Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Feb 3, 2012, 2:02 pm
[The following post was commissioned by Downy] When I was little I spent most weekends at my grandmother’s house. The differences between her house and mine were many: My parents shopped at a co-op, while Grums filled her house with sugary cereal and frozen pizzas. My parents made me go to bed at ...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Feb 2, 2012, 11:52 pm
[DietBet.com has given me the opportunity to participate in a blogger competition with the chance to win up to $5,000 for meeting a weight loss goal. The following post is part of my participation in the program. I am not a doctor, or a nutritionist, and following any advice I post is done at the
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 31, 2012, 6:51 pm
[DietBet.com has given me the opportunity to participate in a blogger competition with the chance to win up to $5,000 for meeting a weight loss goal. The following post is part of my participation in the program. I am not a doctor, or a nutritionist, and following any advice I post is done at the
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 27, 2012, 4:03 pm
Years ago I read something that totally changed the way I napped. Sometimes, when I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore, I would lay down for a nap, and wake up groggy a couple of hours later. Or, I’d set an alarm for 15 minutes, supposedly the right amount of time for a power nap,
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 26, 2012, 6:04 pm
I’ve wanted curly hair longer than I can remember. I’ve gotten more perms than I can count. I’ve purchased at least ten curling irons in my lifetime. But have you ever seen me with curly hair? Rarely. Even the irons that do work take so long – I have a ton of hair and hate
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 26, 2012, 11:03 am
So there are six days left in the DietBet blogger contest and I’m happy to say that I’ve met my goal of losing 4% of my body weight in four weeks! But, I can’t really stop trying to lose because I want a buffer for the weigh-in. I am exactly at the goal, and what
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 25, 2012, 3:18 pm
I’ve been on a weight-loss kick lately. I started out by losing ten pounds with Slim Fast, then moved to a diet that I devised myself, and I’ve lost an additional twelve pounds in the last six weeks, for a total of twenty-two since October. I’m now officially one-third of the way to my goal
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 24, 2012, 10:22 am
On Sunday night The Ass and I headed into the city with the kids for dinner and a show. I was fortunate to receive tickets to Godspell on Broadway from Mama Drama, a wonderful organization that promotes Broadway shows to moms. We started out with dinner at Ellen’s Stardust Diner, just a block and ...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 23, 2012, 1:54 pm
I have another kid home sick today. We’re done with this cold now, right? We’ve all had it. Even The Ass, who rarely gets sick. Plus, we went to see Godspell on Broadway last night, courtesy of MamaDrama.com. Full review coming as soon as I write it, hopefully later today. :-) Originally posted ...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 21, 2012, 12:25 pm
Originally posted on Selfish Mom, from Amy’s cell phone (so please excuse any weird formatting). All opinions expressed on this website come straight from Amy unless otherwise noted. This post has a Compensation Level of 0. Please visit Amy’s Full Disclosure page for more information. If you lik...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 18, 2012, 11:23 am
I’m on a bus with about 25 kids – my daughter’s 2nd grade class. I’m chaperroning the trip, but it’s also sort-of a work event. A PR company I’ve worked with before needed some kids for an event with Angie Harmon, so I put everybody in touch with everbody else and stepped out of the
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 17, 2012, 11:19 am
This has been the longest break for my normal routine I’ve ever had since having kids. First there was Christmas, then a week at my mom’s. Then we came back to Brooklyn and the kids went back to school, but my husband was still home on vacation, which was weird and messed up my routine
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 11, 2012, 1:20 pm
Originally posted on Selfish Mom. All opinions expressed on this website come straight from Amy unless otherwise noted. This post has a Compensation Level of 1 (Striiv). Please visit Amy’s Full Disclosure page for more information. If you liked that, then you might think that these are awesome:Why...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 7, 2012, 10:18 pm
[DietBet.com has given me the opportunity to participate in a blogger competition with the chance to win up to $5,000 for meeting a weight loss goal. The following post is part of my participation in the program. I am not a doctor, or a nutritionist, and following any advice I post is done at the
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 7, 2012, 1:17 am
[Please note: I am not a doctor, or a nutritionist, and following any advice I post is done at the reader's own risk.] Yesterday I talked about what I eat on a typical day when I only allow myself 700 calories. It is at this point that I will stop and direct you to this
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 6, 2012, 2:09 pm
So until very recently our parlour floor looked like this: And this: And this: Believe it or not there’s a piano in that last picture. Buried under crap. So why was an entire floor of our house like that? Because it has no electricity, part of the ceiling is caving in, and it’s missing part
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 6, 2012, 12:21 am
[Please note: I am not a doctor, or a nutritionist, and following any advice I post is done at the reader's own risk.] The most common question I get asked when I tell people how I’ve been losing weight recently is “What do you eat on the days when you can only eat 700 calories
