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font-family: Georgia\">Happy Birthday to Harrison.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">One year old.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051808-1226-theysayitsy1.jpg\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">Truth be told.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">I am so birthday partied out.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">Luke\'s shindig was only two weeks ago.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">So there will be no year in pictures in this blog post.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">But there will be a fairly quiet celebration at home for Harrison.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051808-1226-theysayitsy2.jpg\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">With Luke and Nat.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">And his daddy.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051808-1226-theysayitsy3.jpg\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">And me.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051808-1226-theysayitsy4.jpg\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">They will eat cupcakes.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051808-1226-theysayitsy5.jpg\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">And I will eat flan.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">We will dine on fattening Puerto Rican food. From Abuelitas.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">I will tie balloons to his high chair.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051808-1226-theysayitsy6.jpg\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">His sister will insist we use a big 1 candle for his cupcake.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051808-1226-theysayitsy7.jpg\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">It will be a nice relaxing way to celebrate Harrison\'s first big day.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">Happy Birthday Harrison.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia\">The Happiest Baby in the World. </span>','They Say Its Your Birthday',0,'','publish','open','open','','they-say-its-your-birthday','','','2008-05-18 07:28:07','2008-05-18 12:28:07','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/05/18/they-say-its-your-birthday/',0,'post','',0),(169,2,'2008-05-18 08:28:11','2008-05-18 13:28:11','<p>I always have these big plans for my Sundays.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>And one day I <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">will</span> get through my mother of all to do lists.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Because I have this goal is to get a real head start on my work week.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>But instead I -\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Attempt to clean the apartment, but it will never be spotless. <br />With three kids underfoot I can only be so ambitious.<em><br />\r\n		</em></p>\r\n<p>Remember to check the answering machine. Finally.<br />Listen to my cell phone voicemails – from weeks ago!\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Respond to emails. Reduce my Outlook clutter.  Trash junk mail.<br />Write reviews, segment outlines and a pitch or two.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Pick up socks without a partner. Pack the laundry. <br />Change sheets and pillow cases and even put away shoes.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Stretch underneath the kids\' beds to reach their bedtime books. <br />Find Nat\'s library books. See a half eaten banana. Ew.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Empty the fridge. Make a grocery list. <br />Declare this to be the week, I order out less and create more from scratch.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>And then take the kids to the park – the zoo – for an ice cream cone.\r\n</p>','Just Living on a Sunday Morning',0,'','publish','open','open','','just-living-on-a-sunday-morning','','','2008-05-18 17:07:50','2008-05-18 22:07:50','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/05/18/just-living-on-a-sunday-morning/',0,'post','',2),(170,2,'2008-05-19 17:56:49','2008-05-19 22:56:49','','051908-2256-nicedaytost1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','051908-2256-nicedaytost1jpg','','','2008-05-19 17:56:49','2008-05-19 22:56:49','',171,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051908-2256-nicedaytost1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(171,2,'2008-05-19 17:56:50','2008-05-19 22:56:50','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Marriages are falling apart all around me.<br />Too sad. So heartbreaking. How awful.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Because it all begins with a wedding.<br />And happiness. After cake and dancing.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Now its talks of separation and divorce.<br />With children caught in the middle.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sometimes I wonder if they know something we don\'t.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/051908-2256-nicedaytost1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/></p>','Nice Day to Start Again',0,'','publish','open','open','','nice-day-to-start-again','','','2008-05-19 17:56:50','2008-05-19 22:56:50','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/05/19/nice-day-to-start-again/',0,'post','',1),(172,2,'2008-05-27 08:00:43','2008-05-27 13:00:43','','052708-1300-andawaysheg1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','052708-1300-andawaysheg1jpg','','','2008-05-27 08:00:43','2008-05-27 13:00:43','',173,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/052708-1300-andawaysheg1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(173,2,'2008-05-27 08:00:43','2008-05-27 13:00:43','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">It\'s official.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">I just wrote a down payment for a house in the sticks.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Sorry, I meant to say… \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">I just paid Nat\'s summer camp tuition.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">She\'s getting outta town this summer.\n</span></p><p><img align=\"left\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/052708-1300-andawaysheg13.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Her first year going to day camp.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Boarding a bus and heading out to <em>LAWNG ISLAND</em>.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Not ten minutes from her grandmother\'s house.<span style=\"color:black\">\n			</span></span></p><p><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">So I have no fears.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">She has Grandma Jenny in Great Neck.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">And me driving like f----n\' Speed Racer over the TriBorough.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">You know, in case a bug bites her and she wants to come home.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">But seriously, I can\'t believe what a long day it will be.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Their day ends after 4pm and then there\'s traffic home.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Oh my.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">She\'s going to be so tired when she gets home.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Yippeeeeeeeee!!!\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">I love you, summer day camp.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">I love you, I love you!\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">(Now I just have to figure out what Mister Luke will be doing and I am set!)</span></p>','And Away She Goes',0,'','publish','open','open','','and-away-she-goes','','','2008-05-27 08:08:27','2008-05-27 13:08:27','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/05/27/and-away-she-goes/',0,'post','',3),(174,2,'2008-05-27 08:07:39','2008-05-27 13:07:39','','052708-1300-andawaysheg1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','052708-1300-andawaysheg1jpg-2','','','2008-05-27 08:07:39','2008-05-27 13:07:39','',173,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/052708-1300-andawaysheg11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(175,2,'2008-05-27 08:07:42','2008-05-27 13:07:42','','052708-1300-andawaysheg1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','052708-1300-andawaysheg1jpg-2','','','2008-05-27 08:07:42','2008-05-27 13:07:42','',173,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/052708-1300-andawaysheg12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(176,2,'2008-05-27 08:08:26','2008-05-27 13:08:26','','052708-1300-andawaysheg1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','052708-1300-andawaysheg1jpg-2','','','2008-05-27 08:08:26','2008-05-27 13:08:26','',173,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/052708-1300-andawaysheg13.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(177,2,'2008-05-29 06:14:07','2008-05-29 11:14:07','<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">If one more person tells me I should have done <a href=\"http://www.bravotv.com/Real_Housewives_NYC/season/1/about/index.php\">this show</a>, I’ll vomit.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Yea, I know this is now a blog post with a side order of the dramatic.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">But seriously, what is it about me that makes people think I should be on that kind of reality show.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">When it isn’t even close to being real. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Is it because I live in the same town it was taped?</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Because so were about 40 other reality shows.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">There are the reality shows of the<a href=\"http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/flavor_of_love/series.jhtml\"> ridiculous</a>, embarrassing sort and then there are decent reality shows.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">And for the offers to be on the ridiculous and embarrassing kind, I say no thanks.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">I have enough on my plate.<o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">I don’t have time to concoct a character for the masses <s>to hate.</s> <s>to envy.</s> to pity.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Three of my friends have reality shows in the works. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">(One is going to be a train wreck.)</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Each have told me that next time I’m in town they want to set up a story line with me.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Which character would I play?</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Opportunistic momager looking to make money off her pAArting daughter? Taken.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Mom of two girls crying poor although her ex pays hundreds of thousands in alimony and child support? Taken.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">P</span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">urple tutu wearing mom who bites the head off of journalists who say things she doesn’t like.<span>  </span>Taken.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Dessert fanatic who plays in the park with her kids, works an insane amount of hours but loves her job?<span>   </span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><span></span><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Sadly not real enough for reality tv. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">Oh well.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><o></o></span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\">I’ll just stick to being <span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: \'Georgia\',\'serif\'\"><a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/100-things-about-me/\">me</a>.</span><o></o></span>','Reality Bites',0,'','publish','open','open','','reality-bites','','\nhttp://www.savvymommy.com/blog/100-things-about-me/','2008-05-27 21:24:55','2008-05-28 02:24:55','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/05/29/reality-bites/',0,'post','',0),(178,2,'2008-05-28 18:13:10','2008-05-28 23:13:10','','052808-2312-whenisascar1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','052808-2312-whenisascar1jpg','','','2008-05-28 18:13:10','2008-05-28 23:13:10','',179,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/052808-2312-whenisascar1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(179,2,'2008-05-28 18:13:11','2008-05-28 23:13:11','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">When it\'s a Rachael Ray scarf.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I don\'t talk politics just out of politeness.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Never ends up well.  I\'m not changing my views.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And usually the person excited to debate isn\'t going to either.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But have some common sense people.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You may hate Rachael Ray\'s Tasty Travels.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Curse because her 30 Minute Meals never take 30 minutes.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And yell every time you hear someone say YUM-O.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But how can you honestly think Rachael Ray or her stylist decided a\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">they\'d intentionally wear a keffiyeh in her latest Dunkin Donuts commercial?\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/052808-2312-whenisascar1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">White. Black. Paisley. And it covers her neck. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Seriously, the stylist was just looking to accessorize.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Next thing I know, I\'m going to be asked by producers to stop wearing \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">the color blue in my segments.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Will we ever stop the craziness… and is there hope of  Dunkin\' Donuts growing a pair!?\n</span></p>','When is a Scarf Not Just a Scarf',0,'','publish','open','open','','when-is-a-scarf-not-just-a-scarf','','','2008-05-28 18:13:11','2008-05-28 23:13:11','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/05/28/when-is-a-scarf-not-just-a-scarf/',0,'post','',0),(180,2,'2008-05-30 07:54:21','2008-05-30 12:54:21','','053008-1253-newyorkcran1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','053008-1253-newyorkcran1jpg','','','2008-05-30 07:54:21','2008-05-30 12:54:21','',182,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/053008-1253-newyorkcran1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(181,2,'2008-05-30 07:54:27','2008-05-30 12:54:27','','053008-1253-newyorkcran2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','053008-1253-newyorkcran2jpg','','','2008-05-30 07:54:27','2008-05-30 12:54:27','',182,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/053008-1253-newyorkcran2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(182,2,'2008-05-30 07:54:27','2008-05-30 12:54:27','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I knew it was going to happen. KNEW IT!!!!\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My biggest fear came true.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Another crane has fallen here in Manhattan.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This time a little too close to me\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/053008-1253-newyorkcran17.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>\n			</strong></span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/053008-1253-newyorkcran27.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>\n			</strong></span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/053008-1253-newyorkcran36.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>\n			</strong></span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/053008-1253-newyorkcran45.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>\n			</strong></span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/053008-1253-newyorkcran54.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>\n			</strong></span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Are they going to wait until another crane crash before the Department\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">of Buildings makes sure there are real regulations followed and inspections\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">for all of these buildings going up? Some of them going up so quickly.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I understand we need these places to go up but can we make sure people \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">throughout New York City don\'t have to fear construction and cranes.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Its not like we weren\'t nervous as it was when we had to walk by one of\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">these cranes after what happened in midtown! 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She wouldn\'t let him leave. How time flies.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060508-1712-comeandplay11.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060508-1712-comeandplay21.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060508-1712-comeandplay3.jpg\" alt=\"\"/></p>','Come and Play',0,'','publish','open','open','','come-and-play','','','2008-06-05 13:28:07','2008-06-05 18:28:07','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/06/05/come-and-play/',0,'post','',0),(218,2,'2008-06-05 13:28:01','2008-06-05 18:28:01','','060508-1712-comeandplay1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060508-1712-comeandplay1jpg-2','','','2008-06-05 13:28:01','2008-06-05 18:28:01','',217,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060508-1712-comeandplay11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(219,2,'2008-06-05 13:28:04','2008-06-05 18:28:04','','060508-1712-comeandplay2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060508-1712-comeandplay2jpg-2','','','2008-06-05 13:28:04','2008-06-05 18:28:04','',217,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060508-1712-comeandplay21.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(220,2,'2008-06-05 13:28:06','2008-06-05 18:28:06','','060508-1712-comeandplay3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060508-1712-comeandplay3jpg','','','2008-06-05 13:28:06','2008-06-05 18:28:06','',217,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060508-1712-comeandplay3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(221,2,'2008-06-08 10:19:56','2008-06-08 15:19:56','','060808-1519-sweetescape1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060808-1519-sweetescape1jpg','','','2008-06-08 10:19:56','2008-06-08 15:19:56','',222,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060808-1519-sweetescape1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(222,2,'2008-06-08 10:19:57','2008-06-08 15:19:57','<p>On Friday I was told I could pass for Puerto Rican.\n</p><p>Thanks.\n</p><p>I made the cut for something I already am.\n</p><p><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000HC2M3O/islandtravela-20\"><em>Yo Soy Boricua! Pa\' Que Tú Lo Sepas!</em></a><span style=\"color:black\"><em>\n			</em></span></p><p><span style=\"color:black\">Apparently I need to always talk like Rosie Perez to prevent confusion.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:black\">Today is the National Puerto Rican Day Parade here in New York.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:black\">But I\'m one Nuyorican who will not be there.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:black\">I\'m leaving Fifth Avenue to the <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">adventurous</span>\n			<span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">insane</span> everyone else.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:black\">I\'ll be in my kitchen making flan… \n</span></p><p><a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/about/the_a_list.html\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060808-1519-sweetescape16.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"color:black; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"color:black\">Here\'s the flan recipe I use. De nada. <span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span>\n		</span></p><p>1 1/2 cups sugar <br />2 tablespoons water <br />1/2 lemon, juiced <br />2 cups heavy cream <br />1 cinnamon stick <br />1 vanilla bean, split and scraped <br />3 large eggs <br />2 large egg yolks <br />Pinch salt \n</p><p>To make the caramel: have ready a 2-quart round flan mold and a large roasting pan.\n</p><p>Combine 1 cup of the sugar and 2 tablespoons of water in a heavy-bottomed pot or pan. \n</p><p>Place over medium-high heat and cook until the sugar begins to melt.\n</p><p>Swirl the pan over the heat until the syrup darkens to a medium amber color, about 10 minutes; \n</p><p>don\'t stir with a spoon. \n</p><p>Remove from the heat and immediately add the lemon juice, swirl the pan again to combine, \n</p><p>and then pour into the flan mold. \n</p><p>Tilt the dish so that the caramel evenly coats the bottom and a bit up the sides, \n</p><p>place in the roasting pan and set aside. \n</p><p>Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F, bring a kettle of water to a boil for the water bath and keep it hot. \n</p><p>Combine the cream, cinnamon, and vanilla in a small saucepan over medium-low flame. \n</p><p>Bring the cream to a brief simmer, stirring occasionally. \n</p><p>Take care not to let the cream come to a full boil to prevent it from spilling over. \n</p><p>In a large bowl, cream together the whole eggs and yolks with the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar; add a pinch of salt. \n</p><p>Whisk until the mixture is pale yellow and thick. \n</p><p>Temper the egg mixture by gradually whisking in the hot cream mixture; don\'t add it too quickly or the eggs will cook. \n</p><p>Pass the mixture through a strainer into a large measuring cup to ensure that the flan will be perfectly smooth. \n</p><p>Pour the custard into the caramel-coated mold. \n</p><p>To create the water bath: pour the hot (not boiling) water into the roasting pan to come halfway up the side of the mold; \n</p><p>be careful not get water into the custard. \n</p><p>Carefully transfer to the middle oven rack, and bake for 30 to 45 minutes, until the custard is barely set and just jiggles slightly. \n</p><p>Let the flan cool in the water bath, then refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. \n</p><p>When you are ready to serve, run a knife around the inside of the mold to loosen the flan. \n</p><p>Place a dessert plate on top of the flan and invert to pop it out.</p>','Sweet Escape',0,'','publish','open','open','','sweet-escape','','','2008-06-09 08:27:00','2008-06-09 13:27:00','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/06/08/sweet-escape/',0,'post','',0),(245,2,'2008-06-09 10:08:17','2008-06-09 15:08:17','','060908-1246-myinsurance1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060908-1246-myinsurance1jpg-2','','','2008-06-09 10:08:17','2008-06-09 15:08:17','',226,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance15.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(240,2,'2008-06-09 08:23:04','2008-06-09 13:23:04','','060808-1519-sweetescape1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060808-1519-sweetescape1jpg-2','','','2008-06-09 08:23:04','2008-06-09 13:23:04','',222,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060808-1519-sweetescape12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(223,2,'2008-06-09 07:47:49','2008-06-09 12:47:49','','060908-1246-myinsurance1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060908-1246-myinsurance1jpg','','','2008-06-09 07:47:49','2008-06-09 12:47:49','',226,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(224,2,'2008-06-09 07:47:52','2008-06-09 12:47:52','','060908-1246-myinsurance2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060908-1246-myinsurance2jpg','','','2008-06-09 07:47:52','2008-06-09 12:47:52','',226,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(225,2,'2008-06-09 07:47:53','2008-06-09 12:47:53','','060908-1246-myinsurance3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060908-1246-myinsurance3jpg','','','2008-06-09 07:47:53','2008-06-09 12:47:53','',226,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(226,2,'2008-06-09 07:47:53','2008-06-09 12:47:53','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">A New Jersey girl turned California transplant once told me -\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">\"Your children will be your insurance that you need to end up with someone wonderful.\"\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Who would have thought my advice dishing friend from <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">Joisey</span> Jersey could be smart!? (I kid. Sort of.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Meet my insurance. It\'s because of them I don\'t sweat the small stuff.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Natalie (age: almost 5)\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance17.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Luke (age: three)\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance27.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">Harrison (age: one)\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance37.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">You can learn more about their ever changing likes and dislikes as I do by reading their <a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/about/the_a_list.html\">A List</a>.</span></p>','My Insurance',0,'','publish','open','open','','my-insurance','','','2008-06-09 11:10:19','2008-06-09 16:10:19','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/06/09/my-insurance/',0,'post','',2),(227,2,'2008-06-09 07:54:16','2008-06-09 12:54:16','','060908-1246-myinsurance1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060908-1246-myinsurance1jpg-2','','','2008-06-09 07:54:16','2008-06-09 12:54:16','',226,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(228,2,'2008-06-09 07:54:18','2008-06-09 12:54:18','','060908-1246-myinsurance2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','060908-1246-myinsurance2jpg-2','','','2008-06-09 07:54:18','2008-06-09 12:54:18','',226,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/060908-1246-myinsurance21.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(229,2,'2008-06-09 07:54:20','2008-06-09 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Right in the front.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It was only a matter of time before she\'d lose a tooth.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And now, I\'ve got to decide how much she will be getting.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Just because I live in New York doesn\'t mean she\'s getting $20 a tooth.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Any ideas? \n</span></p><p>\n </p>','Tooth Fairy Going Rate  ',0,'','publish','open','open','','tooth-fairy-going-rate','','','2008-06-17 13:07:56','2008-06-17 18:07:56','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/06/17/tooth-fairy-going-rate/',0,'post','',1),(259,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:17','2008-06-24 14:15:17','','062408-1415-shedidit1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit1jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:17','2008-06-24 14:15:17','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(260,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:20','2008-06-24 14:15:20','','062408-1415-shedidit2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit2jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:20','2008-06-24 14:15:20','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(261,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:22','2008-06-24 14:15:22','','062408-1415-shedidit3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit3jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:22','2008-06-24 14:15:22','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(262,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:23','2008-06-24 14:15:23','','062408-1415-shedidit4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit4jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:23','2008-06-24 14:15:23','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit4.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(263,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:25','2008-06-24 14:15:25','','062408-1415-shedidit5.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit5jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:25','2008-06-24 14:15:25','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit5.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(264,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:27','2008-06-24 14:15:27','','062408-1415-shedidit6.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit6jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:27','2008-06-24 14:15:27','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit6.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(265,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:30','2008-06-24 14:15:30','','062408-1415-shedidit7.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit7jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:30','2008-06-24 14:15:30','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit7.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(266,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:32','2008-06-24 14:15:32','','062408-1415-shedidit8.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit8jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:32','2008-06-24 14:15:32','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit8.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(267,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:34','2008-06-24 14:15:34','','062408-1415-shedidit9.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit9jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:34','2008-06-24 14:15:34','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit9.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(268,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:36','2008-06-24 14:15:36','','062408-1415-shedidit10.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit10jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:36','2008-06-24 14:15:36','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit10.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(269,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:38','2008-06-24 14:15:38','','062408-1415-shedidit11.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit11jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:38','2008-06-24 14:15:38','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(270,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:40','2008-06-24 14:15:40','','062408-1415-shedidit12.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit12jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:40','2008-06-24 14:15:40','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(271,2,'2008-06-24 09:15:42','2008-06-24 14:15:42','','062408-1415-shedidit13.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit13jpg','','','2008-06-24 09:15:42','2008-06-24 14:15:42','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit13.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(272,2,'2008-06-16 11:15:43','2008-06-16 16:15:43','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Natalie is a preschool graduate.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit18.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Took that photo right in the middle of her singing <em>Jeremiah was a Bullfrog</em>… I mean,<em> Imagine</em>… \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Oh I can\'t remember… I couldn\'t hear the kids above all the parents sniffling…. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Just kidding… I have a quick clip of them singing, it was <em>I Can See Clearly Now</em>\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I should have taken a video of the dad in front of me picking out his wedgie and reading the paper!\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Unlike the other dads… who I nicknamed \"Papa Paparazzi\" \n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit25.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; 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Or a mirror. Gee I AM shiny)\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit55.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">One more photo with her assistant teachers… \n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit65.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And then one last visit to the Yellow Room to goof around with a classmate.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit75.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">She starts Kindergarten in the fall.  Yes I know she looks like she\'s turning seven in a few weeks.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit85.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Both grandmas.. Nana and Grandma Jenny accompanied her dad, Harrison and I to a celebratory breakfast.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">We walked over to the car in order to drive to the brunch spot across town. I love the flower bow in Nat\'s hair.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit95.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Both grandmas wanted to sit next to the graduate.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit105.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit115.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">After breakfast, we had to head over to the park near her old school for one last class playdate.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Took this super cute photo of Harrison going into the car.. aww Harrison.. one day it will be your big day.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit125.jpg\" alt=\"\"/></p>','She Did It',0,'','publish','open','open','','she-did-it','','','2008-06-24 09:57:29','2008-06-24 14:57:29','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/06/24/she-did-it/',0,'post','',0),(285,2,'2008-06-24 09:37:21','2008-06-24 14:37:21','','062408-1415-shedidit1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit1jpg-2','','','2008-06-24 09:37:21','2008-06-24 14:37:21','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit15.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(273,2,'2008-06-24 09:25:51','2008-06-24 14:25:51','','062408-1415-shedidit1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062408-1415-shedidit1jpg-2','','','2008-06-24 09:25:51','2008-06-24 14:25:51','',272,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062408-1415-shedidit14.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(274,2,'2008-06-24 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After all, it\'s not very easy to escape into their reality when the rest of America is concerned about paying close to $5 for a gallon of gas, over $20 per bag just to fly to Grandma\'s house and grocery prices rise daily. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Seriously, when 90% of families worry about putting dinner on the table – watching another set of affluent women who dabble in real estate and spend their hubby\'s money is just no longer interesting.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">On a lighter note, I was just beginning to get used to the idea that there would be an upcoming season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey that would most likely be in my TiVo line up since well, Jersey is next to New York and it\'s always fun to make fun of Jersey.  I mean, wait, no… I mean, it\'s always fun to watch how people in other homes live.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But ATL? Yawn. I guess I just may not be interested in Atlanta also. Same goes for The Real Housewives of Star Island, Vail, Maui, and wherever else that\'s currently in the pipeline.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Yea, I know. I\'m awful. Nothing against the <a href=\"http://www.bravotv.com/blog/thedish/2008/06/real_housewives_of_atl.php\">housewives of Atlanta</a>, I\'m sure they are peaches, but can you fault me? \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m guaranteed a great night of TV when crazy eyes and the low season travelers are on screen.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You know you feel the same way.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#003596; font-family:Trebuchet MS; font-size:10pt\">\n			<a href=\"http://www.bravotv.com/blog/thedish/2008/06/real_housewives_of_atl.php\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062608-2150-realhousewi16.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a>\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#003596; font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">(click photo to visit the Bravo TV website where you can read about the Real Housewives of Atlanta cast.)</span></p>','Real Housewives of ATL – Say it Aint So',0,'','publish','open','open','','real-housewives-of-atl-%e2%80%93-say-it-aint-so','','','2008-06-26 17:31:44','2008-06-26 22:31:44','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/06/26/real-housewives-of-atl-%e2%80%93-say-it-aint-so/',0,'post','',1),(334,2,'2008-06-26 16:58:00','2008-06-26 21:58:00','','062608-2150-realhousewi1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062608-2150-realhousewi1jpg','','','2008-06-26 16:58:00','2008-06-26 21:58:00','',333,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062608-2150-realhousewi1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(335,2,'2008-06-26 16:58:04','2008-06-26 21:58:04','','062608-2150-realhousewi1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062608-2150-realhousewi1jpg-2','','','2008-06-26 16:58:04','2008-06-26 21:58:04','',333,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062608-2150-realhousewi11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(336,2,'2008-06-26 16:58:25','2008-06-26 21:58:25','','062608-2150-realhousewi1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062608-2150-realhousewi1jpg-2','','','2008-06-26 16:58:25','2008-06-26 21:58:25','',333,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062608-2150-realhousewi12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(337,2,'2008-06-26 16:58:28','2008-06-26 21:58:28','','062608-2150-realhousewi1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062608-2150-realhousewi1jpg-2','','','2008-06-26 16:58:28','2008-06-26 21:58:28','',333,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062608-2150-realhousewi13.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(338,2,'2008-06-26 17:00:38','2008-06-26 22:00:38','','062608-2150-realhousewi1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062608-2150-realhousewi1jpg-2','','','2008-06-26 17:00:38','2008-06-26 22:00:38','',333,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062608-2150-realhousewi14.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(339,2,'2008-06-26 17:00:47','2008-06-26 22:00:47','','062608-2150-realhousewi1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062608-2150-realhousewi1jpg-2','','','2008-06-26 17:00:47','2008-06-26 22:00:47','',333,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062608-2150-realhousewi15.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(340,2,'2008-06-26 17:31:43','2008-06-26 22:31:43','','062608-2150-realhousewi1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','062608-2150-realhousewi1jpg-2','','','2008-06-26 17:31:43','2008-06-26 22:31:43','',333,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/062608-2150-realhousewi16.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(341,2,'2008-06-30 07:28:49','2008-06-30 12:28:49','','063008-1228-onthefirstd1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','063008-1228-onthefirstd1jpg','','','2008-06-30 07:28:49','2008-06-30 12:28:49','',342,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/063008-1228-onthefirstd1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(342,2,'2008-06-30 07:28:50','2008-06-30 12:28:50','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Just the other day, I was writing a <a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/05/27/\">mortgage check</a> to pay for day camp.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Today, Natalie was up at sunrise waiting to get ready for her first day of camp.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">She walked downstairs, waited for her bus and got on the bus to Long Island without a problem.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">No hesitation.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I was the one who almost cried. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Of course I snapped a photo while we waited for the bus to arrive. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The kid is growing up. \n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/063008-1228-onthefirstd12.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">In a few hours, it will be Luke\'s turn to leave mama and head off to camp. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But he will be local since he\'s only 3.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Harrison is the only one not going to day camp this summer.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m experiencing empty nest syndrome way too early people!\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyone else?