By Boston Skirt, Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 0 comments
Who has time these days to work a 9 to 5 job, get the kids to all their activities, go to the gym AND prepare healthy and delicious meals? While we can't help you with your work schedule or fitness routine, with the aid of Personally Prepared by Susan, home cooked meals, kitchen organization and a fully stocked fridge are all taken care of. For busy moms on the go, Susan Goldstein offers her services in order to make life less stressful, by personally cooking and baking exactly what you want, customized to your family's tas
When we were engaged to be married, back in the halcyon days of early 2001, my husband and I participated in an elaborate mating ritual that has taken hold deep within American culture. We registered for gifts. Daily cutlery, heavy silver forks, All-Clad pots in several different sizes, formal china for all those state dinners we would be serving, gravy boats, nesting mixing bowls and a much-longed-for salad spinner that retailed for $25.99. Among this orgy of conspicuous consumption was a set of everyday dinnerware from Villeroy and Boch.
The palm reader giggled as he ran a finger over my hand. “You’ll be poor and you’ll be rich, but you’ll always be bad with money. Fortunately, you’ll also always have someone to take care of you.” I rolled my eyes. I just wasn’t that kind of girl.
We were waitresses, all of us, with different stash spots for tips. Mine was a tattered old envelope in my underwear drawer. I kept the amount written on the front, scratched out and rewritten over and over, to keep myself in the know and to protect from unlikely thievery.
I got my first clue things were shifting when they changed the name of the Personnel Department to Human Resources. That title brought to mind bodies wearing pressed suits and hanging from huge hooks, cycling around on a motorized rack like the one in the dry cleaners. A neat filing system, it displayed unlimited selections to replace the used-up models that had been piled into the roll-off dumpster in the alley. My second clue arrived the morning after the merger papers were signed.
What does a life cost? In 1987, I knew exactly: $150,000. One of my major responsibilities as a hospital department manager was obtaining authorization from insurance companies for bone marrow transplantations. The insurance companies had an equally fierce responsibility to try to deny them. With the help of the oncologists and hematologists I worked for, I wrangled by telephone and mail with authorization specialists for months on end.
By Skirt.com, Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 0 comments
So your BFF just had a baby, your boss is in the hospital or someone you know just dealt with the loss of a loved one—it's time for the troops to rally around the kitchen and whip up some casseroles and comfort foods. Enter TakeThemAMeal.com.
The task of coordinating a meal schedule for caring cooks who want to help can be overwhelming for the family involved. This site is an amazing tool for everyone to fill out what and when they're delivering dishes and notifies the recipient as well.
Leave it to a group of women to invent this brilliant take-care-tool.
By Skirt.com, Monday, February 01, 2010, 0 comments
an evening at the 52nd Annual Greater Charlotte Heart Ball on February 13, a benefit for the American Heart Association, including an auction marketplace, entertainment, dinner, and dancing. For tickets, call 704.208.5516.
By Skirt.com, Monday, February 01, 2010, 1 comments
I Love You
Six months after Blair and Max were married, Max, 29, was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. Miraculously, Max beat his cancer, but wouldn’t be able to father children. It was devastating news, but it didn’t get Blair and Max down. Instead, they put their energy into giving back to their community, helping to fundraise and support a multitude of charitable organizations—and were completely surprised to discover, a few years later, that Blair was pregnant. Now their family is complete with two “miracle” daughters, and they’re grateful for every single day.
Blair: “I had the biggest crush on him in high school. I love that if there’s an opportunity for me to do something amazing, he’s the first to be like, ‘Do it!’”
Max: “She’s got a great personality, great sense of humor; she’s very kind and giving.
By Skirt.com, Monday, February 01, 2010, 0 comments
I Love You
Fate played a hand in Matt and Mandy French’s romance—while working in different cities for the same company (Mandy in Charlotte, Matt in Boston), the couple, who shared the same last name and first initial (but aren’t related), regularly received emails meant for each other. Eventually, their daily correspondence led them to meeting face-to-face, and later, a proposal.
Mandy: “I knew he was the guy before we met. He’s the first person I have ever truly trusted. I just trust him. We have so much in common.”
Matt: “What attracted me to her in the beginning is what attracts me to her now: her sassy attitude. We still make each other laugh fifty times a day.”