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 5, 2012, 12:35 pm
[DietBet.com has given me the opportunity to participate in a blogger competition with the chance to win up to $5,000 for meeting a weight loss goal. The following post is part of my participation in the program. I am not a doctor, or a nutritionist, and following any advice I post is done at the
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Jan 5, 2012, 8:55 am
So I just got the kids off to school and had a little breakfast. This is when I would normally tidy the kitchen, then set myself up on my couch and hunker down to get some work done (essential supplies: Frasier and massive amounts of Diet Dr Pepper). But instead I’m fighting a huge urge
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Nov 1, 2011, 6:09 pm
About ten days ago I was pulled over on my way to an event. I wasn’t late, I wasn’t speeding, I wasn’t using my cell phone, I wasn’t distracted. What I was doing was driving too close to the big truck in front of me as we were all rolling slowly off of an exit
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Nov 1, 2011, 9:12 am
So today is the second day of my walking program. The first day involved thirty minutes on the treadmill and some leg toning exercises with exercise bands. Between warming up and cooling down and stretching and all that it took about an hour and a half. So I should be looking forward to today, which...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 31, 2011, 11:01 pm
So to say my neighborhood gets into the Halloween spirit would be a bit of an understatement. It goes crazy. There are several streets that get closed down. There are live shows. There are insane numbers of people. It’s quite impressive. We actually live on the outskirts of the neighborhood now, w...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 31, 2011, 10:02 am
So I’m pumped. I said last week that this week would be the true test of my Slim-Fast experiment, since I always lose a lot of water the first week on any diet. And I’m happy to say that I weighed in this morning, and have lost a little over two pounds this week! I’m
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 28, 2011, 4:33 pm
Whenever I see a product being sold primarily on TV I assume it doesn’t work. I assume that the producers tried to get it sold through regular channels, with no luck, and turned to bad TV ads and direct shipping instead. So I’m always shocked when one of these products works. This is what happen...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 28, 2011, 11:01 am
I’m really terrible about buying Halloween costumes on time. But I think last night’s excursion to Party City with the kids might have cured me of my procrastination once and for all. The kids and I had to wait outside – in the rain – just to get in to the store. Then we had
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 26, 2011, 12:28 pm
So we’re right in the middle of our discussion with Dr. Oz. I’m here at his show with a fantastic group of bloggers (gathered by Barbara Jones of the One2One Network) talking about nutrition, weight loss, legislation, and other topics and I just have to say that he’s awesome. Friendly, open, h...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 26, 2011, 8:42 am
So I’m on my way to Rockefeller Center to attend a roundtable discussion with some fabulous bloggers and Oz the Great and Terrible. No, wait, wrong Oz. I’ll be meeting Dr. Oz, the one who rose to fame on Oprah and keeps making me look up the word “omentum.” (Many thanks to Barbara Jones and&...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 25, 2011, 11:19 am
I don’t support graffiti, of course, but if you just have to deface something, make it as funny as the sign I just saw in my subway station. I’m on my way to an event centered around video games for girls, put on by Techlicious and hosted by my friend Jessica, who just might be
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 24, 2011, 12:08 pm
I’m done with my first week on the Slim-Fast plan. Slim-Fast sent me two weeks’ worth of products to try, so for seven days I’ve basically been following their plan: a shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, three 100-calorie snacks, and a 500-calorie dinner. It really wasn’t that hard. The ...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 22, 2011, 10:00 am
I woke up as a thirty-nine-year-old this morning, and I just got a birthday email from my mom, with my first passport scanned in: Now I’m just staring at it, seeing both of my kids in my face, and getting a little weepy. Thanks, Mommy! :-) Originally posted on Selfish Mom. All opinions expressed o...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 21, 2011, 10:55 am
So I’m still rocking the gorgeous braid I got yesterday from the ladies of Bergdorf’s braid bar, at a blogger event held at More Magazine (I slept with a scarf wrapped around it). And I even did my eyebrows with the little kit that the people from Benefit gave me. I may be exhausted, but
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 20, 2011, 10:17 am
So today is my fourth day on the Slim-Fast plan, Slim-Fast having provided me with two weeks’ worth of products. The first three days have been uneventful, but today is different because I’m going to an event that involves lunch. Now, I’ve been to three events this week that involved lots of y...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 18, 2011, 2:42 pm
I had way too much to do this morning to even think about posting until now – hate that! I enjoy sitting down first thing and taking stock of my day ahead. Now my day is more than half done and I’m just getting a chance. So today is day two of my two week
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 17, 2011, 10:06 am
