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I will also be watching and live tweeting Thursday Night and my recap and response vid will be up by friday morning!!!
stunning and grace do not even begin to describe this woman.
ALEX IN THE CITY – Styling and Profiling: Political Rally Chic for Kerry Washington at Buono/Silva Rally !
I wore this ensemble to a political event in New Jersey last Month. It was a political rally for Barbara Buono and Milly Silva and the lovely Kerry Washington made an appearance (the chief reason I was in attendance). It … Continue reading
Yet Another delightful interaction with Scandal Wardrobe Designer Lyn Paolo!!! She Loved my photos! Check out our tweets!
Check out the photos and info about the Scandal and Saks team up here!
Scandal Wardrobe Saks Display! PHOTO ALBUM!!!!
I had To go check out this Scandal wardrobe display on behalf of my Gladiators everywhere! Check out these Favorites of mine and the entire album on my google+ account here!!!
The Saks Flagship store will be having an event with Lyn Paolo next Wednesday just before the Thursday Premiere!!!!!!! Check out the deets HERE!
My favorite part had to be the squeal that escaped me at the sight of it and the awesome Gladiator I met while taking the photos. Olivia is sporting a very nice white Mercedes Benz CLA 45 and i am wondering if we will see it in season 3????
Featured designers include Saint Laurent Paris, Calvin Klein, POLO, Oscar De La Renta, MaxMara, and even Livs signature Movado watch!!
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Alex in The City – Run 10 Feed 10
Happy Sunday Lovers!
Today is a big day! I had a 10k this morning and The Emmys are on tonight and I my sister Kerry Washington is nominated and going to win so I have my whole evening blocked off!
I just wanted to recap my run this morning and share some great photos. It was a great event for a cause and I am always down for the cause as the saying goes.
I have begun to make an active effort to get back into running shape and begin training for the NYC Marathon next year so one of the challenges I gave myself was to sign up for a race every month of so to keep myself training and competitive. I am a proud Womens Health Magazine Subscriber and a few weeks ago while flipping through my October issue I came across the Run10Feed10 registration promotion and I am familiar with the charity and figured I could feed 10 people in need and get a run in for the month so WHY NOT?!
I woke up at the weeeeeee little hours of the morning to get to my race on time and got a rare sight of my street in Brooklyn that reminded me of Noah and Allie lie down in the empty street and look up! So you can tell by my thoughts that it was too early for me to be up, right?
I love races because…. well, its FUN first and foremost and because I get to have a fellowship of sorts with other runners and challenge yourself and there’s freebies and runners that travel from other places and great causes and there is food at the end! I particularly like Oranges after my runs! lots and lots of orange slices or a few whole oranges. I love the high after and the excitement and motivation! On my everyday runs there is no one cheering me on! I mean come on, that is awesome!
I am necessarily is 10K shape, Ok I’m not in shape to compete in a 10k but I am in finishing shape and that’s just what I did this morning! I Finished!
I loved challenging myself to do this race. Milestones and crazy challenges and the exercise in mental strength is really why I love running and I ALWAYS return to it. I won’t go too in depth about running today, I’ll be posting regularly about my training but for now I want to share my photos which include some great shots off Glee cast member Naya Rivera, Olympic Gold Medalist Alex Morgan, Lauren Bush the founder of FEED, Womens Health Magazine Editor and awesome runners that helped to fight hunger here in NYC!!!!!!!!!!
When I run I normally don;t look back but it was such a view!
Feed Founder Lauren Buch Lauren speaking to runners! Lauren is in Womens Health Magazine this month and Todays event was featured on GMA with Weekend Weather Anchor Ginger Zee! Check it out! Go to Goomorningameria.com for deets! 
Glee cast member Naya Rivera showed up to support Run10Feed10, cheer runners on and even read the names of the top placing runners!
Me enjoying my favorite post-race snack! My Vibrams are getting some miles on them!
Me and Olympic Gold Medalist Alex Morgan at the Panasonic beauty counter! I love Alexs!
We were out fairly early and I was lucky enough to get this great shot of the Moon!
Freebies!!
Caught these two tiny humans Hulla hooping and had to grab a shot! I love to see kids playing outside with the same toys and activities I enjoyed as a kid! Sidewalk chalk is all but unheard of these days!
Post Run YOGA!
20 songs from my playlist for this mornings Run!!!
1. Alicia Keys – Girl of Fire
2. Jay Z – already Home
3. Wale and Meek Mill – Bag of Money
4. Will.I.am – Bang Bang
5. Chris Brown – Beautiful People
6. J. Cole – Born Sinner
7. Rihanna – Cockiness
8. BEyonce – Diva
9. Jay Z – Empire state of mind
10. Chris Brown – Fine China
11. Cee Lo Green – Fool for you
12. French Montana ft. Nicki Minaj – Freaks\
13. Flo Rida – Good feeling
14. Nicki Minaj – High School
15. Kanye West – Lost in the Worls
16. Kanye West – Monster
17. Will.i.am – Make it funky
18. Jay Z – On to the next one
19. Common and Kanye West – Punch Drunk Love
20. Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin something
Thanks for Checking in loves!
