I DID get to Enter!!!

I am so dumb! I thought that yesterday was the 20th and I was sure that I had missed the Big Brother Mash-up Video Contest submission date...but I DIDN'T!!

Here is the video I put up...It is so blurry on the site which makes me want to cry :( Vote for me HERE! (I think voting starts at 8:00pm tonight)

Big Brother Mash-up Contest

So clearly my summer has been monopolized by Big Brother. Between the shows, Big Brother After Dark and the Live Feeds I know more about this season than even Ronnie. (Eat that Ronnie, I'll go head to head with you any day.) How do I feel about this? Slightly worried. Last night the House Guests made a comment about who would watch the live feeds, implying that I, along with the other viewers, am crazy. Well...I sort of agree, and I am sure any other die-hard Big Brother fan would also admit that the obsession is slightly unnerving, but alas, the pull of the show is too strong to stop it.

This year is the first year that I actually voted on something (actually I voted like 30 times for Jeff to win the Coup D'etat...Chima, how does that make you feel? 30 times...that's how much I DIDN'T want you group in power...so much so that I felt desperate to throw them a bone and actually log on to my computer to vote...I.DO.NOT.DO.THIS!) Then I felt as though I missed out when I could have recorded a message for the House Guests for them to use in a competition. So this time when I saw that you could make a mash-up video I set to work. Unfortunately not having a summer job makes you forget that there are things in this world called dead lines and I missed the deadline for the contest by 3 hours...it's a shame...I think I could have won to...

What do you think?

MIA

I have been a little MIA lately, but you would be surprised at how busy I have been while not working. I know I have been surprised. This past weekend we threw Ilana's bachelorette party in AC, and let me tell you...planning a bachelorette party is hard work. I know that Bush told us day in and day out that he had a hard job, but I challenge him to plan a bachelorette party...now that IS a hard job! It was hard work AND I had a partner in planning, yet still, the second we boarded the bus home I was out like a light, the workload just overwhelming me and the exhaustion finally gave in. Which makes me wonder...how on earth will I survive when work starts up again? 12 year olds are WAY more demanding than 7 20 somethings.

Regardless of the hard work and the exhaustion it was so much fun. But now comes the real hard work. Now that the bachelorette party is over it's time to get working...working out that is. The realization that I have to get my dress altered for her October wedding is starting to get more real as the dog days of summer drag on. So it's off to the gym everyday, and off to that whole eating right thing. Since my last post I have to say I am pretty proud of myself, I have been keeping up with the whole eating well thing...well, I did have pancakes for dinner tonight, but in my defense I have been car sick since 10:30am (Reading in the car for the first 5 minutes of my two hour drive today was NOT a good idea, hence the car sickness, but I am reading Columbine and I just can't put it down) and I needed to try everything to get rid of the feeling...It didn't work...neither did the bowl of soup I ate afterwards...I am not going to try anymore food remedies though it is too tempting of an excuse. I am, however, quite certain that the scale at my parents house is broken...my Wii Fit gives me a much better reading!

Tomorrow I am going to get a new couch...which I know does not sound interesting to some people, but I have got to be honest, every single person that has sat on my couch for more than 20 minutes is jumping up and down for joy right now! Anyone want to buy my old couch? (Was that a bad sell?)

The Summer of Eating

This summer I have done a lot of eating. Now granted, this does accomplish one goal, I am able to try all of the new restaurants that I am too busy to go to during the year. However, it also seems to be accomplishing another goal...one I am not interested in obtaining...growing...HORIZONTALLY!

So after about a month of indulging in every food imaginable and then being weighed at the doctor's office I decided to make some cut backs. Mainly: Eating at home more. Secondly: Eating less at each meal. Thirdly: Increasing the amount of meals I eat each day to increase my metabolism. Then finally: Eating healthier. I guess my days of eating Entenmann's cookies and red velvet cupcakes after a massive pasta dinner (where I would consume ALL of my food on my plate) were over.

Day one of eating less went well...until Slim Jims started looking appetizing. Day two of eating less also went went until I bought the wrong turkey for lunch ate TOO little and almost passed out in Target. My willpower for staying away from desserts was really really wavering each day. I didn't think it would be possible for me to not eat dessert, I NEEDED my red velvet cupcakes! Not even the show I watched about what organically colors red velvet cupcakes could dissuade me. (I won't tell you what it is, that would be mean, but if you really want to ruin it for yourself it was on the food network's program "Food Detectives") I cheated with two entenmann's cookies on the first couple of days. I had one after my lunch, after my dinner, and then again later in the night...okay so I had 5.

I had read that your hunger for things like bread, pasta, and desserts faded after a while, but I didn't believe that in the least bit. Then something amazing happened...it was Friday night (I wanted to allow myself to eat dessert only on the weekends) and I was at my favorite restaurant in Westchester (The Heights) where they make my favorite dessert and my favorite bread and my favorite meal...and I didn't over eat. Usually I eat almost the entire bread basket (they make really good bread), I eat all of my french fries, and close to all of my main dish. On Friday night, I didn't finish anything AND I didn't order dessert! It was something I never thought possible, but after about a week it had happened, my need to eat everything and anything had dissipated.

I have been cooking a lot more at home. Fish at least once a week (fresh and wonderful from Wild Edibles, they have great deals all week long including 15% off prepared raw fish on Mondays), chicken or turkey the other nights and tons of veggies! I never thought I would say this, but going to the gym, eating less, and cooking more...actually gave me more energy.

However, I can't totally stay away from dessert so since I was good all weekend, I am off to get a red velvet cupcake! Hey...I am allowed dessert at least once a week...I need to enjoy life right? And what better way to enjoy life than with a Buttercup Bakeshop cupcake!?