</span></p>','On the First Day of Summer Camp',0,'','publish','open','open','','on-the-first-day-of-summer-camp','','','2008-06-30 07:36:54','2008-06-30 12:36:54','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/06/30/on-the-first-day-of-summer-camp/',0,'post','',2),(343,2,'2008-06-30 07:29:06','2008-06-30 12:29:06','','063008-1228-onthefirstd1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','063008-1228-onthefirstd1jpg-2','','','2008-06-30 07:29:06','2008-06-30 12:29:06','',342,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/063008-1228-onthefirstd11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(344,2,'2008-06-30 07:36:53','2008-06-30 12:36:53','','063008-1228-onthefirstd1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','063008-1228-onthefirstd1jpg-2','','','2008-06-30 07:36:53','2008-06-30 12:36:53','',342,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/063008-1228-onthefirstd12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(345,2,'2008-07-05 17:48:39','2008-07-05 22:48:39','','070508-2248-staycations1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','070508-2248-staycations1jpg','','','2008-07-05 17:48:39','2008-07-05 22:48:39','',346,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/070508-2248-staycations1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(346,2,'2008-07-05 17:48:39','2008-07-05 22:48:39','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">If everyone was opting to do a staycation because of the economy, the rising price of gas this summer or the additional fees associated with flying then why were the roads packed, the hotel rooms sold out and the attractions full of families, couples, seniors?\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sometimes buzz words like Staycations are just annoying and not really a huge trend – more like an excuse.  There I said it.  There\'s simply no need for a staycation when it was just a one tank trip for us to go away this weekend.   I even noticed some hotels offering gas cards if you drive to them or cash if you take the train to that destination. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The Fourth of July weekend getaway I finally decided on was an amazing idea. And when we left our apartment, Manhattan was pretty empty.   A few other Manhattan residents probably came up with a few amazing travel ideas of their own. That, or they went to the Hamptons or the Shore. I\'ve just outgrown both scenes so I checked a few kid friendly summer vacation spots and then got in the car and headed to New England.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">There\'s simply no need for a staycation when it was just a one tank trip for us to go away this weekend.  Not only have I become a lobster roll expert (could have never performed that scientific study in Manhattan!) but the kids have some memories that will have them asking to go back again soon.\n</span></p><p><a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/familytravel\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/070508-2248-staycations1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Before you decide to be lame and keep your kids home the entire summer because you would rather opt for a staycation than spend a tank of gas on a real summer vacation full of lasting memories, email me.  I\'ve done enough research and have gotten enough press releases to be able to share family friendly summer travel destinations with everyone.</span></p>','Staycations',0,'','publish','open','open','','staycations','','','2008-07-05 17:48:39','2008-07-05 22:48:39','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/07/05/staycations/',0,'post','',2),(347,2,'2008-07-10 09:28:26','2008-07-10 14:28:26','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">There are just too many things in the Savvy Mommy sample closet for me to wait a month before choosing a contest winner.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Samples are arriving daily and I need them to find homes faster than four weeks from now.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Starting next Wednesday, I\'m posting giveaways on this blog – No Minivan Just Moxie.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It will be Give It Away Wednesdays from now on.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Every Wednesday, come visit and see what\'s up for grabs.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Post a comment and you\'ll be entered to win.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And you\'ll also get my thanks. For helping make space in the closet.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I don\'t like falling over toys and whatnot. Oh, who does?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">See you on Wednesday </span><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\">J</span></span>','Give it Away Wednesdays',0,'','publish','open','open','','give-it-away-wednesdays','','','2008-07-26 23:12:07','2008-07-27 04:12:07','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/07/10/give-it-away-wednesdays/',0,'post','',0),(348,2,'2008-07-13 14:23:12','2008-07-13 19:23:12','','071308-1923-whohasaclea1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','071308-1923-whohasaclea1jpg','','','2008-07-13 14:23:12','2008-07-13 19:23:12','',349,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071308-1923-whohasaclea1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(349,2,'2008-07-13 14:23:13','2008-07-13 19:23:13','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Nat will be back in a bit from an overnight at my grandmother\'s house.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I spent the time she was away, playing with the boys and cleaning the apartment.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And now I may be in love with OxiClean. Seriously.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The PR firm for OxiClean sent me some for a segment I did this week. But I couldn\'t include it.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(Showed it last year at the same station and I don\'t feature the same products over and over.)\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So I opened the OxiClean tub at home and started cleaning up.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Now my whites are whiter. My bathroom is spotless, kitchen counters are sparkling.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m addicted. I feel like I live like a hotel.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Someone dialed housekeeping; OxiClean swooped in and did everything but leave me a mint on my pillow.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Unfortunately this \"mess free state\" will only last for a short time after Nat gets home.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">When she walks in the door, she will team up with her brothers to play their favorite game.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\"Take out all the toys we own and make sure they cover every inch of the floor\".\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It\'s every mom\'s favorite game to watch being played.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Well, at least all three of them will be home.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071308-1923-whohasaclea1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n <span style=\"font-size: small; color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman;\">(And in case you\'re wondering... 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I just had to share.)</span>','Who Has a Clean House',0,'','publish','open','open','','who-has-a-clean-house','','','2008-07-15 22:24:34','2008-07-16 03:24:34','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/07/13/who-has-a-clean-house/',0,'post','',0),(350,2,'2008-07-14 07:06:37','2008-07-14 12:06:37','','071408-1206-chugchugchu1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','071408-1206-chugchugchu1jpg','','','2008-07-14 07:06:37','2008-07-14 12:06:37','',351,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071408-1206-chugchugchu1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(351,2,'2008-07-14 07:06:38','2008-07-14 12:06:38','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">I interrupt your Monday morning routine which no doubt is probably as hectic as mine to report my kids just drank wheat grass juice.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Say what?!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">OK, it wasn\'t a shot of wheat grass juice cut straight from a grass sod on my window sill. But it was in the juice.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Which they drank.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">8 whole ounces.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">The geniuses at Sunkist Naturals are the fine individuals to thank for my kids drinking something other than apple juice or milk this morning.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">They drank something without a fight. Without the words \"I don\'t want..\" or \"I don\'t like\" coming out of their mouth.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">They enjoyed Glorious Greens which according to the bottle and the Sunkist Naturals website is a combo of apple, kiwi and 15 essential greens, including broccoli, cabbage, kale, wheat grass, flax seed and spirulina green (rich in heart healthy Omega 3!)\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">My kids are going to rock today at camp.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Thanks Sunkist!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Now if only I could drink something that would get the 308 things on today\'s to-do list done.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Sigh. It was worth a shot.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071408-1206-chugchugchu11.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\r\n(And in case you\'re wondering... I was not paid by anyone to talking about Sunkist in this post. I just had to share.)</span></p>','Chug Chug Chug',0,'','publish','open','open','','chug-chug-chug','','','2008-07-15 22:23:55','2008-07-16 03:23:55','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/07/14/chug-chug-chug/',0,'post','',0),(352,2,'2008-07-14 07:09:31','2008-07-14 12:09:31','','071408-1206-chugchugchu1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','071408-1206-chugchugchu1jpg-2','','','2008-07-14 07:09:31','2008-07-14 12:09:31','',351,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071408-1206-chugchugchu11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(353,2,'2008-05-26 15:39:15','2008-05-26 20:39:15','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It doesn\'t surprise me to hear the Sex and the City movie is getting bad reviews from critics.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">In the past, I\'ve chosen to see movies the critics didn\'t particularly favor.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So I\'ll eventually see the movie but I know what to expect.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">You can tell the SATC movie was going to be exactly how the critics found it.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">One long, mediocre SATC episode which should have aired on HBO.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And, they did that already .. it was called the series finale.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But just in the case of the finale, the movie will be a success.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Sex and the City was part of the pop culture and single women embraced it.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Hell, as disturbing as it may be, teenagers and my grandmother loved the show.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So when the movie is released this Friday, it will be a bonding ritual for many.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">To go and see how Carrie has been with Big, to see if Miranda is happy in Brooklyn.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But if you look at it was, it will be a good trip down Sex and the City lane.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Until of course, the Sex and the City sequel comes out.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">In the meantime, I\'ll just see the first Sex and the City movie and have some fun.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Georgia;\">Why?  Because it\'s still Sex and the City.</span>','Bad Sex vs Good Sex',0,'','publish','open','open','','bad-sex-vs-good-sex','','','2008-07-15 05:41:09','2008-07-15 10:41:09','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/07/15/bad-sex-vs-good-sex/',0,'post','',0),(354,2,'2008-06-27 13:55:06','2008-06-27 18:55:06','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Tonight at midnight - technically the very start of tomorrow – I will shut the door on yesterday and start anew.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">There will be a few changes in the coming weeks that will make me very happy.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And we all know when mommy is happy… so is everyone else.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Ha! OK, a girl can wish.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But tomorrow I welcome the start of a new year in my life.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Blowing out some major candles.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'ve decided that with the extra gray hair that will find its way onto my head, some changes would be made.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Hello, tomorrow.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Can\'t wait to see you!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So excited!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span> ','Shut the Door',0,'','publish','open','open','','shut-the-door','','','2008-07-15 05:55:44','2008-07-15 10:55:44','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/07/15/shut-the-door/',0,'post','',0),(357,2,'2008-07-16 10:41:16','2008-07-16 15:41:16','','071608-1541-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','071608-1541-giveitawayw1jpg','','','2008-07-16 10:41:16','2008-07-16 15:41:16','',358,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071608-1541-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(358,2,'2008-07-16 10:41:17','2008-07-16 15:41:17','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Spago isn\'t exactly next door.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And taking the kids out to one of the other 14 Wolfgang Puck restaurants can be a major undertaking.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">What\'s a gourmet pizza loving gal to do?<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Head over to the freezer section of Whole Foods, Shop Rite or Kroger of course.\r\n\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">70% of Americans do just that each year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Post a comment below about your funniest supermarket experience with your kids in tow and you could win 1 of 10 Wolfgang Puck All-Natural Pizzas!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071608-1541-giveitawayw11.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Yup, just think… telling the funny story that happened in aisle 5 could result in a free dinner…. Yea!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Give it Away Wednesday giveaway sponsor <a href=\"http://www.wolfgangpuckallnatural.com\">Wolfgang Puck</a> would like you to know that The Wolfgang Puck line of all-natural pizzas raises the bar on traditional frozen pizzas by offering restaurant-quality pizza varieties that will please even the most sophisticated palates. The five earth-friendly varieties have ingredients like whole sliced tomatoes, uncured pepperoni, fresh herbs and fontina cheese that make these pizzas heat up the freezer aisle. Choose from Four-Cheese, Uncured Pepperoni, Barbecue Chicken, Margherita and Cheese. In grocery stores nationwide: $5.99.\r\n</span>','Give it Away Wednesday = Win Wolfgang Puck All-Natural Pizza',0,'','publish','open','open','','give-it-away-wednesday-win-wolfgang-puck-all-natural-pizza','','','2008-07-26 23:10:56','2008-07-27 04:10:56','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/07/16/give-it-away-wednesday-%e2%80%93-win-wolfgang-puck-all-natural-pizza/',0,'post','',4),(359,2,'2008-07-16 10:42:33','2008-07-16 15:42:33','','071608-1541-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','071608-1541-giveitawayw1jpg-2','','','2008-07-16 10:42:33','2008-07-16 15:42:33','',358,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071608-1541-giveitawayw11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(360,2,'2008-07-16 11:22:38','2008-07-16 16:22:38','','071608-1622-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','071608-1622-giveitawayw1jpg','','','2008-07-16 11:22:38','2008-07-16 16:22:38','',361,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071608-1622-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(361,2,'2008-07-16 11:22:39','2008-07-16 16:22:39','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Doesn\'t matter what part of the country you are in, it is summer.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And one of the top summer treats for the entire family is ice cream!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Helping us celebrate National Ice Cream Month (and day – July 20<sup>th</sup>) is Laloo\'s artisan ice creams!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Laloo\'s goat milk ice creams and frozen yogurts are naturally low in lactose and have more calcium and vitamins than other premium brands.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">They are offering you the chance to win a gourmet ice cream party featuring Laloo\'s artisan ice creams with 15 deliciously creamy low-fat, low-cal flavors, so you can indulge all your ice cream cravings!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071608-1622-giveitawayw17.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Your ice cream party basket is filled with coupons to redeem for free Laloo\'s Spoonlickin\' All-Natural Flavors plus your very own Classic Ice Cream Scoop, and all the ice cream party supplies - spoons and cups and napkins and sprinkles!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Want to win? 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color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Three is a magic number. \r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m not talking about the number of strands of grey hair that are waiting to be uncovered because I have three kids. (There I said it!) \r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Today, Luke turns the big three. And I begin to realize my little boy isn\'t going to be little forever. (Woohoo in a decade and a half, he gets to have a say in the fine political mess we have in this country) \r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071708-1210-happybirthd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">I know the third birthday isn\'t as celebrated as the first but so much has changed since his first birthday.  (And I mean besides Luke no longer eating pasta.)  \r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Snapped a photo of him this morning when he first woke up.  (Yes, he still says \"No photos please.\") \r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071708-1210-happybirthd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Hope to post the birthday photo after I cram three days of work into about four hours. Yes folks, it\'s time to play \"See Victoria Work Fast\" – and from home! (This should be interesting.) \r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">After I put together all the product lists for the entire month of May, we pick up his sister from school and head to Brooklyn for a birthday party in the park for his friend who shares the same birthday. \r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071708-1210-happybirthd3.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Happy Birthday Luke.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">My little boy with cadet blue eyes, smiles for everyone he meets, a love for grilled cheese sandwiches and apple sauce and an unexplained contempt for meat.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/071708-1210-happybirthd4.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">I love you, love you, love you.\r\n</span>','Happy Birthday Luke',0,'','publish','open','open','','happy-birthday-luke-2','','','2008-07-17 07:11:26','2008-07-17 12:11:26','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/?p=373',0,'post','',0),(374,2,'2008-07-21 16:43:20','2008-07-21 21:43:20','','072108-2143-thebigfive1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','072108-2143-thebigfive1jpg','','','2008-07-21 16:43:20','2008-07-21 21:43:20','',379,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/072108-2143-thebigfive1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(375,2,'2008-07-21 16:43:22','2008-07-21 21:43:22','','072108-2143-thebigfive2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','072108-2143-thebigfive2jpg','','','2008-07-21 16:43:22','2008-07-21 21:43:22','',379,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/072108-2143-thebigfive2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(376,2,'2008-07-21 16:43:23','2008-07-21 21:43:23','','072108-2143-thebigfive3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','072108-2143-thebigfive3jpg','','','2008-07-21 16:43:23','2008-07-21 21:43:23','',379,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/072108-2143-thebigfive3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(377,2,'2008-07-21 16:43:25','2008-07-21 21:43:25','','072108-2143-thebigfive4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','072108-2143-thebigfive4jpg','','','2008-07-21 16:43:25','2008-07-21 21:43:25','',379,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/072108-2143-thebigfive4.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(378,2,'2008-07-21 16:43:26','2008-07-21 21:43:26','','072108-2143-thebigfive5.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','072108-2143-thebigfive5jpg','','','2008-07-21 16:43:26','2008-07-21 21:43:26','',379,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/072108-2143-thebigfive5.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(379,2,'2008-07-21 16:43:27','2008-07-21 21:43:27','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Natalie\'s birthday festivities have finally wound down today after starting the day before her actual birthday.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It was like Oprah\'s birthday weekend. Except Natalie turned five not fifty.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">This all started when I told Natalie she could play hookie from day camp on Friday.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Missing camp is not something she\'s interested in.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Which is a good thing. Believe me.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Promised her she\'d have afternoon tea with her good friend.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It was my plan to take her to see Miley Cyrus since she\'s been bitten by the Hannah Montana bug thanks to a classmate of hers.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But I didn\'t tell her. It was supposed to be a surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The day should have started with us at the Miley Cyrus GMA concert in Bryant Park but when I woke up early I saw <a href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=NwbZnJgnRDk\">this crowd</a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Common sense said… stay away.</span></span></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\"> \r\n\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So instead she woke up and watched it on the living room TV as she ate breakfast.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Not a birthday breakfast. Just a plain old ordinary breakfast.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Then I went to work. Had to. And then ran late.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So her dad brought her to her surprise lunch with both of her grandmothers and an uncle!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But he forgot to comb or brush her hair. Oh my!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">We sang Happy Birthday for the first time. 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But I\'m not complaining. I\'m excited.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So excited I just have to talk about it.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Just have to write it down. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Because if I do that, I can actually see that this vacation really is a possibility.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But I\'m nervous that it won\'t happen.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And then I\'ll have to wait until the end of next summer.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">To try and plan a vacation seven years in the making.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Imagine.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My first non work related trip in six years.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I am so very excited.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And really hoping that it happens.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My Big Fat mouth can\'t wait until Tuesday when I know for sure.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I had to talk about it now.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Nooooooooooow.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Before I knew I would definitely be traveling 11 hours by plane for just a few days.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">That\'s so me. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Did I mention I am excited?\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I know the kids will be too.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Yup. Taking three kids – five years and under, a few time zones away for a less than a week.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I can\'t hardly wait.</span></p>','I’m this close',0,'','publish','open','open','','i%e2%80%99m-this-close','','','2008-07-28 06:05:12','2008-07-28 11:05:12','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/07/27/i%e2%80%99m-this-close/',0,'post','',0),(407,2,'2008-08-01 02:51:57','2008-08-01 07:51:57','','080108-0751-pagingwedne1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080108-0751-pagingwedne1jpg','','','2008-08-01 02:51:57','2008-08-01 07:51:57','',410,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080108-0751-pagingwedne1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(408,2,'2008-08-01 02:51:59','2008-08-01 07:51:59','','080108-0751-pagingwedne2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080108-0751-pagingwedne2jpg','','','2008-08-01 02:51:59','2008-08-01 07:51:59','',410,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080108-0751-pagingwedne2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(409,2,'2008-08-01 02:52:02','2008-08-01 07:52:02','','080108-0751-pagingwedne3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080108-0751-pagingwedne3jpg','','','2008-08-01 02:52:02','2008-08-01 07:52:02','',410,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080108-0751-pagingwedne3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(410,2,'2008-07-31 23:52:03','2008-08-01 04:52:03','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">There\'s a summer camp Pow Wow in the suburbs waiting for you.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080108-0751-pagingwedne11.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">What two grown suburban Long Island men do in 91 degree weather.\r\n</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080108-0751-pagingwedne21.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The kids don\'t seem to mind.\r\n</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080108-0751-pagingwedne31.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Yeah, that\'s fire. 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Of course.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I ran out to get them on Monday morning feeling like the lame forgetful mother I was.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">8 peaches later I was at the checkout ready to deliver the goods.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But not before paying $14.40.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Nope, that wasn\'t for the fruit and the animal crackers. Just the peaches.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Lately I\'ve found myself now going to the grocery store, forking over $70 only to have one bag to show for it.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">There\'s no brie or foie gras in that bag either.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And everyone knows that filling up at the gas station is never a painless experience.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">My buddy Alan may have not declared this to be a recession but there\'s certainly something up.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So when <a href=\"http://motherhooduncensored.typepad.com/motherhood_uncensored/\">Kristen Chase</a> decided to declare August Blog the Recession month I had to participate.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://motherhooduncensored.typepad.com/motherhood_uncensored/2008/07/blog-the-recess.html\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080108-0903-blogtherece15.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" /></a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The plan is to click through everyone in your <a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/feed/\">feed reader</a> and help them out by increasing their page views.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">With inflation happening around us, not to mention the jobs being lost, every little bit helps.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And while you should be doing this from the kindness of your own heart, Kristen\'s gathered some great prizes for those participating.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Since sending wine across state lines is a bit tricky, my prize donation is a $50 gift card for wine (or wine glasses or a basket of Godiva chocolates if you prefer) from Wine.com.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Yup, I went right over to the website and bought a gift card that will help the winner booze it up in some way during this time that is \"not a recession\". 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Some things should be left alone even when the main focus is for families to \"Get that Look\"</span>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \">If they need an example of a commercial that gets it right, here’s one starring the former Doogie Howser, MD himself,  Neil Patrick Harris –</span></p>\r\n \r\n\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/TusJ8HSLaUs\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/TusJ8HSLaUs\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">It’s so successful, I almost forgot I didn’t have man parts and considered buying Old Spice. 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But still.</span></p>\r\n\r\n</span></span></p>','This is just so wrong',0,'','publish','open','open','','this-is-just-so-wrong','','','2008-08-02 09:31:59','2008-08-02 14:31:59','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/08/02/this-is-just-so-wrong/',0,'post','',2),(422,2,'2008-08-02 23:00:15','2008-08-03 04:00:15','','080308-0400-gisforgrand1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080308-0400-gisforgrand1jpg','','','2008-08-02 23:00:15','2008-08-03 04:00:15','',424,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(423,2,'2008-08-02 23:00:17','2008-08-03 04:00:17','','080308-0400-gisforgrand2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080308-0400-gisforgrand2jpg','','','2008-08-02 23:00:17','2008-08-03 04:00:17','',424,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(424,2,'2008-08-03 00:01:17','2008-08-03 05:01:17','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My grandmother is in the hospital.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I can say that now because everyone in my family has been notified.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I was a bit off the radar this week without notice.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I couldn\'t say why.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Love the Internet but hate to think someone in the family could hear news here first.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Everyone knows now.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This also explains why I haven\'t said whether or not I am able to take that vacation.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Still don\'t know. Don\'t want to book a flight until she\'s discharged.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">At first we thought she had a heart attack.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But after tests and tests, they aren\'t sure what happened.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">More tests are scheduled for the next few days.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went to see her and she was so upset she couldn\'t watch me at work on the hospital TV.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Seriously now, is that a concern we should be having?!\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My grandmother and I are really close.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">She calls me her third daughter. Or I thought we were close. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Watching her with little Miss Nat makes me think I\'ve been kicked to the curb.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Those two are like wine and cheese. LOL\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I didn\'t tell Natalie my grandmother is in the hospital.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I told her \"\'Mum\' isn\'t feeling well\" on Friday.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">After camp, we went to <a href=\"http://makemeaning.com/index.html\">MAKE</a> to create a \"Feel better\" gift for Mum.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A plate for her morning toast. Painted by moi.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand13.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And a cup for her morning cocoa.  Painted by Miss Nat.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand23.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">In bright, cheerful colors.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Just realized I should have made a bowl too. Forgot she eats breakfast cereal sometimes. Oh well.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, they\'ll be ready on Monday.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I\'ll bring them over to her the day she gets out the hospital.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Which hopefully will be soon. </span></p>','G is for Grandma',0,'','publish','open','open','','g-is-for-grandma','','','2008-08-03 05:48:05','2008-08-03 10:48:05','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/08/02/g-is-for-grandma/',0,'post','',1),(425,2,'2008-08-03 05:42:55','2008-08-03 10:42:55','','080308-0400-gisforgrand1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080308-0400-gisforgrand1jpg-2','','','2008-08-03 05:42:55','2008-08-03 10:42:55','',424,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(426,2,'2008-08-03 05:42:57','2008-08-03 10:42:57','','080308-0400-gisforgrand2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080308-0400-gisforgrand2jpg-2','','','2008-08-03 05:42:57','2008-08-03 10:42:57','',424,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand21.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(429,2,'2008-08-03 05:48:03','2008-08-03 10:48:03','','080308-0400-gisforgrand1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080308-0400-gisforgrand1jpg-2','','','2008-08-03 05:48:03','2008-08-03 10:48:03','',424,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand13.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(427,2,'2008-08-03 05:47:58','2008-08-03 10:47:58','','080308-0400-gisforgrand1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080308-0400-gisforgrand1jpg-2','','','2008-08-03 05:47:58','2008-08-03 10:47:58','',424,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(428,2,'2008-08-03 05:48:00','2008-08-03 10:48:00','','080308-0400-gisforgrand2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080308-0400-gisforgrand2jpg-2','','','2008-08-03 05:48:00','2008-08-03 10:48:00','',424,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand22.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(430,2,'2008-08-03 05:48:04','2008-08-03 10:48:04','','080308-0400-gisforgrand2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080308-0400-gisforgrand2jpg-2','','','2008-08-03 05:48:04','2008-08-03 10:48:04','',424,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080308-0400-gisforgrand23.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(431,2,'2008-08-04 16:43:45','2008-08-04 21:43:45','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">While Neil Kramer of <a href=\"http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/\">Citizen of the Month</a> -- who is supposed to be staying off the internet for seven days -- may not like being called <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude\">Dude</a> it\'s in my vocabulary.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And it\'s the perfect word to describe Luke in this photo.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080408-2143-dude1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">He sat patiently this afternoon as photos were taken of some of the Choux Factory products and then he had a little fun in front of the lens.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Duuuuuuude. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Right?</span></p>','Dude',0,'','publish','open','open','','dude','','','2008-08-04 16:45:32','2008-08-04 21:45:32','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/08/04/dude/',0,'post','',2),(432,2,'2008-08-04 16:45:31','2008-08-04 21:45:31','','080408-2143-dude1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080408-2143-dude1jpg','','','2008-08-04 16:45:31','2008-08-04 21:45:31','',431,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080408-2143-dude1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(433,2,'2008-08-04 16:45:35','2008-08-04 21:45:35','','080408-2143-dude1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080408-2143-dude1jpg-2','','','2008-08-04 16:45:35','2008-08-04 21:45:35','',18446744073709551615,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080408-2143-dude11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(434,2,'2008-08-08 20:27:53','2008-08-09 01:27:53','<p>Wow, what a day. \n</p><p>And I don\'t mean just mine.\n</p><p>The Olympics opening ceremony aired tonight, the same day couples around the world (including 17,000 chose to get married because of Chinese numerology.\n</p><p>This is the official <a href=\"http://en.beijing2008.cn/\">website</a> for the 2008 Olympics which runs from August 8 –August 24, 2008!\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080908-0127-olympics1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p>08/08/08 has been one busy day.</p>','Olympics ',0,'','publish','open','open','','olympics','','','2008-08-08 20:35:26','2008-08-09 01:35:26','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/08/08/olympics/',0,'post','',0),(435,2,'2008-08-08 20:35:25','2008-08-09 01:35:25','','080908-0127-olympics1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','080908-0127-olympics1jpg','','','2008-08-08 20:35:25','2008-08-09 01:35:25','',434,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/080908-0127-olympics1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(436,2,'2008-08-16 09:34:11','2008-08-16 14:34:11','<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.1pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">I\'ve noticed it\'s pretty hard for some people to digest the news when they hear their favorite celebrity (singer, rapper, author, actor, doesn\'t matter) is gay.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.1pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">They get all defensive and upset and angry like their house was just foreclosed on or something else important just happened to them personally. Reality must not actually play a part in their lives. In my book, there are bigger things to think about, to focus on for more than a minute, to talk about when I finally have the luxury of an adult conversation.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.1pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">At lunch the other day, a friend of mine caused me to spit out my Arnold Palmer because she outed a celebrity mid-conversation. One who I seriously had no thought could possibly be gay. Doesn\'t matter to me what he does in bed but now I think he is a REALLY good actor. And if he really is gay, I get why he hasn\'t come out. Maybe he will proclaim it on the cover of PEOPLE or say it like Ellen did in a show years from now but I know Hollywood... and I know people in general. They aren\'t exactly very nice. Once his image is changed... so would his career.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.1pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Anyway, I laughed at my unexpected reaction and told her about someone else in Hollywood. Using my trusted second hand knowledge of course.  I think she was particularly hurt. Like deceived. As if her brother in law was cheating on her sister with the girl at the coffee shop or something. And no I won\'t share who it was. Because I don\'t get all Perez Hilton on people.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">That exchange made me wonder. When we aren\'t friends with someone we only see on the big screen or between the covers of a supermarket weekly and we certainly can\'t relate to someone living in a $20 million dollar home with a vacation home with the same price tag in a warm climate, why doesn\'t it even matter? Why do we care? And why have so many people put celebrities into their hearts right next to their kids and real life friends?  </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"> </span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">And then I realized there are two people, I\'d think differently of when I listened to their music if they said they were gay.  I\'d be shocked they could do a persona so much of a stretch from their songs.  I swear if anyone ever has that kinda knowledge about either of the singers in the clips below, NEVER tell me. Ever.  I don\'t want to spoil my little fantasy :)  (See, I absolutely know I don\'t know either of them and what I\'ve built about them could be far from reality.)