Happy Super Soul Sunday!!!!
Currently Reading!
I love to read, that is no secret. In my adulthood I have expressed envy of my younger self who in high school managed to read roughly two books a month. I, of course , had to read for classes and a healthy amount of leisurely reading due to my healthy intellectual appetite. Jobs and friends and other ‘adult’ duties and interests have caused me to reduce the amount of time spent reading but it has done nothing to my affinity for a good read! Thus I continue to convince myself that I must read those ‘must reads’, I mean it’s only obvious. I even challenged myself specifically to read at least one book a month (even put it on my vision board) and thanks to script reading and determination I have kept my promise to myself and in doing so I have realized that I will not be breaking my habit of reading a few books at once. I am currently reading three and I wanted to start sharing with my readers some of what I read with a regular “Currently Reading” update!
Let us begin!
1. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
This was recommended to me by one of the wonderful instructors from Yoga 216 during FREE Wednesday night Yoga at Lulu Lemon in the meatpacking district (an awesome part of my workout routine since moving to NYC) . The text is ancient, thought to be around 4,000 years old and a great read for those, like myself, who are interested in or practice Yoga/meditation but can be a great read for anyone. Best part has to be the price, its only …. wait for it….FREE! At least on Ibooks it is. I quickly downloaded it to my phones library (a very green option in my opinion) and I’ve been reading away!
2. The Tools
I must admit, I have been reading this book FOREVER! lol I think I downloaded it in my Ibooks App around….. I don’t even remember. I skipped around it when I began reading Good Self Bad Self by Judy Smith and then just kept getting tied up with scripts and my last semester of undergrad etc. I went on vacation in June and I thought FINALLY, I can read now! That didn’t happen. I have challenged myself to finish it in the next two weeks on my commute to work. I have also received quite a load of required reading from my new acting class so I’ll have to hurry anyway! More about the book: It is a great read about cultivating mental ‘Tools’ to help face and conquer life’s challenges and rough times, it is also about making mental adjustments to aid in living your best and most purpose-filled life. I recommend it! I think part of my dragging through it has to do with an “I know this” feeling because I already understand and practice the
3. An Actor Prepares – Constantine Stanislavsky
Actor stuff! If its not a script or a book about the craft, its kinda both! It is a the fictional memoir of a student being taught principles and skills and the craft. I am delighted with the reality that acting requires a lot of reading! reason #546510651321 I love my chosen profession.
I just finished this as I entered a new Acting Class at The Tom Todoroff Studio and began some of the reading for said class, kicking it off with “Audition” by Michael Shurtleff
After I finish these I, of course have roughly a dozen books in my “to read” queue. The current queue is as follows!
1. Obsessed – America’s Food addiction and my own – Mika Brzezinski
I love Mika on morning Joe and she had my attention with this book when she was featured in Womens Health magazine (I think it was Womens Health, I read lots of magazines) talking about it. I have my own journey with dieting and finding what is healthiest for me and how to detach from many habits and misconceptions about healthy eating in American Culture and I figured this would be a good read to gather some more knowledge and perspective on the issue of poor nutrition, Obesity and even poorer learning tools about healthy diets in our super sized society.
One of my Fellow Gladiators brought this book up in a conversation and It caught my interest. That was an understatement, from the moment she stated the title I knew it was right up my Olivia Pope Gladiating alley and I HAD to read it. I’ll let you know how it goes!
Don’t quite remember what lead me to this book… I really think I saw it featured in O Magazine.
4. Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger
I will admit that I did not read the first novel but it is healthy to say that I am obsessed with the film adaptation of Devil Wears Prada. I have a saying about the well read and the lovers of film adaptation “There are two types of ppl in the world; Those who understand Shakespeare made love stories Into tragedies and tragedies into comedies and those that didn’t read the fucking book before it was adapted to film.” I like to stand behind my words and be fair to my own bias but I also like to defend myself for self’s sake so I will justify my not reading the novel by saying that I am the former and I make exceptions lol! I am sure I will enjoy reading this piece.
5. Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection by Debora L. Spar
This item was added to my list only yesterday after running across THIS article on NPR’s FreshAir Tumblr page. If you cant tell by now I am a card carrying nerd- fangirl-feminist fanatic and part of that comes with a healthy amount of love for NPR so there you have it!
This particular list has a theme of women and badassery (some like to call it feminism), what a book club of the month theme right?! I fall in love with woman hood more and more everyday and I can hardly stop fangirling over one amazing and inspirational woman before my attention is stolen by another! It is a vicious cycle of empowered-woman-sisterhood! If you have read or are reading any of these let me know how they are! Let me know if I should save myself the trouble or absolutely READ IT NOW, let me know if you want to read along with me or chat about these amazing reads! Just let me know! Thanks in advance! Happy reading Lovers!
XOXO
-Zan
My week according to Scandal: It’s Scandal Thursday!!!
I love mail, I literally spend my whole day doing things to ease the anxiety I get waiting on the mail, OK not really but you get my drift. It’s like Christmas during the week, I go to Sleep work … Continue reading
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