What can we say, we love to prank each other as often as possible.

Disclaimer: This is a Reenactment

On most days the Casual lifestyle department is known as the Comfort, Euro-Comfort, Slipper and Size and Width and Housewares buying team. Yesterday however, they were known as the department filling the downstairs office with the smell of amazing food. Latrira S. gives us a little more insight into this cool and very delicious get-together.

We would like to take this time to wish Steve a Happy Birthday, but we can't seem to find him anywhere. Just Kidding, Steve's team actually remembered his Birthday, but forgot that he would be spending it with his family in San Francisco instead of his family at Zappos.com. The cake was delicious and the decorations were beautiful, maybe next year, Steve?

The casual lifestyle merch and content team had a gingerbread house showdown in the spirit of Zappos core value #3 (create fun and a little weirdness) and #7 (build a positive team and family spirit) last Friday. Four teams participated: size and width, comfort/euro, casual content, and apparel/housewares. Each team had a gingerbread house and could add any item to the creation as long as it was edible. We had until 3 pm to complete our gingerbread houses. I work on the casual content team and our house (a.k.a. the masterpiece) was a three hour labor of love that involved a lot of eating and messy fingers. I have concluded that gingerbread houses are not ideal for consumption as there is a fair amount of spit and elbow grease from the assemblers included in the house. Pics above of the four completed houses (casual content masterpiece included):

Size and width presented their interpretation of a gingerbread house post- earthquake, comfort and euro created A Wizard of Oz house, casual content delivered an original work of art entitled, "The Night the Worms Ate Christmas", and apparel/housewares produced an homage to the trailer park complete with a SunChips "tin roof" and tire pile.
Our comfort business unit judged the houses and delivered their verdict at our category holiday party that evening. And the winners are:

4th place - size and width
3rd place - comfort/euro
2nd place - casual content (ROBBED!)
1st place - apparel/housewares

Obviously I feel my team had the best gingerbread house and I'm sure you do too; however, the shock value of the gingerbread double wide was impossible to defeat. Can't wait until next year!

Happy Holidays,
Danielle T.

Zappos wouldn't be Zappos without our exceptional Customer Loyalty Department. What can we say, they make us look good! So in the spirit of the Holidays, our Casual Lifestyle department made 400 gift bags full of toys for our hard working members in CLT.

Happy Holidays CLT!

In the spirit of Core Value #7, Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit, Casual Lifestyle Content Team invited the Size and Width Merch Team for breakfast and conversation. We had yogurt & granola, pastries, and mini-frittatas. We cleared tables and ate family-style. Here's a pic of Sam H., Rudy R. and Latrira S from the breakfast feast:

We went around the room and talked about one thing in our lives that's new or interesting outside of work. Graham M.'s wife is about to have a baby girl any day, Rudy R. is excited to see Madonna in concert, Nicole S. is picking up the keys to her new house today, and Anji C. is attending a dream analysis lecture on Thursday. Exciting stuff! Yours truly is super-pumped about the upcoming NKOTB concert on October 11th.

I made a batch of mini-frittatas for breakfast that everyone enjoyed. They're a great breakfast to make on the weekend, throw in the fridge, and heat up on your way out the door during the week. Here's the recipe:

Mini-Frittatas

• Ingredients:
• 5 eggs
• shredded cheddar cheese (any cheese will work)
• black pepper
• onion (yellow or red)
• chopped bacon (or turkey bacon)
• canned diced tomatoes

Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Whisk 5 eggs, a handful of shredded cheese and diced onion, 4 slices of chopped, cooked bacon, about 1/4 of a can of drained diced tomatoes, and a few dashes of black pepper together in a bowl. Pour the mixture among 12 greased (cooking spray is fine) muffin cups. Bake for 11 minutes or until golden brown. If you choose to remove the bacon, add more onion and tomato to compensate. Enjoy!

Galen H., Director of Casual Lifestyle and a Zappos Icon, celebrates his birthday on this fine August 13th!

Galen has been with Zappos in the Merchandising Department since January of 2004 has been a jack of all trades in times of need, even jumping in and managing our Customer Loyalty Department for a year when he was called to duty! On a side note, Galen is the most sharp dressed man at Zappos (next to Chris P., that is)

Galen's team presented him with a birthday cake(s) in appreciation!

Galen has spent years dedicating his life to helping the customer, the employees and the partners of Zappos.com, and for that, on your birthday.....We Salute You, Good Sir!