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 14.1pt;\"> </p>\r\n\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.1pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">I would be crushed  … I like them like a fat kid loves cake ;)</span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;\"> </span></p>\r\n \r\n\r\n</span></span>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 14.1pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"> </p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/t4dGfwa6FKA\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/t4dGfwa6FKA\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: \"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/O53yqG0KgmQ\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/O53yqG0KgmQ\"></embed></object><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O53yqG0KgmQ\"></a></span></p>','Put Your Ls in the Air',0,'','publish','open','open','','put-your-ls-in-the-air','','','2008-08-17 09:46:14','2008-08-17 14:46:14','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/08/16/put-your-ls-in-the-air/',0,'post','',0),(1040,2,'2009-02-21 13:57:19','2009-02-21 18:57:19','<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">In a world not so long ago, we had no other choice but to use cables with our desktops and even our laptops (gasp, so much for mobility!) in order to print anything our family requested.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Printing coloring sheets, fool proof recipes and the directions to the vacation destination required all kinds of catlike contortionist’s moves to get the cable into the right place. It was never a process without some sort of hassle, meltdown from a child waiting to color in Oswald or a teen waiting for their term paper to print.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Thankfully, <a href=\"http://www.blogher.com/node/67292?HP4\">HP</a> now offers the answer to our printer woes – the HP Wireless Photosmart C6380 All in One Printer. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"HP Wireless Photosmart C6380 All in One Printer\" src=\"http://hpshopping.speedera.net/www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/images/products/cd028a_300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"137\" /></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">That’s right, wireless, for people like me who have no business trying to attempt yoga positions in her home office in order to print out documents. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span>And its ability to also scan and print photos is a welcome added bonus since parents tend to be picture loving people. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">The HP Wireless Photosmart C6380 All in One Printer is easy to use, quickly printing documents and copies (up to 31 color a minute) and sure to be a household favorite, lets you use your digital camera memory card (again its wireless so no looking for the USB cables!) to print photos from your recent shutterbug escapades.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">So when you snap a photo of Junior playing Frisbee with the neighbor’s kid you can run inside, print it out and hand a 4x6 copy to his mother in as little as 18 seconds. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span>Better yet, when your mother comes over and sees beautiful photos of the grandkids and she immediately wants all of them, you can just hand those over knowing you\'ll have another set before she stops talking about how she thinks you should wear more green because it brings out your eyes.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Best of all, no longer needing wires means you no longer have room boundaries. Print wherever, whenever and even without a PC.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>It also holds printer and photo paper at the same time and switches on its own to the one needed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>Pretty nifty for everyone who tends to have a lot on their mind, to do list and can easily make the mistake of printing on the wrong paper.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">If its time for your family to get a new printer, consider the HP Wireless Photosmart c6380 – its sure to fit right in with your wireless lifestyle.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Thanks to <a href=\"http://www.blogher.com/node/67292?HP4\">Blogher</a> and <a href=\"http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/printer/Photosmart/1/storefronts/CD028A%2523ABA\">HP</a> for allowing my family to be a part of this wireless evolution so we too could Live Wirelessly, Print Wirelessly.</span></em></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">WANT TO WIN ONE?</span></strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\"> </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">To enter, leave a comment below telling me how you would use this printer. <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\">The contest begins at 12:00 a.m. (EST) on Saturday, February 14th, and ends Friday, February 20 at 11:59 p.m (EST).</span> Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct so you can be notified.  *** <strong>UPDATE</strong>:  The fine folks at BlogHer have requested the contest be extended so it can be a full week like their other HP contests. So you\'ll notice the contest end date has changed.  ***</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;\"> </p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">This giveaway is open to U.S. residents but duplicate comments are not allowed. Winners will be selected at random and will notified by e-mail. A new winner will be selected if winner doesn’t respond within 48 hours. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> </span>Want more chances to win? Go to the <a href=\"http://www.blogher.com/wireless-hp-photosmart-reviews-and-sweepstakes-8-ways-win\">BlogHer site</a> because there are eight total chances to win a<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> </span></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">HP Wireless Photosmart c6380.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;\"> </p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER  </strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congrats to #17 </span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-903 alignleft\" title=\"hp-photosmart-printer-contest-winner\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/hp-photosmart-printer-contest-winner-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"hp-photosmart-printer-contest-winner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></span></strong></span></p>','HP Wireless Photosmart C6380 All in One Printer',0,'','inherit','open','open','','873-revision-7','','','2009-02-21 13:57:19','2009-02-21 18:57:19','',873,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/02/21/873-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(439,2,'2008-08-16 18:10:15','2008-08-16 23:10:15','Natalie starts Kindergarten in a few weeks. I’m excited, she’s excited. But along with all of our giddy school girl excitement comes a bunch of paperwork. And a required visit to her rock star pediatrician.\r\n\r\nHe dropped the bombshell at her all important 5 year check up Miss Natalie succeeded at failing her vision test; he also recommended a follow up exam elsewhere. Lovely.\r\n\r\nWe went home, she celebrated with pizza and ice cream; I logged on to twitter (follow me at <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/veepveep\">@veepveep</a>) the fine news to everyone with good eyes. Minutes later I saw a Blogher ad announcing their event with LensCrafters where attendees would get an eye exam and pair of glasses for nada. And a child’s eye exam for double nada.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Kismet.</span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Fate.</span> Mommy’s credit card breathing a sigh of relief.\r\n\r\nEmailed Superstar Jenny and I was added to the guest list. Yea!\r\n\r\nThe evening of the event there was a torrential downpour – aka The Day Mother Nature Used My Blue Dress To Dry Her Eyes, Soak Up Her Snot and a few other things to cause you to ball your eyes out (namely you step into a puddle while wearing Louboutin ballet slippers.)\r\n\r\nBut still I persevered. There were promised libations in glasses and mingling to be done. And prescription glasses!!\r\n\r\nUpon arrival I was greeted and offered food and drink while I took a look around the store. I took pictures of the store and of the official event photographer – Hey, I have eyes remember?! (Il est tres beau, oui? Oui!)\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters011.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\nGlasses, glasses, everywhere, glasses near and far.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters02.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\nHundreds of glasses … some funky, some plain… definitely enough to choose from no matter your personality.\r\n\r\nA few minutes later I was brought over to a LensCrafters fashion style expert named Natasha. She works at their 20th Street and Fifth Avenue location (don’t mind my shiny face) –\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters03.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\nNatasha toured me around the LensCrafters store and patiently (ok, really patiently) listened to my quirky reasons why I wouldn’t consider each designer frame after designer frame she suggested.  Natasha understood my weird reasoning and then inspired confidence in me to go against my usual comfort zone of silver frames. I decided to try something new. We managed to find six pairs.. even one that made me look like a sexy librarian.. but I put that one back .. until I get a job anchoring FOX NEWS.\r\n\r\nMy six pairs of frames then became three… And then it was time to play “mirror mirror on the wall, which pairs the fairest of them all?â€\r\n\r\nLook #1 is from Chanel .. also known as the first pair I was given to try and at first I told Natasha “no wayâ€…\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-444 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters04\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"273\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd then two others… one by Dolce &amp; Gabanna\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-445 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters05\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"273\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd one from Bulgari\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-446 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters06\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"264\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd those fine readers are the winning pair… which I would have never chosen in a million years if it weren’t for Natasha gently pressing me to get a pair that weren’t my usual boring plain silver frames.\r\n\r\nAfter finding my frames, it was time for a presentation on eye health by Dr. Eliot Grossman, the VP of Eye Care for LensCrafters who explained the importance of annual comprehensive eye exams for every member of the family. He impressed upon us the fact that basic screenings don’t show the possible health issues that can be seen during these eye exams.\r\n\r\nDr. Shirlie Dowd -- who is at the 55th and Second location where Miss Natalie will be getting her eye exam – talked next about eye disease not being limited to problems with your sight and how she tries to educate people who haven’t had an eye exam in years about the need for pro-active care. She even told us a story about one of the Optometrists present at the event finding an undiagnosed brain tumor during an eye exam. Yea. Wow.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters07\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd the lovely Gina Garrubo of BlogHer was happy we were able to attend and receive valuable information on eye health for our families. I think she realized we genuinely appreciated the informative presentation.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-448 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters08\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"259\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAfter the presentations, out came my contacts and I took a test for glaucoma and then used the Optimap machine which shows detailed images of our eyes from behind the cornea.\r\n\r\nDuring my eye exam Dr. Hilmer asked about my family’s health, figured out my prescription and also saw my scar from the corneal abrasion I got when was a teenager. Yes, the scar is still there.  But according to Dr. Hilmer, the 4mm scar will never get bigger so that’s good news considering I’ve been told if it was 1mm to the left I would have lost my eyesight.\r\n\r\nAfter my comprehensive eye exam but before I braved the rain to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">drink sangria with another blogger</span> go home, I received a gift bag with a cute eyeglass case, lens cleaner and a gift certificate for a kid’s eye exam.  My glasses would arrive in a week.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-449 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters09\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"249\" /></p>\r\n\r\nIf my pictures look awful, blame the rain. Shortly after leaving the event, my HP Photosmart R827 was dropped, rained on and pretty much damaged. 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Some were great. Others … not so much.\n</span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">If you watched the Disney original movie Camp Rock featuring the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato you already know that Mitchie wants to rock but can\'t go to exclusive Camp Rock because her mom doesn\'t have the cash.  Luckily, her mom gets a job at Camp Rock as the cook and Mitchie goes as her apprentice who gets to take part in camp activities.  \n</span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Haven\'t seen it? It\'s a cute movie I watched the first time it aired on ABC. And I feel it\'s definitely something worth telling a camp memory about for a free copy. \n</span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What\'s that? \n</span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Post a comment below including a summer camp memory of your own and you could win 1 of 2 Camp Rock DVDs with the Jonas Brothers. </span><span style=\"font-size:9pt\">\n			</span></span></p><p style=\"text-align: center; background: white\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082008-2343-giveitawayw11.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia; font-size:9pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Sleepaway camp… day camp… doesn\'t matter… tell your story and your kid may receive a free copy of Camp Rock!</span><span style=\"font-size:9pt\">\n			</span></span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia\"><span style=\"font-size:8pt\">Give it Away Wednesday giveaway sponsor Disney. </span><span style=\"font-size:9pt\">\n			</span></span></p>','Give it Away Wednesday = Win a Camp Rock DVD',0,'','publish','open','open','','give-it-away-wednesday-win-a-camp-rock-dvd','','','2008-08-20 18:45:00','2008-08-20 23:45:00','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/08/20/give-it-away-wednesday-win-a-camp-rock-dvd/',0,'post','',0),(452,2,'2008-08-20 18:45:00','2008-08-20 23:45:00','','082008-2343-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082008-2343-giveitawayw1jpg-2','','','2008-08-20 18:45:00','2008-08-20 23:45:00','',451,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082008-2343-giveitawayw11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(453,2,'2008-08-20 18:53:32','2008-08-20 23:53:32','','082008-2353-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082008-2353-giveitawayw1jpg','','','2008-08-20 18:53:32','2008-08-20 23:53:32','',454,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082008-2353-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(454,2,'2008-08-20 18:53:33','2008-08-20 23:53:33','<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I caught myself singing along to one of the Miley Cyrus\' songs playing on the car radio last week.\n</span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Thankfully my daughter was in the car so it wasn\'t just me singing along to See You Again.<br /><br />That ever happen to you?  Come on, you can admit it.  \n</span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Post a comment below talking about a time you sang along to one of your kids songs (whether or not your child was present for your performance) and you could win 1 of 2 Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus Best of Both Worlds DVD featuring Jonas Brothers.</span><span style=\"font-size:9pt\">\n			</span></span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082008-2353-giveitawayw11.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center; background: white\">\n </p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">This giveaway just might bring back memories of that time you sang into your hairbrush in front of the mirror.</span><span style=\"font-size:9pt\">\n			</span></span></p><p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Georgia\"><span style=\"font-size:8pt\">Give it Away Wednesday giveaway sponsor Disney. </span><span style=\"font-size:9pt\">\n			</span></span></p><p>\n </p>','Give it Away Wednesday = Win a Hannah Montana Best of Both Worlds DVD',0,'','publish','open','open','','give-it-away-wednesday-win-a-hannah-montana-best-of-both-worlds-dvd','','','2008-08-20 18:54:02','2008-08-20 23:54:02','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/08/20/give-it-away-wednesday-win-a-hannah-montana-best-of-both-worlds-dvd/',0,'post','',2),(455,2,'2008-08-20 18:54:01','2008-08-20 23:54:01','','082008-2353-giveitawayw1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082008-2353-giveitawayw1jpg-2','','','2008-08-20 18:54:01','2008-08-20 23:54:01','',454,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082008-2353-giveitawayw11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(456,2,'2008-08-22 08:20:10','2008-08-22 13:20:10','','082208-1319-summercampd1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082208-1319-summercampd1jpg','','','2008-08-22 08:20:10','2008-08-22 13:20:10','',457,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082208-1319-summercampd1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(457,2,'2008-08-22 08:20:11','2008-08-22 13:20:11','<p>On the last day of summer camp Miss Nat said to me –\n</p><p>\"Don\'t worry mama, next year I\'ll go back and do more activities.\"\n</p><p><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082208-1319-summercampd1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p>Here I was thinking this morning before her bus came to pick her up that she\'d be sad.\n</p><p>But she was fine.  \n</p><p>While eating toast this morning, she also told me she had so much fun yesterday.\n</p><p>I really think sending her to camp for eight weeks summer was a smart decision. \n</p><p>I was a bit concerned in the beginning but she really had a great time. \n</p><p>Yea!</p>','Summer Camp. 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And I mean really long even for a Shake Shack line.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But I was on a mission for a \'Shroom burger (which became a \'shroom burger, fries and Arnold Palmer because of the wait.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Kids were happy playing in the dust as we waited on the line.  \n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb11.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Then the girls shared a bikini and ran through the sprinklers.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb21.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">After spotting a bubble machine vendor in Madison Square Park everyone wanted bubbles. The vendor sold out fast.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb31.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb42.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Pretty amazing bubbles to go with a pretty amazing Saturday afternoon.</span></p>','Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere',0,'','publish','open','open','','bubbles-bubbles-everywhere','','','2008-08-25 08:49:51','2008-08-25 13:49:51','',0,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/2008/08/25/bubbles-bubbles-everywhere/',0,'post','',3),(460,2,'2008-08-25 08:41:50','2008-08-25 13:41:50','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb1jpg','','','2008-08-25 08:41:50','2008-08-25 13:41:50','',459,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(461,2,'2008-08-25 08:41:54','2008-08-25 13:41:54','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb2jpg','','','2008-08-25 08:41:54','2008-08-25 13:41:54','',459,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(462,2,'2008-08-25 08:41:57','2008-08-25 13:41:57','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb3jpg','','','2008-08-25 08:41:57','2008-08-25 13:41:57','',459,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(463,2,'2008-08-25 08:49:32','2008-08-25 13:49:32','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb4jpg-2','','','2008-08-25 08:49:32','2008-08-25 13:49:32','',459,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb41.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(464,2,'2008-08-25 08:49:42','2008-08-25 13:49:42','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb1jpg-2','','','2008-08-25 08:49:42','2008-08-25 13:49:42','',459,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(465,2,'2008-08-25 08:49:45','2008-08-25 13:49:45','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb2jpg-2','','','2008-08-25 08:49:45','2008-08-25 13:49:45','',459,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb21.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(466,2,'2008-08-25 08:49:47','2008-08-25 13:49:47','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb3jpg-2','','','2008-08-25 08:49:47','2008-08-25 13:49:47','',459,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb31.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(467,2,'2008-08-25 08:49:50','2008-08-25 13:49:50','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','082508-1323-bubblesbubb4jpg-2','','','2008-08-25 08:49:50','2008-08-25 13:49:50','',459,'http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/082508-1323-bubblesbubb42.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(468,2,'2008-09-01 07:11:23','2008-09-01 12:11:23','<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Instead of writing a blog post I smile at every time I read, I’ve been posting less. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">And using Twitter (@nominivan) more.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">My daily life has been reduced to 140 characters glimpses in the form of tweets.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">I could have written the requisite blog post about Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals or a Baby Mama movie review.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">But instead I twittered.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">I’ve been Twittering about everything – giving everyone my two cents. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Cheering them on when they need it most. Laughing when they talk about hanging out with Jamie Foxx. Giving support when people are jerks. Sharing concern for those evacuating because of Gustav.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">And sometimes just twittering when I have a random Jason Mraz song stuck in my head.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Or my thoughts on whether Sarah Palin really had a baby or if Trig is really her grandson. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Or the fact I am giving away so many of my personal belongings in order to get a new start this school year.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Or the hilarious that ensued while walking 11 blocks to my Mother\'s birthday dinner yesterday.  (3 kids, 1 ginormous purse and a birthday gift in a big box... you can figure out the rest.)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">And that’s when I’m not spending time participating in the Sarah Palin Little Known Facts meme.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">I have a feeling I’m not alone.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">So if you miss the stories and photos of my sons and daughter, blame Twitter.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \">Or follow me so you can hear about the time I waited until the very last minute to pack up and go away for Labor Day weekend so the weekend became Labor Day day and pretty much only Labor Day afternoon since I\'ve spent most of the weekend cleaning the apartment and laughing at what was listed on my Summer to-do list.  But you probably already knew that -- you follow me on Twitter. ;)</span></p>','Blame Twitter',0,'','publish','open','open','','blame-twitter','','','2008-09-01 07:32:09','2008-09-01 12:32:09','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/?p=468',0,'post','',0),(469,2,'2008-09-02 20:05:04','2008-09-03 01:05:04','','090308-0104-schoolsback1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','090308-0104-schoolsback1jpg','','','2008-09-02 20:05:04','2008-09-03 01:05:04','',471,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/090308-0104-schoolsback1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(470,2,'2008-09-02 20:05:06','2008-09-03 01:05:06','','090308-0104-schoolsback2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','090308-0104-schoolsback2jpg','','','2008-09-02 20:05:06','2008-09-03 01:05:06','',471,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/090308-0104-schoolsback2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(471,2,'2008-09-02 20:05:07','2008-09-03 01:05:07','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The new super spectacular shoes bought for her first day of Kindergarten may have been a tad too big.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But a quick wardrobe change to a pair of shoes she wore last school year did the trick.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And then we were off… to sit in traffic… for minutes… minutes past the time we were to be there.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But no worries… because the gates were still closed 10 minutes after we arrived. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Parents crowded around. Waiting.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Taking photos.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/090308-0104-schoolsback11.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Then walking.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Walked into the cafeteria and she lost her voice.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Shy.  Yes, Natalie.  Didn\'t even say her name.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Shy when she went into her classroom and had to choose a table to sit at and color.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I left her to get to know everyone before I had to be asked to leave.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like the parent who came with a professional photographer. Or the videographer.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Didn\'t forget my boys also had a good first day. New shoes. Trip to the park. What else could they want?\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">School\'s officially back in session for everyone. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I see a lot of organizing in my future because my schedule has gotten pretty busy.  And that\'s before the play date requests come in.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/090308-0104-schoolsback21.jpg\" alt=\"\"/></p>','School’s Back No more Summer',0,'','publish','open','open','','school%e2%80%99s-back-no-more-summer','','','2008-09-02 20:05:41','2008-09-03 01:05:41','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/09/02/school%e2%80%99s-back-no-more-summer/',0,'post','',1),(472,2,'2008-09-02 20:05:39','2008-09-03 01:05:39','','090308-0104-schoolsback1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','090308-0104-schoolsback1jpg-2','','','2008-09-02 20:05:39','2008-09-03 01:05:39','',471,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/090308-0104-schoolsback11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(473,2,'2008-09-02 20:05:41','2008-09-03 01:05:41','','090308-0104-schoolsback2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','090308-0104-schoolsback2jpg-2','','','2008-09-02 20:05:41','2008-09-03 01:05:41','',471,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/090308-0104-schoolsback21.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(474,2,'2008-09-07 22:19:05','2008-09-08 03:19:05','<ol><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The names Kennedy, Duff and Adam Curry are in your memory.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You ask \"Kim who? Tim who? Jim who?\" throughout the VMA Opening Act.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Thoughts of Britney having a comeback are your main concern.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Demi Moore walked on stage. And you knew it was Demi Moore who walked on stage.\n</span></li><li><div><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You start mocking the commercials – Look MTV is doing \"COPS\" 20 years later!\n</span></div><p>\n </p></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The highlight of your night is hoping Lil Wayne trips down the stairs while he acts a fool.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Even Obama shout outs and Sarah Pallin jabs are getting on your nerves.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">LL Cool J talking about lingerie is a high point of the long winded show.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Slash shows up and you ask \"Where\'s Axl? Are they getting back together yet?\"\n</span></li><li><div><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Hearing Miley Cyrus would be singing a Bon Jovi classic garnered a grown.\n</span></div><p>\n </p></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You keep asking who Russell Brand is because you didn\'t see Forgetting Sarah Marshall.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You remember Sweet Home Alabama being performed live years ago and it wasn\'t with Kid Rock or Lil Wayne.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Back in the day when Eddie Murphy hosted, his schtick didn\'t make you wanna fall asleep.\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The much hyped Kanye West show close out was worth waiting around for like waiting for old stale nachos.\n</span></li></ol><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You promptly changed the channel the minute the Entourage season premiere starts.</span></p>','How You Know You Are Too Old to Watch Another MTV VMAs Show',0,'','publish','open','open','','how-you-know-you-are-too-old-to-watch-another-mtv-vmas-show','','','2008-09-07 22:19:05','2008-09-08 03:19:05','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/09/07/how-you-know-you-are-too-old-to-watch-another-mtv-vmas-show/',0,'post','',5),(475,2,'2008-10-01 20:51:24','2008-10-02 01:51:24','','100208-0151-thetruthabo1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','100208-0151-thetruthabo1jpg','','','2008-10-01 20:51:24','2008-10-02 01:51:24','',476,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/100208-0151-thetruthabo1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(476,2,'2008-10-01 20:51:27','2008-10-02 01:51:27','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure I went apple picking as a child. Every city dweller has made that trek at least once with their parents if not on a class trip.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I had the best laid plans when I decided to take my children apple picking in Upstate New York yesterday. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">DREAM:  We\'d be in the car a little after eight, at Maskers Orchard by ten at the absolute latest feasting on apples.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">REALITY: Leaving the city an hour and a half behind schedule wasn\'t really a problem. Hey, it happens.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">DREAM:  The weather would be perfect. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">REALITY: There was mud everywhere. Luke loved it. His little toy truck had plenty of fun areas to roll through.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">DREAM: My kids would be in layers – pants and comfortable sneakers.<br /><br />REALITY: Their kids were appropriately dressed.  Their mother on the other hand wore jeans bought in the year 2000. (The shade of blue was pretty horrifying.)<br /><br />DREAM: Natalie would say she was \"so excited to go apple picking\" about a thousand times while Luke would be busy listing who to bring apples to afterwards.<br /><br />REALITY: Natalie would say she was \"so excited to go apple picking\" about a thousand times while Luke would be busy listing who to bring apples to afterwards.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">DREAM:  A nice scenic drive through the <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">sticks</span>\n			<span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">country</span> upstate wooded area would be appreciated for what it was – a change of scenery.<br /><br />REALITY:  Signs posted on gun shops windows declaring \"Sportsmen for McCain/Palin\" would be viewed for a good six miles.<br /><br />DREAM:  I\'d take photos of our adventures in the apple orchard and show family, friends, post some to my blog.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">REALITY:  92% of the photos taken with my digital camera wouldn\'t come out. At all. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">DREAM:  We\'d pick \"only two bags of apples\" and since there would be too many for just us – give them to everyone we knew.<br /><br />REALITY:  We\'d be lucky to fill a bag completely full of apples after realizing one in twenty apples would not be pecked by birds.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">DREAM:  After picking apples for a bit, we\'d stop and have a picnic among the Macintosh apples.<br /><br />REALITY:  Our stomachs would order us to stop picking apples, get out of the orchard and go eat in civilization.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">DREAM:  A stop at the Country Store before leaving Maskers would garner apple goodies for us to take back with us.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">REALITY: I\'d look like a damn yuppie from Baby Boom buying up all of Diane Keaton\'s apple sauce like we have none back in Manhattan.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">DREAM:  We\'d have fun together outside the city.<br /><br />REALITY:  We\'d have fun together outside the city.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/100208-0151-thetruthabo1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Photo taken sitting in the mud in the Red Delicious apple section at Maskers Orchard in Warwick New York – September 30, 2008</span></p>','The Truth About Going Apple Picking',0,'','publish','open','open','','the-truth-about-going-apple-picking','','','2008-10-01 20:51:27','2008-10-02 01:51:27','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/10/01/the-truth-about-going-apple-picking/',0,'post','',2),(477,2,'2008-10-06 09:20:30','2008-10-06 14:20:30','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">For every story you hear about mom bloggers that sounds like it was ripped from a page of some catty high school drama, there are countless times where mommy bloggers help one another.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And I don\'t mean only in that incredible, amazing sign of support we all saw for <a href=\"http://web.me.com/andrewtbagley/NieRecovery/Home.html\">Stephanie Nielson</a> after her horrific plane crash but even in little ways that would mean so much to other moms.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Like me. When I was on a search for kids of all ages to show up for no pay and give up part of their Saturday morning so I could look glorious, the following ladies – all mom bloggers – came to my rescue without so much as a second thought -\r\n</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Liz of <a href=\"http://www.coolmompicks.com\">Cool Mom Picks\r\n</a></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Danielle of <a href=\"http://www.celebrity-babies.com\">Celebrity Baby Blog</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Vera of <a href=\"http://www.imnotobsessed.com\">I\'m Not Obsessed</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Beth of <a href=\"http://www.rolemommy.com\">Role Mommy</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Angi of <a href=\"http://www.mommymastermind.com\">Mommy Mastermind</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Jenn of <a href=\"http://www.mommasaid.net\">Momma Said</a>\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Whitney of <a href=\"http://www.mommieswithstyle.com\">Mommies With Style</a></span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And so I thank them. Visit their blogs. Add them to Twitter. Support their sponsors.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Because if they didn\'t support me, it would have just been Erica Hill and I chatting with no one to walk down the runway.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/100608-1420-allinthisto1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>','All in This Together',0,'','publish','open','open','','all-in-this-together','','','2008-10-06 15:49:30','2008-10-06 20:49:30','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/10/06/all-in-this-together/',0,'post','',3),(478,2,'2008-10-06 09:23:02','2008-10-06 14:23:02','','100608-1420-allinthisto1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','100608-1420-allinthisto1jpg','','','2008-10-06 09:23:02','2008-10-06 14:23:02','',477,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/100608-1420-allinthisto1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(479,2,'2008-10-10 08:37:33','2008-10-10 13:37:33','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">If you ever wondered out loud what\'s coming on television because you are too lazy to get the remote to see what you\'ve set to tape on your DVR (and what TiVo has decided to tape for you) – make sure your children aren\'t in earshot.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Because if they are it will go something like this –\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">N: Mama, Wizards of Waverly Place comes on on the weekends.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">L: I Spy comes on Saturdays.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">N: New Hannah Montana comes on on Sunday nights at Eight. Past my bedtime.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">L: Mama, can I watch Chicken Little?\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">N: No, no that\'s on later.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">L: Can I watch Noggin… pleeeeeease (complete with pouty face that always wins me over.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">N: I don\'t want to watch Noggin!\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">N: Mama, when are you going to be on Noggin.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">L: I want Sportacus.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">N: It\'s called LazyTown.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">L: Mama, can I watch LazyTown, plllllllllllease.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Mama:  Blue\'s Clues it is.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You would think the TV was on 24/7 on the TV Guide channel in my house the way they knew when their shows (or shows they know exist) come on. \n</span></p>','Check Your Local Listings',0,'','publish','open','open','','check-your-local-listings','','','2008-10-10 08:41:12','2008-10-10 13:41:12','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/10/10/check-your-local-listings/',0,'post','',0),(480,2,'2008-10-19 16:06:59','2008-10-19 21:06:59','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Last year around this time I woke up.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">No really I woke up from a very stale way of thinking.<br /><br />There was so much going on and I was filling my days with things I realize now didn\'t matter.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I actually woke up one morning thinking I needed a change.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I needed to shake things up.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I was tired of my life as it was – the life I was supposed to live.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I got up and decided to take the road less traveled. Once again.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Yes, I had done that before but this time with three children it would be different.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I moved.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Not to Malibu.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Cross town. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Which can be like moving to Malibu from Kansas.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">All my life the Upper West Side was my stomping ground.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Even the years I was away for school or was stuck in suburbia.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Last December, I became an Upper East Side mom on paper but not in thinking.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Since I couldn\'t find the perfect apartment (no one moves in December!!!) I decided to rent for the year.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I received my lease renewal a few weeks ago. And I renewed it for another year.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I can spend the next few months looking for the perfect place for us.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I woke up last year and decided to take my time to enjoy life. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The way I want. The way that brings my children amazing memories.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It was a great decision for me to make.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Over the last few months, I\'ve been working on a new project. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">One that only feels right doing this time in my life.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And soon I\'ll be able to share it.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Here\'s to waking up to your dream. