Adventures in Voice Over Acting

Yesterday, Colleen went to a voice over convention. I'm still not entirely clear on what happens at a voice over convention, but I do know that Colleen needs to be a voice over actor.

Anyway, she went to the convention and didn't know she was supposed to have headshots and a prepared script to read in front of agents. Everyone else had scripts from actual commercials, but with only 20 minutes before her audition she had no choice but to write her own commercial. So she quickly invented a product called Herpinol and wrote a script.

After the convention Colleen met up with me and Piper and we were dying over her day. Her script is pretty much the best thing ever. We couldn't stop reading it in front of the camera - and apparently the casting call requested only women with long, brown hair and bangs to audition. Here are the best reads of the night.*

Herpinol: take back the night you got herpes.

*Please note that none of us are making fun of having herpes and do not think having herpes is funny. Did you know that one in five Americans have genital herpes (yet at least 80 percent of those with herpes are unaware they have it)? To learn more about herpes please go to the CDC website: http://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/STDFact-herpes.htm

Happy Birthday, Abe!!!!!

My little baby boyfriend turned 30 years old this weekend! Ahhhhhhh we're 30!!!! I wasn't able to get Abe a birthday cake so I just brought candles with me and kept sticking them into things.

First we went to Ulysses and had a drink and visited with Fitz.

Then we headed to Brooklyn and made our elves comfortable at our Brooklyn home a.k.a Piper's house.

With Piper and Colleen by our sides we made our way to The Richardson where lots of friends came by to celebrate.

Piper got sleepy so me and Colleen decided to get "energy drinks". It was a lemon drop shot that we sipped while toasted each other in rhyme.

Late night Abe and I walked back to Piper's house and I bought him chicken and french fries from Kennedy Fried Chicken - one of his Greenpoint faves.

Congratulations, Piper!!

It's official!! I am crazy excited for my bestie, Piper Weiss. She's gonna be a bona fide published author!

Her blog, My Mom, The Style Icon, is set to become a book from Chronicle in 2011.

We're all so freaking proud of her.

Happy Birthday, Brooke!

Since Brooke was in Amsterdam for her birthday, we had to celebrate with her a week later with dinner at Alexandria in the West Village.

Brooke's actual birthday is on New Year's Day so we had to bust out the champagne.

New Year's Eve in Beacon

Hosted New Year's Eve and it worked out perfectly! It was a butt load of work to prepare since we're still not fully unpacked, but shoving things in the basement and attic seemed to save a lot of time.

Happy New Year everyone!! Awesome friends, awesome family, awesome times in 2010.

Girl talk and wine in tiny tea cups upstairs in my office.

Dancing in the dining room.

Movement class with Paws' toy.

Snowball fight!!

Quarters in the basement.

Beverage Center.

Front porch hang-out sesh.

Bacon for breakfast.