I've mentioned this previously, but i am not known to be any good at spotting famous people (anyone other than actors or musicians have zero chance of being noticed). An actor could pretty much walk up to me and introduce themselves as Angelina Jolie before i'd recognize them as famous. This is not to say though that i'm not totally aware of many actors/musicians past and current life works, 'cause i am.
Story:
The other day i'm walking to Whole Foods on a work "mission" and i'm waiting to cross the street.
Aimlessly looking around i make eye contact with a man in a van taxi right in front of me attempting to turn. Nice fedora, i think and i glance at the walk sign. I look back because now not only am i being watched, but ummmm, HOLY CRAP that' s not just a nice fedora, that's BRUCE WILLIS!!!
Side note: Bruce Willis is a pretty sweet thing to spot, i mean, he's no Sean Connery or Harrison Ford of the older gents, but still i'd pick him over....Sylvester Stallone or Chuck Norris....wait no i'd love to see Walker Texas Ranger in person (ohhhhh baby). ANYWAYS!
So Brucey and i were making eyes, he's oogling me, i'm oogling him....we totally eye f*cked and it was faaaaaabulous. Until his taxi driver decided to turn the corner and my quickie ended. Oh and his gf Emma Heming, i believe, was in the car. Nothing like her being involved in my afternoon delight.
Brucey baby, if you're reading this call me, it was great. We can do the taxi street thing again any time, or you can just introduce me to Demi. I'd eye f*ck her too.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
nanny stealing
So i was almost stolen the other day...well, approached to be stolen, or so my boss J. thinks so.
Nanny stealing is very common and very very sneaky. You are at the playground or a class, you become friends with the mom, one day the dad is there and you becomef riends too and the next thing you know they are putting down comments like....do you like your job with family X.
My offer was must less obvious, so unobvious that i probably came off so naive they would have loved me.
Story:
N, E, J and I are all at the indoor play gym. N. and J are in a baby music class and E. and I are playing. E has a major melt down and J (the mom) and I switch kids for a few minutes. Now i'm in a baby music class with N. and he is just a crawling machine so i'm just casually following him around.
Mom and dad of child G. ask me as i pass the first time "He's adorable, is he your son?". This question happens all the time when i'm with the kids, my response is,
"oh my no, i'm their nanny. But thanks for thinking i look mature enough to have a child, let alone two. The other woman was his mother" (ps: who looks much more like her children than i do....go figure, she being their mother!)
Pass number two, the father instead of letting N. pass by, picks him up and they are now talking to me at warp speed and looking me firmly in the eyes (because class is currently happening and we are all singing and banging drums and who knows when jen will be back),
"We are looking for a live in nanny. Do you know anyone who may be available...we live in Staten Island", taking N. back and kinda scoffing, "ohhhh no i don't, i'm a full time graduate student and all the people i know have jobs and live in the city...sorry and good luck".
When J and i leave the play gym i mention the conversation to her...her response,
"the nerve, right under my nose they are trying to steal you"
"huh?"
"Before you came in we went around the circle and said a bit about our selves. My comment was i have two children N and E. They knew you weren't his mom, it was a line to bring you in. Shannon, watch out because parents are very sneaky."
Yes i can be naive, but did she really think i'd just sign up to live in Staten Island....dear god no...i'm too much of a snob for them
Nanny stealing is very common and very very sneaky. You are at the playground or a class, you become friends with the mom, one day the dad is there and you becomef riends too and the next thing you know they are putting down comments like....do you like your job with family X.
My offer was must less obvious, so unobvious that i probably came off so naive they would have loved me.
Story:
N, E, J and I are all at the indoor play gym. N. and J are in a baby music class and E. and I are playing. E has a major melt down and J (the mom) and I switch kids for a few minutes. Now i'm in a baby music class with N. and he is just a crawling machine so i'm just casually following him around.
