Going back to Brooklyn

I am having a thoroughly satisfying day. I ran this morning and came home and finished the new pd james mystery. Then I went out to buy fixings for the first Red Lentil soup of the season. My friend L gave me this recipe a long time ago and it’s probably beyond recognition now. [...]

The life of Francesca Banana

I was thinking that Banana has lost a lot of weight, but maybe not:

She has become obsessed with my bathroom:

But once she makes a poo and has that lovely odor coming off her, my lap is the place to be:

I’m never gonna stop the rain

Thanksgiving was lovely. I woke up, walk 1.5 miles ran the 5 mile Turkey Trot and walked 1.5 miles home. I love Brooklyn because restaurants like the Chinese and Thai places, which are open for my people on Christmas, close for TG. Of course, there are so many Europeans colonizing Brooklyn, that soon the restaurants [...]

The best ever

Merry Hanukkah from the White House!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11262008/news/politics/let_santa_light_the_menorah_140965.htm

Nobody likes me (p<.05)

I requested of a co-worker that she have another perfume talk today with the offender. It sucks to have to do this because I have some 22 year old think I’m a big bitch, which I am.  I just don’t want to suffer. I just told my boss, “if this doesn’t work I’m gonna kill [...]

So proud

Harriet reminded me that I have such fun riding public transit.  Last Friday, we decided to take the bus down 9th Ave to get to the theater.  About have way through a 10 block trip, a big black guy got on the bus with a couple of friends.  He looked around…and saw someone he knew.  [...]

One vodka, please

Yes, today is going to be one of those “Cranky Patience” days.  I just can’t even begin to imagine how I am going to make it until 5PM.  I want to be home, reading the new PD James mystery.  As a reward for making it through the day, I will buy it for myself at [...]

Resting

I am taking a break from watching Season 1 episodes of West Wing. It’s that kind of Sunday.  It’s a day where I want peace and quiet.  I ran 5 miles yesterday and 3.4 miles today in very cold weather and that is my big accomplishment for the weekend. I went to see a movie [...]

Stinky-ness

Yesterday we had a staff meeting. Included in this meeting was out new hire, E.  E is a lovely young woman, though she wears a lot of cheap strong perfume. My allergies have been killing me lately, and though I took a Zyrt3c yesterday morning, I was feeling sensitive.  I got to the meeting about [...]

Another one rides the bus

As I have mentioned before, I have swim class on Wednesday nights from 8:30-9:30.  I was finding the walk 18 minute walk home to be unpleasant, as I am always wet and tired.  Two weeks in a row I barely missed the bus that would cut off 10 blocks of the trip. So I developed a new method. [...]