Monthly Archives: February 2009

SPOTTED

OMFG

Spotted: Wednesday evening, walking up to the UES,  SS (Splenda Stealer) was on her BB when she was distracted by the glimmer and reflection of stage lights across a line of trailers outside an apartment building and a synagogue. SS overheared a man with a walkie-talkie mention two golden words: Gossip Girl to two curious onlookers. SS immediately slipped her BB into her coat pocket and quickened her pace to secure a spot closer to the set behind five Europeans, excitedly whispering Das ich gut GOSSIP GIRL!! and two other giggling, 20-something aged girls.

A giddy SS dug again into her coat pocket for her BB and called Ms. Ball O’Sunshine who cried LUCKY!! into her BB, and then again, quickly hung up when crew members called for quiet on the set. SS cursed her BB for not having a camera while a women from the crew yelled at traffic to drive by faster to get out of the shot. Gossip Girl is the ruler of the city.

Enter: C (Chuck Bass, aka, Ed Westwick) from the apartment building, walking closer to SS. SS looks to her right to find a limo pulled up beside her and the other stalkers observers. C has to walk directly next to her, read: the fibers from his extremely tailored, black cashmere coat kissed the fibers of her 100 percent wool shell Banana Republic coat, made in the Phillippines. C’s height was an inch or two taller than SS, who stands 5’6” in flat boots. He is even better looking in person.

The rest was hazy for SS. Something about a scene filmed with B (Blair Waldorf, aka Leighton Meester) who met him outside the apartment building, then the pair jumped behind the limo when another on-screen mystery couple existed the hotel or synagogue, SS couldn’t tell. The 30 degrees out temperature made for SS’s eyes to tear up, yet all was right in the world.

Cold and delirious, SS quietly backed away from set after her version of Gossip Girl LIVE, to reconvene her trek to meet Ria at Spice on 73rd for Thai. SS walked an extra avenue in the wrong direction by mistake, as she was so enamored by what she just witnessed.

xoxo

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Playing Hooky

Last week, I took off Monday and went to the Westminster Dog Show with the mom. It took me a week to finally upload the pics. Here are a few to wrap up the day:

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Hehe. We snagged amazing seats next to Ring Three, where all the herding dogs were competing. To call us obsessed would be an understatement.

I grew up with two shetland sheepdogs (the smaller dogs pictured above), Bonnie and Daisy, and my parents got another one, Maggie, after I graduated college, but helped train and raise because I lived at home for a year and a half after school. While we happily watched other breeds in the ring, for some reason, we always return to favoring the shelties and the rough collies.

In one of these pictures is a white collie, which is extremely rare. It looks like a typical collie in disguise.

These dogs were absolutely gorgeous, and so well behaved. I even got to feed one of them a cookie in the benching area!! Good hooky day.

re: No Gym Fees For Me

As I have previously posted, I have taken a vow to get in shape without a gym. While people may think this is nutty, I ask–how did people stay in shape decades, centuries before without treadmills? The answer is simple. Technology has made modern life simple and convenient, but has in turn, given us all the ability to make ass-grooves in our desk chairs and sofas.

I opt to move more. Not only do I use the stairwell in my office building to get in some quick cardio when I get antsy at work, but I have also started to plot my walks to work on MapMyRun. You can type in any address and create a walk or run for a distance you had in mind. I am now obsessed. You can also figure out how many calories you have burned.

Since we have been experiencing some warm days in the NYC area, I have started to take the long way home: I walk from my office building on 41st and Lexington all the way down the the Christopher St. PATH station in the West Village. It took about an hour to walk, but I had no idea the actual distance. Thanks to MapMyRun, I found out that it’s almost 3 miles. HUZZAH! And, after plugging in the time it took me to walk it, and my height and weight, apparently I burned about 250 calories.

I have become hooked. As long as I have no time restraint, I walk everywhere. I mean, I don’t have a car, so it’s either the subway or my own legs, but still. I walk everywhere, then map my distance immediately on the site. I even started to fantasize about walking from the Christopher St. station stop to my office every morning to get in 3 miles of walking before I get to my desk, but I don’t really know if that’s feasible. After work though, who cares if I break a sweat?

Also exciting was this recent discovery, thanks to Ms. Ball O’Sunshine, my fellow yogi. For the past few months, ever since our gym closed, we have been looking for cheap yoga classes. Most of the best rates are for beginner package deals that offer unlimited classes for a month for about $40, but after that, memberships and single classes are still out of our affordability range. And we aren’t beginner level. While $16 a class doesn’t seem like a ton, for people like us that really love yoga, it just adds up too quickly.

The other day we discovered that Yoga To The People, a donation-based (you give what you can afford) yoga studio that has a location in the East Village, just opened a spot in Midtown on 38th and 6th Ave. (!!!) for only $5 a class!!

It’s comforting to know that it rough times like these, when there are more and more Splenda Stealers, there are people looking out for us.

A Freebie To Lift My Friday

FREEBIE DAY GALORE!! Bleary eyed, as I walked out of the PATH station on 34th St. this morning, a guy was giving out FREE Quaker Oats granola bars! I grabbed two of some flavor with coconut and banana flavoring. Gotta love free promo samples. And to think that I almost used the 32nd St. exit.

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