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Wake Up Wake Up',0,'','publish','open','open','','wake-up-wake-up','','','2008-10-19 16:06:59','2008-10-19 21:06:59','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/10/19/wake-up-wake-up/',0,'post','',2),(481,2,'2008-10-26 11:26:53','2008-10-26 16:26:53','','102608-1626-themanyface1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','102608-1626-themanyface1jpg','','','2008-10-26 11:26:53','2008-10-26 16:26:53','',488,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(482,2,'2008-10-26 11:26:55','2008-10-26 16:26:55','','102608-1626-themanyface2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','102608-1626-themanyface2jpg','','','2008-10-26 11:26:55','2008-10-26 16:26:55','',488,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(483,2,'2008-10-26 11:26:56','2008-10-26 16:26:56','','102608-1626-themanyface3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','102608-1626-themanyface3jpg','','','2008-10-26 11:26:56','2008-10-26 16:26:56','',488,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(484,2,'2008-10-26 11:26:57','2008-10-26 16:26:57','','102608-1626-themanyface4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','102608-1626-themanyface4jpg','','','2008-10-26 11:26:57','2008-10-26 16:26:57','',488,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface4.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(485,2,'2008-10-26 11:26:58','2008-10-26 16:26:58','','102608-1626-themanyface5.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','102608-1626-themanyface5jpg','','','2008-10-26 11:26:58','2008-10-26 16:26:58','',488,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface5.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(486,2,'2008-10-26 11:27:00','2008-10-26 16:27:00','','102608-1626-themanyface6.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','102608-1626-themanyface6jpg','','','2008-10-26 11:27:00','2008-10-26 16:27:00','',488,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface6.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(487,2,'2008-10-26 11:27:01','2008-10-26 16:27:01','','102608-1626-themanyface7.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','102608-1626-themanyface7jpg','','','2008-10-26 11:27:01','2008-10-26 16:27:01','',488,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface7.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(488,2,'2008-10-26 11:27:02','2008-10-26 16:27:02','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">If there\'s something to say, there\'s a face for it with my son. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Over time you learn his many faces.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But usually you don\'t see them all in a two minute period.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\"Why won\'t the big kids let the little kids play on the jungle gym?!\"\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface2.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\"And that little boy won\'t share his monster truck.\"\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface3.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\"I\'m confused. Why does that little girl have spray paint on her hair?\"\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface4.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\"I don\'t want to sit down on the bench while the other kids play\"\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface5.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\"I want to play too!\"\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface6.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\"I\'m going to be grumpy until you find something for me to play with\"\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/102608-1626-themanyface7.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\"Oh look mama, a space opened up on jungle gym.\"</span></p>','The Many Faces of Luke',0,'','publish','open','open','','the-many-faces-of-luke','','','2008-10-26 11:27:02','2008-10-26 16:27:02','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/10/26/the-many-faces-of-luke/',0,'post','',2),(489,2,'2008-11-01 18:42:34','2008-11-01 23:42:34','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">My mother was pregnant.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But not with me.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m her only child.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Sometimes I wonder why as a single woman she could want to raise someone else\'s child.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Then I quickly think of something else because I know how my life could have been.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The thought scares me.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Every year even before Thanksgiving, I\'m thankful.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Thankful I\'m her child.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And I am reminded when I receive pitches stating November is <a href=\"http://adoption.about.com/od/adopting/a/allaboutnam.htm\">National Adoption Month</a> that someone else instead of my birth parents was able to give me a better life.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Reminded I\'m lucky.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Maybe one day I\'ll follow in her footsteps and take care of a child who needs a better life.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">For right now, I\'m happy my children get to call her Nana.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">--</span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">My mother taught me to walk proud and tall \'as if the world was mine\'. - <strong>Sophia Loren</strong>\r\n</span>','Open Hearts',0,'','publish','open','open','','open-hearts','','','2008-11-01 19:03:24','2008-11-02 00:03:24','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/11/01/open-hearts/',0,'post','',0),(490,2,'2008-11-02 20:38:20','2008-11-03 01:38:20','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m glad you\'ve decided who will get your precious vote.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I have too.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">If you asked me a year ago, I wouldn\'t have said the same name.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But that\'s fine.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m happy with my choice.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">While at the same time scared to death my choice will not be elected come Tuesday.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And as much as I hear all the various polls, I worry.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">That would be the poll I publish… The percentage of voters going to go to bed after voting without watching the news because they are too nervous.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I admit, I\'m one of those people who would like to just go dark – not even twitter, gasp -- until Wednesday morning.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Of course, somehow I would find out before the morning.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m planning on taking Natalie into the voting booth with me on Tuesday.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my mother did with me when I was a little girl\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Too bad we don\'t get \"I Voted\" stickers here. Nat would love that.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ll have to find another way for her to remember this Election Day.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">As for me, I\'m never going to forget voting for change.\n</span></p>','The Race is Almost Over',0,'','publish','open','open','','the-race-is-almost-over','','','2008-11-02 20:38:50','2008-11-03 01:38:50','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/11/02/the-race-is-almost-over/',0,'post','',0),(491,2,'2008-11-04 07:16:38','2008-11-04 12:16:38','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Whether McCain or Obama gets your vote for President, one thing is certain… after this race for the White House, we are all going to need Election Day drinks.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So in the interest of bi-partisan libations, I offer you two recipes for Election Day Sangria.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Why sangria?  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Sangria has always been the cheap drink in Spain.  Who can\'t appreciate a recession drink special?! </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">\n			</span></span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m also choosing a drink that all fifty states can enjoy now as of this year… (Virginia, what were you thinking!?!?!!)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here is the recipe for <span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Celebratory Sangria</span> –\n</span></p><ul style=\"margin-left: 54pt\"><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1 large lemon (sliced)\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1/4 cup Triple Sec\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2 large oranges (one sliced, one for juice)\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1/4 cup superfine sugar \n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1 (750-ml) bottle red wine (If you can\'t find Rioja, any medium bodied chilled red wine will do.)\n</span></li></ul><p><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Mash the sliced orange, lemon and sugar in a pitcher with a wooden spoon until sugar dissolves but do not totally crush fruit.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Stir in orange juice, Triple Sec and wine. Refrigerate for at least two hours.  Before serving, add several ice cubes and stir to distribute settled fruit. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And for those of us who voted for the candidate who didn\'t win, I have the perfect Sangria recipe to drown your sorrows.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Note: If you don\'t have the strength to make a whole new recipe… just add your tears to the Celebratory Sangria recipe above.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here is the recipe for <span style=\"color:#1f497d\">Sorrowful Sangria</span> -\n</span></p><ul style=\"margin-left: 54pt\"><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1/4 cup brandy \n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1/4 cup Grand Marnier\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2 tablespoons lime juice \n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2 tablespoons orange juice \n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1/2 large lemon cut in small cubes\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1 medium sized apple cut in small cubes\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1/2 large orange cut in small cubes. (Sad folks can just cut the fruit in slices)\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1/4 cup sugar (you may want a little more, I like using ¼ cup)\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1 (750-ml) bottle red wine (If you can\'t find Rioja, any red wine on the slightly sweet side will do.)\n</span></li><li><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">12 ounces of Sprite if you prefer sweet, otherwise use club soda or your preferred sparkling water.\n</span></li></ul><p><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Combine all ingredients but the Sprite/sparkling water and chill for at least two hours so the fruit absorbs the alcohol.  When ready to serve, add the Sprite/sparkling water.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Either way, I\'ll have some sangria tonight. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">While it\'s chilling, I\'m off to cast a vote for the next President.  </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Election Day Sangria Recipes',0,'','publish','open','open','','election-day-sangria-recipes','','','2008-11-04 11:30:40','2008-11-04 16:30:40','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/11/04/election-day-sangria-recipes/',0,'post','',0),(492,2,'2008-11-05 12:10:33','2008-11-05 17:10:33','<img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/05/nytfrontpage/scan.jpg\" alt=\"The New York Times Obama Cover Page\" />\r\n\r\n\"Change has come to America.\" - President Elect Barack Obama\r\n\r\nWho else is going to DC in January?','Wow',0,'','publish','open','open','','wow','','','2008-11-06 21:38:01','2008-11-07 02:38:01','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/?p=492',0,'post','',0),(493,2,'2008-11-06 22:31:50','2008-11-07 03:31:50','<p><span style=\"font-size:1pt\">I \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I never have my camera with me when I should.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">On the way home from picking up Miss Nat from school she saw a friend and held her hand.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">They walked down the block as the girl\'s babysitter and I just smiled.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Called to another little girl from their class.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And she joined the party and skipped down the street.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Oversized backpacks. Hanging from the shoulders of three little girls wearing brightly colored dresses and stockings with bold patterns.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">One waved to another girl a little farther up from them.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Natalie turned and handed her umbrella to me and made room for the fourth little girl.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">As we crossed the streets and walked further away from their school, they started to go their own way.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Quick goodbyes. All smiles.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I think I\'m starting to like Kindergarten.</span></p>','Too Cute',0,'','publish','open','open','','too-cute','','','2008-11-06 22:31:50','2008-11-07 03:31:50','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/11/06/too-cute/',0,'post','',2),(494,2,'2008-11-08 20:26:44','2008-11-09 01:26:44','<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Thanks for showing up early</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">You weren’t supposed to be here for another week</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">It’s not like I don’t have plans</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">and wouldn’t be bothered by you arriving early.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Causing me to stay in for the evening</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">To deal with you – you pain.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Yeah, I’m a little crabby</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">And probably a bit down</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Its all your fault, Auntie.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I blame you.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Next time you show up, show up when expected.\r\n\r\nSo I won’t have to run around scrambling to change sheets.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">And find things you like at 10PM</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Watching sappy movies you like</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Just to make you happy.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">You are no longer allowed to disrupt my life –</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">even if you just plan on staying a little while.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">You hear me?!</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I live my life with tea and crumpets only when I want them.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Sure now I’m a little grumpy.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">And maybe even a bit sensitive. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">So I have only one thing to say –</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I blame you.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Period.</span></p>','Unwelcome Visitor',0,'','publish','open','open','','unwelcome-visitor','','','2008-11-08 20:26:44','2008-11-09 01:26:44','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/?p=494',0,'post','',0),(495,2,'2008-11-09 22:59:14','2008-11-10 03:59:14','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Tomorrow the kids will be in school while their paternal grandfather (whom they have never met) becomes a US citizen.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">After decades in this country, he\'s becoming a citizen and then packing up and moving (along with his wife) back to his birth place.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Unlike their grandfather, their grandmother does have an interest in knowing her grandchildren. And because my children do spend time with her this news makes me sad. Sad to know that part of their family will be far, far, far away soon. Soon meaning - probably less than a year away. Far meaning – an over 16 hour flight with a layover or two depending on the airline.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I wanted the kids to grow up equally close to my family and their father\'s family. Although their paternal grandfather had absolutely no interest in a relationship with them for the past six years, I was hoping one day that would change. I truly was.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Now with a 16 hour flight between them; it doesn\'t look like that will happen. And I\'m so very disappointed. Disappointed that the color of my skin is the excuse this man has given for not spending time with his grandchildren. Disappointed that he would rather be an ass then get to know three sweet children.\r\n</span>','Disappointment',0,'','publish','open','open','','disappointment','','','2008-11-09 23:14:51','2008-11-10 04:14:51','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/11/09/disappointments/',0,'post','',2),(496,2,'2008-11-13 10:49:17','2008-11-13 15:49:17','','111308-1549-circlecircl1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','111308-1549-circlecircl1jpg','','','2008-11-13 10:49:17','2008-11-13 15:49:17','',497,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/111308-1549-circlecircl1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(497,2,'2008-11-13 10:49:18','2008-11-13 15:49:18','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Someone in my son\'s daycare doesn\'t have their cootie shots.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So now I\'m writing this blog post from my bed.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m home.</span><span style=\"color:blue\">\n		</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Typing. As my little one recovers from puking on his daycare teacher.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Fun.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Actually, ew.  I feel for the woman.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And for my little boy.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It\'s always lovely when your child catches something from another kid.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I\'ll be home with him trying to work in between wiping up and throwing out.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And disinfecting the entire apartment.</span><span style=\"color:blue\">\n		</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">If I\'m lucky, he\'ll take a nap, and I will watch Top Chef off TiVo.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Actually the last thing I want to see is food right now.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Yeah, T minus 3 hours before I\'m sick too. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Or at least until I need to change my clothes or give him a bath.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/111308-1549-circlecircl12.jpg\" alt=\"\"/></p>','Circle Circle Dot Dot',0,'','publish','open','open','','circle-circle-dot-dot','','','2008-11-13 11:04:30','2008-11-13 16:04:30','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/11/13/circle-circle-dot-dot/',0,'post','',0),(498,2,'2008-11-13 10:50:23','2008-11-13 15:50:23','','111308-1549-circlecircl1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','111308-1549-circlecircl1jpg-2','','','2008-11-13 10:50:23','2008-11-13 15:50:23','',497,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/111308-1549-circlecircl11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(499,2,'2008-11-13 11:04:29','2008-11-13 16:04:29','','111308-1549-circlecircl1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','111308-1549-circlecircl1jpg-2','','','2008-11-13 11:04:29','2008-11-13 16:04:29','',497,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/111308-1549-circlecircl12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(500,2,'2008-11-26 05:38:20','2008-11-26 10:38:20','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'ve always said I\'m \"New York to the heart but got love for all.\"\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">After saying that people still say I don\'t seem like I\'m from New York.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">New York is a big state so I guess they don\'t think I fit the Manhattan stereotype.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Which is true. I don\'t. Thank goodness because that\'d be hella bad.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I also don\'t fit the Los Angeles or London stereotype.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Yes, some people throw out where they think I\'m \"really from\" based solely on my voice.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And they come up with The Valley or Notting Hill.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Anyway, New Yorkers are supposed to be loud and unapologetic.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And I\'m not. I\'m guarded.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So guarded that \"pulling teeth\" has been used many times.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It\'s ironic considering blogs are supposed to be a window into someone\'s life.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And this blog started as a way to answer all the emails I received asking about my life.    \r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'ve found myself sharing more on Twitter (@veepveep) more than I do here.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It\'s easier for me to share something about myself in person at an event or a lunch than to do it here on my blog. Which doesn\'t make any sense.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I can tell a room of 200 marketers all about me but the only true insight into my life on this blog is found on my 100 Things About Me list that was written years ago?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I don\'t know why letting someone reading my blog get an impression of me based on a 100 Things list that isn\'t a reflection of me now was so comfortable.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But I do know why I chose to water down posts about my children … So I don\'t receive any more nasty emails than I already do.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I must give kudos to <a href=\"http://www.dooce.com\">all</a> <a href=\"http://www.nopasanada.org\">the</a> <a href=\"http://www.iambossy.com\">bloggers</a> <a href=\"http://www.theblogess.com\">who</a> <a href=\"http://mom-101.blogspot.com\">don\'t</a> <a href=\"http://www.mochamomma.com\">water</a> <a href=\"http://www.immoralmatriarch.com\">it</a> <a href=\"http://badladies.blogspot.com/\">down</a>, because I appreciate everything you share.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Even when its in its unedited, and probably \"Vodka fueled oh no she didn\'t just go there\" glory. Ladies, you are amazing.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Thanks for inspiring me to take the Native New Yorker moxie in my heart and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">realize</span> honestly believe I should no longer fear writing on my blog.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Stick around as I dip my toe in the water. (Not the Hudson people.. I\'m not that brave!)</span>','New York to the Heart',0,'','publish','open','open','','new-york-to-the-heart','','','2008-11-26 05:43:09','2008-11-26 10:43:09','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/11/26/new-york-to-the-heart/',0,'post','',4),(501,2,'2008-11-29 10:46:33','2008-11-29 15:46:33','Since more and more brands are finally recognizing blogs as a powerful avenue for publicity; I wanted to mention the easiest way to ensure your client or product will never end up on my <a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/\">website</a>, <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/\">blog</a> or included in one of the many lifestyle segments I do each week is to annoy me.\r\n\r\nIn the spirit of the holiday season, I’ve decided to share with you my list of the Top 12 Ways to Annoy This Mommy Blogger. It is safe to say if you manage to not do any of the wrong things on this list, you will find other mommy bloggers (and bloggers or editors in general) more receptive to your pitches.\r\n\r\nSo read on and then be a shining star in your office instead of someone who wrote the pitch that ended up in the deleted folder, or worse, on the <a href=\"http://badpitch.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Pitch Blog</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>1. You call me by a name other than mine.</strong>\r\n\r\nIt goes without saying, you should always spell someone’s name correctly, but you should also use the right name. My name is not Vicki nor is it Veronica. Simply starting an email with Hi Victoria or Good Morning Victoria is the way to go. The impersonal salutation Dear Editor is not.\r\n\r\n<strong>2. You brag about the other places you’ve been featured.</strong>\r\n\r\nIf 40 other blogs and three morning shows in the same market have already featured the product or talked about your service, why would I want to tell my producer you should be included in my segment? There’s no need for me to show the same product again when there are thousands of useful products that can be highlighted.\r\n\r\n<strong>3. You don’t respect my time.</strong>\r\n\r\nYou follow up all the time. Every other email is from you. My office voicemail is full so you start leaving voicemails on my cell phone. And then you email telling me you left the messages. Or you send me a message on <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/savvymommy\">Twitter</a> or Facebook including your Off Topic pitch. C’mon, really? I receive a few thousand new emails every day. If I’m interested, I promise I will contact you by email or phone. Cross my heart.\r\n\r\n<strong>4. You offer me a product on loan.</strong>\r\n\r\nI travel a lot to television stations in different cities. In between writing, I also host events for companies and speak on panels at marketing conferences. My time to test unsolicited products is limited. If you send me a product on loan with a week time limit, you should know I will not have time to review it. Products in my sample closet get reviewed because they are within reach when segments are assigned to me.\r\n\r\n<strong>5. You offer me a product but then don’t send it.</strong>\r\n\r\nWhy bother send me a pitch for a national morning show segment when you aren’t going to send me the product after I request it? Or you send it, but you send it ground shipping after I have specifically requested it be sent overnight since the segment is last minute and I want to make sure I get the product in time. I don’t understand the thinking behind saying you will send something and not sending it. So you don’t want your client on a national morning show? OK, then don’t pitch me.\r\n\r\n<strong>6. You send me photos of an event that happened in the city I live in, don’t invite me to the event but then ask me to post the event photos or video on my website or blog.</strong>\r\n\r\nIf my website/blog is part of your client’s target audience, then send an invite. I get invited to many events every day and I cannot attend even a tenth of them but asking me to post photos or video when I wasn’t invited to the event or even sent a media alert beforehand is just a little too ballsy.\r\n\r\n<strong>7. You send your product to another address besides the one I have listed on my website and then get upset when I say I have not received your product.</strong>\r\n\r\nIf you follow directions, everyone wins. The <a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/communicate/submit_a_product_for_review.html\">mailing address</a> listed on my website is the best address to send your product to me. While we are on topic of mailing me things then please refrain from sending me products at the various stations you my segments air on.\r\n\r\n<strong>8. You show up unannounced and unexpected to my office or to a station I’m appearing on wanting to demonstrate a product. Or you harass a producer I work with with idiotic questions before a segment airs.</strong>\r\n\r\nIf you’ve done your job and have sent me a one sheet and the product, I am sure I can figure everything out and if not, that’s what instructions and your phone number is for. Nothing I talk about on air comes close to rocket science so there is no need to show up and page a producer. It’s not a nice thing to do and producers always have the last say about what is included in my segment – please remember that.\r\n\r\n<strong>9. You offer to do a contest and then don’t send the prizes to the winners.</strong>\r\n\r\nThat is just so wrong on so many levels. Whether the product offered is worth $5 or $500, you really should keep your word and not disappoint the winners of the contest or freebie you offered. If I get an email from a contest winner saying they never received their prize, please have a very good reason.\r\n\r\n<strong>10. You ask me to do your job.</strong>\r\n\r\nAfter I show your product/talk about your service on-air, you ask me to get you a tape of the segment. I’m not a clipping service and I don’t work for any. All you have to do is Google “clipping serviceâ€ and you will find several. If you are not a publicist and want a recommendation of which clipping service to use and you email me, that’s one thing but I’m not clipping segments for anyone. Another favorite is after I show your product on air, you ask which other stations I will be featuring your product on. Not my job. Go pitch to other stations and other segment contributors.\r\n\r\n<strong>11. You use a dull template for your pitch. Or you unnecessarily use the word mom in your pitch in hopes it will seem like it is relevant to moms.</strong>\r\n\r\nYawn. Toilet paper is for everyone. You don’t have to target every single pitch to mothers. And be careful making assumptions about all mothers. My favorite was a pitch on moms never wearing high heels. Never? Well, what about the four inch heels I wear to work every single day.\r\n\r\n<strong>12. You pretend to read my blog.</strong>\r\n\r\nI’m a happy camper when someone just uses the right name when they <a href=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/communicate/savvy_mommy.html\">email me</a>. There’s no need to pull a random sentence from my <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/100-things-about-me/\">100 Things About Me</a> list and say it made you laugh so hard and you are big fan of mine. Because more often than not, what follows is a pitch on a topic I would never cover. And that’s hard to imagine considering I cover all women’s lifestyle topics but it happens. ALOT. Just pitch on topic and things will be alright. No need for flattery. Unless you really mean it. <img class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif\" alt=\";)\" />\r\n\r\nHappy Holidays.\r\n\r\n<strong>I invite other mommy bloggers to post below an annoying thing a company has done. You can post anonymously if you wish.</strong>','Top 12 Ways to Annoy This Mommy Blogger',0,'','publish','open','open','','top-12-ways-to-annoy-this-mommy-blogger','','','2009-01-02 18:44:48','2009-01-02 23:44:48','',14,'http://www.veepveep.com/?page_id=501',0,'page','',11),(502,2,'2008-12-01 09:17:59','2008-12-01 14:17:59','','120108-1417-stickaforki1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','120108-1417-stickaforki1jpg','','','2008-12-01 09:17:59','2008-12-01 14:17:59','',503,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/120108-1417-stickaforki1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(503,2,'2008-12-01 09:18:01','2008-12-01 14:18:01','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/120108-1417-stickaforki11.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is officially over.</span><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;\">\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">I admit to waking up each day of the holiday weekend wondering what day it was and then breathing a sigh of relief I didn\'t have to be anywhere but at home with my children.</span><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;\">\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">But it\'s now Monday.</span><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;\">\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Back to work and school.</span><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;\">\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">No more eating homemade sweet potato pie for breakfast or ordering Chinese lunch specials because you crave a break from the candied sweet potatoes and orange infused green beans packed in your fridge.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">No more everyone curling up on the couch or snuggling under the covers watching back to back holiday themed movies. Or making cups and cups of hot cocoa and making sure each cup had just the right amount of marshmallows in various sizes. </span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">While Christmas break is on its way and this weekend can be relieved in all its food and fun glory; I thankfully have a few memories to hold me over. My favorite is of my children using water colors, stamp sets, beading kits and decorative hole punchers to entertain themselves after dinner. My kids are so crafty and I love it! And I\'m so proud that TV can be turned off in our house and we survive.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">This really is the most wonderful time of the year.</span>','Stick a Fork in It',0,'','publish','open','open','','stick-a-fork-in-it','','','2008-12-01 10:22:10','2008-12-01 15:22:10','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/01/stick-a-fork-in-it/',0,'post','',1),(504,2,'2008-12-01 09:41:12','2008-12-01 14:41:12','','120108-1417-stickaforki1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','120108-1417-stickaforki1jpg-2','','','2008-12-01 09:41:12','2008-12-01 14:41:12','',503,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/120108-1417-stickaforki11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(505,2,'2008-12-02 09:56:33','2008-12-02 14:56:33','','120208-1456-howmuch1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','120208-1456-howmuch1jpg','','','2008-12-02 09:56:33','2008-12-02 14:56:33','',506,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/120208-1456-howmuch1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(506,2,'2008-12-02 09:56:35','2008-12-02 14:56:35','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/120208-1456-howmuch11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"378\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Household incomes across the country vary greatly from family to family.</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Take my household… it relies solely on one income while most families I know have the benefit of two.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And some households have lost their only source of income.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">You\'ll find that in every neighborhood. In every city. Our checking accounts all look very different right now.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So I understand how difficult it can be for families to afford to give during the holidays.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But I just don\'t understand how you can grumble about contributing to a holiday gift for a teacher or caregiver.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">These people who educate and take care of our children have their own families to take care of during the holidays.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">To support. To surprise with gifts. To cook holiday meals for. To take to visit family in other cities.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">How can someone be upset about giving a $50 donation?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It\'s not like you didn\'t know weeks ago you would be asked for a monetary contribution.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Last year, I emailed my daughter\'s class parent after asking if she made a mistake.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(I thought a holiday gift of $50 total for three teachers was too little.)\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And she responded that the PTA was told by other parents they only wanted to do $30 per family.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">So after giving in $50, Natalie also made a gift bag of products from The Body Shop for each of her teachers.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I just didn\'t feel right not adding to that gift in some way because her teachers worked so hard.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">This year, my son is in daycare and he\'s there for hours every day as I work.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">His caregivers comfort him as he teethes and console him if he wakes up Mr. Cranky Pants.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And because I can\'t be there for him during the day, they are the ones who are taking care of him. </span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I am so thankfully I found loving people who could do that every day for me.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But I don\'t feel the amount being asked for for them is sufficient. And it\'s disturbing some parents still complain!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #003366; font-family: Georgia;\"><strong>How much is your school/day care asking for this year as the teacher\'s holiday gift contributions?</strong></span>','How Much?',0,'','publish','open','open','','how-much','','','2008-12-02 10:31:48','2008-12-02 15:31:48','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/02/how-much/',0,'post','',4),(507,2,'2008-12-02 10:04:03','2008-12-02 15:04:03','','120208-1456-howmuch1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','120208-1456-howmuch1jpg-2','','','2008-12-02 10:04:03','2008-12-02 15:04:03','',506,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/120208-1456-howmuch11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(508,2,'2008-12-04 20:13:38','2008-12-05 01:13:38','<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift - Frank Tyger</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-8rY0Fyws20\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-8rY0Fyws20\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nAll I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey is one of my favorite Christmas songs, Christmas videos of all time. It\'s definitely a fun and festive way to celebrate the season.\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nPlease Come Home For Christmas by Bon Jovi is my other favorite. You can thank me later, for reminding you about this one.  ;)</p>','Romantical',0,'','publish','open','open','','romantical','','','2008-12-05 06:27:02','2008-12-05 11:27:02','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/?p=508',0,'post','',0),(509,2,'2008-12-04 20:13:03','2008-12-05 01:13:03','<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift - Frank Tyger</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"src:\'http://www.youtube.com/v/-8rY0Fyws20\',width:\'425\',height:\'350\'\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/media/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" /></p>\n\nThis Mariah Carey video All I Want For Christmas Is You is one of my favorite Christmas songs, Christmas videos of all time. It\'s definitely a fun and festive song.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"src:\'http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\',width:\'425\',height:\'350\'\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/media/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" /></p>\n\nAnd the Bon Jovi Christmas song / Christmas video Please Come Home For Christmas is my other favorite.\nYou can thank me later, for reminding you about this one.  ;)','Romantical',0,'','inherit','open','open','','508-revision','','','2008-12-04 20:13:03','2008-12-05 01:13:03','',508,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/04/508-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(510,2,'2008-12-05 06:28:07','2008-12-05 11:28:07','<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift - Frank Tyger</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-8rY0Fyws20\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-8rY0Fyws20\"></embed></object>\n\nAll I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey is one of my favorite Christmas songs, Christmas videos of all time. It\'s definitely a fun and festive way to celebrate the season.\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\"></embed></object>\n\nPlease Come Home For Christmas by Bon Jovi is my other favorite. You can thank me later, for reminding you about this one.  ;)</p>','Romantical',0,'','inherit','open','open','','508-autosave','','','2008-12-05 06:28:07','2008-12-05 11:28:07','',508,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/04/508-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(511,2,'2008-12-04 20:13:38','2008-12-05 01:13:38','<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift - Frank Tyger</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"src:\'http://www.youtube.com/v/-8rY0Fyws20\',width:\'425\',height:\'350\'\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/media/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" /></p>\r\n\r\nThis Mariah Carey video All I Want For Christmas Is You is one of my favorite Christmas songs, Christmas videos of all time. It\'s definitely a fun and festive song.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"src:\'http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\',width:\'425\',height:\'350\'\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/media/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd the Bon Jovi Christmas song / Christmas video Please Come Home For Christmas is my other favorite. 