DATES: May 31 thru June 8, 2008
BUYER: Shyloh C, Buyer - Casual Apparel



May 31, 2008

4:05 AM -Awake at 4am, (barely).
5:30 AM – Packed: CHECK, Laundry: CHECK, Dishes: CHECK, Honey 'to do list': CHECK, Children’s caregiver 'to do list': CHECK, Hugged and kissed sleeping beauties: CHECK, Loading up car: CHECK
6:31 AM - Inhaled banana BEFORE it was radiated in security. Have a thing about eating
food after it’s gone through X Ray machine.
7:17 AM - About to board when I notice deoderant on my top. Lordy. That's what happens
when you dress in the dark!! Will have to carry handbag on that side all day!
2:42 PM - Landed in Charlotte. Read some of customer evangelists, and carrot principle and watched the movie 27 dresses (LOVED IT!!)
3:33 PM - Having lunch and catching up on mens sportswear periodicals. Did you know that
Goretex MBT's are featured in the first pages of GQ for June???
4:32 PM - Sitting in VERY humid airport reading and waiting.........
5:53 PM - Just boarding plane for W Palm Beach. Looking
forward to getting to hotel and seeing the Atlantic!!
8:53 PM - Just landed in W Palm Beach! Wow! It's green!
9:09 PM - Car service had wrong pickup time, place and person. Finally arrived in hotel
after all was sorted. Starving!!
10:16 PM - Just paid check. Waitress a BIG fan of Zappos. Got her email to send her a
coupon when I get back to the room.
11:00 PM - Forcing myself to go to bed, (8:00 pm West Coast) but doubt it will come easy
after eating the 4 raspberry truffles Lilly Pulitzer left in a basket in my
room!!

June 1, 2008

6:02 AM - 5 hours of sleep is not enough.
7:47 AM - Headed to welcoming breakfast. Of course I purchased.a new Lilly Pulitzer top
from Zappos to wear for the day!! (in photo)
9:39 AM - Just sat through presentation. Owner and President LOVES Tony and referenced his seminars in his Jubilee Launch.
10:50 AM - Lilly is doing a Steinway Piano, Florida Naturals special edition juice box,
new fragrance etc etc!! Good for them!!
11:48 AM - Bought Ponte, square necks, straight legs, wide legs and that darn lurex that won't
go away and keeps selling!!
12:50 PM - Got them hooked on Twitter. They are coming in for a tour and training. All of
management!!!
2:40 PM - I have never seen so many women in Pink and Green in my life!
3:44 PM - Still entering buy. On 4th cup of coffee -pooped. Jeanne look out. I am going
to beat your record for caffeine (is that possible?)
4:35 PM - STILL writing orders!! On to chocolate now!!
5:51 PM - Finished 5 minutes before driver picked me up for airport. Ran to front door to
catch him.
7:00 PM - Ran to gate. Was too preoccupied with eating and trying to get notes to Andy
for AB class tomorrow!!
9:24 PM - In charlotte -Jumping on next flight. Can't believe I was at the Breakers in Palm Beach and was never able to stick my feet in the ocean!
11:34 PM - Just landed. Pooped. Will need to catch up on sleep this week as I travel again next weekend for LA market. .

June 2, 2008

12:55 AM - Just got home. Need to authorize payroll but can't access site. Will get up early to do so!

June 7, 2008

4:00 AM - Up again on a sat at 4:00am. Bad habit
5:00 AM - Loading up on airborne!
6:02 AM - Holding on to hand rail in train while typing into diary. Talent!!
7:06 AM - Just boarded. Nice and quiet. That is the beauty of flying early on a sat morning!!
8:12 AM - Landed in LA at 8:10. Running to the mart downtown for a 9am appt.
9:14 AM - Late for TinT your World thank goodness! Looking at plus lines!!
10:08 AM - Just finished 3 plus lines. A mix of silks, twills, linens and velvets. Looks great!!
11:23 AM - Maternity is into mesh. Looks good! Inhaling lunch before next appt...
2:10 PM - Just worKed Kay celine, Isda and Pure and simple. Animal prints will not give up!!
3:39 PM - Jumping from one to the next. Did lots of burnouts at Allen Allen and now lots
of lace and watercolors at David Cline!!
4:52 PM - Going to do more plus sizes at Vikki Vi!
6:12 PM - Headed in for last appt - maternity. Getting hungry.
8:16 PM - Just finished 4 maternity lines!! Pooped and picked up pizza for dinner.
9:13 PM - Ate, called to say goodnight to kids, and now going to sort through all paperwork and prioritize!

June 8, 2008

7:00 AM - Wake up – shower. Fell asleep at 10:30 with lights on and paperwork all over bed. Oops.
8:00 AM - Call kids and try to do payroll - oops - can't bc can't get on wifi without paying
$9.95.
9:00 AM - Shuttled to la mart and had tea. Headed into Jag Jeans appt.
10:00 AM - Looking at new plus tops line - going to wait until late Fall for it. Need to prioritize other lines.
11:00 AM - Bernadette Conte lifestyle looks amazing!! Liquid - metallics- Need more money!!
12:00 PM - Magaschoni - we are going to have shawls, pashminas, and novelty cashmere in
the portfolio this year in yummy colors! Yeah!!
1:00 PM - At xcvi gobbling up super wide legs. Can't keep them in stock!!
2:00 PM - Reviewing holiday at Scanty pj's. Dancing reindeer and christmas trees out of
peace signs are adorable!
3:00 PM - Just saw Lindsay Lohans new legging line. Looks a lot like Lindsay Lohan!
4:00 PM - Going to LAX
5:00 PM - Finished organizing all paperwork for Patricia. Will drop off after I land as I
will be flying out in the morning to Dallas.
6:00 PM - Dying for a vanilla soy latte from SB.
7:00 PM- Just about to take off! Guess I should turn my phone off
8:00 PM - Just landed and getting my car. Need to go to Zappos.
9:00 PM - Finished dropping off paperwork for Patricia to work on and headed home.
9:30 PM - Home. Doing a few things on computer than going to bed. Flight to Dallas at 6:00am tomorrow.