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Calendar Girl!

Will and I received our Hot Blogger Calendars in the mail yesterday!

(Taken at by Dan Spisak at The Hollywood)

Sarah and Jane interviewed each blogger, than then used our pull quotes. Mine features one of my all-time favorite stories about my time spent writing Lizzie McGuire.

It was 2000. In the previous year I had decided I was sick of being an assistant (my boss was awesome but you can only fetch lattes for so long), I had split up with the guy I was convinced I was going to marry (a near-miss, we would have killed each other and we're both happily married to other people).

I was also done with being the "fat funny sidekick"  and decided that I was going to lose the weight once and for all.

Flash forward to the Fall of 2000. I have dumped sixty pounds from my frame! I am writing on a show! I have been called hot! Life is good!

Until one day, when I'm standing in craft service, ignoring freshly-baked cookies and Fiddle Faddle and mac and cheese, opting for the ever-so-delicious lunch of dry tuna, straight from the can.

The answer to the question "What was your least hot moment?" is where our pull quote starts:

One of the dads of one of the 16-year-old teen extras came up to me one day and said "you know, you'd have a lot to teach a boy." 

The rest of the quote:

I didn't say anything, because I was thinking HE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT TO ME.  He then continued "you could be his Mrs. Robinson."  At that point, I didn't know whether to be more horrified that he had said that, or that he thought I was a Mrs. Robinson type.  I was only 28!

I've kept forty of those sixty pounds off.  And realized that the "fat funny sidekick" was the way people treated me because that's the way I treated myself.

Funny how that works.

The Hot Blogger Calendar is available for sale through my website - just click on the link on the upper right. If you order from my site, I receive $2 per sale and those proceeds with go to Bill Foundation, the dog rescue I work with. So ogle hot bloggers (Will appears in the men's calendar) and help the doggies. You can't lose.

In High School, I Was Voted 'Least Likely to Appear on a Calendar.'

This weekend, Will and I learned why models do so much blow: standing in heels for hours on end is a lot of work.  (Thankfully, Will has plenty of practice.)

Drinking champagne? Not difficult at all.

We had our photos done for the Hot Blogger Calendar. The question is, who'd be insane enough to waste their Saturday for free while Will and I played dress-up?

The answer is two fabulous people: the photos were all taken by Daniel Spisak.  He lugged all of his camera equipment, lighting, etc. to  The Hollywood, a new building that was generously made available to us by Lisa Redmond.  The Hollywood is one of those places that you walk into and realize that you will never live here, but you might be able to hide on one of the decks in a Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler sort of way.

The photo above is an outtake (I'm not even wearing the same outfit in the picture I selected for the calendar.) Each calendar (there's a men's and a women's) is $12, plus shipping.  You can pre-order the calendar now.  Click here to view more details!*





*I should mention that if you click through my site, I get $2 for each calendar sold.