The Pink Shoe Diaries

the people's court is actually quite good. judge millian is no wapner...but she'll do.

this is my musing for the day.

anyway, last night i had danielle, jenny and diana over for dinner. we feasted on chicken parmigiano and garlic bread followed by lemon sorbet in a blackberry sauce. somwhere along the line we also polished off three bottles of red wine. i will say this about my friends: they can certainly put away the vino!

so, among other things, we discussed the maturing of our phone etiquette. i am trying to teach myself to say "take care" at the end of phone conversations because it sounds nice, and less fake then "have a nice day". i have a whole melange of words i use on a rotating basis in professional phone conversation. i am trying to weed out the use of "awesome" which pops up entirely too much...but the word "wonderful" sounds forced, as does the word "lovely". you know, as in

Me: "I would like to order such and such amount of something
Vendor: "We can have that to you by tomorrow"
Me: "Awesome!" (or "Lovely!" or "Wonderful").

It would be nice to have a response to good news that sounded 1)natural but also 2) educated. so far this seems impossible. especially today, when i was called back to a second interview for an admin position and i exclaimed "splendid!"

who even says splendid?

what's next??

Employer: we would like to have you come back for a second interview tomorrow morning
Me: Splendiferous!!

riiight