Today’s Agenda: laundry take-over edition
Oct 24, 2011 Today's Agenda
My birthday on Saturday was great. It was such a “me” day. My entire family was prepared to let me sleep in, but for reasons I don’t understand I woke up at 7am. The Ass gave me the day completely off by taking Jake to Tae Kwon Do and going to a school meeting for me. While they were gone, Fiona set up a little Birthday Scavenger Hunt for me that led me around the house to a birthday card she had made herself. My favorite clue card? “Where’s the place where you go poop or pee pee?”
I spent most of the day on the couch in my pjs. I saved enough calories to have pizza and a Fresh Direct Double Chocolate Cupcake for dinner. And last – this part was a complete surprise – my husband presented me with tickets to see Hugh Jackman’s one-man show in a couple of weeks! Pretty perfect day.
In contrast, today will be a rather boring day, but this needs to be done: I’ve re-taken the laundry duties from my husband. To his great credit, he stepped in about a year ago when I had basically stopped washing clothes. I would dig through the giant pile of dirty laundry before going to bed each night, grabbing just what each of us needed to get through the next day – I was in laundry survival mode. So he took over, and I was glad.
But I officially took him off of laundry duty last night after finding several of my shirts ruined, and after finding half of the kids’ laundry in the wrong rooms. I think he was thrilled not to have to do it anymore. But now I can’t screw up. If I start falling behind, he gets to take it over again, and I will have to hide all of my clothes.
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Me, 38 years ago
Oct 22, 2011 What's Going On
I woke up as a thirty-nine-year-old this morning, and I just got a birthday email from my mom, with my first passport scanned in:
Now I’m just staring at it, seeing both of my kids in my face, and getting a little weepy. Thanks, Mommy! :-)
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Today’s Agenda: two-day hair edition
Oct 21, 2011 Posted From My Phone, Today's Agenda
So I’m still rocking the gorgeous braid I got yesterday from the ladies of Bergdorf’s braid bar, at a blogger event held at More Magazine (I slept with a scarf wrapped around it). And I even did my eyebrows with the little kit that the people from Benefit gave me. I may be exhausted, but at least I look good.
I’m on the set of the CBS show Unforgettable right now, watching some filming and getting ready to interview a few of the show’s stars. Fun day, but when I get home I’m going to sleep for about five hours. Then, I’m going to blog about getting pulled over on my way here. Good times.
Enjoy your weekend!
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Today’s Agenda: lunch with real food edition
Oct 20, 2011 Today's Agenda
So today is my fourth day on the Slim-Fast plan, Slim-Fast having provided me with two weeks’ worth of products. The first three days have been uneventful, but today is different because I’m going to an event that involves lunch. Now, I’ve been to three events this week that involved lots of yummy-looking food sitting in front of me, but this one is different because it involves a small group of people having lunch at the same time, not big tables of food set out with people milling around where nobody notices if you don’t eat.
I think it would make people uncomfortable if I sat there drinking a shake while everybody else was chowing down. But, I’m allowed to eat a 500 calorie meal each day. Usually it’s dinner, today it will be lunch. The problem is estimating 500 calories of food that I didn’t cook myself.
Plus, I like ending the day with a big (ish) meal. So, lunch events are going to be difficult. Oh well.
But, this event should be fun. More magazine is hosting a bunch of bloggers for…I’m not sure what. But they said it would be fun, and I’m curious to learn more about the magazine.
The rest of my time is consumed these days with the less exciting aspects of my job, and the highly stressful process of applying to middle schools for Jake. I swear, if the NYC Department of Education hired a blue ribbon panel to come in and purposely make the process more convoluted, they would be unsuccessful. It has already reach its zenith. Or maybe its nadir. Not sure which is more appropriate in this case.
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Tags: Food, Kids, Weight Loss
Today’s Agenda: The fridge is calling edition
Oct 18, 2011 Today's Agenda
I had way too much to do this morning to even think about posting until now – hate that! I enjoy sitting down first thing and taking stock of my day ahead. Now my day is more than half done and I’m just getting a chance.
