December 2008 Archives
Dec31

Getting Ready for 2009

Posted at 11:59 PM • View Comments

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.

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 1st 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.

What do I do? (Because I know you are oh so interested, admit it!)

Every 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.

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.

Martin Scorsese

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.

 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.

My little lady got her nails done and then waited patiently for me to finish up everything on my beauty list.


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.


Like my ugly foot?

Well with that foot, I swiftly kick 2008 in the rear and welcome 2009. I hope it kicks arse. J

Dec30

So Long 2008

Posted at 12:01 AM • View Comments

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.

In 2009, I plan to continue envying moms who can get all of their children to look at the camera.

Here’s to hoping 2009 kicks 2008 firmly is the rear end. And we all get the fresh start we deserve.

xoxo Victoria

Carl Schurz Park, New York – December 28, 2008

Dec25

So This is Christmas

Posted at 10:19 PM • View Comments

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.

The Yule Log stayed on all morning as we enjoyed Christmas morning.

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.

Hope your Christmas was full of pie and holiday movies J

Dec22

Hair Daze

Posted at 10:25 AM • View Comments

When I went downstairs to go do my live segment at WCBS yesterday morning, my car hadn’t arrived.

And rather than risk being late by waiting around, I decided to grab a yellow cab.

I didn’t run back upstairs to get a hat. I just started walking to the corner to hail a taxi.

Walked fast with the snow coming down on me.

And rain. The rain snow came down on me.

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.

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.

This morning, I was even more neglectful than usual to my hair. So in the bun it stayed.

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.”

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 Liz about how I looked -

I love Liz but I seriously can’t understand why she thought my hair looked good.

Here’s a screen shot for you so you can see what she saw -

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.

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.

Then I asked a friend (and another!) who told me my hair looked like bedroom hair.

This is a composite of both of their conversations with me -

H:     It looks like bedroom hair.
It looks like bedroom hair. Sexy!

Me:     So I look like how all the viewers look when they wake up. Yeah, we are all on the same page.

H:     No it looks like you were at your boyfriend’s apartment overnight and grabbed a shirt and ran over there to do the segment.

Me:     It looks like I didn’t shower? Ew. Gross.

H:     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.

Me:     That would explain a lot of the emails I received when I got home.

H:    You look like the hotness.

Me:    Should I aim to look like the hotness more in 2009?

H:     Well it was Global Orgasm Day so you definitely helped some of those viewers out.

Me:    Glad someone’s having fun in that department *sigh*

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