Rockin’ eve with me and FB

HNY.  I think I’ll have an evening of books and movies and reruns of the West Wing.  That’s my plan.
NY is full of tourists, who are excited about the ball dropping. I am perfectly happy to watch that on new Year’s R0ckin’ eve.  Dick Clark!
In the space of 5 minutes yesterday, 2 sets of tourists [...]

Let’s call the whole thing off

I just booked a trip to PR in early February.  Less than 6 weeks from now, I will have a few days on the beach.  And then it will be my 40th b-day.
It’s gotten to the point where I need to remind myself what I like about Winter.  I don’t mind the weather–it’s the dark [...]

Back at work

I am back at work for the next less-than-3 days.  It doesn’t bother me–the subways are less crowded, the students and teachers are at home.  It’s a little lull.
Saturday evening I went to my friend L’s place for dinner–she made a lovely seafood risotto.  I took the G train; the G is the only subway [...]

chanukah

For the past few nights, I have lit the menorah.  I really enjoy it.
I also have been happy with the cleaning I’ve done in the past few days.  I just made a double trip to the recycled clothing truck at the Greenmarket. I would guess that I recycled 50-60 lbs of clothing.  I also threw [...]

Puttering

I am writing this entry despite the best efforts of Banana to block the keyboard with her stinky butt.  I just finished 1.5 hours of throwing away clothing and bagging up other clothing for the Goodwill.  Yesterday I did 2 hours of similar work. I have an old piece of Ikea furniture that I want [...]

two swans a-swooning?

I had a very vivid dream last night.  I dreamed that I was in someone’s guest room and sharing the bed with 2 (then 1) swan. (One of the swans disappeared in the dream.)  When I woke up in the morning in the dream, I thought the swan was dead.  So I did what anyone(?) would [...]

Clarity is better than cleanliness

It is December 23 and I am at work. I love being at work around the Christian holidays; it is a lot less stressful.  The number of people commuting to work via subway is cut at least in half, even today. 
I also slept very well. On Saturday night I inaugurated the “Frannie Banana’s in the [...]

Legit

My married, 58 year old boss just picked up a phone message and then said, “Wow, turns out my weird sex friend is LEGIT!”
I laughed, “You don’t hear that so often at work.”  Some porn-site owner supposedly is interested in some of her public health prevention work.  And in this economy, money is good.  I [...]

Rejoice

The bus to my mom’s is atypical because it is generally a more well-heeled bus than, for example, a bus to DC. On my way up there a mother/grown son behind me were discussing how “they” have ruined Greenwich and Nantucket. The son also said “notwithstanding”–I don’t think that has ever been said on [...]

Up, up and away

It is looking like I’m am heading up to my mother’s to be stuck in a snow storm.  I am still quite excited about the latkes, though less excited about having heavy snow dumped around me.
Some people find snow to be festive; I am not a big fan.  But there are festive moments that I [...]