certainly not the case that I am a woman who 'throws herself at any man's crotch while wearing revealing clothing'.

i'll write my own...

scrubber: someone who wears unladylike clothing ie; trackpants, stay at home jumpers and runners. Unflattering. Goes into work without a second thought to dirty hair. Tries to pass it off as being appropriate youth worker attire (ok this is no longer a general definition)

I have gone from corporate to (my version of a) scrubber in 6 months. People used to compliment me on what I wore all the time, and now they compliment me only... actually they don't at all anymore!

my mum is so angry - she is getting into fights with me every day because of the way I've been dressing for work. My hair, my chipped nail polish, my addiction to runners, my addiction to comfy-stay-at-home-and-watch-dr-phil jumpers.

I told my co-workers, J. and S., and we've decided to make mondays, tuesdays and wednesday 'no runners' days. If i can't wear runners, i can't wear trackpants, and if i can't wear trackies it means i'll be looking a little better. it's a start anyway.

J. and I were in favour of a 'runner-in-lieu' option... if on a thursday or friday we had to go to a meeting and wear heels we could then transfer our runner day to another monday, tuesday or wednesday, but S. put her foot down and stopped us with our organised planning.

so as of next week... we'll see if i go back to getting compliments

:)

(hope so... otherwise it just means that not only have i become a scrubber, but i've also become fugly!)