I can’t believe how time flies! Last I wrote, Ally had just come home from India and now I feel like the summer is almost over. We have tried to spend as much time as possible in the Hamptons.
It took me a while to decompress from the final episode of Real Housewives. I started doing Pilates again. I got lucky. The owner of a local pilates studio called me before I moved out here to see if I wanted to take classes. She got my number from someone I used to workout with. Smart women. I saved her message and when I moved out here I called her back. I liked that she reached out to me and thought I would try one session. We connected immediately and she really payed attention and cared. She let me play my own Ipod music. She loved it so much she asked me to put it on her ipod too! I think working out to good music really helps push you the extra mile. If you want, I can publish a good play list on the next blog! She got me motivated and I have been going 3 times a week. I have not cancelled one time (yet!) which is a big accomplishment for me. I have come up with the craziest excuses in the past. It changed my body immediately. I did pilates for 2 years and then stopped for 3. Muscle memory. It is true. It came back fast.
I wake up early, walk outside in my bathrobe to get the newspapers and set up yogurt, fruit and cereal on the counter for everyone to eat when they get up. This past weekend Lisa (my sister) came to visit. We walked to the Ocean (about 1/4 mile) and walked on the beach together for over an hour. We caught up and shared our fears and hopes with each other. We found the most beautiful rocks on the beach and picked out two. When I got back to the house I wrote Summer 2010 on each one to save. I hope to make this a tradition and one day give them to our girls to carry on the tradition. After we came home we walked next door to the farm to pick up fresh breads and more fruit and vegetables. On the way there we saw cows, horses, chickens and pigs. I drive down this street 10 times a day but never appreciate the beauty in nature unless I walk through it. I told Bobby I want to take the same walk with him tomorrow if it’s nice out. Bobby loves to walk and really loves the beach.
Bobby also loves to swim and can stay in the water for hours. I rarely do. But this past weekend was so hot and perfect that I jumped in. (Of course I heated it up to 90 first!) We had a houseful of children and it was so much fun playing with them.
Socially, we have gone to some fun parties and benefits, but my favorite evenings are with friends at home. Last weekend Indrani from Double Exposure was our houseguest. It is so much fun being a tour guide. I showed her everything and we really got to know each other. The most special part of the weekend was when she offered to sit with Ally and look through her photos from India and share some techniques. It just takes one person to inspire you or give you the confidence you need to be successful. Indrani offered to mentor Ally and that meant more to me than she will ever know.
It is almost time for the new epsisode of RHNJ, so I gotta run. Please share some of your stories! I read them all.
Love,
Jill
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:38 am
Jill,
Hope you are still doing well. I have left you a comment or 2 before and I really do love the show. I hope you return for the next season – I’m dedicated to my New York girls! (please don’t let the loonies like Kelly take over haha, she is boring! all her segments outside the girls interactions seem scripted or just dumb!) I enjoy your family and hope Ali is doing great. I’m jealous she gets to travel so much! I hope one day I can travel and see the world. I am her age too, I work in real estate and am about to get my license at 19! Then maybe I can be rich and give back to the community like you do, I think that’s really cool. I hope you consider doing the next season of the housewives!! It’s fun to see how the “other side” can live..
I am currently assisting a lawyer in town on the side of my real job (helps pay for my rent) and I quickly realized he came from an incredibly wealthy family. They had beautiful rugs throughout the condo I help maintain. He said one of his fathers businesses was a fabric and rug store in New York. Guess what I said… “Oh are you familiar with Jill Zarin or Zarin Fabrics?” He said yes! Lol, I was all excited and he had no idea what the Real Housewives were… I felt like I was apart of the “in” circle
Hope to hear back from you
Taylor
July 31st, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Here we go, I will use this avenue as I have not found another. I am immensely impressed with your social grace and willingness to take some responsibility even in face of the events that happened during the reunion show. However, part of who you are and what makes you great is your willingnes, desire and ability to care for others. Sometimes, when other people have made it through their “crisis” phase, with help of people like you, they will then resent the person who helped them. You have a great capacity to care for others, passed to you no doubt by your mother, do not regret helping others (even if at times it seems overbearing),the return gift is the knowledge that you touched someone elses life in an immeasureable way. I am pleased to see you finding beauty in everyday life and focusing on you and yours!
July 31st, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Jill,
I am new to watching Reality TV and watched all three seasons of your show this past year. I was hoping to ask you a question, without it seeming critical, since you have endured quite a bit this past season. Sincerely, I would like to understand why any of you ladies except for maybe Alex would subject yourselves and families to reality TV when your lives are already financially secure and established. Alex made it know she was looking for her connections and money and Bethenny just starting her business is understandable. You have such a wonderful family, social life and money and are able to do whatever you want, why do you do a reality show, especially when it gets so ugly. It can’t be healthy for your family, business or
you. I mean this for LuAnn, Ramona and Kelly too.
Sounds like your having a wonderful time in the Hamptons. Best to you
and your family.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Hello dear i am looking forward to meeting you at book soup i will bring my kids as well. I changed my email address. xxoo