Day: August 5, 2005

Joann’s (the mothership for crafters everywhere) is sending out emails to their loyal cult members, beckoning to us with the new hot advertising phrase: “You pay what we pay”, because now you can get the 15% employee discount sale on-line.

Because hey, if it works for the auto manufacturers, it might as well work for everybody else! Never mind I can take a 40% off coupon into the Joann store & save more without paying for shipping. And they take competitor’s coupons. Hmm. Wonder if the Volvo dealership takes Joann’s coupons? I’ll take the Cross-Country XC70, oh, and yes, here’s my coupon…..

Now, if only Crate & Barrel would have one of those “employee pricing” sales…..or Williams-Sonoma….. or Thai Place…… mmmmmm. A girl can dream.

Me & The Dawgg, at the commitment ceremony a couple months back. Let’s play the Suave ad game: One of us has had 6 gin & tonics, one of us hasn’t! WELL, if YOU can’t tell, why should we?

She is “The Dawgg” because of our equal amusement at The Original Kings of Comedy & Cedric’s bit about people asking you to call them things, like “Delicious”. I don’t know if I can pinpoint it exactly, but Lizzie Lou & I also were into All Things Hip Hop at the time, and so it just stuck. Plus, The Dawgg likes to ride in the car, what dawggs don’t?! But her real name is Shelley. ShelleyDAWWWWWGG, as I like to say on the phone.

She’s one my best girlfriends, we’re cut from the same cloth, the crossweave being 50% feisty bitch and 50% righteous indignation and boy howdy can we get mad, you should see the 4″ nails just fly out of our mouths. The Dawgg can also give a good hairy eyeball, which I sorta remember her doing to the guy at our table who was chemically analyzing the potatoes, when he asked, “Do these have cardamom in them?” I’d had so much gin, I just gave him gaping slackjawed amazement, combined with the “Are You Stupid?” eyebrow raise. And then I went back to eating all of the chocolate favors in front of me. Because there are times when one just CANNOT be bothered. Cardamom, shmardamom!

HAPPY FRIDAY!