Dear YLF,

It's my turn to apologise for an on-off participation in recent months, I seem to appear and then disappear without contributing too much, but after a long, long time I can say life has been crazy - but GOOD crazy. And, I finally have fantastic news to share. Remember my WIW thread from a few weeks ago in which I shared both my outfit and the impressions of the interview? I got that job!

I knew it for a while, but had waited for all internal procedures and paperwork to be finalised before I share it with you. This job makes my personal transition to Germany final and finalised - so far, both my husband and son lead rather defined and structured lives while I was taking care of odd bits and bobs of our lives, but I have actually been "in between" these past 3 years.

Then, towards the end of last year as our life in the new house started resembling normalcy, I blew dust off my CV, spruced up my Linkedin profile, started doing on-line training just to get back in shape and studying local job market, trying to decide which company to cold call first. However, just before Christmas I was contacted via Linkedin for the job position I would have hardly dared to consider myself - but grateful for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I jumped at it and gave it my all. The phone interview was great and when I was invited to the face-to-face interview, it was already a massive boost to my confidence after the career break.

I wrote about the interview in the old thread, I came out of it so energised and happy. A few days later, as I am a complete novice in the area I'll be working in, I was given some homework as the preparation for the following stage to demonstrate what I had learnt that far - I did it to my future manager's satisfaction and he had offered me the job without inviting me to the next stage at all.

Not just that. He said that the panel's impressions of me were so positive in every aspect, but both fun and significant detail for them was my green scarf (company colours, and from my point casual element of the outfit which softened corporate wear) which showed them that I did not leave any aspect of my preparations uncovered.

My life will be turned upside down from mid April. There is a commute involved, but reasonable one, my family will have to adopt a new schedule of activities as I'll be working full time, I have no idea how much I'll be able to participate here. If all goes well time-wise, then -- just as in the past -- I might resume my weekly summaries of the work outfits, I remember it was a precious part of my morning routine before, but I can't promise. I hope you understand.

Thanks for reading, thanks for all the good wishes in the past and stay fab -- I'll be around in some form.

Hugs!