...I made dumb faces in the mirror while Kendrick looked on in mild exasperation.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Our Break-In
If you follow me on Twitter, you may already know that our apartment was recently broken into.
DIY: From Wine Crate to TV Stand
With a little elbow grease and a little cash (about $50 max), an old wine crate can be transformed into a rustic-chic TV table that’s perfectly suited to the space constraints of a postage stamp-sized NYC apartment.
Unhealthiest Seafood Dishes In America
Dave Zinczenko on the Unhealthiest Seafood Dishes in America, including CPK's Field Greens Salad with Salmon and (unsurprisingly) Applebee's Grilled Shrimp Pesto Alfredo Fettucino.
Morning Yoga
Morning Yoga from Jordan Reid on Vimeo.
Saturday morning, Rebekah Morin stopped by to show me a quick yoga routine to start your morning off right.
How I Treat Minor Burns
1. Run the affected area under cool water for about 10 minutes to stop the burning process.
Treacherous Dinner
Last night Kim came over for dinner, and since I didn't have a whole lot of time yesterday to plan a meal and shop for food, I ended up whipping up one of my favorite standbys, Linguine Carbonara.
Eliminating Cooking Odors
To me, one of the most irritating things about cooking isn't the clean-up (I have my wonderful husband to help with that)...it's the fact that the apartment smells like whatever you made for hours afterwards.
Giannillo The Salon
You may have noticed that I've lost about three inches from my hair and dealt with the four-inches-of-roots situation? Last Friday, BetterTV sent me over to Giannillo The Salon, where Carol gave me some gorgeous, gorgeous highlights, and Gregg Giannillo gave me one of my favorite haircuts ever - lightly layered in the back and slightly longer in the front. It's swingy and full now...and trust me, these aren't adjectives that I've often used to describe my hair. (This isn't the best picture in the world, but apparently I was Little Miss Blurry this weekend.)
Here, Gregg gives you one of his fabulous "Kitchen Cosmetology" tips, showing you how to get shiny, bouncy hair...on a budget.
Saturday PM
Later in the evening, Kendrick and I met up with Michael, Nadine, and Jerry at the birthday party of a person whom I did not know, but who very graciously invited my husband and I to join the festivities