So today is day two of my two week trial with the Slim-Fast plan. Slim-Fast supplied me with shakes and bars, and I have to say that yesterday was really easy. BUT, I was out of the house for a large part of the day. When I’m running around and busy I don’t think about food anywhere near as much. When I’m sitting at my dining room table working all day, in view of the fridge, it’s harder. So far today I’ve had two shakes and two snacks (100 calories of popcorn, and an 80 calorie yogurt – tried the Dannon Light & Fit Strawberry Cheesecake for the first time, yumm!), and I’m not hungry, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to eat. Which, of course, is the root of my problem.
The View from my “desk”
Yesterday was a lot of fun, getting to meet the cast and director of Willy Wonka. I’ll be posting those interviews very soon. Plus, I’ve been trying to find the time to edit a couple of fun review videos for like a week – will today be the day? I’m hoping so!
I’ll also be setting up the Eye-Fi SD card my mom bought me. I’m very excited!
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Tags: Slim-Fast, tech, Weight Loss
Today’s Agenda: Oompa Loompa edition
Oct 17, 2011 Today's Agenda
I know I’m supposed to be all “Blah, today’s Monday, I don’t want to go back to work!” and to be honest I had a rather terrible morning, but I’m putting all of that out of my mind because I’ve been looking forward to today for a while. I get to do on-camera interviews with five cast members from the original Willy Wonka movie, plus the director, Mel Stuart. They’re doing press for the release of a 40th anniversary DVD of the classic movie. I’m wearing make-up and everything.
The rest of today will be the usual. Not unpleasant, just not “So what was it like to work on a set made of candy?” exciting. :-) I started a two-week trial this morning of Slim Fast shakes. Slim fast has given me enough shakes, meal bars and snack bars to follow their plan: two shakes or bars each day, plus three snacks, and then I eat a dinner of about 500 calories. I’m curious to see how it goes.
I had a chocolate shake around 8:30 and was pleasantly surprised by the taste. It was delicious. And I don’t mean “It was delicious – for a diet shake.” It was delicious, period. The big question now is, will it keep me full for long enough? So far so good. If I have a snack around 11:30 I should be fine until I get home around one and have another shake, so this just has to keep me full for another ninety minutes.
Happy Monday!
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Tags: Food, movies, Weight Loss, Willy Wonka
Finally, a great biscuit recipe that’s also lightening quick!
Oct 14, 2011 Cooking & Baking
I’ve tried about a half dozen biscuit recipes over the years, trying to find a good one. In order to be a good one in my mind the biscuits don’t just have to taste good, they also have to be easy, relatively quick, and use only ingredients I commonly have on hand. Because I’m not making a turkey and stuffing here, these are biscuits. Like, Oh my God we’re out of frozen bagels what will I put the scrambled eggs and American cheese on. I have to be able to whip them up quick.
So I put out a call to twitter and of course my friend Jennifer Perillo came to my rescue. She recommended this recipe by Dorie Greenspan. I just made them and wow. First of all, from the moment I started to the moment I was spreading butter on one and popping it into my mouth, slightly less than 30 minutes had passed. Second, they used very few dishes and measuring spoons and only a little counter space. Third – which I haven’t tried yet – Dorie says you can cut the dough then freeze it before baking, and pop a few into the oven whenever you need them.
Delicious.
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When “Sleep No More” meets Disney
Oct 14, 2011 What's Going On
The Ass and I went to a show a little while back where everybody in the roving audience had to wear a mask and remain completely silent. And I don’t think I need to explain why I have multiple sets of mouse ears (doesn’t everybody?).
So today, Fiona and her playdate were going through my stuff, and created a look that almost made me pee my pants (you hear that Hugh Jackman, I said almost!), but will surely haunt my dreams.
Hilarious.
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