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April 26, 2006
empty gesture.
i've been traveling a lot lately on business, so earlier in the year i made some significant investments in tumi luggage. for a girl such as i, with a shameless bag fetish, tumi luggage officially qualifies as an investment.
tumi bags are fantastic, amazing, magic bags that made me feel like i had a mary poppins carpet bag when i packed for europe back in march. plus they have this fabulous bag tracer registration program to return your bags to you should they get lost.
however this also means i now receive tumi spam, which normally i don't mind at all. but today i received this:
Dear Tumi Customer:
You are part of a select group of Tumi customers we are inviting to form the first-ever Tumi Advisory Panel....blahblahblah... To be considered for the advisory panel, please click on this link to register....blahblah..In appreciation for your completed survey, we will send you a $25 Tumi Award Certificate redeemable at tumi.com. blahblah...Thank you in advance for your participation in shaping the future of Tumi.
not to sound petty, but offering me a $25 gift certificate to use at tumi.com (i dare you to find a single item for $25 or less on their site) is akin to handing a small child a copper penny and sending her over to the 25-cent gumball machine. only to watch her waddle over and stand expectantly in front of that shiny red, cast iron and glass bank of heaven, containing objects of her pure unadulterated desire. then leaving her blinking helplessly at the relative pointlessness of the gesture.
Posted by heidijanet at 04:14 PM | Comments (2)
April 25, 2006
wait a minute...
does this mean that if i'd eaten better, things could have turned out differently for me?
if only i'd have known!
Posted by heidijanet at 12:27 PM | Comments (1)
April 24, 2006
baby steps
my sister and i are very close. we talk almost every day, and every once in a while have marathon conversations hashing out our deep-seated childhood issues, our ideas about relationships, religion, child rearing and often, haircuts.
my sister has a love/hate relationship with her hair. each time she ventures out to her inevitably new hairstylist, it's cause for a major discussion. curly? straight? bangs? layers? short? long? the laundry list of considerations is fairly extensive and frankly, exhausting. now, this may sound like an insignificant topic, but trust me this is a major issue we've been working through for years.
so over the weekend, i mentioned that i had my hair cut, and was very happy with the results. she remarked dejectedly that she wished that she could have that with her hair.
so i launched into an in-depth analysis about how i'd been with my stylist for almost two years, and that it wasn't always that good. as a matter of fact in the beginning of our relationship, i asked him to cut off all my shoulder-length, blonde hair and color it brown. which was a pretty daunting place to start a relationship.
from there it was a careful process of getting the color and the cut right as it grew out. inevitably it was too ashy, too light, not natural enough...i was frustrated and almost left him several times, but i knew he was talented and gave a great cut so i stuck with him. and over time he and i finally got to place where he knew what i liked, and we started having some fun with it.
as i related this story, in an effort to get suz to stop switching stylists every visit, inevitably getting caught cheating on one stylist with another and having to hide behind the counter (which is, strangely enough, a woman's worst fear in a salon) she should really consider trying to develop a relationship over time with one good stylist with potential.
then i paused for a minute grinned widely and asked, "now how is it that i can manage to develop a healthy relationship with my stylist, but am completely unable to manage this in my relationships?"
she replied, "baby steps."
Posted by heidijanet at 12:33 PM | Comments (0)
April 17, 2006
euphemism of the day. or year.
after a particularly animated rant about how a particular thing should be handled this afternoon, which sounded oh so very elegant and logical to me, a colleague smiled at me and quietly shook her head.
i asked her what she was smiling at, she replied,"you're so cute when you're being naive."
which gave me pause while i thought for a minute and shot back, "well, now i know why i'm so frigging bummed out half the time. it's that my expectations are way up here (holding hand above head) and what actually occurs is down here (holding hand below knees). it's the chronic and debilitating disappointment of it all."
she smiles again, "oh no, it just that you are not necessarily constrained by reality. and that's a good thing."
mmmm. not sure about that.
Posted by heidijanet at 06:12 PM | Comments (0)