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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates

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It’s Diwali 2008, and the candles are burning brightly.

My partner and I decided to burn 5 based on a combination of ages.

46 + 40 = 86 -  8+6 = 14 - 1+4 = 5

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May All Your Days Be Filled With Light, Love & Laughter

I guessed 32 pounds - it weighed 31.1!

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Is she ready for winter or what?

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This pretty actress/model was collecting greeting & signatures on huge cards that will be sent to the troops. She will be going on tour with the USO to entertain soldiers in Iraq soon.

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Someone built a treehouse in Madison Square Park. Too bad there was no ladder attached, otherwise there would be some aerial shots in this post.

Perhaps the chubby squirrel in the first picture will turn it into penthouse housing ;)

Speaking of housing here’s The Flatiron Building

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and the Empire State

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“Of all the questions which can come before this nation…there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.”

- Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

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Nothing says salvation more than a ten foot high red neon cross on top of a church. I’ve seen two of them on this ride so far.

There’s 10 people in this subway car. Four are talking on cell phones, One is sipping coffee, another yawning loudly and I’m blogging.

The train is approaching Manhattan - the lights against the night sky never fail to uplift me.

I’ve been posting so many pics lately; when I get home I’m writing a big catch up post. For now this mobile post will do.

The train has submerged. All the signal is gone. The phone users are all switching to handheld games and Ipods to entertain as we rumble thrrough dark tunnels.

My phones have built in music players, but I’ve never used them.

The girl to my right has a faraway look in her eyes. The Ipods songs are taking her to a place she wants to be.

Soon this train will take me where I want to be - home.

Caio for now.

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I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen (1935 - )







while strolling through Greenwich Village.

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Discovered at Blogtations.

From the site’s About section: One Sentence is about telling your story, briefly. Insignificant stories, everyday stories, or turning-point-in-your-life stories, boiled down to their bare essentials.

I like it.

Check out onesentence.org

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I pass this memorial on my way to the bus station.

It is tended with great love.

Read about this fallen hero here

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while I was waiting for the subway.  It must have come through the grate right above me.

I took it as a good omen.

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Last night I was playing around with the age calculator on my friend’s I-phone.

If asked my age just a minute before the answer would have been ”nearly 47.”

But there it was 46 years 9 months 26 days

So that means today I am 46 years 9 months 27 days old

Tomorrow 46 years 9 months 28 days old

It’s just too much information - I feel so OCD.

Here’s a blurry camera pic of that electronic devil.

When last I left you I See You was in the DVD player.

An upper middle-class family with more than a few problems suddenly finds themselves broke.

Their enterprising son decides to rig the whole house out with web cams, and allow the world to look in - for a price.

His family doesn’t know they’re the net’s newest stars for a while.

When they find out well, let me not spoil it for you.

Rosanna Arquette always a favorite of mine, and looking great for nearly fifty, was her usual edgy self.

Definitely worth the price of rental.

I SEE YOU on DVD

What would you do for your fifteen minutes of fame?

Back at you with a bit of a review soon.

While rummaging around a storage disk I found content from one of my former blogs.

So I thought why not post a few.

Saturday, October 23, 2004
  So tonight I sat with my good friend and we talked about men.

Sorry fellows we were not kind. 

We talked of the schmucks who describe themselves as handsome, athletic and terribly interesting in personal ads and post a picture only a really doting mother could love.  A maximum weight allowed is often found in those same ads.  

We talked of men who try to slink out of relationships by not calling for a while and hoping you will just leave quietly.  The fact that you invested two years of your life in them shouldn’t go to your head.  What?  You’d like an explanation? Well, uh you know ummmm….

We covered the cheapos, unemployed musicians, users, abusers and out and out losers.

 And then we plotted how to get my friend a new boyfriend!

Hugs all around

 

Thursday, October 28, 2004
 

At last my long awaited full moon and it gleamed like no other in my memory.

The lunar eclipse was the bonus.

My afternoon was all mixed emotions but the evening saw me at my focused best.

Earlier this month I told you all that this full moon would mark the official beginning of the  second half of my life.

To mark this day I made a donation to a worthy cause, visited a friend who is at at an all-time low, and treated my significant other to a yummy surprise dinner.

