My friend the Suburban Executive thinks the women in the J. Jill catalog have just stopped trying
I love their easy, breezy style. Plus they are always wandering the beach somewhere, thinking up their next novels in their carefree stretch cotton bermudas. ($49) Who does not aspire to this?
If my friend the Suburban Executive owned a pair of carefree stretch cotton bermudas she would wear them to check the stock indexes on her laptop while taking work calls on her Blackberry.
My friend needs to lighten up. "You need to find a way to monetize your blog," she tells me.
"Please," I say, "do not use words like monetize around me. You are going to spoil the mojitos before you have even paid for them."
Because I am the right sort of friend, I am headed off to South Beach for some R and R with the Suburban Executive, who has already called this morning to remind me 1. not to pack too much and 2. to pack enough clothes so that we can hang out at both beach bars and the chi-chi hotel lounge. Because she has spent the last several years in upper level management positions, she does not see anything at all contradictory in this.
As a recovering Suburban Executive myself, I regard it as a dying breed. Show her the way to freedom!
Posted by: Ms. Maxwell | April 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Yo wait a minute. Tell me where yo'll be. I'm packing too much too.
Posted by: Audubon Ron | April 29, 2009 at 07:48 PM
I am in an undisclosed tropical location where I am already sporting a Midwestern tourist-style sunburn.
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | May 01, 2009 at 03:44 PM
um, undisclosed? I think the alert reader will note that you mentioned South Beach...
Posted by: nthnglsts | May 02, 2009 at 06:14 PM
There are no alert readers here. That is what the two-drink minimum is for, silly.
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | May 03, 2009 at 02:21 PM
I'm not sure I did use the word monetize. I believe I said something like, "make some freaking money." Or, I actually believe I wrote you an email entitled "Why you will never make money off your blog"
Posted by: Suburban Executive | May 04, 2009 at 09:05 AM
You could have just sent a check.
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | May 06, 2009 at 09:37 AM
And here's why I love you and your blog so much: you are having a conversation in your comments with someone with whom you are apparently on a tropical vacation. As if that were preferable to, you know, actually talking about this topic over mojitos in a real bar. You crack me up no end. I wish I were there drinking a mojito with you. (I promise I'd only talk when you weren't typing.)
Posted by: MommyTime | May 07, 2009 at 05:32 PM
Sadly, we were no longer bickering from our beach chairs at that point. Plus I never type over mojitos. The only electronic device I use regularly on vacation is an iPod, which I managed to leave on Miami Beach. I suppose I really ought to write something new to replace the now ancient news of my tropical vacation and stop subjecting you to an intractable debate in which my executive-type friends urge me to cash in on the lucrative world of blogging. Or something like that. I really wasn't paying attention.
Sheesh. I need a vacation.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | May 08, 2009 at 09:20 AM
hilarious! um, i have to agree w/ you Suburban Executive friend about the j. jill ladies. i put them in the same category as the chicos ladies. it's that special place where comfort completely wins and takes over...
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Posted by: rosana | May 17, 2009 at 06:38 PM