Category Archives: Dressing for Success & Everyday Fabulicity

Become Weightless – Your work, your joy, your currency

I’ve watched in amazement as my youngest keeps growing into achievement. One of her secrets is weightlessness. She’s a newlywed, they have a dog and an apartment in Manhattan. In the fall she will enter a Masters program at Penn. He will stay in their apartment and possibly get a roommate. She will rent a little space, buy stuff to furnish it and sell it when she’s done.

She did this for her wedding! She bought vases for centerpeices and resold them. 

She wears fashionable and designer clothing found in thrift shops and on ebay.  When she tires of them she donates or sells them.

She buys everything on a credit card that gives her cash back. She and her hubby make money using credit.

She’s paid off her college loans.

She dines out often using certificates. 

She is literally creating currency.

Her concern is not her overhead. Her concern is her head and heart.

She’s coming home to teach me how to do this.

Who knew I’d rather fly than be buried in stuff? 

Here’s an excellent blog by Everett Bogue on living weightlessly. http://tinyurl.com/2c939p6

My First Boyfriend is an Entrepreneur

It’s his birthday and I want to celebrate without letting him know.  He was a Varsity athlete loved by the students,  a sweetheart..OMG.   I went to every game even though I’m not a sports fan and recently he was inducted into the HPHS Hall of Fame.

Everyone at our high school was invited to the induction and there was a party scheduled afterward.  I left work early, picked out the outfit, got my girlfriend on board and left for the event.

It was like a romantic comedy and I could see it unfolding.  A sweet celebration after a lifetime of separate happiness, lots of old friends and Mr. Terrific.

The only problem with playing the lead in your own romantic comedy is that when everything that can go wrong does go wrong – it happens to YOU.

Traffic was in gridlock going into the city – topped off with traffic in gridlock going out of the city. After two hours in the car and only still at Navy Pier, we knew we’d miss the induction, get stuck at a high school basketball game and it would take 3 hours to get there.  So we did the only thing we could do.

Head home and go out for Sushi.

I just emailed him Happy Birthday saying I’m sorry to be a day late – but then tomorrow turned out to be today and I was on time.

Then they lived happily ever after until the next act where I get stuck at Sears Tower or break a leg getting hit by a cab.

Happy birthday SB.  May you live to be 101.

The Entrepreneurial Lifestyle – Chicago Style

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Oh the glamorous life of the solo-preneur.  At this moment it is after 8 p.m. and I’m in my monkey goes bowling flannel pajamas with a plaid maxi scarf leftover from the 70′s.  This is what I was wearing when I woke up this morning – which means it is technically what I was wearing when I went to sleep last night – and it will be most assuredly what I’ll wear to hit the hay tonight.

This is the tragic, sad and lonely part of entrepreneurial life.  The sun went down and up and down without so much as a wardrobe change.

I made the same meal for breakfast as I had for lunch and dinner so all the ingredients were used up.  There were no people here except for the postman who shot bills through my front door.

Yes, there were calls, lovely RSVPs, emails and nothing technically blew up except for my web master’s server. But he wasn’t here to complain about it, which might have been a welcome relief for one of us.

Tomorrow is a Big Ooga event, which means I get to get dressed..and the real fun in that is to get OVERDRESSED.  But now you know why.

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