Friday Fun with Ms Baby Part One

Work days usually run from 9 o’clock in the morning to around 6 at night. However yesterday morning, Ms. Baby’s mother left a message asking if Lauren and I could stay a few hours extra so that she and her hubby to get together with an old friend. Of course we said yes, the baby is wonderful and a few more hours of playing with her is a piece of cake. Along with our usual park visits, playing, naps, diapers, and walks; Ms. Baby and we had a few extra adventures.

AFTERNOON

Normally for lunch we grab sandwiches, pizza, Hale and Harty or whatever cheap eats but I had a hankering for pasta so we decided to try Intermezzo, a few blocks away from the house.

I had Minestrone Soup and linguini in a Bolognese sauce. There was also a bread basket with some of the most delicious Italian breads I’ve ever tasted. The meal was delightful with the only exception being that the pasta was so sticky that it was hard to remove from the plate! Lauren had a butternut squash soup (she didn’t care for) and penne a la vodka, both of which I had to taste. The squash wasn’t the worst thing I have ever tasted but I don’t think I would order it and the penne was amazing.

After a few calls where I eased Ms. Mommy’s guilt about her night out without the baby, we decided to go to Penn Station for free Krispy Kreme donuts in celebration of National Donut Day.

For those that don’t know, Penn Station is located on 34^th street and 7^th Ave. which is about a 16 block walk from Ms. Baby’s house- as I’ve said before I’m a walker so this doesn’t me. However, we were sad to find out that all of the donuts were gone and there wouldn’t be another delivery for another hour. Oh well, good exercise and as a consolation we replaced our daily coffee with lattes (which Ms. Baby got very excited about and tried to steal.)

Happy Birthday Anderson Cooper

When I was in my introduction to Public Relations class we were given an assignment that involved picking a real person or product and creating a fake scenario that we would then have to deal with. The scenario doesn’t matter but my person was Anderson Cooper and since today is Coop’s 43^rd birthday I thought it would be fun to post my Biography portion of the project. Enjoy!

BIOGRAPHY OF ANDERSON COOPER

Early life:

Anderson Hayes Cooper was born June 3, 1967, New York City the fourth son of designer and railroad heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and her second with actor and author Wyatt Emory Cooper. Though born into wealth, the teenage Cooper worked summers as a waiter. He pursued his first job, at age 11, as a Ford model because he "wanted to...be financially independent." He attended Dalton School in Manhattan and graduated with honors from Yale in 1989 with a BA in political science.

Tragedy:

In January 1978 Wyatt Cooper, passed away during heart bypass surgery after suffering several heart attacks during the holidays in 1977. Anderson was only 10, and his older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, only 12. Less than ten years later, on July 23, 1988, Carter a committed suicide jumping from the terrace of Gloria Vanderbilt's Manhattan apartment, while Vanderbilt stood mere feet away begging him to stop. The death was later believed to have been a sleepwalking incident caused by insomnia and stress from a recent breakup mixed with allergy drug, Proventil. Both deaths had a profound effect on Cooper -- personally and professionally. It has been reported that his brother's passing was what inspired him to pursue a career in journalism.

Professional life:

In 1990, Cooper Began working as a fact checker for Channel One, a news program made to air in classrooms. After working six months as a fact-checker, 22-year-old Cooper quit the job, secured a fake press ID, bought a video camera and headed on his own to Africa to cover the crisis in Somalia. Soon selling his work to Channel One, who eventually made him chief international correspondent. In 1994, he became a reporter for ABC News. At the age of 28, Cooper was their youngest correspondent. In September of 1999, Cooper became the permanent anchor of World News Now, while continuing to work as a correspondent. In need of a break, Cooper took a two year detour from news into the world of reality TV and became the host ABC's reality show, The Mole for its first two seasons.

After terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Cooper realized his true calling was in helping people tell their stories and in late 2001 was hired by CNN to work as an anchor alongside Paula Zahn on American Morning with Paula Zahn. In September 2003, Cooper took over the evening show with Aaron Brown and it was renamed Anderson Cooper 360°. Cooper gained notoriety and a huge fan base while covering Hurricane Katrina in late 2005, which subsequently led to Anderson Cooper 360 being expanded into a two hour show.