Lucky me! Last week, a piece I wrote for Uptake entitled 7 secrets you might not know about Disneyland, was picked up by Neatorama, and then featured on Yahoo for about 6 hours on Thursday afternoon. Quite exciting – almost like a thrill ride that does not end!
And then, on Friday, while at the BlogHer VDay Party, I was the winner of 2 Nintendo DS Lite game systems. Serena from Zip and Tizzy took a photo of me and another winner, Jessica from It’s My Life. Winning these game consoles will probably cinch my title of “World’s Best Mom”. I am supposed to be using one of the DSs with the new Nintendo Personal Trainer: Cooking experience (I cannot call it a game), but I doubt I will be able to wrestle the DSs away from my kids. When I do, I will let you know what I think.
After the BlogHer meet-up, I was also thrilled to accompany Genie from Inadvertent Gardener, Biggie from Lunch in A Box (and +1 David) and Sean from Hedonia and DPaul to dinner at bacar. Genie turned out to be my magical twin dining partner, as we agreed on all three dishes that we shared. David chose some lovely wines, and had I not had to run out to catch the last train home, I would have stayed for dessert and $14 scotch flights, which I understand were poured with a generous hand.
And then on Saturday, my daughter’s basketball team kicked butt! Now, I know this is not a direct win for me, but the lottery tickets I bought were all loosers, and I hear wins come in threes, so I threw this in.
In any case, hope you all have a great week. Happy Hump Day!
February 11th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I knew I should have gone to that Blogher event. I would have stayed for the scotch. I think you had a great week.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
it was a good event – nice drinks and it was fun to see some of the bloggers I had met at BlogHer08 and the last blogger event in the city.
Darn Caltrain put a kibosh on my plans – it was either a 10:30pm train or something just after midnight. Both were milkruns, in any case. Next time, I just might have to drive!