Life's Mysteries

I think I have just had a revelation. I always have the intention of trying to live life to the fullest within my abilities. However, I have reached an impasse, or maybe more of a dilemma. I think that working interferes with living up to your ability to live fully. But, without a job and income, you can't live a life at all really. Unless you are wealthy. But then, I have heard that when you are wealthy, you tend to take things for granted and can't really appreciate what you can do. I wonder if this is true. How ironic..

Consequently, on a totally different topic....I am wearing a cute white dress today at work. Why is it that when you wear white dry clean only items I always have that rough morning where I dump almost an entire cup of coffee on myself. It is as if the universe is opposed to me wearing white. I think if I get married, I wont wear white. Why jinx it.

Football League

Jenn and I play on a Football team - affiliated through my job. We play each Thursday at Giants Stadium practice field and it is a lot of fun. I have learned a lot about football and can catch and throw pretty decent now. I got to be the quarterback tonight for one play (a "girl play"). Every third play has to be a girl play and you have to have at least 3 girls on the field at all times. It gets us a lot of play time because there are only a few girls that are on the league. We also like being few and far between cause there are lots of hot guys!!!

Annoyances in Life

Some people just really annoy the hell out of me. It seems like the older I get, the less tolerable I am of other people. And, for those who know me pretty well, I am not an easy person to offend. AND, I generally get along with most people.

Tonight, I went to a birthday dinner for a friend. She had invited several of her friends that she works with. All were gals - in total there were 8 or 9 of us. We ate at a Mexican restauarant in the village.

A woman was there - same age as me. Complaining about not being able to meet a good man and get married. She proceeds to tell the other girls at the table who are visibly much younger that they better find a man now before it is too late. Don't get me wrong, I like men, but why is she reinforcing the stigma that a man is what a woman needs to be happy. Especially with these younger girls who don't need to be worrying about that crap.

During the course of the conversation, it came up that I used to live in Utah and knew the birthday girl from back there. Several questions were asked about Utah, as people generally have a curiosity about Mormons and the life there. I answered the questions as I normally do - saying that it is a great place to live with nice people, but that it wasn't for me. A little to infiltrating with the religious aspect etc etc.

This woman who was with us, and happens to be the same age as me, starts to kind of take offense to what I am saying and defends Utah as if I am saying bad things about it and states that she admires the values etc etc. This is the same woman who just spent the last fifteen minutes talking about a man she has known for ten years and the size of his small penis. Call me crazy, but I was seriously annoyed that she went from making fun of a guy's penis to talking about how she would like to live some kind of moral life in Utah. This is why I don't go to church.

THEN, as if that wasn't enough, our waiter completely sucked. He was slow with everything. Forgot practially everything. Let's put it this way, our Mexican dinner took over 2 hours. I am a very forgiving person, I think, when it comes to service. I used to work in that capacity for many years and I know how difficult it can be. But, when I f&*^ed up, I would apologize and try to make things right. This waiter couldn't have cared less. The woman with us bitched about the service multiple times during the course of dinner. Then, when it came time to pay and we wanted to tip 15% instead of 20% due to the horrible service the entire meal, she got all pissy and bitchy and kept saying what a shitty tip it was to leave 15% on the bill. She chucked in what she owed *supposedly*, then left the restaurant. Trust me, I give credit where credit is due. But this guy sucked as a waiter. Really bad. To be honest with you, he didnt' even deserve 15%, but I never tip less than that out of respect.

We were all still there and somehow I ended up paying 95$ toward dinner. I don't get it. Bitch.

Tech Queen

All hail the tech world. I sit here at the pier, waiting for the ferry, and posting a blog. Call me old, but I am in complete awe that I can do this right here and right now...little bits of information....traveling thru space to a computer. it just blow my mind. I love technology!!

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The Mermaid Parade

I dont even know where to start with this one. Jenn and I went to Coney Island to watch the Mermaid Parade. Similar to the Halloween or a Mardi Gras parade, there were lots and lots of strange people in interesting outfits. I can't even begin to post all the good pictures from that day. But, here are a few. And, no, Jenn and I did not dress alike on purpose. It was cold and we had to each buy a sweatshirt. Aren't we cute as twins?

Aire Aconditionado

If you can't stand the heat.. buy an air conditioner. I have been in air conditioner hell. Sear's has made it their job to annoy me. It's such a long story, I can't even blog it. But, it was an all day ordeal. But, by midnight Jenn and I had the new unit installed and running.


The picture is of me at Sears waiting for my stupid air conditioner after a long day at work. Jenn takes pictures of everything. i love it.

PS - A thanks to my lovely neighbor Kenny for letting me use his car to pick it up.

Old Lady Green

So, I randomly got the urge to paint my bedroom today. I had bought paint a few months ago and just decided that today was the day. Now my room is this color that reminds me of a Grandma's house. Soothing, yet very strange. Jenn helped paint. She's such a good roomie.

China Town, KTown and Little Italy

We were feeling a little culture today and decided to go on a world tour. First we went to China town and took an Ipod walking tour. Went to all sorts of strange places, drank bubble tea, and got a fortune at the Buddhist temple. Then we headed over to Little Italy for a cocktail and some World Cup action. Apparently there was some cheese festival going on there. Lots of loud beer drinking men watching the game.After that, we went to K-Town (for non New Yorkers, that's Korea Town) for some food. Looking at the pictures I just realized that we really ate a LOT of food. Piggies.

New Job

So, I gotta new job - same company, different department. And, my old coworkers had a little "going away" party for me. They are the best. It was lots of fun and only 2 blocks from my house which made it even better. Jennifer had three firsts on this venture - Kamikazi, Calamari, and a Cosmo. Wow, that's alliteration for you right there!

Doing Laundry

How boring is my blog that I have had to resort to pictures of me doing laundry. Oh the excitement. So, this is my routine. I go to the laundromat. Put the clothes in the washer. I am generally a bit hung over due to staying out too late the night before. Then, I go have brunch while the clothes are washing. If it is later in the day, I have a cocktail. However, today it was brunch. AND, as you may notice from the lovely brunch picture, I AM hungover. Very scary.

Dairy Queen

Do you know how long it has been since I went to Dairy Queen??? We went to Pennsylvania today to see the Hain Cemetery (genealogy thing) and I had a random urge to pull into Dairy Queen. I promptly ate a peanut buster parfait then proceeded to stick my stomach out in the parking lot and offer it up for photographic documentation. This is after a two hour drive in the car. I look absolutely stunning. Thank you Jennifer for capturing this moment in history.

I wasnt the only one gorging though. My mom and Jenn each had a banana split.

Nails and a Ticket

So, we go to the salon, get some waxing, nails and hair done. Then, on the way back home we realize that my mom's car has been towed. She has handicapped plates on her car from out of state and the assholes still towed it. They had posted a sign to a tree that said no parking 6/8 to 6/8 - we just didnt realize it was from 6/8 2006 to 6/8 2007. A few hundred dollars later we got the car out of hock. THEN, the next day her car gets broken into. She won't be driving up here ever again.

Jenn Has A Date

Well, apparently I can get my cousin a date, but I can't seem to get myself one. How does that work?????

Anyway, I set her up with a guy from work. He had her trekking around Central Park in heels for quite a long time then took her to a nice fancy dinner at Tavern on the Green. 5,000 blisters later, they said good evening and she came home. She had a good time in spite of the blisters. And, she looked cute.

My Dog Joins for Breakfast

There's not much to say about this one. I left to go into the kitchen and get something, and when I came back Gizmo had taken my place at the table with my mom and Jenn.