Apr 11, 2008
Random Excellent Road Trip Friday.
Bossy has writer’s block and it goes like this: she can’t sit and write about what has already happened because it prevents her from partaking in what is happening now. And Bossy knows that in order to Live Her Best Life she has to live in the now, even if that now is sitting next to three successful executives from Facebook in a Starbucks in Palo Alto California:
And for anyone who wants to know: T-Mobile is a problem child for Facebook. Bossy isn’t sure what that means, but when the executive said it, the others nodded emphatically. And for anyone who wants to know more, this has nothing to do with the financial offers made to T-Mobile, but rather it’s an issue with exclusivity. Or T-Mobile wants to be able to plug and go, or something like that—but anyway Bossy wouldn’t ordinarily put herself in the middle of a Facebook executive meeting, but if certain Facebook executives insist on talking about their problem child while employing their outside voices, then Bossy is going to eavesdrop using her outside ears.
Another random Facebook fact: their executives are twenty and wear boat shoes.
Anyway. Bossy wants you to know she is having a great time and that everything is swell. Her feet are swell, her fingers are swell, and her heart swells at the generosity of everyone she is meeting.
On Tuesday Bossy drove from Laguna Beach to L.A. to meet up with her friend Suebob at the Santa Monica Pier:
It was a brilliantly sunny day:
A brilliantly sunny day with very high winds. What does it mean to have high winds—and is this different from low winds? Let Bossy take a minute to ask her hair. Ah, yes, Bossy’s hair says it doesn’t matter one lick the height of the winds, because as long as it’s windy, she’s going to look as though her finger is permanently situated in an electrical socket:
Bossy and Suebob walked around and then had lunch with Bossy’s soul sister Joanne who Bossy met only three minutes prior to snapping their Engagement Photo:
Bossy adored Santa Monica. It was a colorful combination of high ambition:
And low ambition:
Later that night, Bossy met the rest of Team L.A. at a restaurant in skskdkdkeoasndj. Truthfully Bossy forgets the neighborhood where the restaurant was located because L.A. is just an enormous collection of neighborhoods divided by highways filled with cars and those cars are filled with successful screenwriters.
But Bossy does remember the inspiring collection of bloggers. She was there and she was there. She was there and she was there and she was there and she was there and she was there and she was there. And she was there and she was there. And there was even a he there. And this he was extra sweet and he took Bossy home with him and they sat up and chatted with his handsome husband and then Bossy tucked herself into a comfy bed where elsewhere in the house a Clown Collection draws no dust.
facen
If I squint, I can see lunch in my teeth!
You have the life?
Hotdog on a stick! Gourmet dinner of champions!
Yay! The meet-up was fun. We were in THE Valley–that’s why you can’t remember where we were. LA actually has many valleys but there is only one THE Valley. (THE Valley is the San Fernando Valley.)
We were way out in the westernmost reaches, in Calabasas. It means pumpkin in Spanish. This means you met Pumpkin Delight in a town called Pumpkin.
For a few moments, I was thinking Bossy had a scheduled meeting with the executives of Facebook, and I was thinking how clever it was of you to schedule it into your trip, and also, I was like, “wow, she is so popular and mighty, first Saturn gives her cars, and now facebook will probably do something really cool as an official Bossy Sponsor.”…but, then I read that you were only eavesdropping….which is a very rich habit.
Glad the sun came out.
Definitely a night to remember with people to remember! And the clown collection remark? Ingenious.
Glad to see you made it to SF safely on only two hour’s sleep!
Oh Yes, Bossy….that’s right, you were going to Calabasas….did you go to DASH and SMOOCH?
That’s not MY Palo Alto, but ’tis true, that is the REAL Palo Alto. I always forget about the internet people. For me, it’s the college town… that I love so much…
BOSSY, you and I have now been to the town of skskdkdkeoasndj exactly the same number of times, and I live in LA County!
It was so much fun at the meet-up. Say hi to Portland for me!
It was a great evening, Bossy! Loved hanging out with you and that luscious group of SHE’S & that extra sweet HE. Thanks for bringing us all together.
Bossy is not only a fabulous blogger but a fabulous photographer, hereafter to be known as a photobogger. Minivan told me about your visit in AZ and I had severe Bossy envy. Oh well. Maybe next time.
Oh, and I write at Panera’s about three mornings a week and always sit by the moms from my neighborhood to listen to the “dirt.” The computer is a terrific decoy!
Oh, HAVE MERCY:
1. Cowboy Josh
2. Starbucks Joe
3. Cusack
4. His Husband
While Bossy does a good job of deflecting attention with all the “hers” in this post, this OCD sleuther sees through it all and is VAKLEMPT.
