WIN and Wendy

My friend Wendy is an event planner and asked to help with the WIN fundraiser last night at the Waldorf.
1100 people attented including Gail from Oprah, Vera Wang who has a hearty laugh, Iman and table 29 who bought so many balloons we had problems with the balloon weights.
WIN stands for Women in Need. It's a fashion charity. My favorite was learning about the Bloggers table. I wish I knew who sponsored it.

Note to headhunter

Because I can't sent this, I thought I should get my thoughts out on the blog.

You only have one chance to make a first impression and it looks like I blew the interview.
It wasn't the work portion in question, but I know I came across as bland. I was wearing the wrong clothes – (I was coming from my mother’s house). I was so boring – even I wouldn’t hire me. And the funny thing is that I'm multidimensional. On the question of what do you like to do, I drew a blank. I’m so focused on getting an assignment that I forgot all the fun stuff. (Goldsmith, reading, knitting, travelling, Mesopotamia, walking ie.)

Have you ever done a do over interview?

I've Lost My Edge

On the train home after a job interview I realized that something is missing. I came off as the most boring person on earth. When asked what else I like to do - I was shell shocked. Did I talk about the books I'm reading from other cultures? Did I talk about walking with my friend discussing the world at large? Did I mention I was a goldsmith? Did I mention my save NY work from economic collapse or that I knit? No. I said I like to work. And I went dark.

It was a job I really wanted. Something is happening to me in the burbs. I'm dying.

Buy Stocks. The economy is back for a while

I have the my economy test. It's when I start getting calls for jobs and people start finding buyers for homes.
My brother has a buyer. Someone who used to work with Paulo found a buyer. And we have a buyer for FI.

I don't think house prices are going up like that have in the past, but we are in a range right now. Of course everything will collapse again beginning in 2013. And there will be a severe problem when property taxes are higher/month than the cost of your monthly mortgage. We are not there yet. And the only way to stop that from happening is lower salaries for government workers.

Don't get me started. But for now happy passover.

Bear Mountain, Stratton, and Fire Island

I haven't written in a while. This weekend my brother invited us up to Stratton for some skiing. It's a ski-in ski-out condo. You skied down to the base and up the ski lift for skiing. So cool.
Cutie is skiing nicely. No blue squares yet - but next year it should be a breeze. I was the only one who had to rent skis. To do this it was the shuttle bus to town.

Cutie is also taking ice skating lessons. On Tuesday we went and she knew many people on the her school bus. She's doing very nicely on skates. She really wants to learn jumps. We are a few years away from that. But she is going backwards.

Here's a photo from Bear Mountain last month.

Also, we are getting ready for Fire Island. We are still trying to sell the house. Some people are looking.

Super Good At Getting Punk Punks (Jumpstart)

I'm loving Jumpstart. Cutie plays on the online version and the download version. The online version gets spends a lot of time loading. "Be patient like a polar bear." who knew polar bears were patient?

Today is the chinese new year Cutie wrote "Gung Hay Fat Choy" in chinese. I wish they had a Chinese class in school. Maybe I can recommend for Fun Tracks.

Cutie and Business

We signed up for Jumpstart. She can play for hours. There was this facebook promo that if you sent Jumpstart to your friends on facebook, your kids would get points. She got 1000 extra points. Now she wants me to get more. I told her that her friends have to sign up and she would get extra points. She's going to tell Sam.

Tell a friend is alive and well in DR world.