“Let me tell you about being a child actor, kid. It’s great in the beginning if you can keep your folks out of the till. Then you’ll hit 24 and wonder if you should rent a permanent Hollywood Square. But if you can hold on through those Lifetime movies and animated voice work, eventually you’ll be able to re-woo your teen fans when they’re moms. Just ask Patrick D. and Robert D.J.!”
Want to watch Jen get sperminated?
Jason do his loveable-manic-sarcastic schtick?
Relax in a cool air-conditioned theatre while watching something decidedly not for children?
Because I have 100 tickets to The Switch for Tuesday – a few days before it officially opens.
I haven’t seen the film. But I do see a lot of (OK, every) romantic comedy or comedy targeted to women age 12 – 90. Yes, I suffer through it all. The implausible drivel and sexless kisses and doll-hair extensions and Ephronian retorts and recycled plots and man-childs who finally step up and BFFs who finally bone and he-said-she-said misunderstandings and squees and OMG cute shoes and ohhhh, they have a baby at the end I want another one sniff sniff.
I’m truthfully afraid of someday spontaneously bursting into a huge flame of hot pink tampons. Maybe I have a third ovary.
So I can say with a confidence and the self-imposed expert status that only a blogger can claim that this movie will probably be good. It’s by the same factory that churned out Little Miss Sunshine and Juno, two great screenplays with quirky, loveable characters.
Will the film be formulaic? I hope not, but probably. Rachel Green and Ross Geller-ish? Definitely. Aniston and Bateman playing their same old patented neurotic gorgeousness? Ya ya ya, but hey, it’s a Tuesday night in August. There’s nothing on TV except Discovery and TLC (Hi baby, nice plug, right?) and you can set your DVR. What else do you have to do? Leave the kids with Dad, throw on a tank top, grab your girls and a catch a free show.
Tuesday, August 17th
AMC Mazza
7:30pm
Watch The Switch trailer here – fyi it’s about a single mom doing IVF with a donor. It’s not a biopic of Mother Teresa. Please don’t be like the woman who emailed me after attending a free screening of Sex and the City that she was horrified about the rampant sexuality and materialism. Seriously. BTW I really liked Olivia Hussey in Madre Teresa, add it to your Netflix queue.
OK, you just want your tickets. You can each have up to 4. Send me your name for the exclusive guest list to apissgiveaways@gmail.com. If you’re one of the first responders I’ll email you back. If you don’t receive an email from me it means the tickets are all gone. You don’t have to give me the name of your lucky 3 friends, just yours.
There will be no printable ticket. Just arrive 1 hour before the 7:30pm show and get in line. Tell the good looking greeter your name and she’ll check you and your guests off the list frat party style. There’s always the chance that the show will be overbooked and thus you are not guaranteed a seat until your tush is in it.
Have fun! Tell Jason and his furrowed brow I said hi.
Do you fondue, or are you interested in trying a delicious new way to eat cheese, assorted meats, veggies and chocolate?
Do you like to go out with groups of friends on a week night (e.g. when your partner can stay home with the kids or a babysitter is easier to book)?
Then head to The Melting Pot nearest you for their new Girls Night Out special four-course meal package, available for groups of 8 or more on Sundays through Thursdays for only $30 per person. (Of course, I’m sure dudes could enjoy it too, just be man enough to ask.)
The DC area locations offering the Girls Night Out Menu are: Midtown Washington DC, Arlington VA, Gaithersburg MD (this is where I went – it was freaking fabulous! – and close to my pad in Silver Spring) and Reston VA. Other Melting Pot locations in the area that have other super specials are Columbia MD, Annapolis MD, Towson MD and Fredericksburg VA.
If you live elsewhere in North America, find your own nearby Melting Pot on this
nifty map.
My last fondue experience was in the early ’90s in Berkeley. I would deviate from my usual close-lipped details of my sordid past and explain to you why I don’t remember very much about the evening, but since the establishment is surprisingly still open for underage college students’ enjoyment, I’ll refrain. My closest friends from college had similar experiences there, as well as close friends I’ve since made who also went to Cal.
Let’s just say that a Washington DC Bloggers Girls Night Out at The Melting Pot was everything my first fondue experience was not – namely, it was delicious, decadent and I only had to taste it once.