Whatever that is, but it has GOT (that’s a correct use of the verb GOT) to do with nerves. And I is. All nerves. With this Man Count responsibility. Or obsession.
Awww… I was hoping for a picture of the boat shoes.
Bossy. Does it blow your mind that you have fans who live 3,000 miles from suburban Philly, or is this exactly something you expected?
How flippin’ cool that a blogger can drive from PA to CA and all the Cool Kids there come out to meet her.
Bossy is the BOMB!
Wednesday night was so much fun in Calabasas. So glad you were crazy enough to travel around the country to meet all us wacky bloggin’ fools who drool in your footsteps. I love you even more in person.
Oh I hope I get to meet up with Bossy…she sounds like SO much fun! Please, oh please, can anyone tell me where the “meeting place” is when she goes through Boise? I do, I do hope to be there!
I can’t NOT believe I missed you while you were here.
Having spent nearly a month in Palo Alto last year at the Stanford Medical Center, I can tell you that not only are Facebook’s exec’s 20 and wear boat shoes, so is half the staff at Stanford hospital. And what SHOCKED me about Palo Alto – Silicon valley is that it doesn’t look tech-Y. It looks suburban-Y because they have strict building codes forbidding buildings over like 3 stories tall, so it STAYS PRETTY.
Been following your roadtrip like the seagull in your camera.
One of your biggest lurkers in the middle of Illinois who wouldn’t have made the roadtrip anyway,
KEEP BELIEVING
Bossy’s report on the Facebook guys is most excellent. L.A., Santa Monica, sigh, my old stompin’ grounds. Jenn at Juggling Life’s too.
Those Facebook boys should know better than to use outside voices. But, they probably wanted everyone to hear them. Egomaniacs!
Well, that explains a lot about Facebook. I sure hope you have copywritten this trip theme. This whole adventure is priceless!
I too sat in on an exec meeting at Starbucks recently. If they’re gonna pretend it’s a conference room, I’m gonna pretend I was invited to the meeting.
I saw a Saturn Aura parked outside my Starbucks today and thought, “Bossy?”.
Saturn guys: The only reason I noticed was because of Bossy. Good product placement, boys.
I was so upset I couldn’t make it… That which was Saturday got moved to Wednesday, and that I couldn’t do, alas. I’m glad you had fun!
Love it Bossy!! You are having such an adventure!
The Santa Monica pier is my old stomping ground–what a great start to a day in L.A.
Now I’m going to be looking for that dang sea gull speck in all of Bossy’s photos.
Boo. Now I will pout for the rest of the night since you were in Calabasas and I was right next door in Agoura and I had no idea. I am sort of new here and didn’t know how to meet up or if you were even stopping between Laguna and Ventura. My loss. Pout. Have a great rest of the trip. Pout. And take some time to smell the roses!
Maybe Facebook should sponsor Bossy for next year’s road trip.
too.much.fun!
Hotdog-on-a-Stick beats the crap outta Pizza-in-a-Cup, I’ll just bet.
Bossy was a blast.
And so were the rest of the very fun bloggers out in Calabasas.
Hot dogs n a stick….I am sorry hot dog stick are ambitious.
Ooooohhhh . . . California. How I miss you. My soul is aching for your mountains, deserts, and shores. How beautiful you are!
Hotdog on a stick Patron #1 – is he hiding his face from your camera, or giving Bossy a friendly LA center-finger-only salute?
LA agrees with Bossy. She looks refreshed and dewishly lovely-wow LA has some good looking bloggers!
I agree with Mrs.
You’re getting me homesick, Bossy! (Writing of California and not one mention of traffic jams on the freeway… excellent…)
I may have to break up with Bossy. Bossy is reminding me daily that I live in New England, where life pales in comparison. Bossy is breakin’ my heart. But, alas, I love Bossy still. I can’t quit Bossy.
If Bossy’s hair likes the winds in Santa Monica, just wait until Bossy’s hair meets the winds in Kansas! It’ll be just like putting all 10 fingers into an electrical socket on crack!
I’m so glad you made it to Santa Monica! My SIL’s office is on Ocean Avenue @ Arizona. I had him wave to you.
You could totally be a beach girl. You rock the windblown look!
Ha! That guy on the left only wishes he were in his twenties — check out the thinning hair. Glad to see you got the real Silicon Valley eavesdropping experience, though!
Hey!! It’s Fightin’ Mad Mary, Glozell and the Jason Show! You are awesome and lucky and fortunate to get such a gathering going! Amazing!!