I wrote last month about an impending birthday, and now it is REALLY impending...like four days away. And between the two of us, I am seriously hoping that my peeps have phoned 1800flowers. Having flowers on my desk the week of my birthday makes me feel pretty good about the dreaded birthday - so I've begun my annual dropping of the not-so-subtle hints.
For my bargain loving son, I've left his laptop open to the 1800 flowers discount code. And for my roses aficionado hubby I've emailed him Coupons for 1800flowers with a smiley face.
I know I know - nothing subtle about my approach at all, but a birthday girl's gotta do what a birthday girl's gotta do. Birthday flowers just seem to say, "she may be getting older but she just gets better with every birthday" Am I right or am I right?
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Younger May NOT be Better After All!
Funny thing. Years ago, sixteen years ago as a matter of fact, I was on the cover of a trade magazine. I was "leading edge" in all things online. And so my then-boss paid for a high end photog to shoot professional pics of me, complete with hairstylist and makeup artist. Pretty hot stuff. I have always been very proud of the photo, had it mounted and framed - the whole deal. I mean, a MAGAZINE COVER for gosh sakes!
Years passed, jobs changed, I changed. Ch-ch-changed!!! I remarried ten years ago, and for some inexplicable reason my beloved & charming hubby has never liked that picture. I packed it away and forgot about it. But last week in a fit of domestic-spring-cleaning frenzy I dug the picture out and decided to hang it in my current office. I was very proud that my hip, young employees would see how hip and young I used to be.
But one of my peeps peered up at it and replied,
After a deep breath, it's all good now...pic is down, eyeglasses are on, browser pointed at a cool, convenient site called www.eyeglasses.com - with a little help and a few more awesome pairs of specs I can keep this reverse aging/Dorian Gray thing up indefinitely!
Happily humming, "I can see clearly now... the 'years' are gone"
Years passed, jobs changed, I changed. Ch-ch-changed!!! I remarried ten years ago, and for some inexplicable reason my beloved & charming hubby has never liked that picture. I packed it away and forgot about it. But last week in a fit of domestic-spring-cleaning frenzy I dug the picture out and decided to hang it in my current office. I was very proud that my hip, young employees would see how hip and young I used to be.
But one of my peeps peered up at it and replied,
"OMIGOD, is that YOU?"
"Yup"I mumbled modestly.
"Look at you" she added "without the cool eyeglasses you wear these days - that picture makes you look 10 years older than you do now."
After a deep breath, it's all good now...pic is down, eyeglasses are on, browser pointed at a cool, convenient site called www.eyeglasses.com - with a little help and a few more awesome pairs of specs I can keep this reverse aging/Dorian Gray thing up indefinitely!
Happily humming, "I can see clearly now... the 'years' are gone"
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
1800flowers Makes Me a Cool Mom Again (okay, maybe for the first time)
My youngest child is a 17 year old high school junior who no longer comes to me for advice. I don’t understand football the way my husband does, I can’t understand the words to the music my son likes, and any suggestion from me is met with eye-rolling and big sighs.
So when my baby boy looked up over his frozen waffles this morning and said,
“Hey momma, I wanna get Lauren something for V-Day but I don’t want it to be stupid or lame. Any ideas?”
…the pressure was totally on! Since generally my ideas ARE stupid and lame I was both flattered and flummoxed.
Taking a deep (and stall-worthy) breath, I slurped down a little more caffeine and had the biggest V-8 moment of the week! While searching for flowers to send my daughters I had stumbled upon a pretty Twilight Flowers Poster Bundle that seemed actually “cool”. Of course I’d had to Google the Twilight Book Series before I remembered that the vampire-based fantasy romance novels are hugely popular with young women…but my son didn’t need to know that part!
And since I am the queen of a good-deal, I knew too that MSNBC’s crack consumer reporter just complimented that same company, 1800flowers for their pricing honesty. Okay, seemed like a good idea to me: A quick mental review over one more gulp of coffee “teenaged son wants to send something cool to a teenage girl for Valentines Day. Twilight Books are cool. A Twilight card & poster with a dozen roses are very cool. This should work.”
I casually said,
“You might want to check out 1800flowers.com I think I heard something about a special Twilight Valentines Day deal. Lauren might think that was sorta neat”
and I held my maternal breath.
“Oh okay, that sounds cool” my youngest progeny replied, “thanks”.
Yesssssssssss!!!!! Today 1800flowers made me cooler – life and Valentines Day is good!
So when my baby boy looked up over his frozen waffles this morning and said,
“Hey momma, I wanna get Lauren something for V-Day but I don’t want it to be stupid or lame. Any ideas?”
…the pressure was totally on! Since generally my ideas ARE stupid and lame I was both flattered and flummoxed.
Taking a deep (and stall-worthy) breath, I slurped down a little more caffeine and had the biggest V-8 moment of the week! While searching for flowers to send my daughters I had stumbled upon a pretty Twilight Flowers Poster Bundle that seemed actually “cool”. Of course I’d had to Google the Twilight Book Series before I remembered that the vampire-based fantasy romance novels are hugely popular with young women…but my son didn’t need to know that part!
And since I am the queen of a good-deal, I knew too that MSNBC’s crack consumer reporter just complimented that same company, 1800flowers for their pricing honesty. Okay, seemed like a good idea to me: A quick mental review over one more gulp of coffee “teenaged son wants to send something cool to a teenage girl for Valentines Day. Twilight Books are cool. A Twilight card & poster with a dozen roses are very cool. This should work.”
I casually said,
“You might want to check out 1800flowers.com I think I heard something about a special Twilight Valentines Day deal. Lauren might think that was sorta neat”
and I held my maternal breath.
“Oh okay, that sounds cool” my youngest progeny replied, “thanks”.
Yesssssssssss!!!!! Today 1800flowers made me cooler – life and Valentines Day is good!
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