Some Things Never Change

Breakfast and Shopping with Friends in Suburbia

What I'm wearing:
Brandy Melville burgundy sweater
Black bargain jeans (yes!)
Authentic Firenze Leather boots
Gold bangles from Bakers

In suburbia, women have two favorite pastimes: shopping and dining.  And when all the girls return home for the holidays, we revert back to our old ways no matter how much we claim college has “changed us”.  It’s like cupcakes, new shoes, and repeated conversations; we know they will make us happy.

I love to visit rich suburbia.  People and places of rich suburbia (because there are many levels and this is the top tier) exude an air of  "betterness" for lack of a better word.  Every native over the age of 16 drives a luxury vehicle, parking lots have larger spaces to accommodate the 90% of people who drive SUV’s, and whether you are a Mexican restaurant or cupcake shop you too have a Range Rover for delivery services.  Now if you drove 5 miles in that luxury vehicle in any given direction, you can always find: 2 country clubs, 5 Starbucks, 4 small shopping centers, a Target, a cupcake shop, 2 frozen yogurts, 6 gas stations, and a mall.  It’s a world I have decided that I wouldn’t mind living in.

I guess people don’t change either.  Meeting up with my high school friends felt like senior year again and we even blasted some Britney Spears (who has recently moved to suburbia) in my friend’s Lexus while we sat and gossiped.  Yeah we all started down separate paths after graduation, but the friendships can still be solidified over a cup of coffee and an update on the girl we all hated in high school. 

Seems that none of us have set career plans yet, which made me feel a lot better.  Maybe I could open a boutique froyo cupcakery in suburbia?  Shop around for clothes to sell, inflate the price a little, lunch date, frost cupcakes, coffee date…all in a days work and be home before the town shuts down at 9pm.  And if business was low, there is always the option for a backroom business that would bring in a higher profit if you know what I mean. Only kidding?