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Doing Good

There’s been lots of good this weekend.

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Doing good for my body and soul having dinner with my high school friend Sara at Westville (and walking there, for a total of five miles of walking yesterday.) I had salmon teryaki with bok choy and we started with roasted butternut squash.

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Doing good for my wallet by getting a free glass of wine for checking in on Foursquare.

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And then doing good for the community by volunteering for Junior League. (They did good for my soul by having bagels and coffee for us in the morning.)

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From 9-3, we pulled weeds and planted bushes in Sara. D. Roosevelt park on the Lower East Side. This is the 20th anniversary of the Playground Improvement Project. I’m not going to lie–doing good for the community also feels great when you’re getting a decent workout through manual labor. (I totally trained for this with that Vipr class.) And spending the day outside with your friends.

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Lunch was good, too. A chicken and avocado sandwich, cookies and a fruit cup.

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And a walk, some snacks and beer with Lacey.

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And then a walk with Bailey once I got home. Yeah, that’s a horse. In Manhattan. And Bailey was barking. I’m not sure whether it was at his shadow or the horse. (Speaking of Bailey, go check out Ali’s blog to see more about his day. They had a date today.)

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And walking past the New York Auto Show and seeing a Jeep roll over a giant ramp.

Tonight, I rest.

YES!

NYJL Bags + Bubbles

As the chair of the NYJL PR committee, I work with my committee on publicizing most of our public events, which means I also attend most of them.

Tonight’s event was Bags and Bubbles, a handbag auction which raises funds for our Women’s Cancer Prevention program, among others.

Champagne and purses? Okay!

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Ashley wanted this Prada beauty but didn’t want to spend four figures on it. Fair enough.

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After a few cocktails, I started bidding on this Rebecca Minkoff bag. I hadn’t planned on bidding on anything, so I set a limit for myself. $200 for a bag with a $475 sticker price. Once it went over $200, I wouldn’t let myself bid on it. It would have been a great deal still, but I just wasn’t looking for a new bag before I got there, so I didn’t need it.

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Mmm cookies.

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Pretty coasters.

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Lots of ladies.

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My strategy ended up being to bid on the poor little items nobody else had bid on, like a $35 BCBG clutch. We bid using iPod touches, and we were told at the beginning of the night that we would be charged $229 if we didn’t return them.

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The BCBG clutch I ended up winning for $35!

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And a super-random $5 clutch.

So, I have a question. Lately I’ve been blogging more about the fun stuff that’s been going on in my life than the food. Do you want to see the food? Do you still want to see how I try to eat healthy while busy, even if it’s sometimes repetitive? Do you want to see more Bailey?