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,

"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"

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!