Time once again for the monthly gather of the Women of Substance and with Vickie’s recent honor we are now all recipients of the Most Influential Women honor in Springfield. Let that be a warning – don’t mess with us! 
Tonight we dined at Tuscan Grill – I’d eaten there several times but it was a new dining experience for Vickie and Robin. Despite a newbie server we had a good meal with plenty of time to sit and visit and not feel rushed out the door. Since I know my audience is waiting, here are the gems of wisdom we shared this evening:
- Robin recently played Cubicle Shuffle at work – and is in her third work space in 9 months. She’s learning not to accumulate so much stuff at work and said it facilitates work teams. Her employer also has Tie Dye Fridays and recently gave all the employees tie-dyed t-shirts.
- We lamented on the recent closings of Steak and Ale (I liked, they were so-so) and Hickok’s (one of my favorites – they hadn’t tried it – guess they won’t now)
- Robin’s list of travel destinations includes Croatia on the Dalmatian Coast (supposed to be very pricey) and Fiji.
- Robin showed up wearing an awesome turquoise Michael Kors top she got at Dillard’s – $180 marked down to $28 and I had on my new Michael Kors shoes – $190 marked down to $24.70 – we love great bargains with brand names.
- Vickie and Robin are both appropriately jealous of my Life 2.0. I told them my job is to pave the way so they can do this in 20+ years. They’re such kids.
- Our bet for the new city manager is the local candidate.
- One of us is attracted to men with long legs and cowboy boots – I was told not to name names but it’s not me.
- We all cut coupons out of the Sunday paper and use them – old habits are hard to break.
- Should Hannah get the Gardasil shots?
- Vickie is about to have her 20th wedding anniversary and is anticipating a second proposal. Hope she says “yes”.
- Our favorite recent reads are “Middlesex”, “Eat, Pray, Love” and “Same Kind of Different as Me.”
- Why was the anthrax guy obsessed with Robin’s sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma?
- Dillon’s has the lowest gas prices in town if you use your Dillon’s customer card – but one of us used a bogus name and address to get her card because she doesn’t believe in selling personal shopping information to them.
- We all HATE self check-out lanes.
- Anne was recently asked to write 21 thank you notes to others who served on a committee over several months – she compared it to being required to bring Valentine’s to every kid in 6th grade and refused – the organizer has now rescinded the request.
- Robin has become a whiz at IM – but we mourned the death of formal writing for all these kids who are growing up.
- I now know why teen-age boys wear their shirts untucked. Makes sense.
- None of us think we have really good Gaydar.
That’s all folks – until next month………….
Advertisement
I’m so bummed about Hickocks! It was the best place in town for beer. Their Calamity Blonde will be missed by at least three of us (me, Steve and Valerie).
I also hate self checkout lanes and don’t use them unless I have to.
Good for you, mom, for refusing to write the thank-you notes. Grammie would be very proud.
I think I know why teenage boys wear their shirts untucked…
I KNOW I don’t have good Gaydar!
Ok, I enjoy these synopses of your Women of Substance evenings out… but what I want to know is HOW do you remember all these things and get them written down? This is QUITE a list. Do you take notes at the table?
Nancy -The first time we met I didn’t take notes – just went from memory but the others LOVED the post so much that now I actually take notes. Trust me, there is plenty of discussion that will NEVER be seen in my blog – and I never mention names when anyone will be incriminated.
Tamy – well my Gaydar didn’t catch him either – or Ralph’s high school sweetheart.