Mom 2.0 Summit Wrap Up

Mom 2.0 Summit Recap

Why is it called a summit?

Is it because it’s at the top of a cliff?

Perhaps it’s because if you walk down to the beach it’s like conquering Everest to get back up to the hotel.

Or it would have been if I hadn’t take the little cart

Cuz I was already huffing and puffing just getting off the beach

Oh yeah, the recap. ****** (I have forgotten to include Shelly Kramer, the most important person I have ever met.  I will devote the rest of my life to making it up to her.  Meanwhile, here’s her link!)

1. Getting picked up at the airport and driven to the Ritz by one of readers/new friend Teresa Santoro was awesome cuz she gave me a personalized tour
2. The Ritz was gorgeous
3. My room was just a few miles from Mexico and was a billion miles from every single meeting…exercise complete.  Google maps ineffective in tracking down my room
4. I waltzed up to my room and put in the key. No joy. Tried again. No joy. Wondered when I put up the do not disturb sign. Tried again. No joy. Looked at the room number. Whoops. Wrong floor, shit!!! Ran away…sorry person who didn’t wanna be disturbed
5. Loved hearing Lisa Ling BUT: to the person who stood up in the question line and then talked about herself and handed Lisa king your magazine, you’re lucky I was lazy cuz I totally wanted to bitch slap you.
6. To whomever thought of putting ring around the Rosie into play by having 19 tables of presentations every 15 minutes, please rethink this concept.  It was too loud to hear anything.
7. Also, have you ever noticed that there’s always one person at every table who turns the entire conversation to “can we specifically discuss this as to how it relates to my blog?”
8. Is narcissism a requirement? Just asked…I mean, it is all about me right?
9. WTF HuffPost and Today Show? If I wanted to trek to the goddamn beach just to show you’re important enough to trek all the way to the beach I’d probably already be motivated enough to be successful without you.  Jeez, I’m looking for shortcuts, not workout activities,
10.  Dear people who run the parties: I want beer! Not blue champagne, not Chardonnay, not a Cabernet. BEER! Is that so difficult???
11. Also, why was everything fried? This wasn’t the south, it was southern California, where were the avocados?????
12. The pool was lovely and the guac was great with the chips
13. I met lots of articulate and bright peeps
14. That’s why I love this conference for culling out the morons
15. Except for the morons who were still there…thanks for realizing I’m not friendly and did t wanna talk to you
16. I loved pitching to be on a talk show
17. Raising America of course
18. On HLN, with Kyra Phillips
19. Ok, that’ll be a separate post
20. You’re dying now aren’t you
21. Too bad
22. Great rule of thumb: talk to everyone because you never know when you’ll get a great connection for your kid
23. People seem to remember my blog name better than I remember theirs…it leads to lots of awkward moments
24. I seem to constantly meet people that I have apparently met before leading to still more awkward moments
25. Traveling with Ann Zuraw is always fun because she is forever meeting people and then asking their life stories.  Then I have to stand around like an adult and listen….arrggghhhh
26. If you are in a large room and your baby starts screaming and you cannot calm it down, please leave the room. Yeah I’m talking to you dad with the screaming baby during the ring around the rosy session in the main ballroom
27. Two beers are better than one
28. Three beers is even more preferable. Get the picture?
29. When attending a “Kentucky derby party” do NOT wear a dress that looks like a bikini in the back unless you want everyone talking about you. Yeah, that happened.
30. Do not assume that your taxi driver actually knows shit about the area he’s driving a taxi in.  He asked me to google where we were going? WAT????
31. I had a grand time…met lots of fun peeps
32. Pretty sure I won Miss Congeniality
33. Still waiting for my sash and tiara
34. I’m outta here

So there ya go! Next time you’re probably wanna go and hang with me.  That’s all I’m saying here!

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