Pencil Skirts and Pinot Noir
From the monthly archives: April 2011
Live blogging the Royal Wedding!!
Woke up at 3:30am…hanging with K and Mags
Here are your essential Royal Wedding links!
Daily Mail: Odds on various events at the wedding: 8/1 that the Queen wears an apricot hat; 50/1 that “Sex is on Fire” is the first song
Lainey Gossip: Kate has a vice…and looks goregous at rehersal!
Washington Post:
When/what every [...]
Now I’m crying. Pretty Amazing. I’m sure his mom is proud!
Some of the best advice I’ve ever received was “Lower your bar.” At the time, I had just started a new job at a firm I had been targeting for several years. I was convinced that my coworkers were above average, that my management was strong and decisive, and that I was poised for a [...]
Take charge advice for work and play
Idgie,
Every Saturday night is date night with my SO. Lately, we’ve fallen into a rut where we don’t even leave the house–take out and maybe a rented movie. What else can we do?
–Sick of cold chinese food
Sick–
Nothing beats a date night where you get [...]
Even if you are sports illiterate and watching baseball on T.V. sounds like punishment for something you did wrong in a prior life, there are some sports analogies that all working women should know to not get left out of the conversation at work. Below are a [...]
XKCD: Movie Ages
(XKCD is a great comic for your inner dork, if you don’t read it already.)
My dad rarely forwards chain e-mails. He did, however, forward this to me yesterday morning:
Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming , Co-Chair of Obama’s deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared ”Social Security” to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. August, 2010. Here’s a response in a letter [...]
History of the three-martini lunch: Did you know that the three-martini lunch was a campaign issue in the Carter/Ford race? Carter criticized tax write-offs of business lunches as screwing over the working class while white collar workers got “three-martini lunches.” Ford, however, pointed out that this was merely American multitasking at its best. [...]
I am sick of movies marketed towards women. I am offended by the premise of most “romantic comedies” today. “Uptight career woman needs jerk/slacker/moron to learn what is important in life.” Or “desparate woman just wants to get married! Look at the crazy things she does!” I don’t [...]
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