>These are Pennywell miniature pigs raised by Chris Murray in Devon England .. These mini pigs are meant to be pets.
They are a variant of a rare breed from New Zealand . It is suggested that they always be sold in pairs so that they have a companion and someone to snuggle with. They are supposed to be easy to house train and have good temperaments.
>People are such creatures of habit. Like the man I saw giving directions to a blind man and he was pointing! I almost said ‘Dude, he can’t see you.’ Well, I hope he got where he was going. My throat is sore and Em just told me Fred might have strep. She says ‘Joy’ I say yuck.
I bought a new cane today. It is pretty, it has flowers, and is almost identical to my other cane. Since I climbed over that guard rail my knee has been hurting me. I got some cute pictures from H that I will post later. Now I should do some work.
I left work early, just couldn’t stay there with my ill feelings. My head was stuffed up and achy and my throat was sore and I have trouble breathing. I was going to buy some music by The Police, but I don’t know if I should. I have CD’s that I could sync to my MP3 player, except I don’t feel like it.–
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>No work today so I turned my phone off when I went to bed. Fortunately I turned it on when I woke up this morning. Em called to let me know when she was ready to go shopping. So I got up, sewed the button on my coat, my new coat, they sewed the buttons on crappy so I had to secure it so it wouldn’t fall off.
We went to Woodbury Commons, to the Bose store, Em looked on the website and it looked like they sold I-Pods. Tigger had talked her into getting an I-Pod Nano. They didn’t. So she went to another store to get Fred new jeans. Those were the two things she was looking for.
After we left there, we went to New Jersey to get gas. I was going to post this picture so you could see how cheap the gas is where I am, but its not really where I am, this picture was taken in New Jersey. When Em saw the sign, she threw on the brakes, I never thought the van could stop that fast. But it did, and we got gas. That is another thing nice about New Jersey, it is illegal to pump your own gas, so we didn’t have to get out of the car.
Em got an I-Pod Nano, purple at Best Buy in Paramus. There is an Applebees in the same mall so we got lunch there. We were going to split this really decadent chocolate dessert there, but I couldn’t get the waiter’s attention and we decided to just leave.
After we got home we went to Allsport, this is the 3rd time in 4 days. I am just happy to be doing something, after at least 2 weeks of doing nothing. When I got home, Em went up to take a nap, I left to take Casino Royale back to the library and go to get something chocolaty and yummy! The rest of the evening I was watching TV and putting music on my new MP3 player. It is Em’s old one.
>I watched the James Bond movie I borrowed. It was due Monday so now I have to pay a fine. The name of the movie is Casino Royale. I read more in my LibraryThing book on the train. And after the movie I finished Club Dead. I think I have them out of my system so I can read something else now.
Two only in New York moments, when I was walking to the subway, there was this girl/woman, wearing a black and white plaid coat, she was holding the color against her face to protect it from the wind, with gray pinstripe pants and pointy black heels, here is the New York minute, she was running across a 4 lane road in those heels! And here is the other NY minute, only in New York could it be too warm for a jacket, and the very next day, be too cold for the very same jacket!
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>Almost everyone here is sick. Only myself, D, Em and Fred went to church today. When I got there (I took my own car), Em was sitting by herself. She whispered to me, “Fred got sick, D had to take him home.” I thought Fred already had this and got over it. Oh well. So I am hiding out in my room because I don’t want it either. Besides, I also have the new James Bond DVD to watch because it is due back tomorrow.
Em asked if I thought she should take some Aleve and lie down, or push herself and go work out. I suggested she should lie down, after all I want to go with her and I wanted to check out my blogs and check my e-mail etc and etc.
So now I am doing that, then I will work out, and then dye my hair, then I don’t know what, since I take my contacts out when I dye my hair, I am not going to want to go anywhere. Maybe then I will watch my movie.
I decided to take the list of types of books in the challenge and compare them to my list of TBR books. That will help me decide which books to read for the challenge.
>Beer Chips!