Mom and dad of child G. ask me as i pass the first time "He's adorable, is he your son?". This question happens all the time when i'm with the kids, my response is,
"oh my no, i'm their nanny. But thanks for thinking i look mature enough to have a child, let alone two. The other woman was his mother" (ps: who looks much more like her children than i do....go figure, she being their mother!)
Pass number two, the father instead of letting N. pass by, picks him up and they are now talking to me at warp speed and looking me firmly in the eyes (because class is currently happening and we are all singing and banging drums and who knows when jen will be back),
"We are looking for a live in nanny. Do you know anyone who may be available...we live in Staten Island", taking N. back and kinda scoffing, "ohhhh no i don't, i'm a full time graduate student and all the people i know have jobs and live in the city...sorry and good luck".
When J and i leave the play gym i mention the conversation to her...her response,
"the nerve, right under my nose they are trying to steal you"
"huh?"
"Before you came in we went around the circle and said a bit about our selves. My comment was i have two children N and E. They knew you weren't his mom, it was a line to bring you in. Shannon, watch out because parents are very sneaky."
Yes i can be naive, but did she really think i'd just sign up to live in Staten Island....dear god no...i'm too much of a snob for them
Monday, July 14, 2008
music in the park
So far summer in NYC has been amazing...nothing really sticks out specifically, but none the less over all i've been doing things i love. This past week though was especially summerific (ya'll like that word?).
A few months ago my friend L and I saw spice girls, then we saw Sarah Bareilles and now we are adding FEIST to this list of fun performances. It's been so ridiculously hot that more often than not there is an evening rainshower, hardcore, drenches everything and usually while it's soaking you through you can see the bright blue sky inching towards you. This is what happened to us on Wednesday night while we were waiting for Feist to perform. First i must tell you that while we were going through the gates to the outdoor venue at Prospect Park security was taking umbrellas and making a huge HUGE pile of them. My bag was so packed with stuff(was coming from work with many changes of clothes) that he looked at the top of my bag and said...is there an umbrella in there....Nope (yes there is)....you sure there is no umbrella in there...no umbrella (yes there is, it's bright green hard to miss)....okay, but i better not see an umbrella from you later....don't worry you won't (yes you will if it pours on us). I walk through the gates still with my umbrella and thank goodness we had it. The skies open up and about 30 people of 3000 pull out their umbrellas and we all crowd under them to protect us from the down pour, my umbrella included. Anyways, she put on a rockin' concert...no rain during her set and of course as it always happens i fall more in love with certain songs. Here is my always favorite, which is now higher up on the list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrNCCx2p5U
Two days later i was back at the same venue with J. to see Brazilian Girls. I didn't think i knew who they were initially until they started playing their euro/south american techno beats and i knew i had heard them before. It's hard not to dance, and like really really start dancing because it's just so much fun! Some of their more familiar songs are "pussy" and " le territiore", so go check them out....super fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m5ci_Xceo0
I've been told it's because of the baseball All Star game taking place here, but if it was baaaaaaaad job of advertising that. Here are the details-Bon Jovi comes to NYC's Central Park to play a free concert. Free tickets given out during the day, space for 50,000 people, major security throughout the park. I am not a Bon Jovi fan, but i am a fan of free music, chilling with friends and enjoying what could have been a crazy scene. Well it was such a crazy scene that the closest we got to Bon Jovi was across a street in the park with him behind those trees.
Here is what the New Yorks Times have as what it looked like....not sure i wanted to be with 50,000 of my closest friends
You gotta love New York summer music scene!