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It\'s definitely a fun and festive song.\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nAnd the Bon Jovi Christmas song / Christmas video Please Come Home For Christmas is my other favorite. You can thank me later, for reminding you about this one.  ;)</p>','Romantical',0,'','inherit','open','open','','508-revision-3','','','2008-12-04 20:18:38','2008-12-05 01:18:38','',508,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/04/508-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(513,2,'2008-12-04 20:20:54','2008-12-05 01:20:54','<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift - Frank Tyger</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-8rY0Fyws20\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-8rY0Fyws20\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nAll I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey is one of my favorite Christmas songs, Christmas videos of all time. It\'s definitely a fun and festive way to celebrate the season.\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/slTYj2h6OfY\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nPlease Come Home For Christmas by Bon Jovi is my other favorite. You can thank me later, for reminding you about this one.  ;)</p>','Romantical',0,'','inherit','open','open','','508-revision-4','','','2008-12-04 20:20:54','2008-12-05 01:20:54','',508,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/04/508-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(514,2,'2008-12-05 07:04:19','2008-12-05 12:04:19','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It\'s all a blur.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">How I went from \"Well, you should ask Santa\" after she expressed interested in a product to impatiently asking \"When are you going to write your Christmas list?\"\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But before I knew it, I was pressing my five year old to write.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Oh yea, that\'s why. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Because I look for any reason to get her to sit down and do a project of some sort with me. That\'s right; I\'m all for bonding over crayons.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">As I offered up the number five, I knew years from now I would be kicking myself.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I told her because she\'s five and a half; she gets to ask Santa for five things.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But … yes, I did go there…. if she doesn\'t behave, Santa doesn\'t have to bring any of the five things.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I explained it\'s only a wish list so Santa doesn\'t have to get anything from the list.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(I covered myself in case her wish list was ridiculous and I couldn\'t fathom purchasing any of it.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Then she asked if Luke gets to ask for three things and Harrison gets to ask for one.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I told her Santa allows Harrison to ask for two because he\'s closer to two than one.  Ah, these rules I make up. ;) \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So far she\'s written three things on her list –\n</span></p><ol><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A bean bag (it\'s a specific one she saw at a friend\'s house. I was hoping it would be at Land of Nod but its not. drat.)\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A watch (good, because I don\'t want to have to ask strangers for the time anymore or dig through my bag for my cell phone even though it have a dedicated cell phone pocket)\n</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Black and grey crayons (wha?! She explained she didn\'t want to have to shade things in with her pencil anymore and wanted more black and grey crayons)\n</span></li></ol><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m surprised.  I might be getting off easy this year and then realize why on her 16<sup>th</sup> birthday. For now, I\'ll just enjoy.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyone else surprised by their child\'s holiday wish list this year?</span></p>','The Christmas List of a Five Year Old',0,'','publish','open','open','','the-christmas-list-of-a-five-year-old','','','2008-12-05 07:12:27','2008-12-05 12:12:27','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/05/the-christmas-list-of-a-five-year-old/',0,'post','',1),(515,2,'2008-12-05 07:04:19','2008-12-05 12:04:19','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It\'s all a blur.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">How I went from \"Well, you should ask Santa\" after she expressed interested in a product to impatiently asking \"When are you going to write your Christmas list?\"\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But before I knew it, I was pressing my five year old to write.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Oh yea, that\'s why. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Because I look for any reason to get her to sit down and do a project of some sort with me. That\'s right; I\'m all for bonding over crayons.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">As I offered up the number five, I knew years from now I would be kicking myself.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I told her because she\'s five and a half; she gets to ask Santa for five things.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But … yes, I did go there…. if she doesn\'t behave, Santa doesn\'t have to bring any of the five things.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I explained it\'s only a wish list so Santa doesn\'t have to get anything from the list.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(I covered myself in case her wish list was ridiculous and I couldn\'t fathom purchasing any of it.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Then she asked if Luke gets to ask for three things and Harrison gets to ask for one.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I told her Santa allows Harrison to ask for two because he\'s closer to two than one.  Ah, these rules I make up. ;) \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So far she\'s written three things on her list –\n</span></p><ol><li><div><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A bean bag (it\'s a specific one she saw at a friend\'s house. I was hoping it would be at Land of Nod but its not. drat.)\n</span></div><p>\n </p></li><li><div><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A watch (good, because I don\'t want to have to ask strangers for the time anymore or dig through my bag for my cell phone even though it have a dedicated cell phone pocket)\n</span></div><p>\n </p></li><li><div><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Black and grey crayons (wha?! She explained she didn\'t want to have to shade things in with her pencil anymore and wanted more black and grey crayons)\n</span></div><p>\n </p></li></ol><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m surprised.  I might be getting off easy this year and then realize why on her 16<sup>th</sup> birthday. For now, I\'ll just enjoy.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyone else surprised by their child\'s holiday wish list this year?</span></p>','The Christmas List of a Five Year Old',0,'','inherit','open','open','','514-revision','','','2008-12-05 07:04:19','2008-12-05 12:04:19','',514,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/05/514-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(516,2,'2008-12-05 07:11:59','2008-12-05 12:11:59','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It\'s all a blur.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">How I went from \"Well, you should ask Santa\" after she expressed interested in a product to impatiently asking \"When are you going to write your Christmas list?\"\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But before I knew it, I was pressing my five year old to write.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Oh yea, that\'s why. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Because I look for any reason to get her to sit down and do a project of some sort with me. That\'s right; I\'m all for bonding over crayons.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">As I offered up the number five, I knew years from now I would be kicking myself.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I told her because she\'s five and a half; she gets to ask Santa for five things.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But … yes, I did go there…. if she doesn\'t behave, Santa doesn\'t have to bring any of the five things.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I explained it\'s only a wish list so Santa doesn\'t have to get anything from the list.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(I covered myself in case her wish list was ridiculous and I couldn\'t fathom purchasing any of it.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Then she asked if Luke gets to ask for three things and Harrison gets to ask for one.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I told her Santa allows Harrison to ask for two because he\'s closer to two than one.  Ah, these rules I make up. ;) \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So far she\'s written three things on her list –\n</span></p><ol><li><div><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A bean bag (it\'s a specific one she saw at a friend\'s house. I was hoping it would be at Land of Nod but its not. drat.)\n</span></div><p>\n </p></li><li><div><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A watch (good, because I don\'t want to have to ask strangers for the time anymore or dig through my bag for my cell phone even though it have a dedicated cell phone pocket)\n</span></div><p>\n </p></li><li><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Black and grey crayons (wha?! She explained she didn\'t want to have to shade things in with her pencil anymore and wanted more black and grey crayons)\n</span></li></ol><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m surprised.  I might be getting off easy this year and then realize why on her 16<sup>th</sup> birthday. For now, I\'ll just enjoy.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#1f497d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyone else surprised by their child\'s holiday wish list this year?</span></p>','The Christmas List of a Five Year Old',0,'','inherit','open','open','','514-revision-2','','','2008-12-05 07:11:59','2008-12-05 12:11:59','',514,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/05/514-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(517,2,'2008-12-13 03:28:40','2008-12-13 08:28:40','','121308-0828-recessioner1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121308-0828-recessioner1jpg','','','2008-12-13 03:28:40','2008-12-13 08:28:40','',518,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(518,2,'2008-12-12 23:28:42','2008-12-13 04:28:42','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">You have no idea how thrilled I am to see this year\'s class pictures for the boys come with an added bonus.\r\nSomeone\'s hand ... Ew.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner12.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\nDid I mention these photos cost $117!!!!!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Yeah, um.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">My Facebook friends got a sneak peek of this photo and had the funniest comments.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">They\'ve persuaded me to speak up to the photographer – and not just you.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Monday morning, that\'s exactly what I will do.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(And I may also bring up the fact Harrison also doesn\'t have a mole on his nose.)\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #365f91; font-family: Georgia;\"><strong>What would you do?</strong></span>','Recession Era Freebies',0,'','publish','open','open','','recession-era-freebies','','','2008-12-13 04:48:41','2008-12-13 09:48:41','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/recession-era-freebies/',0,'post','',2),(519,2,'2008-12-13 03:31:47','2008-12-13 08:31:47','','121308-0828-recessioner1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121308-0828-recessioner1jpg-2','','','2008-12-13 03:31:47','2008-12-13 08:31:47','',518,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(520,2,'2008-12-13 03:28:42','2008-12-13 08:28:42','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You have no idea how thrilled I am to see this year\'s class pictures for the boys come with an added bonus.<br /><br />Someone\'s hand ... Ew.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><br /><br />Did I mention these photos cost $117!!!!! \n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Yeah, um.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My Facebook friends got a sneak peek of this photo and had quite a bit to say.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">They\'ve persuaded me to speak up to the photographer – and not just you.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Monday morning, that\'s exactly what I will do.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>What would you do?\n</strong></span></p><p>\n </p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:9pt\">\n		</span> </p>','Recession Era Freebies',0,'','inherit','open','open','','518-revision','','','2008-12-13 03:28:42','2008-12-13 08:28:42','',518,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/518-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(521,2,'2008-12-13 03:32:05','2008-12-13 08:32:05','','121308-0828-recessioner1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121308-0828-recessioner1jpg-2','','','2008-12-13 03:32:05','2008-12-13 08:32:05','',518,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(522,2,'2008-12-13 03:31:48','2008-12-13 08:31:48','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You have no idea how thrilled I am to see this year\'s class pictures for the boys come with an added bonus.<br />Someone\'s hand ... Ew.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner11.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><br />Did I mention these photos cost $117!!!!! \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Yeah, um.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My Facebook friends got a sneak peek of this photo and had the funniest comments.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">They\'ve persuaded me to speak up to the photographer – and not just you.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Monday morning, that\'s exactly what I will do. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(And I may also bring up the fact Harrison also doesn\'t have a mole on his nose.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>What would you do?</strong></span></p>','Recession Era Freebies',0,'','inherit','open','open','','518-revision-2','','','2008-12-13 03:31:48','2008-12-13 08:31:48','',518,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/518-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(523,2,'2008-12-13 03:32:06','2008-12-13 08:32:06','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You have no idea how thrilled I am to see this year\'s class pictures for the boys come with an added bonus.<br />Someone\'s hand ... Ew.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner12.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><br />Did I mention these photos cost $117!!!!! \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Yeah, um.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My Facebook friends got a sneak peek of this photo and had the funniest comments.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">They\'ve persuaded me to speak up to the photographer – and not just you.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Monday morning, that\'s exactly what I will do. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(And I may also bring up the fact Harrison also doesn\'t have a mole on his nose.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>What would you do?</strong></span></p>','Recession Era Freebies',0,'','inherit','open','open','','518-revision-3','','','2008-12-13 03:32:06','2008-12-13 08:32:06','',518,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/518-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(524,2,'2008-12-13 04:49:47','2008-12-13 09:49:47','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">You have no idea how thrilled I am to see this year\'s class pictures for the boys come with an added bonus.\nSomeone\'s hand ... Ew.\n</span>\n\n<img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner12.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\nDid I mention these photos cost $117!!!!!\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Yeah, um.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">My Facebook friends got a sneak peek of this photo and had the funniest comments.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">They\'ve persuaded me to speak up to the photographer – and not just you.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Monday morning, that\'s exactly what I will do.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(And I may also bring up the fact Harrison also doesn\'t have a mole on his nose.)\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #365f91; font-family: Georgia;\"><strong>What would you do?</strong></span>','Recession Era Freebies',0,'','inherit','open','open','','518-autosave','','','2008-12-13 04:49:47','2008-12-13 09:49:47','',518,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/518-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(525,2,'2008-12-13 04:44:42','2008-12-13 09:44:42','','121308-0944-supermarket1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121308-0944-supermarket1jpg','','','2008-12-13 04:44:42','2008-12-13 09:44:42','',528,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(526,2,'2008-12-13 04:44:48','2008-12-13 09:44:48','','121308-0944-supermarket2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121308-0944-supermarket2jpg','','','2008-12-13 04:44:48','2008-12-13 09:44:48','',528,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(527,2,'2008-12-13 04:44:56','2008-12-13 09:44:56','','121308-0944-supermarket3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121308-0944-supermarket3jpg','','','2008-12-13 04:44:56','2008-12-13 09:44:56','',528,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(528,2,'2008-12-13 04:44:56','2008-12-13 09:44:56','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m usually so good at the supermarket.\r\nSticking to my list and stocking up on things on sale.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But occasionally I go on a shopping spree in aisle five or seven. Or both.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And Dagastino becomes the place I go in for a few staples and come out waiting for a home delivery.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'ve been wasting my time …. and money ... buying products at the supermarket that were less than exciting after first bite.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Like these –\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">New! Well, we all love new.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But the after taste, while reminiscent of an Oreo cookie, just makes me wish I never bit into Oreo Fudge Rings.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(My mother on the other hand likes them. So does Natalie. There I go again, being all high brow when it comes to snacks.)<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And these –\r\n\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"289\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Who doesn\'t love raisins. Well, it\'s not like I hate these.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I was just expecting them to be JUMBO like Sunsweet promised.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And while some certainly looked larger than the average raisin (My grandmother claims one looked like a prune. She\'s cute.) I spotted far too many the size of a currant.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Saying I\'m too picky? Not fair.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I just want to have a handful of Jumbo sized red raisins (full of antioxidants) that are actually jumbo sized.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Oh but you know what?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The sight of one thing did delight me the other day while walking the aisles of my little old supermarket.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"277\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(And this should tell you the sorry state of my life!)\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I found a large size (35.3 oz!) of FAGE 0% yogurt for me devour…\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Well, for me to drizzle honey all over.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Shortly thereafter the honey and the yogurt would disappear into my tummy.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">See… besides seriously needing help … there was a light at the end of the supermarket shopping tunnel.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #365f91; font-family: Georgia;\"><strong>What supermarket snacks have you been disappointed in lately? Any you love?</strong></span>','Supermarket Sweep',0,'','publish','open','open','','supermarket-sweep','','','2008-12-13 04:52:59','2008-12-13 09:52:59','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/supermarket-sweep/',0,'post','',0),(529,2,'2008-12-13 03:37:39','2008-12-13 08:37:39','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">You have no idea how thrilled I am to see this year\'s class pictures for the boys come with an added bonus.\r\nSomeone\'s hand ... Ew.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0828-recessioner12.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\nDid I mention these photos cost $117!!!!!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Yeah, um.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">My Facebook friends got a sneak peek of this photo and had the funniest comments.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">They\'ve persuaded me to speak up to the photographer – and not just you.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Monday morning, that\'s exactly what I will do.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(And I may also bring up the fact Harrison also doesn\'t have a mole on his nose.)\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #365f91; font-family: Georgia;\"><strong>What would you do?</strong></span>','Recession Era Freebies',0,'','inherit','open','open','','518-revision-4','','','2008-12-13 03:37:39','2008-12-13 08:37:39','',518,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/518-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(530,2,'2008-12-13 04:44:56','2008-12-13 09:44:56','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m usually so good at the supermarket.<br />Sticking to my list and stocking up on things on sale.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But occasionally I go on a shopping spree in aisle five or seven. Or both.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And Dagastino becomes the place I go in for a few staples and come out waiting for a home delivery.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ve been wasting my time …. and money ... buying products at the supermarket that were less than exciting after first bite.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like these –\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">New! Well, we all love new. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But the after taste, while reminiscent of an Oreo cookie, just makes me wish I never bit into Oreo Fudge Rings.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(My mother on the other hand likes them. So does Natalie.  There I go again, being all high brow when it comes to snacks.)<br /><br />And these –\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket2.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Who doesn\'t love raisins.  Well, it\'s not like I hate these.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I was just expecting them to be JUMBO like Sunsweet promised. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And while some certainly looked larger than the average raisin (My grandmother claims one looked like a prune.) I spotted far too many the size of a currant.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Saying I\'m too picky? Not fair.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I just want to have a handful of Jumbo sized red raisins (full of antioxidants) that are actually jumbo sized. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Oh but you know what? \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The sight of one thing did delight me the other day while walking the aisles of my little old supermarket.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket3.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(And this should tell you the sorry state of my life!)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I found a large size (35.3 oz!) of FAGE 0% yogurt for me devour… \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Well, for me to drizzle honey all over.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Shortly thereafter the honey and the yogurt would disappear into my tummy.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">See… besides seriously needing help … there was a light at the end of the supermarket shopping tunnel.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>What supermarket snacks have you been disappointed in lately?  Any you love?</strong></span></p>','Supermarket Sweep',0,'','inherit','open','open','','528-revision','','','2008-12-13 04:44:56','2008-12-13 09:44:56','',528,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/528-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(531,2,'2008-12-13 04:54:06','2008-12-13 09:54:06','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m usually so good at the supermarket.\nSticking to my list and stocking up on things on sale.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But occasionally I go on a shopping spree in aisle five or seven. Or both.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And Dagastino becomes the place I go in for a few staples and come out waiting for a home delivery.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'ve been wasting my time …. and money ... buying products at the supermarket that were less than exciting after first bite.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Like these –\n</span>\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">New! Well, we all love new.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But the after taste, while reminiscent of an Oreo cookie, just makes me wish I never bit into Oreo Fudge Rings.\n</span>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(My mother on the other hand likes them. So does Natalie. There I go again, being all high brow when it comes to snacks.)<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And these –</span></span></div>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\"> \n\n</span></span>\n\n \n\n<img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"289\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Who doesn\'t love raisins. Well, it\'s not like I hate these.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I was just expecting them to be JUMBO like Sunsweet promised.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And while some certainly looked larger than the average raisin (My grandmother claims one looked like a prune. She\'s cute.) I spotted far too many the size of a currant.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Saying I\'m too picky? Not fair.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I just want to have a handful of Jumbo sized red raisins (full of antioxidants) that are actually jumbo sized.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Oh but you know what?\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The sight of one thing did delight me the other day while walking the aisles of my little old supermarket.\n</span>\n\n<img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121308-0944-supermarket3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"277\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(And this should tell you the sorry state of my life!)\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I found a large size (35.3 oz!) of FAGE 0% yogurt for me devour…\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Well, for me to drizzle honey all over.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Shortly thereafter the honey and the yogurt would disappear into my tummy.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">See… besides seriously needing help … there was a light at the end of the supermarket shopping tunnel.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #365f91; font-family: Georgia;\"><strong>What supermarket snacks have you been disappointed in lately? Any you love?</strong></span>','Supermarket Sweep',0,'','inherit','open','open','','528-autosave','','','2008-12-13 04:54:06','2008-12-13 09:54:06','',528,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/13/528-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(532,2,'2008-12-14 09:25:35','2008-12-14 14:25:35','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m so excited. Found a lost friend. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Last time I saw her, my daughter was fifteen months old.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">We grew apart. Actually, no. She wrote me off.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I missed her son\'s baptism.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And although we were really close (she was my matron of honor), she got pissed.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Told me off in an email. Rightfully so. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">L</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">\n			</span></span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Without knowing I was pregnant again.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And having deep dark morning sickness.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">That made me not want to leave my couch. Ever.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Of course it didn\'t stop me from being able to use a phone.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I didn\'t use the phone.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Didn\'t respond to her email.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This situation is all my fault. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">She doesn\'t live here. And used to work hours away.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Found out she\'s been working in Manhattan across the street from a friend\'s apartment.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">That apartment has a terrace that looks into her office window.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Yup, that close. For the past year or so.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Manhattan is a small, small world.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The thing is… her work email is not public.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I\'m thinking of calling her at work. Which I wouldn\'t normally do.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Because what do you say to someone after so many years?\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Besides \"please don\'t hang up\".  Maybe - \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><em>I\'ve been a bad friend. And I\'ve been sad we no longer talk.\n</em></span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><em>Oh and by the way, I have three children now.  \n</em></span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><em>I know I owe you a lot of drinks.\n</em></span></p><p><span style=\"color:#4f81bd; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Get back in touch with a long lost friend? Everything A-OK now?</strong></span></p>','Lost Friend Found',0,'','publish','open','open','','lost-friend-found','','','2008-12-14 09:25:35','2008-12-14 14:25:35','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/14/lost-friend-found/',0,'post','',3),(534,2,'2008-12-15 21:45:03','2008-12-16 02:45:03','','121608-0244-makenewfrie1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-0244-makenewfrie1jpg','','','2008-12-15 21:45:03','2008-12-16 02:45:03','',535,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-0244-makenewfrie1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(535,2,'2008-12-15 21:45:04','2008-12-16 02:45:04','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Friend Update: I didn\'t exactly call her at her office and ask her if she wanted to be friends again.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I chickened out.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m one of those people who don\'t like to call friends at work. I always feel like I\'m bothering people when they should be working. And since we hadn\'t talked in a while I didn\'t want to just call.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I looked her husband up on Super Pages so I could call her at home. They used to be listed so I figured I should check again. No longer there. Seriously, what is with them going all unlisted on me?!!\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But then I remembered way back when she used a Hotmail or Yahoo or Mail email account. So I sent a short \"Is that you?\" type of email out to a variation of her name at each of those domains. Most bounced back. One didn\'t.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And I heard from her this morning.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">We\'re all set for lunch.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">But I\'m nervous. I found a current photo of her online and she looks great. Longer hair than before. Last time we saw each other she had this bold Tinker Bell hairstyle (but not blonde) and now she\'s all different.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'ve changed. I\'m fat now. Ha! You know what I mean. I\'m just different.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'ll stop being ridiculous. But before I do, what if I get to our lunch and there\'s really been such a change in our lives since we last saw each other that we no longer can be friends. That\'d be awful. Is that even possible?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m going to go think positively now.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">We are going to catch up and everything is going to be fine. Just like on my wedding day when she ran into the coffee shop with me all dressed up just for a photo opp. Not caring the whole Upper West Side must have thought we were crazy con queso.\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1196287&amp;id=674512204\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-0244-makenewfrie1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" /></a></p>','Make New Friends Keep the Old',0,'','publish','open','open','','make-new-friends-keep-the-old','','','2008-12-15 21:45:56','2008-12-16 02:45:56','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/15/make-new-friends-keep-the-old/',0,'post','',0),(536,2,'2008-12-15 21:45:04','2008-12-16 02:45:04','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Friend Update: I didn\'t exactly call her at her office and ask her if she wanted to be friends again.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I chickened out. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m one of those people who don\'t like to call friends at work. I always feel like I\'m bothering people when they should be working. And since we hadn\'t talked in a while I didn\'t want to just call. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I looked her husband up on Super Pages so I could call her at home.  They used to be listed so I figured I should check again. No longer there. Seriously, what is with them going all unlisted on me?!!\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But then I remembered way back when she used a Hotmail or Yahoo or Mail email account. So I sent a short \"Is that you?\" type of email out to a variation of her name at each of those domains. Most bounced back. One didn\'t.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I heard from her this morning.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">We\'re all set for lunch. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But I\'m nervous. I found a current photo of her online and she looks great.  Longer hair than before. Last time we saw each other she had this bold Tinker Bell hairstyle (but not blonde) and now she\'s all different. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ve changed. I\'m fat now. Ha! You know what I mean. I\'m just different.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ll stop being ridiculous. But before I do, what if I get to our lunch and there\'s really been such a change in our lives since we last saw each other that we no longer can be friends.  That\'d be awful. Is that even possible?\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m going to go think positively now. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">We are going to catch up and everything is going to be fine. Just like on my wedding day when she ran into the coffee shop with me all dressed up just for a photo opp. Not caring the whole Upper West Side must have thought we were crazy con queso.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1196287&amp;id=674512204\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-0244-makenewfrie1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a></p>','Make New Friends Keep the Old',0,'','inherit','open','open','','535-revision','','','2008-12-15 21:45:04','2008-12-16 02:45:04','',535,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/15/535-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(537,2,'2008-12-16 06:51:18','2008-12-16 11:51:18','','121608-1151-helpachildi1.gif',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi1gif','','','2008-12-16 06:51:18','2008-12-16 11:51:18','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi1.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(538,2,'2008-12-16 06:51:19','2008-12-16 11:51:19','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'ll get right to the point.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">This is the season for giving and I want to give. To children.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The only way that will happen is if everyone reading this post participates.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Each comment posted below is the equivalent of $1 donated to DonorsChoose.org, the charity I\'ve chosen.\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html?zone=0\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi15.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" /></a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">More specifically, I will be helping Kindergarten classes with the money.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It could be just one class or many – depends on the amount of money raised.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">From now through December 23<sup>rd</sup>, $1 will be donated for each comment up to $1,000.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">You must post a comment answering the question below in order for it to count towards the total amount donated.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Randomizer will choose a winning post. That commenter will receive an Automoblox mini T9 pick up toy worth about $10.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi23.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">(It won\'t get there in time for the holidays but it will still be super cool when it arrives in the mail the last week of December. And if you don\'t have a child or nieces and nephews... It\'ll look pretty cool on your desk.)\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Help spread holiday cheer to Kindergarten students.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Here\'s the question:\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #365f91; font-family: Georgia;\"><strong>As child, the Christmas/Hanukkah gift I wanted but never received was a _____________.</strong></span></p>','Help a Child in Need',0,'','publish','open','open','','help-a-child-in-need','','','2008-12-22 12:35:45','2008-12-22 17:35:45','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/16/help-a-child-in-need/',0,'post','',22),(539,2,'2008-12-16 06:51:49','2008-12-16 11:51:49','','121608-1151-helpachildi1.gif',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi1gif-2','','','2008-12-16 06:51:49','2008-12-16 11:51:49','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi11.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(540,2,'2008-12-16 06:51:19','2008-12-16 11:51:19','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ll get right to the point. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This is the season for giving and I want to give. To children.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The only way that\'s going to happen is if everyone reading this post participates.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Each comment posted below is the equivalent of $1 donated to DonorsChoose.org, the charity I\'ve chosen.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html?zone=0\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi1.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">More specifically, I will be helping Kindergarten classes with the money.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It could be just one class or many – depends on the amount of money raised.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">From now through December 23<sup>rd</sup>, $1 will be donated for each comment up to $1,000.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You must post a comment answering the question below in order for it to count towards the total amount donated.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Help spread holiday cheer to Kindergarten students.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s the question:\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>As child, the Christmas/Hannukah gift I wanted but never received was a _____________.