I saw a post about these on another blog, the blogger is in Missouri, or Mississippi, so I googled ‘beer chips’ and found a website, you can see it by clicking on this link. There is a ‘chip locator’ on the website, so you can find out where to buy these chips in your area. I put in my home address zip code and my work zip code and there is a store in NYC that sells them! I don’t think I will buy them though, given the trouble I have with beer.
>I overslept this morning, I missed the Book Study. Em called and wants to go shopping at a mall in New Rochelle. She doesn’t know where it is. I don’t even know where New Rochelle is. I had better get dressed, I think she wanted to leave by now.
I am thinking about canceling my WW membership. I am not using anything but the message boards. I am giving it this month and if I don’t consistently use the online tracker I am canceling. I can still post on the message boards, I just won’t have access to the whole site.
We did not go to the place in New Rochelle. Em found out it didn’t have many stores, mainly restaurants. So we went to the Palisades. It was so crowded I had to drop her off and drive around looking for a parking space. So I parked in Home Depot, except there is not an entrance to the mall from Home Depot and not wanting to walk around on the road I walked up the hill over the grass to the parking lot and over the guard rail, well, other people were doing it with no problem you know? I guess if you are only 5 feet tall and like to wear tight jeans, you shouldn’t try to hop over a guard rail. Well, I wasn’t really hopping but I tried to just swing my leg over and not touch the guard rail cause it was wet. Well, I touched it all right! I have a bruised backside, it hurts to even sit on my bed. I should have sat on an ice pack when I got home.
I got a new jacket and Em got a new red sweater and some tinted moisturizer from Lancôme. The jacket is to replace my leather jacket. I got some leather lotion and it was either the wrong lotion or I put it on wrong but now the jacket looks worse than before I put the lotion on. This new jacket is navy blue and matches the NYPD hat I got in the City.
>I keep trying to get on WW my posts but I can’t. I think it is a problem with the website because I can get to my G-mail account and I just read Sarah’s blog. So for now I can’t see if anyone else has posted a message to me. I have to get lunch soon. I don’t know if I will get a sandwich or salad. I am tired of salad, it is too hot in here for soup. Maybe some Mac-n-cheese. Well gotta run.
I ended up getting a City Light, it is avocado, mozzarella cheese, tomato and olive oil. I don’t know if it is actually ‘light’ or not, but I kind of like it.
Em picked me up. She went to Mr. Mc retirement party. Someone where she works is causing a lot of trouble and bad times for her. Makes me mad.
When I got home, there was a package for me. I was surprised, it was the book from LibraryThing. The last book took so long to get here and this one so soon! I just finished Dewey so it is good timing.
This is from LibraryThing:
On a gray September day, on an island off the coast of Sweden, six -year -old Jens Davidsson ventured out of his backyard, walked out into a fog, and vanished…. Now twenty years have passed, and in this magnificent debut novel of suspense—a runaway bestseller in Sweden—the boy’s mother returns to the place where her son disappeared, drawn by a chilling package sent in the mail… In it, lovingly wrapped, is one of Jens’ sandals—sandals Julia Davidsson put on her son’s feet that very last morning. …Now, with only a handful of clues, Julia and her father are questioning islanders who were present the day Jens vanished—and making a shocking connection to Öland’s most notorious murder case: the killing spree of a wealthy young man who fled the island and died years before Jens was even born. Suddenly the island that once seemed so achingly familiar turns strange and dangerous… Until Julia finds herself facing truths she never imagined—about what really happened on that September day twenty years ago, about who may have crossed paths with little Jens in the fog, and how a child could truly vanish without a trace…until now.
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I know this is a little late, my excuses are: (1) its my first giveaway, (2) I went to Lake Placid that week, (3) I got a migraine in Lake Placid, or I was hungover for a week. Since I only had 3 beers, I am going with the migraine.
This is the giveaway of Hell Bent by William G. Tapply. I was actually reminded of this, I mean I never really forgot, maybe I should say I was spurred to action by the fact that I am getting another book.
Anyway, there is a service to random pick winners, but since I only got two entries, I just flipped a coin and the winner is . . . Carol!
Thursday, 18 July 2013
May 21, 2008
NYT > THE CITY
Belleza
just a (transplanted) city girl 