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March 18, 2016 8:34 am
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Tony and I are soaking up all the sights, sounds and pasta we can in our last few hours in NYC so my sweet sweet parents Laur and Murr are taking over the blog today in lieu of the usual Friday gratitude list. (Consider this my gratitude list: THANK YOU, MOM + DAD, FOR WRITING THIS BLOG!!) Having just turned 30 yesterday, I have a newfound respect for them, my mom especially - when she turned 30, she was less than 3 months away from giving birth to me and had to take it sober. (I, on the other hand, drank champagne pretty much all day long.) Her life was in such a different place than mine when she hit this milestone, which is crazy to think about because she and I are alike in so many ways. Here she and my dad are with their thoughts on their baby turning 30... Highlights include memories of me calling our beloved dog "Baby Jesus," and asking my mom on her 34th birthday, because 34 seemed SO OLD, "Are you going to die today?"View Article
March 17, 2016 7:57 am
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Today is my 30th birthday! I didn't have it together enough to do one of those "30 Before 30" bucket list challenges, so here are 30 things I'm glad I did before I turned 30...View Article
March 16, 2016 9:59 am
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Tony and I are in NYC for his "School of Rock" press tour! Read about my traumatic bagel experience with a pratfall straight out of an Anne Hathaway comedy, check out links to Tony and his cutie costar on the local news and see what else I've been trolling on the worldwide web. HAPPY HUMP DAY!View Article
March 15, 2016 11:12 am
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This month's book club pick is a laugh-out-loud funny collection of short stories that I am truly envious I didn't write myself: "American Housewife" by Helen Ellis. For my birthday month, I really wanted to find something a) funny and b) I related to. This book is my spirit animal. I am newly(ish) a housewife, and really feeling my role as I applaud from the sidelines as my husband's new TV show takes off. I wrote recently about my third-life crisis on turning 30 (I only have 2 days left to tell people I'm "in my 20's!" Excuse me while I go cry and hyperventilate into a paper bag like the cliche I am.) And while I don't specifically relate to these ladies, especially the murderess or the kidnapper, I AM a lady who wears sunscreen even when it's cloudy, I love to lunch (and breakfast, brunch, snack and dinner), and I like to stallion walk like Beyonce when I'm alone. And I love anything this dark, clever, vicious, and above all, hysterical. It eviscerates womanhood/wifehood and lovingly embraces it at the same time, as only a smart lady can (brava, Helen Ellis. I want to know you.) I am OBSESSED...View Article
March 14, 2016 10:20 am
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The hubs and I landed in NYC this AM after a red eye flight and a whirlwind weekend with the Kids' Choice Awards and the "School of Rock" premiere. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who watched, spread the news about the show and called and texted - I haven't seen Tony so emotional since our wedding, and we're both so grateful for all the love and support you've shown him. We're in the city for the next few days for Tony to promote the show and to celebrate my 30th birthday on St. Patrick's Day. And as an early birthday gift, Tony wrote this guest blog for me. I'm stupid crazy lucky, I know...View Article
March 11, 2016 11:20 am
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This week has been a wild ride. I got to perform in a sketch show (something I haven't done in a long, long time) called MA'AM, produced by my best friend Katierose with a rotating cast that features some of the funniest ladies in L.A. This month, I was fortunate enough to be a part of it. I performed an old sketch I wrote years ago (see: pic above) in which I play a lunch-shift stripper. It was the first thing Tony ever saw me do, before he even met me, and he always tells people that watching it was the moment he fell in love with me. And hearing that always makes me feel like the luckiest girl in the world, because I could not have looked more disturbing. He fell in love because I made him laugh. I wanted to do that sketch because performing it is just pure joy, and reminded me of the time in the Groundlings Sunday Company when we were falling in love and chasing our dreams sosososo hard and wondering if things would ever work out. And now, Tony is starring on a TV show. Getting up on stage and doing it felt a little like putting armor on against the world for this huge coming week: I turn 30 (not happy about it), and much more importantly, Tony's show "School of Rock" premieres tomorrow, both hugely emotional things for us. It sounds cheesy, but getting to perform that sketch with Tony and my best friends put things in perspective. Even though this town is insane, we have a rock-solid support team. We lend each other wigs. We drive across town in the rain to sit in the audience in a theater with more people onstage than in the crowd. We celebrate each others' successes, and bring wine and french fries when a casting associate asks us "Did you even look in the mirror today?" We love each other, run lines with each other, and believe in each other no matter what. I am so grateful for those people in our lives, and I am beyond proud of my husband and everyone involved with "School of Rock." I hope you watch it tomorrow (on Nickelodeon, right after the Kids' Choice Awards!) and I hope you love it. Here is everything else I am grateful for this week...View Article
March 10, 2016 10:14 am
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Guys, I’m going to be brutally honest with this one. I’m positively wrecked about turning 30. This week, I’ve cried twice in public (only one was an ugly cry, though, so let’s call that a win). And I’ve cried every day in private. Last night, I cried myself to sleep. This morning, I woke up to a text from Tony that said "My heart beats for you" with a link to an article about women who didn't find success until after 30, and it made me cry all over again. I love birthdays and normally believe in birthday months, but I am a mess over this one. I think it’s mostly because I’m a perfectionist, and I’m entering a new decade with so much of my life completely and entirely not figured out. I am so far from where I wanted to be when I turned 30, as far as success, accomplishments and looking at my life “on paper” goes. And I feel like I’ve really got to get my sh*t together on the inside, too. I always looked at 30-year-olds as “grown-ups,” people who have it together and are in the midst of their lives finally taking off. They’re hitting their strides in their careers, starting families, doing yoga and eating organic things that don’t cause cancer or heart disease (whereas, I'm pretty sure most of the things I like to eat will eventually kill me. And if all the frosting and tacos and macaroni & cheese and cacio e pepe and burgers and fries don't, the amount of hairspray and spray-on SPF 70 I use on the daily will.) I thought when I turned 30, I’d either be a successful screenwriter, funny “second banana” to the less-funny, hot girl lead on a sitcom, or maybe a mom who dons size 2 lululemon to jog her kids to school in a Bugaboo...View Article
March 9, 2016 8:54 am
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My favorite (and only) husband Tony appeared on this morning's episode of "Home & Family" on the Hallmark Channel! They filmed it yesterday at Universal Studios, and I had the best time wife'ing it up in the wings. I sat in the front row of the audience and made wife faces at all the silly things Tony said, and I'm pretty sure there are some meme-worthy reaction shots of me rolling my eyes or giving over-eager thumbs up. They showed a clip of the tape that got him a live SNL audition in New York four years ago, and they also shared a clip from the audition tape that landed him "School of Rock." It got me really emotional, thinking about how far he has come and where we are now. Specifically, that his career is in a place that he gets to be on a morning talk show and drag me along, and I get to watch him with googly eyes in total disbelief I was somehow lucky enough to marry him. And snack on Joy Bauer's healthy jalapeno poppers and chocolate cupcakes with avocado frosting and then TALK TO HER (I'm a foodie fangirl. You know this.) AND be in close proximity to the baby pigs on set. I didn't get to hold them, but I did stare at them for a long, long time and take about 10 million pictures (which I will share in Friday's gratitude list). I also learned that they are 1) up for adoption and 2) can grow to be 650 lbs. Tony, you were asking what I want for my birthday next week and I think I know! If you're as antsy as me for the weekend to just get here already ("School of Rock" premieres this Saturday after the Kids Choice Awards and I am SO. EXCITED.), here are some distractions to help get you through... HAPPY HUMP DAY!View Article