A few months ago my friend L and I saw spice girls, then we saw Sarah Bareilles and now we are adding FEIST to this list of fun performances. It's been so ridiculously hot that more often than not there is an evening rainshower, hardcore, drenches everything and usually while it's soaking you through you can see the bright blue sky inching towards you. This is what happened to us on Wednesday night while we were waiting for Feist to perform. First i must tell you that while we were going through the gates to the outdoor venue at Prospect Park security was taking umbrellas and making a huge HUGE pile of them. My bag was so packed with stuff(was coming from work with many changes of clothes) that he looked at the top of my bag and said...is there an umbrella in there....Nope (yes there is)....you sure there is no umbrella in there...no umbrella (yes there is, it's bright green hard to miss)....okay, but i better not see an umbrella from you later....don't worry you won't (yes you will if it pours on us). I walk through the gates still with my umbrella and thank goodness we had it. The skies open up and about 30 people of 3000 pull out their umbrellas and we all crowd under them to protect us from the down pour, my umbrella included. Anyways, she put on a rockin' concert...no rain during her set and of course as it always happens i fall more in love with certain songs. Here is my always favorite, which is now higher up on the list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrNCCx2p5U
Two days later i was back at the same venue with J. to see Brazilian Girls. I didn't think i knew who they were initially until they started playing their euro/south american techno beats and i knew i had heard them before. It's hard not to dance, and like really really start dancing because it's just so much fun! Some of their more familiar songs are "pussy" and " le territiore", so go check them out....super fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m5ci_Xceo0
I've been told it's because of the baseball All Star game taking place here, but if it was baaaaaaaad job of advertising that. Here are the details-Bon Jovi comes to NYC's Central Park to play a free concert. Free tickets given out during the day, space for 50,000 people, major security throughout the park. I am not a Bon Jovi fan, but i am a fan of free music, chilling with friends and enjoying what could have been a crazy scene. Well it was such a crazy scene that the closest we got to Bon Jovi was across a street in the park with him behind those trees.
Here is what the New Yorks Times have as what it looked like....not sure i wanted to be with 50,000 of my closest friends
You gotta love New York summer music scene!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
the 4th
It's tough being a nanny sometimes. I have managed to find a really amazing family to work for who take great care of me...now i don't luck into free dinners to their restaurants, or trips to the Hampton's or Europe, but i'm really happy. Now it is always great to be friends with the gals who do get these things, because i generally get brought along. Such as a time like the fourth of July.
We were in a bit of school break, many of the CLC gals are away working, at home, or just busy with outside NYC life. So 4 of us were around to celebrate the 4th in NYC. The original plan was to go to S and K's apartment for drinks, appi's and george forman bbq grilling and walking over to the east side to watch the Macy's/NBC 4th of July Firework show. What ended up happening was getting invited by one of E's amazing families to the NBC executed 4th of July party in Brooklyn. Here is what an NBC party looks like...free carnival, free booze, free food, free gift bags, crazy stilt performers, bleacher seating in possibly the best seats in ALL OF NYC (they do all the filming for the show here) and all the entertainment that you would have seen on tv.
After booting it to Williamsburg in Brooklyn in record time we were able to experience this amazing NY moment. Well it only got better! Perfect seating was upgraded to the "mosh pit" of the stage to see my fav. TV hottie, Tiki Barber and the gorgosity Natalie Morales....i'm melting she is so amazing (please see picture above). Anyways some other great people we saw in these spots were Gavin Degraw and Katherine McPhee...yeah pretty famous these days, but meh....NATALIE MORALES (i have a girl crush).
The main event was the fireworks, which are set off by 4 barges in the East River timed to music over the ages....that was NBC/Macy phrasing. Pretty amazing stuff and i feel very fortunate...what can top this next year? Anyways, we were rock stars and yeah so great! Thanks E for having such a great hookup!
Here is something random i experienced on the 4th. As a Canadian i often feel very patriotic for days like Canada day and in effect the 4th. Now for this event i wore blue and white (Because i own zero red....doesn't suit me) and when i left that house i looked around for people sporting their red white and blue...NO ONE! No small children in festive outfits....WTF?! I can't be the most patriot and i'm not even that patriotic. Anyways, needless to say when we got to the NBC party there was more red, white and blue but i'm kinda convinced that our wee bits of patriotism is why we were moved to the mosh pit, i'll take that any day!
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