Music:
Hard to Believe by VOTA
Photos:
Taken with a Blackberry so the quality is lacking but I believe the message was captured! The little kids seemed really happy (and exhausted) on the ride home.
Spring Break 2010
Music:
Hard to Believe by VOTA
Photos:
Taken with a Blackberry so the quality is lacking but I believe the message was captured! The little kids seemed really happy (and exhausted) on the ride home.
Tami Kidd-Brown
Read my interview with a Successful Suburban Woman, Tami Kidd-Brown by clicking here.
I ask each of the women I visit to share some of their "favorite things." Shoes. Make-up. Jewelry. Awards. Purses.
At first it feels a little funny but once I am able to prove that I am sincerely interested in what kind of moisturizer they use they kind of dig it. One of the things that I was able to convince Tami to share with me was her favorite purse, a Choette Sac (in the picture above.) The purse is really cute and it feels so sturdy that it might last for a couple of generations. These bags are a bit pricey at $800, but as proof that I have spent too many years in my suburban universe I have somehow made peace with this price and am contemplating a purchase. The amazing thing about this purse, that makes $800 almost palatable, is that it can be manipulated into 20 different styles. Watch the video and check it out!
I ask each of the women I visit to share some of their "favorite things." Shoes. Make-up. Jewelry. Awards. Purses.
At first it feels a little funny but once I am able to prove that I am sincerely interested in what kind of moisturizer they use they kind of dig it. One of the things that I was able to convince Tami to share with me was her favorite purse, a Choette Sac (in the picture above.) The purse is really cute and it feels so sturdy that it might last for a couple of generations. These bags are a bit pricey at $800, but as proof that I have spent too many years in my suburban universe I have somehow made peace with this price and am contemplating a purchase. The amazing thing about this purse, that makes $800 almost palatable, is that it can be manipulated into 20 different styles. Watch the video and check it out!
Can I Buy You A Burger?
Meatheads is Messing with Me!
Have you ever heard of the saying, “Kill them with kindness?” Well, Tom Jednorowicz from Meatheads Restuarant has and he is using it on me.
After posting a sassy little blog entry about one of his restaurants, I got one of the most gracious and practical responses I could have imagined. It's killing me.
Perhaps the real note is in a trash bucket on his computer or in tatters in some landfill. I'm certain there is a cleansing letter his mother taught him to write, then destroy. In it he calls me a bored, spoiled, under-engaged, over-functioning, chubby, suburban white-bread, old navy wearin’, credit card wieldin’, mini-van driven, antiquated, thinks-you-know-everything-because-you-toiled-away-in-advertising-designing-billboards-and-jingles-before-Al-Gore-invented-the-internet, chick-a-dee.
I haven’t had the guts to show my face at Meatheads Restaurant again although it is located right next to my regular pit stops at the busy corner of Route 59 and 75th Street in Naperville: Costco, Starbucks, Home Depot, Whole Foods, Chase Bank, Noodles and Nordstrom Rack. Every time I cruise by I try to see what is happening inside. Are there customers? Are those two guys still playing office in the dining area?
The lights are still on. There are cars in the parking lot. There are customers with winter coats stacked in chairs next to them, but no guys in shirt sleeves with laptops and cell phones.
Of course everyone in my family knows that I have a complimentary $50 Meatheads gift card burning a hole in my penny pinching pocket. I originally joked that I was going to give it to our 18 year old son, Jonathan, and a bunch of his obnoxious friends. (I mean that with love, guys.) But that didn’t seem meaningful enough and it seemed unnecessarily cruel to the crew at Meatheads. (Ooops. There I go again, slandering my teenager. Sorry, again J-Bear and buddies.)
Instead, this is what I have decided to do. I am going to use this gift card to feed another suburban family (up to six people) at Meatheads. The catch is that you have to eat with me and my family!
Just send me a quick email at deniseburks@successinthesuburbs.com by March 1 with the word MEATHEADS in the subject line and I’ll pick a winner and be in touch, soon.
I can’t wait to here from y’all!
Comment from Ron Prchal, Lisle, IL
I live in Lisle and read about you in the Naperville Sun today and I thought about a quote I once heard .... the only normal people in this world are those you don't know very well!
Carolyn Finzer
I wanted to meet Carolyn Finzer since the first day I saw her watering flowers at the post office. Eventually, I met her and she invited me to her home and gave me a tour of her garden.
Carolyn Finzer, a successful suburban woman.
Carolyn Finzer, a successful suburban woman.
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