Friday night I will have a private ceremony where I will forgive all those I have issue with -  including myself.

You all take care.

Thursday, August 26, 2004
  So I am sitting here watching The Witches of Eastwick and waiting for my delivery from a new Middle Eastern restaurant.  I ordered all veggie and it should be interesting because the place comes highly recommended.  The girl who took my order was not much of a mathematician, when asked how much it was she said 21 or 22 dollars.  I guess I will find out for sure when the order arrives.

I love The Witches of Eastwick because the characters in it are women who break out!  Funny what group dating can do for you sometimes.

It was a quiet day for me.  I didn’t rush anywhere for anything but still managed to get a lot done. The good news is a class I signed up for was postponed two weeks so I have the weekend to myself.  Atlantic City is beckoning to me.   Whether I will answer her call is undecided but it sure would be nice to park myself on the beach for a day or two.  I am really not interested in gambling this time around.  And it is such a cheap trip.  You get a round trip ticket for 25 bucks and 18 comes back to you in casino spending money.   The ticket is good for any bus within 96 hours of purchase.  You can eat till you bust for less than 20 sometimes 10 dollars a meal at all the buffets.  The only real cost is the hotel, and there are quite a few little ones round the corner from the glittery Boardwalk ones.  It’s a thought.  I have a few bucks in my piggy bank begging to be spent, and I took the call from the school as a sign.

I have had the apartment all to myself since Monday.  Everyone is away on a conference.  It’s a taste of living alone.  I moved straight from my family’s home to an apartment with my husband; I have never lived on my own.  I guess I would be okay at it.  Actually it’s been very quiet and I haven’t done a thing out of the usual.

Well let me go visit some other sites.

Toodles.

Totally Enjoyable.
Highly Recommended.
One of my favorite moments: Finding out Mr. Big’s real name.



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Taken during last night’s diner visit.

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My Sidekick Slide

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Baklava - I just admired - didn’t much.

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This would be their Wall of Fame

Sipping bottled water and roaming the web on my Sidekick.

There’s a constant clinking of plates and flatware coming from the nearby kitchen. The dishwasher’s practiced hands work quickly. He barely needs to watch what he is doing.

It’s chilly out, but I am snug in my Old Navy sweats.

Above my head photos of celebs line the wall. I’l have to snap a couple of camera pics - my regular camera punked out on me tonight.

Of course, it was like one of the coolest photo ops ever.
Someone dressed as a two headed zombie on stilts was stalking down 10th Avenue.

The camera is insured, so I’ll be at Best Buy when it opens tomorrow.

Shouldn’t be a problem.

I have a new notebook with me tonight. It’s a spiral with butterflies all over the cover. What can I tell you I had a very girl moment. It also helped that it was 75 percent off - yay clearance sales.

Time to start writing.

So what are you all up to?

I found this one of me and Heart. I’m the one in sneakers. It’s from his last visit to New York.

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We had agreed to meet at Times Square right underneath the Madame Tussauds sign.

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Those fingers are even bigger than you think!

What do you do with your nails?

French polish? Talons? Colour? Short and unpolished? Nibbled?

I like my nails manicured fairly short and round with no polish.

There is a TV series on BBC called “The World’s Strictest Parents” so far some unruly British teenagers have been sent to Jamaica, Alabama and Ghana - they’ve had some nasty shocks!!

Do you think you are a strict parent? Or were you brought up by strict parents? Why?

We were pretty strict. When our daughter was dating she had to be home by 10pm on the weekdays.

My own upbringing was kind of strange. There was a million rules till I turned 18, and then there were none at all.

When someone says the word blind I think …

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So, tell us, what three words do you think of when someone says blind?

CIECHE

It was the late ’70s, and Don’t Look Now was playing at the Thalia Theatre. It was part of a Donald Sutherland double feature.

The story was set in Venice, and Sutherland’s character was desperately trying to remember the Italian word for blind. I knew the word because grandma only spoke Italian at home. Actually I said CIECHI right aloud.

The other two words I think of when I hear the word BLIND are VENETIAN and MAN.

If you had to lose one of your five senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch or taste), which would you lose?

That’s hard, but I’d have to go with smell.

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