I know I’m supposed to be all “Blah, today’s Monday, I don’t want to go back to work!” and to be honest I had a rather terrible morning, but I’m putting all of that out of my mind because I’ve been looking forward to today for a while. I get to do on-camera interviews with
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 14, 2011, 11:37 pm
I’ve tried about a half dozen biscuit recipes over the years, trying to find a good one. In order to be a good one in my mind the biscuits don’t just have to taste good, they also have to be easy, relatively quick, and use only ingredients I commonly have on hand. Because I’m not
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 14, 2011, 5:16 pm
The Ass and I went to a show a little while back where everybody in the roving audience had to wear a mask and remain completely silent. And I don’t think I need to explain why I have multiple sets of mouse ears (doesn’t everybody?). So today, Fiona and her playdate were going through my
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 14, 2011, 2:47 pm
Another one of my posts just went up on the RealDirect website, about whether or not it’s practical and worth it to keep a car in Brooklyn. I still don’t know what I would have decided if we were moving to Brooklyn today, with HopStop and Zipcar and Fresh Direct and other conveniences here to
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 14, 2011, 12:14 pm
So I’ve had a bit of a Hugh Jackman fixation lately. And by lately, I mean ever since I saw X-Men. Getting to meet him last week was swoon-worthy. And while I really had some things I needed to do this morning, I took a solid hour-long break to watch him on Rachel Ray. This
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 13, 2011, 4:18 pm
So occasionally I post my Blogging Angels podcasts here. I don’t do it all the time, because often they’re geared more toward bloggers and pr pros. But our latest one is one of those that everyone will appreciate, thanks to our awesome guest, Jennifer Perillo. She’s a food writer, blogger, and...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 12, 2011, 8:49 am
So I’ve been testing out stupid As Seen On TV gadgets, which is a lot of fun. I think I’m going to post one today that really surprised me, by actually working well! I’m also going to post a podcast that The Blogging Angels did with our friend Jennifer Perillo. It’s another one of those
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 11, 2011, 10:21 pm
I make pancakes every weekend, and on an occasional weekday if the kids beg hard. Sometimes I make my own batter, but most of the time I use Aunt Jemima Complete mix – just add water! I’ve learned a few useful things over the years: Whether you’re using an electric griddle or a pan, let
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 11, 2011, 8:43 am
So the caulking is done. Some of it is pretty, some of it looks like it was done by a five-year-old with motor skill issues. But it’s done. And after spending ninety minutes last night in an enclosed space with massive amounts of silicone, I can no longer claim that I’ve never gotten high. I ...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 10, 2011, 3:10 pm
So yesterday was kind of split down the middle in terms of how I like to spend a Sunday. I had nowhere to go, nothing I absolutely had to do, and my husband took the kids to Coney Island right after lunch, leaving me with an empty house. I popped a bag of popcorn, grabbed
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 10, 2011, 7:52 am
It’s the tenth of October and I can’t believe I’m still talking about mosquitoes. Today is a holiday, the kids have no school, and I’d planned on sleeping in until at least nine. But at sixth-thirty, I woke up when a mosquito buzzed my head. I tried to get back to sleep – completely under&...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 9, 2011, 5:13 pm
Last week I wrote about a video that the organization One had released, in its effort to spread the word about famine in Africa. My sister Cara wrote in the comments that I should read a book called The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. Since my sister is smart and my Kindle lets me find,
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 9, 2011, 12:38 am
OK, so maybe it wasn’t quite as intimate as I would have liked. There were about a dozen and a half other people in the room, and a giant conference table was between us (there was also a definite lack of candlelight and soft music). But that was a lot closer than I ever thought
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 7, 2011, 9:02 am
So I’ve been trying to make squash soup for several days now. But something keeps getting in the way. Thank goodness squash doesn’t go bad quickly. But today’s the day. It’s a little chilly (despite that fact that it will be in the 80s over the weekend) and just feels like a soup day. I’m&...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 6, 2011, 2:02 pm
So I’m probably the last person you’d expect to shed a tear about Steve Jobs’ death, what with all of my hatred for Apple. But when I say that I hate Apple, that’s really just shorthand for hating the Apple fanboys, the ones who look down on me because I didn’t drink the Apple-flavored Koo...
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 6, 2011, 6:32 am
I feel like I’m already halfway through my day, and it’s only 6:30am. I had to get Jake to school at 5:30 for a trip to DC. Fun. So a few weeks ago I published a “blogger pledge” on my little behind-the-scenes blogging blog. Number one was to not miss any deadlines. Well, I fell
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Amy O. posted an article on Selfish Mom - Oct 6, 2011, 12:41 am
[The following post was commissioned by FlexJobs.] Over the summer a good friend of mine asked me if I knew of any work that she could find online and do at home. She’d been looking herself but everything she found seemed like a scam. Most of them required some kind of up-front “investment” or...
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