We were treated to the new Girls Night Out Menu and enjoyed:
- Three cheese fondue dips for fresh bread and veggies: Feng Shui, Spinach Artichoke, and Fiesta cheese fondues
- A Melting Pot House Salad with choice of peppercorn ranch dressing or house vinaigrette
- A Girls’ Night Out entrée plate which included teriyaki sirloin, marinated breast of chicken, white shrimp, and pasta to cook in broth fondue
- Four chocolate fondue dips for fresh fruit, pastries, marshmallows and treats: Disaronno Meltdown, Cookies ‘n Cream Marshmallow Dream, Ying & Yang (pictured at the top of this post) and Flaming Turtle chocolate fondues
The Girls’ Night Out f
our-course meal package is available for groups of 8 or more on Sundays through Thursdays for only $30 per person at The Melting Pot restaurants in Midtown Washington DC, Arlington VA, Gaithersburg MD and Reston VA.
With the kids’ sports and birthday parties and craziness on the weekend, I’m thinking this is the perfect way to get my book club together and reconnect with my MOMS Club buds. Or to celebrate with a fellow mom before she gives birth and is out of commission for girls nights for a while. Or even a bachelorette party … at least the first stop in the evening!
If you’d like to make a reservation for your own group, email Lauren of The Melting Pot and tell her that you heard about it on A Parent in Silver Spring and she’ll handle booking it for you.
Also, follow The Melting Pot on Twitter @MeltingpotDC, and fan you closest Melting Pot location on Facebook, to hear about more special discounts and promos for friends of THE CHEESE.
www.facebook.com/MeltingPotGaithersburg
www.facebook.com/MeltingPotWashingtonDC
www.facebook.com/MeltingPotArlingtonVA
www.facebook.com/MeltingPotReston
Disclosure: 18 other bloggers and I were treated to the menu above to help spread the word about this new dining option for groups. We were not required to write about the experience nor provide a positive review in exchange for the meal. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% my own.
Photographs of chocolate, table and cheese grabbed from Thien-Kim of I’m Not the Nanny and of wine from Lolli of Better in Bulk.
Momz Share's Jen & Lara and me. Photo by Amanda of http://thenagainphotography.com/
If you’re reading this you probably have a kid. And you obviously read blogs (thanks!)
But do you have a blog yourself? Are you thinking of starting one?
Then you have to get your cute self to a Momz Share event! These great in-person networking parties just started this year, thanks to the genius of Hip As I Wanna Be’s Jennifer Gerlock and Chicken Nuggets of Wisdom’s Lara Di Paola.
The second event was held this weekend at The Little Gym of Silver Spring (a SUPER party space, for grownups as well as kids!) and packed more fun into three hours that I would have thought possible:
- The Souper Girl of Silver Spring brought her yummy vegan soups – you can have these healthy soups delivered right to your door for easy, kid-friendly, health-conscious and delicious meals.
- More donations of awesome raffle items were provided by La Papillon Spa, Peace Love Lip Gloss, Bring It To Fruition, The Round House Theater, The Maryland Science Center, Port Discovery, The National Aquarium, Tuscan Home Decor & Design, All things Italian, Certifikid, The Melting Pot of DC, Be Lifestyle MedSpa and Simplify Organizing.
I finally met in person people that I already love through the power of the Internet gods and our common worship:
- Scary Mommy – You already know this woman is a wonderful writer, an incredible humorist, mom blogging resource and shutterbug, but she’s also a fabulous co-worker and friend.
- Resourceful Mommy - If you’ve ever been to or won swag from a Twitter party, thank this chick. She invented these online get togethers! And she is down to earth and delightful and adorable.
More Awesome MomzShare Attendees That I Met & Fondled/Frightened, or Know & Love
Hide The Cheese - my new favorite food blog EVAH. I am forcing this chick to be my friend. She should be afraid. But if she runs away, at least I can make her recipes.
It’s My Time To Write - a truly great professional writer and mother just began this beautiful blog
Treets! Photo by Lolli of Better In Bulk.net
Musings From Me
The Land of Bean
Sisarina
Tech Savvy Mama
Parentopia Devra
Teach Mama – Vote for Amy at the Scholastic Parenting Blog Awards!
I’m Not The Nanny
I crashed this photo of Seriously a Homemaker and Chief Bit Mom Leticia of Tech Savvy Mama. Photo by Lolli of Better in Bulk.net
Caffeine And A Prayer
Parenting By Dummies
The Too Fatties
Living In Maryland
Laundry For Six
An Acorn Dreaming
Urban Mama
A Spiced Life
Toddler Planet
Wrecklamation
The Traveling Marshalls
Twofer Mom
Linda Sellers
ProMom Blogger
and more women I wish I’d met!
Next time, I’d love to hang with YOU! I’ll keep you posted on the next Momz Share, hosted by Scary Mommy, but you can also follow Momz Share on Twitter (@momzshare)and on Facebook (here) and if you are a business that would like to become involved in some way, please email lara.momzshare(at)gmail.com.
