Happy Thursday! It was Wednesday yesterday, so here is the weekly installment of “What Knot Wednesday”.

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I’ve chosen Wednesdays as the day of the week that I will wear a tie to work. Read more

I started a brand-spanking new job at the end of January.  This job is an absolute dream.  I am employee #29 – out of 29, I got great compensation and a great benefits package, and the people I’m working around are my vision of great co-workers. I don’t have anybody to supervise – which is fine by me.  I feel like a bar of gold was dropped into my lap.  This is by far the best job I’ve ever had that didn’t involve being shot at with RPGs, or mortars lobbed over a wall.

I do have one itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny little issue – just one, I swear.  My boss who’s a really great guy and I are having some communication difficulties. First off, I’m in the Austin office, he is in Houston.  Secondly, I don’t know if it’s just me, but I really have a hard time understanding him over the phone.  He kinda sounds like Boomhauer.  I only get about 1 in 3 or 4 words.  It’s like broken English – BAD.

So, communicating through email would be an option don’t you. Me, too. Maybe I’m just not used to his communication style.

Hopefully I can get over this tiny road hump. I really want to succeed here.  I was out of work for nearly a year and this bar of gold just fell into my lap.  I guess one of the corners has a tiny scratch in it.

How do I identify myself?  Simple answer – I don’t

There are several words that people have used to describe me – lesbian, gender queer, butch, dyke, bitch to name a few.  But, that’s not WHO I am.  Not a single word can describe the entirety of me and I’m glad for it.

Everybody has descriptive qualities, but it is the SUM of those qualities that make you who you are.  It makes pieces and parts into a whole.  The whole of me and the whole of you. The only thing is, you are the only one who knows how those pieces and parts fall into place.  For me, it is organic in nature.  What I feel from one day to the next could be completely different.

I am completely unapologetic about me – and so should you.

What I’m feeling, so goes my dress. When I dress for work each day, I don’t look in the mirror and ask, “how will people take me if I wear this today?” but rather, “Wow, I look good in this!,” or maybe, “I’m going to change this shirt.”

The important thing about dressing for me can be summed up as:

• Do I feel good in what I have on?
• Do I look good in what I have on? and
• Is it appropriate for the setting I’m wearing it to?

When I say  to be unapologetic about your uniqueness, there is a certain implication that your attire will be appropriate for the situation. For example, when I dress for work I would never wear basketball or gym shorts – that’s not the kind of work I do.  I’m not a P.E. coach.  But if you are, then I’m sure it is appropriate.

So, when I take all of my pieces and parts, and roll them around on the floor with how I like to dress – that’s my STYLE. And because you are uniquely you, so too will be YOUR style.