Birthday Extravaganza

I just started working for my friend, E, who created a company called SittersStudio- a babysitting company for families in NY which has expanded to include Chicago and will soon include San Francisco as well. I will repeat again, this is a babysitting company. Understood? Awesome.

So it wasn't out of the ordinary when E called me the other day and asked if I would be a sitter for a 10 yr. old girl's karaoke birthday party. She said I would be in charge of the karaoke machine and making sure the girls would be having a good time. There would be an arts and crafts section that another sitter would manage and there were only going to be 10 girls.

I walk up to this amazing apartment complex and say hello to the concierge who is going to be showing me around. Then the craziness begins. I find out that we might be kicked out of the party room, there will not be an arts and crafts section OR another sitter, they need me to help transport the balloons, there are going to be twice as many adults as kids at this party, I was going to have to harrass people to get them to dance and have fun, oh yeah, and the mom is a nutjob. Turns out, she wanted a DJ, not a babysitter, because I ended up messing with the machine all night, getting yelled at by her for not switching cables fast enough for her to sing "Hopelessly Devoted to You" (1 of probably 10 ballads she sang that night), and I had about 2 minutes with the kids when they asked me if they could sing Hannah Montana and she balked and said "No, I want my brother Steve to sing- they had their chance".... Really? REALLY???? Well, I guess they did sing Rihanna's "Please don't stop the music" with her I-Pod after the mom forced them to have a 10-yr old 'sexy dance competition' to the same song. Gross.

Let me give you the rundown on this 10 year old girl's birthday:

• 600 Pepto Pink Balloons (one to fill every square inch of the rented room)
• A 3-tiered pink birthday cake
• Full bar (for the 15-20 adults that I ended up babysitting)
• Strobe light and Disco ball (she wanted the room to look like a nightclub)
• A Photographer
• A Doorman
• Two Large Bags of Juicy Couture
• A Wii (that I ended up wrapping) + some games
• 1 Live Bunny
• A room overlooking the Statue of Liberty
• And yet, somehow, it was all about the parents........

At the end of the night, when they were getting kicked out of the room, the dad whipped out WADS of $100 bills. After the horror that I endured, did he tip me? I'll give you one guess....

This is normal in NYC???

~B

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow....

For all of you lovely people who don't keep up with my Facebook/Myspace/Gmail/Why are there so many communication sites/AIM/Real Life......

Hair Today~

Gone Tomorrow~

That's a special New Yorksey magic trick from me to you.

~B

Eggs and Grapefruit

To our loyal readers (aka moms and Aunt Coll) Sorry about the delay in posts. We have a lot to write about but just no time to write!! (isn't that always the way?)

OK... So J and I decided to go on a diet thingy a couple weeks ago (just to try it, neither one of us really NEEDS to diet). If you think back to our month of being vegetarian you will find the motives behind the diet to be very similar. We love the challenge.

This diet boasts that you can lose 10 lbs in 10 days. It really does work, but the one biggest problem with this diet- it's SO BORING!!! I mean, I've never done such a boring diet and I've tried quite a few over the years (mostly with my mom). J figured out that on this diet we were averaging about 600-800 calories per day (around 6 pts for all you Weight Watchers). So we made the executive decision to stop after 8 days because it obviously worked (I had lost 10 lbs by then) and it was badly affecting our moods. I'll put it at the end of this post just in case you want to give it a try. Seriously, it works.

One definite bonus: we learned how to make a few really simple, good tasting, low-calorie meals; we found a really great kind of cottage cheese; and rediscovered our love of salads.

We also had to drink alot of water on the diet.............. These pics are from day 5 at a work party at a bar when everyone else was drinking alcohol and eating sliders and stuffed potato skins and french fries.... dear God, the french fries....


I look Saucy with my H2O......









Jenny looks completely destroyed....









Ok here it is:



Skinny Jeans Diet (Lose 10 lbs in 10 Days)
*Do not maintain this diet for more than 2 weeks at a time!!!!


Important:

• Drink 6 or more glasses of water daily
• Use a salt substitute
• Take a multi-vitamin daily
• Coffee & tea- no cream or sugar
• Artificial sweetener may be used
• Vegetables boiled & drained- without butter- vinegar or lemon juice may be used
• Salads without dressing- vinegar, lemon juice or artificial sweetener may be added to taste
• All meats and fish boiled or broiled- lean meat only (beef, veal, lamb, fowl and fish).
• Eat your normal portion.
• NO PORK OR SHELL FISH
• When broiling meats or fish- pat dry with paper towel after broiling.
• No eating between meals.
• Try to eat meals at the same time each day
• NO, DO NOT SKIP ANY MEAL!
• ABSOLUTELY NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES OF ANY KIND... SORRY!
• Where eggs are indicated: 1 egg- small framed women, 2 eggs- medium to large framed women

1st Week:

EVERY DAY BREAKFAST: 1/2 Grapefruit, 1 or 2 boiled or poached eggs, coffee or tea(ALL EGGS IN DIET EITHER BOILED OR POACHED)

MONDAY: Lunch~ Same as breakfast; Dinner~ Lean meat or fish, lettuce salad, 1 slice dry toast, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea

TUESDAY: Lunch~ Same as breakfast; Dinner~ Lean meat or fish, lettuce & tomato salad, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea

WEDNESDAY: Lunch~ 1 or 2 eggs, spinach, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea; Dinner~ Lean meat or fish, lettuce, tomato & carrot salad, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea

THURSDAY: Lunch~ 1 or 2 eggs, 1/2 cup carrots, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea; Dinner~ Lean meat or fish, lettuce salad, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea

FRIDAY: Lunch~ 1 or 2 eggs, cabbage, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea;Dinner~ Broiled fish (NO BREADING), lettuce, tomato & carrot salad, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea

SATURDAY: Lunch~ FRESH fruit salad (NOT CANNED) eat all you want!!; Dinner~ Lean meat or fish, lettuce & tomato, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea

SUNDAY: Lunch~ Diced chicken (NO SKIN) with chopped celery and green pepper, lemon juice or vinegar, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea; Dinner~ Broiled chicken (NO SKIN), lettuce salad, 1/2 grapefruit, coffee or tea

SUBSTITUTIONS: The following may be substituted for "2 eggs" anywhere in the diet

• 3 oz lean beef, 1/2 cup salmon (water packed)
• 8 oz Sardines (well drained and pat dry with paper towel)
• 1 small can tuna (water packed), 1/2 cup cottage cheese (Light n' Lively preferred)

2nd WEEK: REPEAT 1ST WEEK.................................................

GOOD LUCK FROM YOUR BROADWAY BLOOPERS BUDDIES!!!

We'll try to post more.... sorry!

~B