</strong></span></p>','Help a Child in Need',0,'','inherit','open','open','','538-revision','','','2008-12-16 06:51:19','2008-12-16 11:51:19','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/16/538-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(541,2,'2008-12-16 06:56:18','2008-12-16 11:56:18','','121608-1151-helpachildi1.gif',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi1gif-2','','','2008-12-16 06:56:18','2008-12-16 11:56:18','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi12.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(542,2,'2008-12-16 06:56:19','2008-12-16 11:56:19','','121608-1151-helpachildi2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi2jpg','','','2008-12-16 06:56:19','2008-12-16 11:56:19','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(543,2,'2008-12-16 06:51:50','2008-12-16 11:51:50','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ll get right to the point. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This is the season for giving and I want to give. To children.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The only way that will happen is if everyone reading this post participates.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Each comment posted below is the equivalent of $1 donated to DonorsChoose.org, the charity I\'ve chosen.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html?zone=0\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi11.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">More specifically, I will be helping Kindergarten classes with the money.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It could be just one class or many – depends on the amount of money raised.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">From now through December 23<sup>rd</sup>, $1 will be donated for each comment up to $1,000.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You must post a comment answering the question below in order for it to count towards the total amount donated.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Help spread holiday cheer to Kindergarten students.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s the question:\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>As child, the Christmas/Hanukkah gift I wanted but never received was a _____________.</strong></span></p>','Help a Child in Need',0,'','inherit','open','open','','538-revision-2','','','2008-12-16 06:51:50','2008-12-16 11:51:50','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/16/538-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(547,2,'2008-12-16 07:09:31','2008-12-16 12:09:31','','121608-1151-helpachildi1.gif',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi1gif-2','','','2008-12-16 07:09:31','2008-12-16 12:09:31','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi14.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(548,2,'2008-12-16 07:09:32','2008-12-16 12:09:32','','121608-1151-helpachildi2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi2jpg-2','','','2008-12-16 07:09:32','2008-12-16 12:09:32','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi22.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(544,2,'2008-12-16 07:03:07','2008-12-16 12:03:07','','121608-1151-helpachildi1.gif',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi1gif-2','','','2008-12-16 07:03:07','2008-12-16 12:03:07','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi13.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(545,2,'2008-12-16 07:03:07','2008-12-16 12:03:07','','121608-1151-helpachildi2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi2jpg-2','','','2008-12-16 07:03:07','2008-12-16 12:03:07','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi21.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(546,2,'2008-12-16 06:56:20','2008-12-16 11:56:20','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ll get right to the point. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This is the season for giving and I want to give. To children.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The only way that will happen is if everyone reading this post participates.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Each comment posted below is the equivalent of $1 donated to DonorsChoose.org, the charity I\'ve chosen.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html?zone=0\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi12.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">More specifically, I will be helping Kindergarten classes with the money.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It could be just one class or many – depends on the amount of money raised.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">From now through December 23<sup>rd</sup>, $1 will be donated for each comment up to $1,000.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You must post a comment answering the question below in order for it to count towards the total amount donated.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Randomizer will choose a winning post. That post will receive an Automoblox toy car worth about $40.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.supercoolbaby.com/pictures/Automoblox%2520S9%2520Sedan.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http://www.supercoolbaby.com/archives/2007_05.php&amp;h=350&amp;w=350&amp;sz=55&amp;tbnid=2MHSDpkxDNIJ::&amp;tbnh=120&amp;tbnw=120&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dautomoblox%2Bphoto&amp;hl=en&amp;usg=__Re0qf33p1MhzSmcl4cahOpggc2Y=&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ct=image&amp;cd=1\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(It won\'t get there in time for the holidays but it will still be super cool when it arrives in the last week of December.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Help spread holiday cheer to Kindergarten students. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s the question:\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>As child, the Christmas/Hanukkah gift I wanted but never received was a _____________.</strong></span></p>','Help a Child in Need',0,'','inherit','open','open','','538-revision-3','','','2008-12-16 06:56:20','2008-12-16 11:56:20','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/16/538-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(549,2,'2008-12-16 07:03:08','2008-12-16 12:03:08','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ll get right to the point. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This is the season for giving and I want to give. To children.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The only way that will happen is if everyone reading this post participates.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Each comment posted below is the equivalent of $1 donated to DonorsChoose.org, the charity I\'ve chosen.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html?zone=0\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi13.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">More specifically, I will be helping Kindergarten classes with the money.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It could be just one class or many – depends on the amount of money raised.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">From now through December 23<sup>rd</sup>, $1 will be donated for each comment up to $1,000.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You must post a comment answering the question below in order for it to count towards the total amount donated.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Randomizer will choose a winning post. That commenter will receive an Automoblox mini T9 pick up toy worth about $10.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi21.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(It won\'t get there in time for the holidays but it will still be super cool when it arrives in the last week of December.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Help spread holiday cheer to Kindergarten students. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s the question:\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>As child, the Christmas/Hanukkah gift I wanted but never received was a _____________.</strong></span></p>','Help a Child in Need',0,'','inherit','open','open','','538-revision-4','','','2008-12-16 07:03:08','2008-12-16 12:03:08','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/16/538-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(550,2,'2008-12-16 07:09:49','2008-12-16 12:09:49','','121608-1151-helpachildi1.gif',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi1gif-2','','','2008-12-16 07:09:49','2008-12-16 12:09:49','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi15.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(551,2,'2008-12-16 07:09:50','2008-12-16 12:09:50','','121608-1151-helpachildi2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121608-1151-helpachildi2jpg-2','','','2008-12-16 07:09:50','2008-12-16 12:09:50','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi23.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(552,2,'2008-12-16 07:09:32','2008-12-16 12:09:32','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ll get right to the point. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This is the season for giving and I want to give. To children.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The only way that will happen is if everyone reading this post participates.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Each comment posted below is the equivalent of $1 donated to DonorsChoose.org, the charity I\'ve chosen.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html?zone=0\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi14.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">More specifically, I will be helping Kindergarten classes with the money.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It could be just one class or many – depends on the amount of money raised.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">From now through December 23<sup>rd</sup>, $1 will be donated for each comment up to $1,000.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You must post a comment answering the question below in order for it to count towards the total amount donated.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Randomizer will choose a winning post. That commenter will receive an Automoblox mini T9 pick up toy worth about $10.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi22.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(It won\'t get there in time for the holidays but it will still be super cool when it arrives in the mail the last week of December.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Help spread holiday cheer to Kindergarten students. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s the question:\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>As child, the Christmas/Hanukkah gift I wanted but never received was a _____________.</strong></span></p>','Help a Child in Need',0,'','inherit','open','open','','538-revision-5','','','2008-12-16 07:09:32','2008-12-16 12:09:32','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/16/538-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(553,2,'2008-12-17 22:00:13','2008-12-18 03:00:13','','121808-0300-alotlikechr1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr1jpg','','','2008-12-17 22:00:13','2008-12-18 03:00:13','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(554,2,'2008-12-17 22:00:17','2008-12-18 03:00:17','','121808-0300-alotlikechr2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr2jpg','','','2008-12-17 22:00:17','2008-12-18 03:00:17','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(555,2,'2008-12-17 22:01:20','2008-12-18 03:01:20','','121808-0300-alotlikechr3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr3jpg','','','2008-12-17 22:01:20','2008-12-18 03:01:20','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(556,2,'2008-12-17 22:02:05','2008-12-18 03:02:05','','121808-0300-alotlikechr4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr4jpg','','','2008-12-17 22:02:05','2008-12-18 03:02:05','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr4.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(557,2,'2008-12-17 22:02:31','2008-12-18 03:02:31','','121808-0300-alotlikechr5.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr5jpg','','','2008-12-17 22:02:31','2008-12-18 03:02:31','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr5.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(558,2,'2008-12-17 22:02:36','2008-12-18 03:02:36','','121808-0300-alotlikechr6.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr6jpg','','','2008-12-17 22:02:36','2008-12-18 03:02:36','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr6.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(559,2,'2008-12-17 22:02:43','2008-12-18 03:02:43','','121808-0300-alotlikechr7.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr7jpg','','','2008-12-17 22:02:43','2008-12-18 03:02:43','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr7.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(560,2,'2008-12-17 22:02:44','2008-12-18 03:02:44','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">On the way over to Natalie\'s school this morning for her holiday breakfast, I stopped to take a photo.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Not that the photo did the parish house any justice but trust me, it looked like Christmas.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr13.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Her class was decorated with an endless amount of projects by crafty Kindergarteners.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Natalie\'s gingerbread man is the first one. The yellow shirt and green shorts pearl necklace wearing man.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr23.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">She was nice enough to step away from the breakfast to take a photo for me.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And soon after I was shooed out of the class along with the other parents.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr33.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Instead of going into the auditorium like we were supposed to do, many parents left.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I didn\'t get the memo we were supposed to stay or that jeans with skulls and bones on back pockets are in style.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr43.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I kept walking over to my breakfast meeting. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Behind the lady pushing one doggy in her grocery shopping cart as the other festive dog walked next to her.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr53.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Bare tree branches with weird pod like things growing on them caught my eye.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr63.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">As did the wreaths on these windows \n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr73.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">There is nothing like Christmas in New York</span></p>','A lot Like Christmas ',0,'','publish','open','open','','a-lot-like-christmas','','','2008-12-18 19:59:37','2008-12-19 00:59:37','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/17/a-lot-like-christmas/',0,'post','',6),(561,2,'2008-12-17 22:14:02','2008-12-18 03:14:02','','121808-0300-alotlikechr1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr1jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:14:02','2008-12-18 03:14:02','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(562,2,'2008-12-17 22:14:06','2008-12-18 03:14:06','','121808-0300-alotlikechr2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr2jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:14:06','2008-12-18 03:14:06','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr21.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(563,2,'2008-12-17 22:14:12','2008-12-18 03:14:12','','121808-0300-alotlikechr3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr3jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:14:12','2008-12-18 03:14:12','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr31.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(564,2,'2008-12-17 22:14:16','2008-12-18 03:14:16','','121808-0300-alotlikechr4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr4jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:14:16','2008-12-18 03:14:16','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr41.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(565,2,'2008-12-17 22:14:20','2008-12-18 03:14:20','','121808-0300-alotlikechr5.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr5jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:14:20','2008-12-18 03:14:20','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr51.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(566,2,'2008-12-17 22:14:24','2008-12-18 03:14:24','','121808-0300-alotlikechr6.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr6jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:14:24','2008-12-18 03:14:24','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr61.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(567,2,'2008-12-17 22:14:30','2008-12-18 03:14:30','','121808-0300-alotlikechr7.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr7jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:14:30','2008-12-18 03:14:30','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr71.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(568,2,'2008-12-17 22:02:44','2008-12-18 03:02:44','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">On the way over to Natalie\'s school this morning for their holiday celebration, I stopped to take a photo.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Not that the photo did this parish house any justice but trust me, it looked like Christmas.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Her class was decorated with an endless amount of projects by crafty Kindergarteners.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Natalie\'s gingerbread man is the first one. In the yellow shirt and green shorts with a pearl necklace.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Interesting…\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr2.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">She was nice enough to step away from the breakfast to take a photo for me.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And soon after I was shooed out of the class with the other parents.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr3.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Instead of going into the auditorium like we were supposed to do, many parents left.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I didn\'t get the memo we were supposed to stay or that pockets with skulls and bones were in style.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr4.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I kept walking… \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Behind the lady pushing one doggy in her grocery shopping cart as the other festive dog walked next to her.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr5.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And I looked up to see bare tree branches besides the weird pod like things growing on them.\n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr6.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And wreathes on windows…  \n</span></p><p><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr7.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I love the holiday season.</span></p>','A lot Like Christmas ',0,'','inherit','open','open','','560-revision','','','2008-12-17 22:02:44','2008-12-18 03:02:44','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/17/560-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(569,2,'2008-12-17 22:29:39','2008-12-18 03:29:39','','121808-0300-alotlikechr1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr1jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:29:39','2008-12-18 03:29:39','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(570,2,'2008-12-17 22:29:43','2008-12-18 03:29:43','','121808-0300-alotlikechr2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr2jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:29:43','2008-12-18 03:29:43','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr22.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(571,2,'2008-12-17 22:29:47','2008-12-18 03:29:47','','121808-0300-alotlikechr3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr3jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:29:47','2008-12-18 03:29:47','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr32.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(572,2,'2008-12-17 22:29:52','2008-12-18 03:29:52','','121808-0300-alotlikechr4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr4jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:29:52','2008-12-18 03:29:52','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr42.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(573,2,'2008-12-17 22:29:58','2008-12-18 03:29:58','','121808-0300-alotlikechr5.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr5jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:29:58','2008-12-18 03:29:58','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr52.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(574,2,'2008-12-17 22:30:12','2008-12-18 03:30:12','','121808-0300-alotlikechr6.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr6jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:30:12','2008-12-18 03:30:12','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr62.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(575,2,'2008-12-17 22:30:16','2008-12-18 03:30:16','','121808-0300-alotlikechr7.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr7jpg-2','','','2008-12-17 22:30:16','2008-12-18 03:30:16','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr72.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(576,2,'2008-12-17 22:14:32','2008-12-18 03:14:32','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">On the way over to Natalie\'s school this morning for her holiday breakfast, I stopped to take a photo.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Not that the photo did the parish house any justice but trust me, it looked like Christmas.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr11.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Her class was decorated with an endless amount of projects by crafty Kindergarteners.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Natalie\'s gingerbread man is the first one. The yellow shirt and green shorts pearl necklace wearing man.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr21.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">She was nice enough to step away from the breakfast to take a photo for me.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And soon after I was shooed out of the class along with the other parents.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr31.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Instead of going into the auditorium like we were supposed to do, many parents left.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I didn\'t get the memo we were supposed to stay or that jeans with skulls and bones on back pockets are in style.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr41.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I kept walking over to my breakfast meeting. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Behind the lady pushing one doggy in her grocery shopping cart as the other festive dog walked next to her.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr51.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Bare tree branches with weird pod like things growing on them caught my eye.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr61.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">As did the wreaths on these windows \n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr71.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">There is nothing like Christmas in New York</span></p>','A lot Like Christmas ',0,'','inherit','open','open','','560-revision-2','','','2008-12-17 22:14:32','2008-12-18 03:14:32','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/17/560-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(577,2,'2008-12-18 19:59:09','2008-12-19 00:59:09','','121808-0300-alotlikechr1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr1jpg-2','','','2008-12-18 19:59:09','2008-12-19 00:59:09','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr13.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(578,2,'2008-12-18 19:59:14','2008-12-19 00:59:14','','121808-0300-alotlikechr2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr2jpg-2','','','2008-12-18 19:59:14','2008-12-19 00:59:14','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr23.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(579,2,'2008-12-18 19:59:19','2008-12-19 00:59:19','','121808-0300-alotlikechr3.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr3jpg-2','','','2008-12-18 19:59:19','2008-12-19 00:59:19','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr33.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(580,2,'2008-12-18 19:59:22','2008-12-19 00:59:22','','121808-0300-alotlikechr4.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr4jpg-2','','','2008-12-18 19:59:22','2008-12-19 00:59:22','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr43.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(581,2,'2008-12-18 19:59:27','2008-12-19 00:59:27','','121808-0300-alotlikechr5.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr5jpg-2','','','2008-12-18 19:59:27','2008-12-19 00:59:27','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr53.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(582,2,'2008-12-18 19:59:31','2008-12-19 00:59:31','','121808-0300-alotlikechr6.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr6jpg-2','','','2008-12-18 19:59:31','2008-12-19 00:59:31','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr63.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(583,2,'2008-12-18 19:59:36','2008-12-19 00:59:36','','121808-0300-alotlikechr7.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121808-0300-alotlikechr7jpg-2','','','2008-12-18 19:59:36','2008-12-19 00:59:36','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr73.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(584,2,'2008-12-17 22:30:17','2008-12-18 03:30:17','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">On the way over to Natalie\'s school this morning for her holiday breakfast, I stopped to take a photo.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Not that the photo did the parish house any justice but trust me, it looked like Christmas.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr12.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Her class was decorated with an endless amount of projects by crafty Kindergarteners.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Natalie\'s gingerbread man is the first one. The yellow shirt and green shorts pearl necklace wearing man.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr22.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">She was nice enough to step away from the breakfast to take a photo for me.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And soon after I was shooed out of the class along with the other parents.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr32.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Instead of going into the auditorium like we were supposed to do, many parents left.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I didn\'t get the memo we were supposed to stay or that jeans with skulls and bones on back pockets are in style.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr42.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I kept walking over to my breakfast meeting. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Behind the lady pushing one doggy in her grocery shopping cart as the other festive dog walked next to her.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr52.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Bare tree branches with weird pod like things growing on them caught my eye.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr62.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">As did the wreaths on these windows \n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121808-0300-alotlikechr72.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">There is nothing like Christmas in New York</span></p>','A lot Like Christmas ',0,'','inherit','open','open','','560-revision-3','','','2008-12-17 22:30:17','2008-12-18 03:30:17','',560,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/17/560-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(585,2,'2008-12-18 21:50:28','2008-12-19 02:50:28','','121908-0250-yumyumsoupa1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121908-0250-yumyumsoupa1jpg','','','2008-12-18 21:50:28','2008-12-19 02:50:28','',587,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121908-0250-yumyumsoupa1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(586,2,'2008-12-18 21:50:31','2008-12-19 02:50:31','','121908-0250-yumyumsoupa2.png',0,'','inherit','open','open','','121908-0250-yumyumsoupa2png','','','2008-12-18 21:50:31','2008-12-19 02:50:31','',587,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121908-0250-yumyumsoupa2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(587,2,'2008-12-18 21:50:31','2008-12-19 02:50:31','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">See the problem with Twitter is that sometimes at a real quick first glance it looks like you sent a tweet when it was just someone replying to you. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Either way, this morning I received quite a few emails.  From people taking very quick first glances.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some of them agreeing with the tweet I did not write.  Some just asking questions … But still… \n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121908-0250-yumyumsoupa1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">To make things even funnier, I saw another tweet from someone else. It\'s not like he can\'t see these tweets!\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121908-0250-yumyumsoupa2.png\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I think I should help the friend who did in fact send that very public tweet. It being the holidays and all.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And what better way to do that than by providing her with mistletoe etiquette.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You know, in case he comes out of her fortune cookie before the year is over. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(Notice I\'m not saying his name at all and I keep repeating I didn\'t write that tweet … hahaha I\'m ridiculous.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, according to kissing expert Andrea Demirjian, mistletoe is the ultimate 007 \"license to kiss\", so listen up my friend, she says –\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#a00e3d; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><em>Make sure your \"randy radar\" is on to figure if it should be gingerbread sweet, or a wee bit saucier. Who knows, he might snog you right back!\n</em></span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Good tip for when you\'re going to see that hunky mall Santa or well, whomever else. ;)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m going to buy a couple copies of Andrea\'s book, <a href=\"http://www.kissingbook.com\">Kissing</a>, to give to friends this year. Not to worry ladies, they\'ll be in the mail shortly.</span></p>','Yum Yum Soup and Mistletoe',0,'','publish','open','open','','yum-yum-soup-and-mistletoe','','','2008-12-18 21:50:31','2008-12-19 02:50:31','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/18/yum-yum-soup-and-mistletoe/',0,'post','',0),(588,2,'2008-12-19 22:11:59','2008-12-20 03:11:59','','122008-0311-winterwonde1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','122008-0311-winterwonde1jpg','','','2008-12-19 22:11:59','2008-12-20 03:11:59','',589,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122008-0311-winterwonde1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(589,2,'2008-12-19 22:12:00','2008-12-20 03:12:00','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Woke up this morning to find video of snow coming down in Milwaukee on my local news.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I kept thinking, <em>Oh look at those people getting all that snow. We don\'t get snow like that in Manhattan.</em>\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Watched the ticker tape of school closings along the bottom of the screen.  For schools my children don\'t attend.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">No snow day.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Off to school they went. And I set off to do <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">an errand</span> two errands.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I wouldn\'t return home until five hours later.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">We got snow. Not Milwaukee snow. But definitely snow. \n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122008-0311-winterwonde1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p>\n </p>','Winter Wonderland',0,'','publish','open','open','','winter-wonderland','','','2008-12-19 22:12:00','2008-12-20 03:12:00','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/19/winter-wonderland/',0,'post','',0),(590,2,'2008-12-22 10:25:04','2008-12-22 15:25:04','','122208-1524-hairdaze1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','122208-1524-hairdaze1jpg','','','2008-12-22 10:25:04','2008-12-22 15:25:04','',592,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122208-1524-hairdaze1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(591,2,'2008-12-22 10:25:07','2008-12-22 15:25:07','','122208-1524-hairdaze2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','122208-1524-hairdaze2jpg','','','2008-12-22 10:25:07','2008-12-22 15:25:07','',592,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122208-1524-hairdaze2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(592,2,'2008-12-22 10:25:08','2008-12-22 15:25:08','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">When I went downstairs to go do my live segment at <a href=\"http://www.wcbstv.com/victoria\">WCBS</a> yesterday morning, my car hadn\'t arrived.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And rather than risk being late by waiting around, I decided to grab a yellow cab.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I didn\'t run back upstairs to get a hat. I just started walking to the corner to hail a taxi.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Walked fast with the snow coming down on me.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And rain. The rain snow came down on me.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I waited in the dirty slush puddle for a yellow cab. My hair was still in the bun I put it in to go to bed.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I always put my hair up in a bun. Occasionally when I take it out the bun, I comb it. Maybe brush it too for good measure.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">This morning, I was even more neglectful than usual to my hair. So in the bun it stayed.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The hair stylist at WCBS didn\'t touch my hair. He asked what I wanted to do and I said \"nothing because it\'s a major mess.\"\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Did the segment, came home and went on Twitter (of course!) to find several emails from viewers, a few Facebook messages and a tweet by <a href=\"http://mom-101.blogspot.com\">Liz</a> about how I looked -\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122208-1524-hairdaze1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I love Liz but I seriously can\'t understand why she thought my hair looked good.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Here\'s a screen shot for you so you can see what she saw -\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122208-1524-hairdaze2.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">After seeing her Tweet, I was on the phone with my mother and she said my hair has looked better. lol Which is exactly what I was thinking.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m really surprised by the reaction I received just because my hair had a few waves in it. I guess having someone blow dry it straight for twenty minutes just isn\'t necessary anymore.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Then I asked a friend (and another!) who told me my hair looked like bedroom hair.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">This is a composite of both of their conversations with me -\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:     <span style=\"color: #548dd4;\">It looks like bedroom hair.</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #00b050;\">It looks like bedroom hair. Sexy!\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:     <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">So I look like how all the viewers look when they wake up. Yeah, we are all on the same page.\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:     <span style=\"color: #548dd4;\">No it looks like you were at your boyfriend\'s apartment overnight and grabbed a shirt and ran over there to do the segment.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 144pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:     <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">It looks like I didn\'t shower? Ew. Gross.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:     <span style=\"color: #00b050;\">No it looks like you were out late last night, went over a guy\'s house had sex and did the walk of shame directly to work.\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:     <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">That would explain a lot of the emails I received when I got home.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:    <span style=\"color: #00b050;\">You look like the hotness.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:    <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">Should I aim to look like the hotness more in 2009?\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:     <span style=\"color: #00b050;\">Well it was Global Orgasm Day so you definitely helped some of those viewers out.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:    <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">Glad someone\'s having fun in that department *sigh*</span></span></p>','Hair Daze',0,'','publish','open','open','','hair-daze','','','2008-12-22 10:32:14','2008-12-22 15:32:14','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/22/hair-daze/',0,'post','',1),(593,2,'2008-12-22 10:31:38','2008-12-22 15:31:38','<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">When I went downstairs to go do my live segment at <a href=\"http://www.wcbstv.com/victoria\">WCBS</a> yesterday morning, my car hadn\'t arrived.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And rather than risk being late by waiting around, I decided to grab a yellow cab.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I didn\'t run back upstairs to get a hat. I just started walking to the corner to hail a taxi.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Walked fast with the snow coming down on me.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">And rain. The rain snow came down on me.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I waited in the dirty slush puddle for a yellow cab. My hair was still in the bun I put it in to go to bed.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I always put my hair up in a bun. Occasionally when I take it out the bun, I comb it. Maybe brush it too for good measure.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">This morning, I was even more neglectful than usual to my hair. So in the bun it stayed.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">The hair stylist at WCBS didn\'t touch my hair. He asked what I wanted to do and I said \"nothing because it\'s a major mess.\"\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Did the segment, came home and went on Twitter (of course!) to find several emails from viewers, a few Facebook messages and a tweet by <a href=\"http://mom-101.blogspot.com\">Liz</a> about how I looked -\n</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122208-1524-hairdaze1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I love Liz but I seriously can\'t understand why she thought my hair looked good.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Here\'s a screen shot for you so you can see what she saw -\n</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122208-1524-hairdaze2.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">After seeing her Tweet, I was on the phone with my mother and she said my hair has looked better. lol Which is exactly what I was thinking.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I\'m really surprised by the reaction I received just because my hair had a few waves in it. I guess having someone blow dry it straight for twenty minutes just isn\'t necessary anymore.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Then I asked a friend (and another!) who told me my hair looked like bedroom hair.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">This is a composite of both of their conversations with me -\n</span>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:     <span style=\"color: #548dd4;\">It looks like bedroom hair.</span>\n<span style=\"color: #00b050;\">It looks like bedroom hair. Sexy!\n</span></span>\n\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:     <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">So I look like how all the viewers look when they wake up. Yeah, we are all on the same page.\n</span></span>\n\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:     <span style=\"color: #548dd4;\">No it looks like you were at your boyfriend\'s apartment overnight and grabbed a shirt and ran over there to do the segment.</span>\n</span>\n\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 144pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:     <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">It looks like I didn\'t shower? Ew. Gross.</span>\n</span>\n\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:     <span style=\"color: #00b050;\">No it looks like you were out late last night, went over a guy\'s house had sex and did the walk of shame directly to work.\n</span></span>\n\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:     <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">That would explain a lot of the emails I received when I got home.</span>\n</span>\n\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:    <span style=\"color: #00b050;\">You look like the hotness.</span>\n</span>\n\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:    <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">Should I aim to look like the hotness more in 2009?\n</span></span>\n\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">H:     <span style=\"color: #00b050;\">Well it was Global Orgasm Day so you definitely helped some of those viewers out.</span>\n</span>\n</p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Me:    <span style=\"color: #7030a0;\">Glad someone\'s having fun in that department *sigh*</span></span></p>','Hair Daze',0,'','inherit','open','open','','592-autosave','','','2008-12-22 10:31:38','2008-12-22 15:31:38','',592,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/22/592-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(594,2,'2008-12-22 10:25:08','2008-12-22 15:25:08','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">When I went downstairs to go do my live segment at <a href=\"http://www.wcbstv.com/victoria\">WCBS</a> yesterday morning, my car hadn\'t arrived.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And rather than risk being late by waiting around, I decided to grab a yellow cab.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I didn\'t run back upstairs to get a hat. I just started walking to the corner to hail a taxi.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Walked fast with the snow coming down on me.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And rain.  The rain snow came down on me.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I waited in the dirty slush puddle for a yellow cab.  My hair was still in the bun I put it in to go to bed.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I always put my hair up in a bun.  Occasionally when I take it out the bun, I comb it. Maybe brush it too for good measure.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This morning, I was even more neglectful than usual to my hair. So in the bun it stayed.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The hair stylist at WCBS didn\'t touch my hair. He asked what I wanted to do and I said \"nothing because it\'s a major mess.\"\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Did the segment, came home and went on Twitter (of course!) to find several emails from viewers, a few Facebook messages and a tweet by <a href=\"http://mom-101.blogspot.com\">Liz</a> about how I looked -\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122208-1524-hairdaze1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I love Liz but I seriously can\'t understand why she thought my hair looked good.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s a screen shot for you so you can see what she saw -\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122208-1524-hairdaze2.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">After seeing her Tweet, I was on the phone with my mother and she said my hair has looked better.  lol   Which is exactly what I was thinking.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m really surprised by the reaction I received just because my hair had a few waves in it. I guess having someone blow dry it straight for twenty minutes just isn\'t necessary anymore. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Then I asked a friend (and another!) who told me my hair looked like bedroom hair.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This is a composite of both of their conversations with me -\n</span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">H:     <span style=\"color:#548dd4\">It looks like bedroom hair.</span>\n			<span style=\"color:#00b050\">It looks like bedroom hair. Sexy!\n</span></span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Me:     <span style=\"color:#7030a0\">So I look like how all the viewers look when they wake up. Yeah, we are all on the same page.\n</span></span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">H:     <span style=\"color:#548dd4\">No it looks like you were at your boyfriend\'s apartment overnight and grabbed a shirt and ran over there to do the segment.</span>\n		</span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 144pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Me:     <span style=\"color:#7030a0\">It looks like I didn\'t shower? Ew. Gross.</span>\n		</span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">H:     <span style=\"color:#00b050\">No it looks like you were out late last night, went over a guy\'s house had sex and did the walk of shame directly to work. \n</span></span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Me:     <span style=\"color:#7030a0\">That would explain a lot of the emails I received when I got home.</span>\n		</span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">H:    <span style=\"color:#00b050\">You look like the hotness.</span>\n		</span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Me:    <span style=\"color:#7030a0\">Should I aim to look like the hotness more in 2009?\n</span></span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">H:     <span style=\"color:#00b050\">Well it was Global Orgasm Day so you definitely helped some of those viewers out.</span>\n		</span></p><p style=\"margin-left: 108pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Me:    <span style=\"color:#7030a0\">Glad someone\'s having fun in that department *sigh*</span></span></p>','Hair Daze',0,'','inherit','open','open','','592-revision','','','2008-12-22 10:25:08','2008-12-22 15:25:08','',592,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/22/592-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(595,2,'2008-12-16 07:09:51','2008-12-16 12:09:51','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'ll get right to the point. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">This is the season for giving and I want to give. To children.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The only way that will happen is if everyone reading this post participates.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Each comment posted below is the equivalent of $1 donated to DonorsChoose.org, the charity I\'ve chosen.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html?zone=0\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi15.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"/></a><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">More specifically, I will be helping Kindergarten classes with the money.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">It could be just one class or many – depends on the amount of money raised.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">From now through December 23<sup>rd</sup>, $1 will be donated for each comment up to $1,000.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">You must post a comment answering the question below in order for it to count towards the total amount donated.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Randomizer will choose a winning post. That commenter will receive an Automoblox mini T9 pick up toy worth about $10.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/121608-1151-helpachildi23.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">(It won\'t get there in time for the holidays but it will still be super cool when it arrives in the mail the last week of December.)\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Help spread holiday cheer to Kindergarten students. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s the question:\n</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#365f91; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>As child, the Christmas/Hanukkah gift I wanted but never received was a _____________.</strong></span></p>','Help a Child in Need',0,'','inherit','open','open','','538-revision-6','','','2008-12-16 07:09:51','2008-12-16 12:09:51','',538,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/16/538-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(596,2,'2008-12-25 22:19:13','2008-12-26 03:19:13','','122608-0319-sothisischr1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','122608-0319-sothisischr1jpg','','','2008-12-25 22:19:13','2008-12-26 03:19:13','',597,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122608-0319-sothisischr1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(597,2,'2008-12-25 22:19:14','2008-12-26 03:19:14','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">One thing I\'ll always remember about this Christmas is watching Harrison pull up a chair as soon as he looked up and saw the Yule Log.\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122608-0319-sothisischr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The Yule Log stayed on all morning as we enjoyed Christmas morning.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And while parts of our Christmas were a little bumpy this year (and not just the camera that takes amazing pictures not wanting to work!), the kids loved playing with their new toys and driving me crazy until bedtime.  In my book, that\'s all that really matters.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Hope your Christmas was full of pie and holiday movies </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span>','So This is Christmas',0,'','publish','open','open','','so-this-is-christmas-2','','','2008-12-25 22:22:17','2008-12-26 03:22:17','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/25/so-this-is-christmas-2/',0,'post','',2),(598,2,'2008-12-25 22:23:22','2008-12-26 03:23:22','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">One thing I\'ll always remember about this Christmas is watching Harrison pull up a chair as soon as he looked up and saw the Yule Log.\n</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122608-0319-sothisischr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The Yule Log stayed on all morning as we enjoyed Christmas morning.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And while parts of our Christmas were a little bumpy this year (and not just the camera that takes amazing pictures not wanting to work!), the kids loved playing with their new toys and driving me crazy until bedtime.  In my book, that\'s all that really matters.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Hope your Christmas was full of pie and holiday movies </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span>','So This is Christmas',0,'','inherit','open','open','','597-autosave','','','2008-12-25 22:23:22','2008-12-26 03:23:22','',597,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/25/597-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(599,2,'2008-12-25 22:19:14','2008-12-26 03:19:14','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">One thing I\'ll always remember about this Christmas is watching Harrison pull up a chair as soon as he looked up and saw the Yule Log.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/122608-0319-sothisischr1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">The Yule Log stayed on all morning as we enjoyed Christmas morning.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And while parts of our Christmas were a little bumpy this year (and not just the camera that takes amazing pictures not wanting to work!), the kids loved playing with their new toys and driving me crazy until bedtime.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Hope your Christmas was full of pie and holiday movies </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','So This is Christmas',0,'','inherit','open','open','','597-revision','','','2008-12-25 22:19:14','2008-12-26 03:19:14','',597,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/25/597-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(600,2,'2008-12-29 22:26:01','2008-12-30 03:26:01','','123008-0325-solong20081.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','123008-0325-solong20081jpg','','','2008-12-29 22:26:01','2008-12-30 03:26:01','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong20081.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(601,2,'2008-12-30 00:01:02','2008-12-30 05:01:02','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong200811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"242\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009; I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>xoxo Victoria\r\n</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span>','So Long 2008',0,'','publish','open','open','','so-long-2008','','','2009-01-01 02:09:22','2009-01-01 07:09:22','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/?p=601',0,'post','',0),(608,2,'2008-12-30 08:13:46','2008-12-30 13:13:46','','033',0,'','inherit','open','open','','033','','','2008-12-30 08:13:46','2008-12-30 13:13:46','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/033.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(602,2,'2008-12-29 22:28:18','2008-12-30 03:28:18','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong20081.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009;\n</span>\n\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.\n</span>\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"> </p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.\n</span>\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"> </p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.\n</span>\n\n \n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">xoxo Victoria\n</span>\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span></p>','So Long 2008',0,'','inherit','open','open','','601-revision','','','2008-12-29 22:28:18','2008-12-30 03:28:18','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/29/601-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(603,2,'2008-12-29 22:28:31','2008-12-30 03:28:31','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong20081.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009;\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"> </p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"> </p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">xoxo Victoria\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span></p>','So Long 2008',0,'','inherit','open','open','','601-revision-2','','','2008-12-29 22:28:31','2008-12-30 03:28:31','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/29/601-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(604,2,'2008-12-29 22:28:47','2008-12-30 03:28:47','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong20081.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009;\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"> </p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"> </p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">xoxo Victoria\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span></p>','So Long 2008',0,'','inherit','open','open','','601-revision-3','','','2008-12-29 22:28:47','2008-12-30 03:28:47','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/29/601-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(605,2,'2008-12-29 22:32:09','2008-12-30 03:32:09','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong20081.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"mso-no-proof: yes;\"></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Here’s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">xoxo Victoria</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span></p>\r\n\r\n</span>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"> </p>','So Long 2008',0,'','inherit','open','open','','601-revision-4','','','2008-12-29 22:32:09','2008-12-30 03:32:09','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/29/601-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(606,2,'2008-12-30 08:12:07','2008-12-30 13:12:07','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\"></span></p>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009; </span></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.</span>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.</span></p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Here’s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.</span></p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"> </p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><strong>xoxo Victoria</strong></span></p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span></p>\n\n \n\n \n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"> </p>','So Long 2008',0,'','inherit','open','open','','601-autosave','','','2008-12-30 08:12:07','2008-12-30 13:12:07','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/30/601-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(609,2,'2008-12-30 08:17:20','2008-12-30 13:17:20','','123008-0325-solong20081.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','123008-0325-solong20081jpg-2','','','2008-12-30 08:17:20','2008-12-30 13:17:20','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong200811.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(607,2,'2008-12-30 08:06:50','2008-12-30 13:06:50','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong20081.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"> </p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Here’s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">xoxo Victoria</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span></p>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n</span>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"> </p>','So Long 2008',0,'','inherit','open','open','','601-revision-5','','','2008-12-30 08:06:50','2008-12-30 13:06:50','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/30/601-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(610,2,'2008-12-30 08:08:55','2008-12-30 13:08:55','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong20081.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Here’s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"> </p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><strong>xoxo Victoria</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span></p>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"> </p>','So Long 2008',0,'','inherit','open','open','','601-revision-6','','','2008-12-30 08:08:55','2008-12-30 13:08:55','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/30/601-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(611,2,'2010-04-10 08:13:29','2010-04-10 13:13:29','Natalie starts Kindergarten in a few weeks. I’m excited, she’s excited. But along with all of our giddy school girl excitement comes a bunch of paperwork. And a required visit to her rock star pediatrician.\n\nHe dropped the bombshell at her all important 5 year check up Miss Natalie succeeded at failing her vision test; he also recommended a follow up exam elsewhere. Lovely.\n\nWe went home, she celebrated with pizza and ice cream; I logged on to twitter (follow me at <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/veepveep\">@veepveep</a>) the fine news to everyone with good eyes. Minutes later I saw a Blogher ad announcing their event with LensCrafters where attendees would get an eye exam and pair of glasses for nada. And a child’s eye exam for double nada.\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Kismet.</span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Fate.</span> Mommy’s credit card breathing a sigh of relief.\n\nEmailed Superstar Jenny and I was added to the guest list. Yea!\n\nThe evening of the event there was a torrential downpour – aka The Day Mother Nature Used My Blue Dress To Dry Her Eyes, Soak Up Her Snot and a few other things to cause you to ball your eyes out (namely you step into a puddle while wearing Louboutin ballet slippers.)\n\nBut still I persevered. There were promised libations in glasses and mingling to be done. And prescription glasses!!\n\nUpon arrival I was greeted and offered food and drink while I took a look around the store. I took pictures of the store and of the official event photographer – Hey, I have eyes remember?! (Il est tres beau, oui? Oui!)\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters011.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\nGlasses, glasses, everywhere, glasses near and far.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters02.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\nHundreds of glasses … some funky, some plain… definitely enough to choose from no matter your personality.\n\nA few minutes later I was brought over to a LensCrafters fashion style expert named Natasha. She works at their 20th Street and Fifth Avenue location (don’t mind my shiny face) –\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters03.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\nNatasha toured me around the LensCrafters store and patiently (ok, really patiently) listened to my quirky reasons why I wouldn’t consider each designer frame after designer frame she suggested.  Natasha understood my weird reasoning and then inspired confidence in me to go against my usual comfort zone of silver frames. I decided to try something new. We managed to find six pairs.. even one that made me look like a sexy librarian.. but I put that one back .. until I get a job anchoring FOX NEWS.\n\nMy six pairs of frames then became three… And then it was time to play “mirror mirror on the wall, which pairs the fairest of them all?â€\n\nLook #1 is from Chanel .. also known as the first pair I was given to try and at first I told Natasha “no wayâ€…\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-444 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters04\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"273\" /></p>\n\nAnd then two others… one by Dolce &amp; Gabanna\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-445 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters05\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"273\" /></p>\n\nAnd one from Bulgari\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-446 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters06\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"264\" /></p>\n\nAnd those fine readers are the winning pair… which I would have never chosen in a million years if it weren’t for Natasha gently pressing me to get a pair that weren’t my usual boring plain silver frames.\n\nAfter finding my frames, it was time for a presentation on eye health by Dr. Eliot Grossman, the VP of Eye Care for LensCrafters who explained the importance of annual comprehensive eye exams for every member of the family. He impressed upon us the fact that basic screenings don’t show the possible health issues that can be seen during these eye exams.\n\nDr. Shirlie Dowd -- who is at the 55th and Second location where Miss Natalie will be getting her eye exam – talked next about eye disease not being limited to problems with your sight and how she tries to educate people who haven’t had an eye exam in years about the need for pro-active care. She even told us a story about one of the Optometrists present at the event finding an undiagnosed brain tumor during an eye exam. Yea. Wow.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters07\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" /></p>\n\nAnd the lovely Gina Garrubo of BlogHer was happy we were able to attend and receive valuable information on eye health for our families. I think she realized we genuinely appreciated the informative presentation.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-448 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters08\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"259\" /></p>\n\nAfter the presentations, out came my contacts and I took a test for glaucoma and then used the Optimap machine which shows detailed images of our eyes from behind the cornea.\n\nDuring my eye exam Dr. Hilmer asked about my family’s health, figured out my prescription and also saw my scar from the corneal abrasion I got when was a teenager. Yes, the scar is still there.  But according to Dr. Hilmer, the 4mm scar will never get bigger so that’s good news considering I’ve been told if it was 1mm to the left I would have lost my eyesight.\n\nAfter my comprehensive eye exam but before I braved the rain to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">drink sangria with another blogger</span> go home, I received a gift bag with a cute eyeglass case, lens cleaner and a gift certificate for a kid’s eye exam.  My glasses would arrive in a week.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-449 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters09\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"249\" /></p>\n\nIf my pictures look awful, blame the rain. Shortly after leaving the event, my HP Photosmart R827 was dropped, rained on and pretty much damaged. Time for a new camera… hmm… wonder if a digital camera brand is doing an event soon? ;)\n\nThis <a href=\"http://www.lenscrafters.com/\">LensCrafters</a> event recap is a compensated review of a <a href=\"http://www.blogher.com/\">BlogHer</a> event','Eyes Wide Open',0,'','inherit','open','open','','439-autosave','','','2010-04-10 08:13:29','2010-04-10 13:13:29','',439,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/31/439-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(612,2,'2008-11-29 18:33:12','2008-11-29 23:33:12','Natalie starts Kindergarten in a few weeks. I’m excited, she’s excited. But along with all of our giddy school girl excitement comes a bunch of paperwork. And a required visit to her rock star pediatrician.\r\n\r\nHe dropped the bombshell at her all important 5 year check up that Miss Natalie succeeded at failing her vision test; he also recommended a follow up exam elsewhere. Lovely.\r\n\r\nWe went home, she celebrated with pizza and ice cream; I logged on to twitter (<a href=\"http://twitter.com/nominivan\">@nominivan</a>) the fine news to everyone with good eyes.Minutes later I saw a Blogher ad announcing their event with LensCrafters where attendees would get an eye exam and pair of glasses for nada. And a child’s eye exam for double nada.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Kismet.</span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Fate.</span> Mommy’s credit card breathing a sigh of relief.\r\n\r\nEmailed Superstar Jenny and I was added to the guest list. Yea!\r\n\r\nThe evening of the event there was a torrential downpour – aka The Day Mother Nature Used My Blue Dress To Dry Her Eyes, Soak Up Her Snot and other things that happen when you ball your eyes out because you step into a puddle while wearing Louboutin ballet slippers.\r\n\r\nBut still I persevered. There were promised libations in glasses and mingling to be done. And prescription glasses!!\r\n\r\nUpon arrival I was greeted and offered food and drink while I took a look around the store. And took pictures of the store and of the official event\r\nphotographer – Hey, I have eyes remember?! (Il est tres beau, oui? Oui!)\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters011.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\nGlasses, glasses, everywhere, glasses near and far.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters02.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\nHundreds of glasses … some funky, some plain… definitely enough to choose from no matter your personality.\r\n\r\nA few minutes later I was brought over to a LensCrafters fashion style expert named Natasha. She works at their 20th Street and Fifth Avenue location (don’t mind my shiny face) –\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters03.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\nNatasha toured me around the LensCrafters store and patiently (ok, really patiently) listened to my quirky reasons why I wouldn’t consider each designer frame after designer frame she suggested.  Natasha understood my weird reasoning and then inspired confidence in me to go against my usual comfort zone of silver frames. I decided to try something new. We managed to find six pairs.. even one that made me look like a sexy librarian.. but I put that one back .. until I get a job on FOX NEWS.\r\n\r\nMy six pairs of frames then became three… And then it was time to play “mirror mirror on the wall, which pairs the fairest of them all?â€\r\n\r\nLook #1 is from Chanel .. also known as the first pair I was given to try and at first I told Natasha “no wayâ€…\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-444 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters04\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"273\" /></p>\r\nAnd then two others… one by Dolce &amp; Gabanna\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-445 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters05\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"273\" /></p>\r\nAnd one from Bulgari\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-446 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters06\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"264\" /></p>\r\nAnd those fine readers are the winning pair… which I would have never chosen in a million years if it weren’t for Natasha gently pressing me to get a pair that weren’t my usual boring plain silver frames.\r\n\r\nAfter finding my frames, it was time for a presentation on eye health by Dr. Eliot Grossman, the VP of Eye Care for LensCrafters who explained the importance of annual comprehensive eye exams for every member of the family. He impressed upon us the fact that basic screenings don’t show the possible health issues that can be seen during these eye exams.\r\n\r\nDr. Shirlie Dowd -- who is at the 55th and Second location where Miss Natalie will be getting her eye exam – talked next about eye disease not being limited to problems with your sight and how she tries to educate people who haven’t had an eye exam in years about the need for pro-active care. She even told us a story about one of the Optometrists present at the event finding an undiagnosed brain tumor during an eye exam. Yea. Wow.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters07\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" /></p>\r\nAnd the lovely Gina Garrubo of BlogHer was happy we were able to attend and receive valuable information on eye health for our families. I think she realized we genuinely appreciated the informative presentation.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-448 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters08\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"259\" /></p>\r\nAfter the presentations, out came my contacts and I took a test for glaucoma and then used the Optimap machine which shows detailed images of our eyes from behind the cornea.\r\n\r\nDuring my eye exam Dr. Hilmer asked about my family’s health, figured out my prescription and also saw my scar from the corneal abrasion I got when was a teenager. Yes, the scar is still there.  But according to Dr. Hilmer, the 4mm scar will never get bigger so that’s good news considering I’ve been told if it was 1mm to the left I would have lost my eyesight.\r\n\r\nAfter my comprehensive eye exam but before I braved the rain to drink sangria with another blogger go home, I received a gift bag with a cute eyeglass case, lens cleaner and a gift certificate for a kid’s eye exam.  My glasses would arrive in a week.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-449 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters09\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"249\" /></p>\r\nIf my pictures look awful, blame the rain. Shortly after leaving the event, my HP Photosmart R827 was dropped, rained on and pretty much damaged. Time for a new camera… hmm… wonder if a digital camera brand is doing an event soon?\r\n\r\nThis <a href=\"http://www.lenscrafters.com/\">LensCrafters</a> event recap is a compensated review of a <a href=\"http://www.blogher.com/\">BlogHer</a> event','Eyes Wide Open',0,'','inherit','open','open','','439-revision','','','2008-11-29 18:33:12','2008-11-29 23:33:12','',439,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/11/29/439-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(613,2,'2008-12-31 08:35:23','2008-12-31 13:35:23','Natalie starts Kindergarten in a few weeks. I’m excited, she’s excited. But along with all of our giddy school girl excitement comes a bunch of paperwork. And a required visit to her rock star pediatrician.\r\n\r\nHe dropped the bombshell at her all important 5 year check up Miss Natalie succeeded at failing her vision test; he also recommended a follow up exam elsewhere. Lovely.\r\n\r\nWe went home, she celebrated with pizza and ice cream; I logged on to twitter (<a href=\"http://twitter.com/nominivan\">@nominivan</a>) the fine news to everyone with good eyes. Minutes later I saw a Blogher ad announcing their event with LensCrafters where attendees would get an eye exam and pair of glasses for nada. And a child’s eye exam for double nada.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Kismet.</span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Fate.</span> Mommy’s credit card breathing a sigh of relief.\r\n\r\nEmailed Superstar Jenny and I was added to the guest list. Yea!\r\n\r\nThe evening of the event there was a torrential downpour – aka The Day Mother Nature Used My Blue Dress To Dry Her Eyes, Soak Up Her Snot and a few other things to cause you to ball your eyes out (namely you step into a puddle while wearing Louboutin ballet slippers.)\r\n\r\nBut still I persevered. There were promised libations in glasses and mingling to be done. And prescription glasses!!\r\n\r\nUpon arrival I was greeted and offered food and drink while I took a look around the store. I took pictures of the store and of the official event photographer – Hey, I have eyes remember?! (Il est tres beau, oui? Oui!)\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters011.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\nGlasses, glasses, everywhere, glasses near and far.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters02.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\nHundreds of glasses … some funky, some plain… definitely enough to choose from no matter your personality.\r\n\r\nA few minutes later I was brought over to a LensCrafters fashion style expert named Natasha. She works at their 20th Street and Fifth Avenue location (don’t mind my shiny face) –\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters03.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\r\n\r\nNatasha toured me around the LensCrafters store and patiently (ok, really patiently) listened to my quirky reasons why I wouldn’t consider each designer frame after designer frame she suggested.  Natasha understood my weird reasoning and then inspired confidence in me to go against my usual comfort zone of silver frames. I decided to try something new. We managed to find six pairs.. even one that made me look like a sexy librarian.. but I put that one back .. until I get a job anchoring FOX NEWS.\r\n\r\nMy six pairs of frames then became three… And then it was time to play “mirror mirror on the wall, which pairs the fairest of them all?â€\r\n\r\nLook #1 is from Chanel .. also known as the first pair I was given to try and at first I told Natasha “no wayâ€…\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-444 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters04\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"273\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd then two others… one by Dolce &amp; Gabanna\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-445 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters05\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"273\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd one from Bulgari\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-446 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters06\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"264\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd those fine readers are the winning pair… which I would have never chosen in a million years if it weren’t for Natasha gently pressing me to get a pair that weren’t my usual boring plain silver frames.\r\n\r\nAfter finding my frames, it was time for a presentation on eye health by Dr. Eliot Grossman, the VP of Eye Care for LensCrafters who explained the importance of annual comprehensive eye exams for every member of the family. He impressed upon us the fact that basic screenings don’t show the possible health issues that can be seen during these eye exams.\r\n\r\nDr. Shirlie Dowd -- who is at the 55th and Second location where Miss Natalie will be getting her eye exam – talked next about eye disease not being limited to problems with your sight and how she tries to educate people who haven’t had an eye exam in years about the need for pro-active care. She even told us a story about one of the Optometrists present at the event finding an undiagnosed brain tumor during an eye exam. Yea. Wow.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters07\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAnd the lovely Gina Garrubo of BlogHer was happy we were able to attend and receive valuable information on eye health for our families. I think she realized we genuinely appreciated the informative presentation.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-448 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters08\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"259\" /></p>\r\n\r\nAfter the presentations, out came my contacts and I took a test for glaucoma and then used the Optimap machine which shows detailed images of our eyes from behind the cornea.\r\n\r\nDuring my eye exam Dr. Hilmer asked about my family’s health, figured out my prescription and also saw my scar from the corneal abrasion I got when was a teenager. Yes, the scar is still there.  But according to Dr. Hilmer, the 4mm scar will never get bigger so that’s good news considering I’ve been told if it was 1mm to the left I would have lost my eyesight.\r\n\r\nAfter my comprehensive eye exam but before I braved the rain to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">drink sangria with another blogger</span> go home, I received a gift bag with a cute eyeglass case, lens cleaner and a gift certificate for a kid’s eye exam.  My glasses would arrive in a week.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-449 aligncenter\" title=\"lenscrafters09\" src=\"http://www.savvymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lenscrafters09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"249\" /></p>\r\n\r\nIf my pictures look awful, blame the rain. Shortly after leaving the event, my HP Photosmart R827 was dropped, rained on and pretty much damaged. Time for a new camera… hmm… wonder if a digital camera brand is doing an event soon? ;)\r\n\r\nThis <a href=\"http://www.lenscrafters.com/\">LensCrafters</a> event recap is a compensated review of a <a href=\"http://www.blogher.com/\">BlogHer</a> event','Eyes Wide Open',0,'','inherit','open','open','','439-revision-2','','','2008-12-31 08:35:23','2008-12-31 13:35:23','',439,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/31/439-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(614,2,'2008-12-31 23:59:16','2009-01-01 04:59:16','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\r\n\r\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look if you didn\'t know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not a pretty sight.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/martin_scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Scorsese\" width=\"131\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" /></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.</span>\r\n\r\n <span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"259\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"258\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','publish','open','open','','getting-ready-for-2009','','','2009-01-01 08:10:50','2009-01-01 13:10:50','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/31/getting-ready-for-2009/',0,'post','',0),(615,2,'2009-01-01 00:18:48','2009-01-01 05:18:48','','010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','010109-0459-gettingread1jpg','','','2009-01-01 00:18:48','2009-01-01 05:18:48','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(616,2,'2009-01-01 00:18:54','2009-01-01 05:18:54','','010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','010109-0459-gettingread2jpg','','','2009-01-01 00:18:54','2009-01-01 05:18:54','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(617,2,'2008-12-31 23:59:16','2009-01-01 04:59:16','<p>Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing to do… rush to be ready for the next year.\n</p><p>Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the eating and drinking until January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their tree and other decorations down.\n</p><p>What do I do?<br /><br />Every year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure.  Because well, who wants ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year?  LOL\n</p><p>I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows.  I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll give you a TMI alert!) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not pretty.\n</p><p>Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But to be honest it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party. *Yes, hair make up and everything else.\n</p><p>\n </p><p>\n </p><p>\n </p><p>\n </p><p>\n </p><p>\n </p><p>And with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009.  I hope it kicks arse.\n</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision','','','2008-12-31 23:59:16','2009-01-01 04:59:16','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/31/614-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(618,2,'2009-01-01 08:12:00','2009-01-01 13:12:00','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\n\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look if you didn\'t know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not a pretty sight.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/martin_scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Scorsese\" width=\"131\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" /></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.</span>\n\n <span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.</span>\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"259\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\n</span>\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"258\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-autosave','','','2009-01-01 08:12:00','2009-01-01 13:12:00','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(619,2,'2009-01-01 00:18:55','2009-01-01 05:18:55','<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their tree and other decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)<br /><br />Every year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure.  Because well, who wants ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year?  LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get with each of my little piggies.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows.  I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll give you a TMI alert!) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not pretty.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But to be honest it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. *Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.  When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut.  I chose Essie Starter Wife.  Yes I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And my little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list. \n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure.  Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan.  A bit of a disconnect no?  Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009.  I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision-2','','','2009-01-01 00:18:55','2009-01-01 05:18:55','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(620,2,'2009-01-01 00:27:07','2009-01-01 05:27:07','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\r\n\r\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, who wants ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get with each of my little piggies.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll give you a TMI alert!) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not pretty.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But to be honest it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. *Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance. When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">And my little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision-3','','','2009-01-01 00:27:07','2009-01-01 05:27:07','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(621,2,'2009-01-01 00:41:39','2009-01-01 05:41:39','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\r\n\r\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look if you didn\'t know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not a pretty sight.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/martin_scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Scorsese\" width=\"131\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" />\r\n</span> \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision-4','','','2009-01-01 00:41:39','2009-01-01 05:41:39','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(622,2,'2009-01-01 00:41:41','2009-01-01 05:41:41','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\r\n\r\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look if you didn\'t know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not a pretty sight.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/martin_scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Scorsese\" width=\"131\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" />\r\n</span> \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision-5','','','2009-01-01 00:41:41','2009-01-01 05:41:41','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(623,2,'2009-01-01 00:47:09','2009-01-01 05:47:09','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\r\n\r\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look if you didn\'t know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not a pretty sight.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/martin_scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Scorsese\" width=\"131\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" /></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.\r\n</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision-6','','','2009-01-01 00:47:09','2009-01-01 05:47:09','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(624,2,'2009-01-01 00:55:45','2009-01-01 05:55:45','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\r\n\r\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look if you didn\'t know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not a pretty sight.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/martin_scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Scorsese\" width=\"131\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" /></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"259\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"258\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision-7','','','2009-01-01 00:55:45','2009-01-01 05:55:45','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(625,2,'2008-12-30 08:17:21','2008-12-30 13:17:21','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/123008-0325-solong200811.jpg\" alt=\"\"/>\n	</p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Before you get started on the goals and projects you have coming up in 2009; I wanted to wish you a Healthy and Happy New Year.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Here\'s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.\n</span></p><p>\n </p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>xoxo Victoria\n</strong></span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Carl Schurz Park, New York - December 28, 2008</span></p>','So Long 2008',0,'','inherit','open','open','','601-revision-7','','','2008-12-30 08:17:21','2008-12-30 13:17:21','',601,'http://www.veepveep.com/2008/12/30/601-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(626,2,'2009-01-01 00:58:17','2009-01-01 05:58:17','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\r\n\r\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look if you didn\'t know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not a pretty sight.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/martin_scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Scorsese\" width=\"131\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" /></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.</span>\r\n\r\n <span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"259\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"258\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision-8','','','2009-01-01 00:58:17','2009-01-01 05:58:17','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(627,2,'2009-01-01 08:10:27','2009-01-01 13:10:27','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sure every year in December we bake cookies and hang stockings for the holidays while some people have a different list of musts during the holiday season… but when the holidays are over there is pretty much one thing everyone generally does … rush to be ready for the next year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Some people clean their house from top to bottom (or as much as they can) while others just continue on in the merriment of eating and drinking until after January 1<sup>st</sup> when they take their Christmas tree and other holiday decorations down and start to regret packing on the pounds in the last days of the year.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)</span>\r\n\r\nEvery year, I go to the nail salon and get a manicure and pedicure. Because well, why have ugly hands and feet when it\'s the start of a new year? LOL At least that\'s what I think. And look if you didn\'t know before, you will now, I have ballerina feet so I need every ounce of help I can get for each of my little piggies.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I went yesterday to a neighborhood nail salon for a manicure and pedicure and to wax my eyebrows. I know you think that\'s an over share (Promise.. next time I\'ll start with a TMI alert) but darling you haven\'t seen my eyebrows when they aren\'t done. Think Martin Scorcese. Yes, it\'s just simply not a pretty sight.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/martin_scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Scorsese\" width=\"131\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" /></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Anyway, I took Natalie with me so she could get a little lady manicure and it was such a delight for me to watch. Of course I snapped photos. But in full disclosure it wasn\'t her first time getting a manicure. She had one a few weeks ago at a classmate\'s glamour birthday party*. (Yes, hair, makeup and everything else you\'d think teenage girls would get for a school dance.) When she came home, I was so thrilled to see her hot pink nails that it was definitely something I knew I wouldn\'t mind seeing again.</span>\r\n\r\n <span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">So I told Natalie to pick any color she wanted – peach daiquiri made the cut. I chose Essie Starter Wife. Yes, I know. We won\'t discuss my choice of nail color.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"259\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Look what I was given during my pedicure. Seriously, why can\'t the New York cast have branded flip flops at salons in Manhattan. A bit of a disconnect no? Either way, I thought they were a fun surprise.\r\n</span>\r\n</p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-0459-gettingread2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"258\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Like my ugly foot?\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia\">Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. </span><span style=\"font-family:Wingdings\">J</span></span></p>','Getting Ready for 2009',0,'','inherit','open','open','','614-revision-9','','','2009-01-01 08:10:27','2009-01-01 13:10:27','',614,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/614-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(628,2,'2009-01-01 10:46:49','2009-01-01 15:46:49','','010109-1546-firstthings1.jpg',0,'','inherit','open','open','','010109-1546-firstthings1jpg','','','2009-01-01 10:46:49','2009-01-01 15:46:49','',629,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-1546-firstthings1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpg',0),(629,2,'2009-01-01 10:46:50','2009-01-01 15:46:50','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m like a NyQuil commercial over there.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Woke up this morning all <span style=\"color:black\">sniffling sneezing coughing aching (and probably a little lazy and whiny) with a stuffyhead.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A nice way to start the new year right? </span>\r\n\r\nWell I suppose it could be worse. I don\'t have a fever.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Took some liquid Tylenol (let\'s see if it really should be called Rapid Liquid Blast!) and hope that <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">this cold</span> whatever this is is short lived.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But the fact I find the box of tissues to be too far away maybe an indication that either the next few days are going to be dreadful or that I\'m being cranky and lazy since it\'s just a little after eight and I should be asleep.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">While I\'m on the topic of sleep, I would really like to bribe someone to come over here and take the kids out for the day -- to the park, to a kid friendly restaurant, anywhere but within earshot, because sometimes the sounds of delightful children can still aggravate mamas with head colds. Those sounds become anything but delightful.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sadly, I checked the weather before I dialed my mother\'s number and its 14 degrees feeling like 4 out so I couldn\'t do that to them (or to her!). I\'ll just have to try and rest with them home. Maybe I\'ll serve them up a steady diet of Noggin in the morning – which is possible now that Time Warner and Viacom made a last minute agreement … <em>phew!</em> -- and then fill the afternoon with our newest holiday tradition --Nintendo Wii bowling.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My five year old has gotten some pretty amazing scores for never playing Wii Sports before a week ago!\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-1546-firstthings1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m back to work on Monday (you can just feel my happiness can\'t you!?) so there\'s enough time for me to recover if I need it.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">----</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Car Song</strong> - <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzLWLFTPPI\">New Year\'s Day </a>by U2  \"I will begin again\"</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Next stop - </strong>Tomorrow morning I\'m taking Miss Nat to an Off Broadway musical for kids called <a href=\"http://dearedwina.com/about.html\">Dear Edwina</a>. I\'ve been trying to spend more one on one time with Miss Nat and this play looks like fun.</span></p>','First Things First',0,'','publish','open','open','','first-things-first','','','2009-01-02 19:06:59','2009-01-03 00:06:59','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/first-things-first/',0,'post','',2),(630,2,'2009-01-02 19:08:09','2009-01-03 00:08:09','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m like a NyQuil commercial over there.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Woke up this morning all <span style=\"color:black\">sniffling sneezing coughing aching (and probably a little lazy and whiny) with a stuffyhead.</span>\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A nice way to start the new year right? </span>\n\nWell I suppose it could be worse. I don\'t have a fever.\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Took some liquid Tylenol (let\'s see if it really should be called Rapid Liquid Blast!) and hope that <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">this cold</span> whatever this is is short lived.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But the fact I find the box of tissues to be too far away maybe an indication that either the next few days are going to be dreadful or that I\'m being cranky and lazy since it\'s just a little after eight and I should be asleep.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">While I\'m on the topic of sleep, I would really like to bribe someone to come over here and take the kids out for the day -- to the park, to a kid friendly restaurant, anywhere but within earshot, because sometimes the sounds of delightful children can still aggravate mamas with head colds. Those sounds become anything but delightful.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sadly, I checked the weather before I dialed my mother\'s number and its 14 degrees feeling like 4 out so I couldn\'t do that to them (or to her!). I\'ll just have to try and rest with them home. Maybe I\'ll serve them up a steady diet of Noggin in the morning – which is possible now that Time Warner and Viacom made a last minute agreement … <em>phew!</em> -- and then fill the afternoon with our newest holiday tradition --Nintendo Wii bowling.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My five year old has gotten some pretty amazing scores for never playing Wii Sports before a week ago!\n</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-1546-firstthings1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m back to work on Monday (you can just feel my happiness can\'t you!?) so there\'s enough time for me to recover if I need it.\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">----</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Car Song</strong> - <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzLWLFTPPI\">New Year\'s Day </a>by U2  \"I will begin again\"</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Next stop - </strong>Tomorrow morning I\'m taking Miss Nat to an Off Broadway musical for kids called <a href=\"http://dearedwina.com/about.html\">Dear Edwina</a>. 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I don\'t have a fever.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Took some liquid Tylenol (let\'s see if it really should be called Rapid Liquid Blast!) and hope that <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">this cold</span> whatever this is is short lived.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But the fact I find the box of tissues to be too far away maybe an indication that either the next few days are going to be dreadful or that I\'m being cranky and lazy since it\'s just a little after eight and I should be asleep. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">While I\'m on the topic of sleep, I would really like to bribe someone to come over here and take the kids out for the day -- to the park, to a kid friendly restaurant, anywhere but within earshot, because sometimes the sounds of delightful children can still aggravate mamas with head colds. Those sounds become anything but delightful.\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sadly, I checked the weather before I dialed my mother\'s number and its 14 degrees feeling like 4 out so I couldn\'t do that to them (or to her!). I\'ll just have to try and rest with them home. Maybe I\'ll serve them up a steady diet of Noggin in the morning – which is possible now that Time Warner and Viacom made a last minute agreement … <em>phew!</em> -- and then fill the afternoon with our newest holiday tradition --Nintendo Wii bowling. \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My five year old has gotten some pretty amazing scores for never playing Wii Sports before a week ago!\n</span></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-1546-firstthings1.jpg\" alt=\"\"/><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n		</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m back to work on Monday (you can just feel my happiness can\'t you!?) so there\'s enough time for me to recover if I need it.  \n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">----\n</span></p><p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Up Next: Tomorrow morning I\'m taking Miss Nat to an Off Broadway musical for kids called <a href=\"http://dearedwina.com/about.html\">Dear Edwina</a>.  I\'ve been trying to spend more one on one time with Miss Nat and this play looks like fun.</span></p>','First Things First',0,'','inherit','open','open','','629-revision','','','2009-01-01 10:46:50','2009-01-01 15:46:50','',629,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/01/629-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(632,2,'2009-01-01 11:28:17','2009-01-01 16:28:17','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m like a NyQuil commercial over there.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Woke up this morning all <span style=\"color:black\">sniffling sneezing coughing aching (and probably a little lazy and whiny) with a stuffyhead.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">A nice way to start the new year right? </span>\r\n\r\nWell I suppose it could be worse. I don\'t have a fever.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Took some liquid Tylenol (let\'s see if it really should be called Rapid Liquid Blast!) and hope that <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">this cold</span> whatever this is is short lived.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">But the fact I find the box of tissues to be too far away maybe an indication that either the next few days are going to be dreadful or that I\'m being cranky and lazy since it\'s just a little after eight and I should be asleep.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">While I\'m on the topic of sleep, I would really like to bribe someone to come over here and take the kids out for the day -- to the park, to a kid friendly restaurant, anywhere but within earshot, because sometimes the sounds of delightful children can still aggravate mamas with head colds. Those sounds become anything but delightful.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sadly, I checked the weather before I dialed my mother\'s number and its 14 degrees feeling like 4 out so I couldn\'t do that to them (or to her!). I\'ll just have to try and rest with them home. Maybe I\'ll serve them up a steady diet of Noggin in the morning – which is possible now that Time Warner and Viacom made a last minute agreement … <em>phew!</em> -- and then fill the afternoon with our newest holiday tradition --Nintendo Wii bowling.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My five year old has gotten some pretty amazing scores for never playing Wii Sports before a week ago!\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-1546-firstthings1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m back to work on Monday (you can just feel my happiness can\'t you!?) so there\'s enough time for me to recover if I need it.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">----\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>On the road ahead</strong>: Tomorrow morning I\'m taking Miss Nat to an Off Broadway musical for kids called <a href=\"http://dearedwina.com/about.html\">Dear Edwina</a>. 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Those sounds become anything but delightful.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Sadly, I checked the weather before I dialed my mother\'s number and its 14 degrees feeling like 4 out so I couldn\'t do that to them (or to her!). I\'ll just have to try and rest with them home. Maybe I\'ll serve them up a steady diet of Noggin in the morning – which is possible now that Time Warner and Viacom made a last minute agreement … <em>phew!</em> -- and then fill the afternoon with our newest holiday tradition --Nintendo Wii bowling.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">My five year old has gotten some pretty amazing scores for never playing Wii Sports before a week ago!\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/010109-1546-firstthings1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">I\'m back to work on Monday (you can just feel my happiness can\'t you!?) so there\'s enough time for me to recover if I need it.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">----</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Song for the Road - <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzLWLFTPPI\">New Year\'s Day </a>by U2</span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><strong>On the road ahead</strong>: Tomorrow morning I\'m taking Miss Nat to an Off Broadway musical for kids called <a href=\"http://dearedwina.com/about.html\">Dear Edwina</a>. 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Believing in <span style=\"color: #000080;\">yourself </span>is <span style=\"color: #000080;\">a recipe for destruction.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2. Every time I see <span style=\"color: #000080;\">a bell ring</span>, I <span style=\"color: #000080;\">think an angel got his wings. Then I think that some other angel lost his because someone masturbated.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">3. On my DVR you will find <span style=\"color: #000080;\">my cat. Because it\'s warm.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">4. Having <span style=\"color: #000080;\">a cold sore</span><strong> </strong>means <span style=\"color: #000080;\">always having to defend your promiscuity.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">5. 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Believing in <strong><em>yourself</em></strong> is <strong><em>a recipe for destruction</em></strong>.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2. Every time I see <strong><em>a bell ring</em></strong>, I <strong><em>think an angel got his wings. Then I think that some other angel lost his because someone masturbated.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">3. On my DVR you will find <strong><em>my cat. Because it\'s warm.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">4. Having <strong><em>a cold sore </em></strong>means <strong><em>always having to defend your promiscuity.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">5. 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Believing in <strong><em>yourself</em></strong> is <strong><em>a recipe for destruction</em></strong>.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2. Every time I see <strong><em>a bell ring</em></strong>, I <strong><em>think an angel got his wings. Then I think that some other angel lost his because someone masturbated.</em></strong></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">3. On my DVR you will find <strong><em>my cat. Because it\'s warm.</em></strong></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">4. Having <strong><em>a cold sore </em></strong>means <strong><em>always having to defend your promiscuity.</em></strong></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">5. After <strong><em>the end of the world, no one will care if your files are in order so you should spend that time watching TV instead.</em></strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\n</span></span>','Jenny Lawson * Drive Thru Interview',0,'','inherit','open','open','','634-revision','','','2009-01-02 13:07:50','2009-01-02 18:07:50','',634,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/02/634-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(640,2,'2009-01-02 13:10:33','2009-01-02 18:10:33','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Your Name:         Jenny Lawson, Bloggess</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Location:              Houston(ish) Texas</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Blog Name:          The Bloggess, Good Mom/Bad Mom</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Blog URL:             <a href=\"http://www.thebloggess.com\">www.thebloggess.com</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Twitter name:    @thebloggess</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1. Believing in <strong>yourself</strong> is <strong>a recipe for destruction</strong>.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2. Every time I see <strong>a bell ring</strong>, I <strong>think an angel got his wings. Then I think that some other angel lost his because someone masturbated.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">3. On my DVR you will find <strong>my cat. Because it\'s warm.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">4. Having <strong>a cold sore </strong>means <strong>always having to defend your promiscuity.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">5. After <strong>the end of the world, no one will care if your files are in order so you should spend that time watching TV instead.</strong></span>','Jenny Lawson - Bloggess - Drive Thru Interview',0,'','inherit','open','open','','634-revision-6','','','2009-01-02 13:10:33','2009-01-02 18:10:33','',634,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/02/634-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(638,2,'2009-01-02 13:08:09','2009-01-02 18:08:09','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Your Name:         Jenny Lawson, Bloggess</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Location:         Houston(ish) Texas</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Blog Name:         The Bloggess, Good Mom/Bad Mom</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Blog URL:         <a href=\"http://www.thebloggess.com\">www.thebloggess.com</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Twitter name:         @thebloggess</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1. Believing in <strong><em>yourself</em></strong> is <strong><em>a recipe for destruction</em></strong>.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2. Every time I see <strong><em>a bell ring</em></strong>, I <strong><em>think an angel got his wings. Then I think that some other angel lost his because someone masturbated.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">3. On my DVR you will find <strong><em>my cat. Because it\'s warm.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">4. Having <strong><em>a cold sore </em></strong>means <strong><em>always having to defend your promiscuity.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">5. After <strong><em>the end of the world, no one will care if your files are in order so you should spend that time watching TV instead.</em></strong></span>','Jenny Lawson * Drive Thru Interview',0,'','inherit','open','open','','634-revision-4','','','2009-01-02 13:08:09','2009-01-02 18:08:09','',634,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/02/634-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(639,2,'2009-01-02 13:08:26','2009-01-02 18:08:26','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Your Name:         Jenny Lawson, Bloggess</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Location:         Houston(ish) Texas</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Blog Name:         The Bloggess, Good Mom/Bad Mom</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Blog URL:         <a href=\"http://www.thebloggess.com\">www.thebloggess.com</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Twitter name:         @thebloggess</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1. Believing in <strong><em>yourself</em></strong> is <strong><em>a recipe for destruction</em></strong>.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2. Every time I see <strong><em>a bell ring</em></strong>, I <strong><em>think an angel got his wings. Then I think that some other angel lost his because someone masturbated.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">3. On my DVR you will find <strong><em>my cat. Because it\'s warm.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">4. Having <strong><em>a cold sore </em></strong>means <strong><em>always having to defend your promiscuity.</em></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">5. After <strong><em>the end of the world, no one will care if your files are in order so you should spend that time watching TV instead.</em></strong></span>','Jenny Lawson * Drive Thru Interview',0,'','inherit','open','open','','634-revision-5','','','2009-01-02 13:08:26','2009-01-02 18:08:26','',634,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/02/634-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(641,2,'2009-01-02 13:10:49','2009-01-02 18:10:49','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Your Name:         Jenny Lawson, Bloggess</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Location:              Houston(ish) Texas</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Blog Name:          The Bloggess, Good Mom/Bad Mom</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Blog URL:             <a href=\"http://www.thebloggess.com\">www.thebloggess.com</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">Twitter name:    @thebloggess</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">1. Believing in <strong>yourself</strong> is <strong>a recipe for destruction</strong>.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">2. Every time I see <strong>a bell ring</strong>, I <strong>think an angel got his wings. Then I think that some other angel lost his because someone masturbated.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">3. On my DVR you will find <strong>my cat. Because it\'s warm.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">4. Having <strong>a cold sore </strong>means <strong>always having to defend your promiscuity.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">5. After <strong>the end of the world, no one will care if your files are in order so you should spend that time watching TV instead.</strong></span>','Jenny Lawson - Bloggess - Drive Thru Interview',0,'','inherit','open','open','','634-revision-7','','','2009-01-02 13:10:49','2009-01-02 18:10:49','',634,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/02/634-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(642,2,'2009-01-02 13:38:25','2009-01-02 18:38:25','<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-644\" title=\"Julia Allison\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/juliaallison.jpg\" alt=\"Julia Allison\" width=\"227\" height=\"302\" />Your Name:         Julia Allison </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Location:              West Side, New York, NY</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Blog Name:          NonSociety<span style=\"mso-no-proof: yes;\"> </span></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Blog URL:             <a href=\"http://www.thebloggess.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.nonsociety.com</span></a>; <a href=\"http://www.xoxojulia.com/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.xoxojulia.com</span></a> </span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Twitter name:     @juliaallison</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">1. If I ever found out <span style=\"color: #333399;\">the internet went down permanently there you\'d find my crumpled body, in shock, devoid of purpose and/or crushing To Do lists.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>Although, then I might finally get some sleep.</span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">2</span>. The color <span style=\"color: #333399;\">pink</span> makes <span style=\"color: #333399;\">me irrationally happy, and anyone who has a problem with that can suck it.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">3. Headbands are <span style=\"color: #333399;\">pretty much the best thing since bows, which are the best thing since cupcakes, which are the best thing since cute boys who write you love letters.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">4. Before <span style=\"color: #333399;\">I got my white shih-tzu puppy Marshmallow, I\'d never had a dog before.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>Best thing that ever happened to me, besides puberty.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">5. When I watch<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Gossip Girl, I squeal at the screen.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>A lot.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>It\'s cool, though, because I feel that the best tv is interactive.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>And, uh ... enthusiastic.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n</span>','Julia Allison - NonSociety - Drive Thru Interview ',0,'','publish','open','open','','julia-allison-nonsociety-drive-thru-interview','','','2009-01-03 08:28:51','2009-01-03 13:28:51','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/?p=642',0,'post','',1),(653,2,'2009-01-02 18:31:48','2009-01-02 23:31:48','We are all living fast paced lives and if you are like me, you don\'t have time to read a six page interview in its entirety. So I decided to have fast, fill in interviews with bloggers from different fields. Some of the bloggers are parents. Some are not.  No matter, they all rock.\r\n\r\nHere are the bloggers who graciously agreed to participate in my Drive Thru Interview series. If you are a blogger and would like to participate, email <a href=\"mailto:victoria@savvymommy.com?subject=Drive Thru Interview\">me</a>.\r\n\r\nJenny Lawson - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/jenny-lawson-bloggess-drive-thru-interview/\">The Bloggess</a>\r\n\r\nJulia Allison - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/julia-allison-nonsociety-drive-thru-interview/\">NonSociety</a>\r\n\r\nStefania Pomponi Butler - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/stefania-pomponi-butler-citymama-drive-thru-interview/\">CityMama</a>\r\n\r\nKelly Wickham - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/kelly-wickham-mocha-momma-drive-thru-interview/\">Mocha Momma</a>\r\n\r\nKristen Chase - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/kristen-chase-motherhood-uncensored-drive-thru-interview/\">Motherhood Uncensored</a>\r\n\r\nHeather B - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/heather-b-no-pasa-nada-drive-thru-interview/\">No Pasa Nada</a>\r\n\r\nAly Walansky - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/aly-walansky-ebeautydailycom-drive-thru-interview/\">eBeautyDaily.com</a>\r\n\r\nNeil Kramer - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/neil-kramer-citizen-of-the-month-drive-thru-interview/\">Citizen of the Month</a>\r\n\r\nNicole Feliciano - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/nicole-feliciano-momtrends-drive-thru-interview/\">Momtrends</a>\r\n\r\nGabrielle Stanley Blair - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/gabrielle-stanley-blair-design-mom-drive-thru-interview/\">Design Mom</a>\r\n\r\nLiz Gumbinner - <a href=\"http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/liz-gumbinner-mom-101-drive-thru-interview/\">Mom-101</a>','Drive Thru Interviews',0,'','publish','closed','open','','drive-thru-interviews','','','2009-03-01 21:28:21','2009-03-02 02:28:21','',0,'http://www.veepveep.com/drive-thru-interviews/',1,'page','',0),(644,2,'2009-01-02 13:36:10','2009-01-02 18:36:10','','juliaallison',0,'','inherit','open','open','','juliaallison-2','','','2009-01-02 13:36:10','2009-01-02 18:36:10','',642,'http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/juliaallison.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(645,2,'2009-01-02 13:37:35','2009-01-02 18:37:35','<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-644\" title=\"juliaallison\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/juliaallison.jpg\" alt=\"juliaallison\" width=\"284\" height=\"378\" />Your Name:         Julia Allison </span></p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Location:              West Side, New York, NY</span></span></p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Blog Name:          NonSociety<span style=\"mso-no-proof: yes;\"> </span></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"></span></span></p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Blog URL:             <a href=\"http://www.thebloggess.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.nonsociety.com</span></a>; <a href=\"http://www.xoxojulia.com/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.xoxojulia.com</span></a> </span></span></p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Twitter name:     @juliaallison</span></span></p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">1. If I ever found out <strong>the internet went down permanently </strong>there <strong>you\'d find my crumpled body, in shock, devoid of purpose and/or crushing To Do lists.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>Although, then I might finally get some sleep.</strong></span></span></p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">2. The color <strong>pink</strong> makes <strong>me irrationally happy, and anyone who has a problem with that can suck it.</strong></span></p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">3. Headbands are <strong>pretty much the best thing since bows, which are the best thing since cupcakes, which are the best thing since cute boys who write you love letters.</strong></span></p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">4. Before <strong>I got my white shih-tzu puppy Marshmallow,</strong> I\'d <strong>never had a dog before.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>Best thing that ever happened to me, besides puberty.</strong></span></p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">5. When I watch <strong>Gossip Girl, I squeal at the screen.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>A lot.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>It\'s cool, though, because I feel that the best tv is interactive.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>And, uh ... enthusiastic.</strong></span></p>\n\n</span>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"> </p>','Julia Allison - NonSociety - Drive Thru Interview ',0,'','inherit','open','open','','642-revision','','','2009-01-02 13:37:35','2009-01-02 18:37:35','',642,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/02/642-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(646,2,'2009-01-02 13:43:14','2009-01-02 18:43:14','<div></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\">\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-644\" title=\"juliaallison\" src=\"http://www.veepveep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/juliaallison.jpg\" alt=\"juliaallison\" width=\"227\" height=\"302\" />Your Name:         Julia Allison </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Location:              West Side, New York, NY</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Blog Name:          NonSociety<span style=\"mso-no-proof: yes;\"> </span></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Blog URL:             <a href=\"http://www.thebloggess.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.nonsociety.com</span></a>; <a href=\"http://www.xoxojulia.com/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.xoxojulia.com</span></a> </span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Twitter name:     @juliaallison</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">1. If I ever found out <span style=\"color: #333399;\">the internet went down permanently there you\'d find my crumpled body, in shock, devoid of purpose and/or crushing To Do lists.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>Although, then I might finally get some sleep.</span></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">2</span>. The color <span style=\"color: #333399;\">pink</span> makes <span style=\"color: #333399;\">me irrationally happy, and anyone who has a problem with that can suck it.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">3. Headbands are <span style=\"color: #333399;\">pretty much the best thing since bows, which are the best thing since cupcakes, which are the best thing since cute boys who write you love letters.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">4. Before <span style=\"color: #333399;\">I got my white shih-tzu puppy Marshmallow, I\'d never had a dog before.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>Best thing that ever happened to me, besides puberty.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; mso-bidi-font-family: \'Times New Roman\';\">5. When I watch<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Gossip Girl, I squeal at the screen.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>A lot.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>It\'s cool, though, because I feel that the best tv is interactive.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">  </span>And, uh ... enthusiastic.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n</span>','Julia Allison - NonSociety - Drive Thru Interview ',0,'','inherit','open','open','','642-autosave','','','2009-01-02 13:43:14','2009-01-02 18:43:14','',642,'http://www.veepveep.com/2009/01/02/642-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),