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The boys are fighting!
We got a Wii, and what do the boys decide to play first thing, when playing against each other? Boxing!
Archive for February, 2009
>Friday I was feeling so bad I couldn’t even eat the soup Em got for me. I took some Theraflu and went to bed. Saturday when she called to see if I would be able to go, I thought I could handle it. So off we went. Camera in hand, torturing Em every chance I got.
And my first chance was at the train station, I did let her take her glasses off though. Actually this is the only picture of her. There rest are of the park and buildings and a husky with pretty eyes. Its all in the slide show, I updated it just now.
Had breakfast at our favorite spot, then went to Exhale where Em had an appointment for a ‘fusion’ massage, no idea what that is but her text message to me after it was done was “this was the best thing”.
We had lunch at Cafe Frida. I was waiting at the bar for Em and the bartender and I were talking/flirting, we got the same waiter as last time, as I was looking for a place to put my purse, he hung it up here. I hope I didn’t offend any Mayan gods!
The museum we were going to go to wasn’t as interesting as we thought it would be so we didn’t go in. We did see a photography museum, Gwen and I might go there when she and I are looking for something to do when Em, her and I are in the city and Em is getting her facial/massage or whatever she is getting.
Then later when we were walking around Rockefeller Center this guy stopped us something about filming did we see the sign next to the pink elephant and giraffe? No we didn’t. We are pretty sure he was a off-duty NYPD (He kept saying, we’re not going to run you in) He was a volunteer for a soup kitchen raising funds and handing out hats. Em’s is FDNY and mine say NYC in big letters and over that in little letters New York City. Oh and in case you didn’t go to the slide show, here is the dog with the pretty eyes.
So far we have attracted the following NYC males, a gay makeup artist, a short Mexican bartender and a psychotic NYPD officer(we think, about the NYPD part, not the psycho part.
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I just received an award. While this is not the first award I have won, I believe this is the first award this blog has received. Thank you very much Jon-Jon from …a Dedication of Love for thinking my blog is FABULOUS!
The rule is to tag 5 newbies blogs that you have read lately. Unfortunately, I have been a little out of touch with the newbies but if you are a new blogger doing your best to spread good thoughts and feeling around the blogging community, consider yourself ‘FABULOUS’.
>Not as easy as you might think! Now forward, change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It’s really hard to only use one word answers. Be sure to send back to the person you received it from!
Where is your cell phone? Dresser
Your significant other? none
Your hair? straight
Your mother? Washington
Your father? Sedro-Wooley (Didn’t say it couldn’t be hyphenated!)
Your favorite thing? Manhattan(Absolutely, no doubt about it)
Your dream last night? none
Your favorite drink? Water
Your dream/goal? Paradise
What room are you in? Bedroom
Your hobby? blogging
your fear? dark
Where do you want to be in 6 years? paradise
Where were you last night? Bed
Something that you aren’t? warm
Muffins? huh? (Where are my muffins? What muffins?)
Wish list item? peace
Last thing you did? TV
What are you wearing? sweater
Your Pets? four(furry and feathered, you see my dilemma?)
Friends? patient (They put up with me)
Your life? good
Your mood? conflicted
Missing someone? yes
Drinking? Theraflu
Smoking? Never!
Your car? Chevy
Something you’re not wearing? Pants(Well I’m in bed)
Your favorite store? amazon(I know, not really a store)
Your favorite color? Purple
When is the last time you cried? Forget
Who will resend this? ?
Where do you go to over and over?Manhattan
Five people who email me regularly? Friends (Well they said one word!)
My favorite place to eat? Manhattan
Favorite place I’d like to be at right now? Here
people I think will respond:Whomever
>So I wake up this morning with this cold, blech. But I decide I should go to work anyway to finish up some things. I catch the 6:33, which is O.K., I mean it gets me to NY in time, I just don’t like it. I stopped to get Theraflu at RiteAid, still have time, get some tea at Starbucks, everything is going fine until I get to the 7 train, and it is not running.
Then I got on the wrong train, had to get off and backtrack and that train was so crowded, I was standing next to this young man, so close that my hair was sticking to his coat, I didn’t want to brush it off since I was feeling that would call attention to me and with this cold I am already having trouble breathing. When the train stopped, I pushed my way out and ran to the wall, out of the stream of traffic, claustrophobia running amok.
Then I couldn’t remember what letter train. All I could remember was it was orange. So I took the orange train and got off at 21st street and finally made it to work at 9:00 am. >^, ,^<
>Em and I are going to the city Saturday. Yes, I will go even with a cold. Just take a box of tissues and I will be fine (I hope).
So today she is sending me e-mails about her horrible no good week, I cannot go into details here but she asked about getting a massage, I started thinking, where did I just read about someone getting a massage? It was Daryl on her blog, so I went to Google, opened my reader and started reading through her post until I found it. Then I sent an e-mail to Em with the name. Exhale Spa.
Of course she wanted me to call to find out how much $ and make the appointment. So then I googled the name and found the website with the phone number. Called to make an appointment for two massages on Saturday, well, the only times that were available were times we couldn’t make. So I made an appointment for her, said I would go another day, HA the girl who doesn’t like to be touched is going to get a massage? Don’t think so.
It’s ok, since she offered to pay for the massage and I’m not getting one, I asked her to pay for my hair appointment. She did, and now I have no more gray.
Then this cold hit, you know how you can be just sneezing and no other symptoms, then all of a sudden, in a second it feels like your have this sinus pressure headache and you are all stuffed up and have no idea how you are going to be able to sleep. I have no cold medicine to take, I used my netti pot but that isn’t lasting. I might sneak upstairs to see if Em has anything I can take. It is too late to take a Tylenol® PM, but that wouldn’t help with the cold symptoms anyway.
On a brighter note, I ordered the tickets for Phantom! Gwen and I are going in April. She needs to for school, Em is having her Administrative Professionals Day so I get to go with Gwen and we are going to see Phantom!
>Rare Red-headed Woodpecker Visits Stony Kill Farm
There’s nothing like a rare bird sighting to attract people to a new bird feeding and viewing area. So, fortune smiled on Stony Kill Farm when its new feeding and viewing area was christened on January 8 by a visit from a red-headed woodpecker. The exciting news of the rare bird’s presence, unmistakable with its totally red head and black and white nearly robin-sized body, soon drew a big crowd.
Rare Bird Alert
In a classic example of nature center and wildlife conservation group cooperation, Stony Kill staff alerted Dutchess County’s Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club, which posted a Rare Bird Alert (RBA) on its website. The next day, club members, visitors of all ages, and DEC staff began flocking to Stony Kill for a look. Within a few days, club photographers had added many photos of the bird, both feeding and in flight, on its website.
As of January 30, the lone male was still visiting Stony Kill’s suet feeder at the Manor House, and the corn crib at the farmstead. If you want to come and see for yourself, please look from indoors at the Manor House to prevent disturbing the bird.
The rare red-headed woodpecker swoops in for some food at Stony Kill—photo courtesy of Steve Golladay
Species of Special Concern
Not to be confused with its near relative, the red-bellied woodpecker whose populations are increasing across New York, the red-headed is in sharp decline and listed as “A Species of Special Concern.” The bird is in trouble despite being at home in old woodland burned areas and recent clearings, as well as wooded parkland and farms where it exploits a diverse variety of food resources. Likely causes are loss of habitat from land development and nest hole competition with European starlings.
Red-headed woodpeckers feed on insects on bark and foliage, and sometimes even snag flying insects, flycatcher-like, in mid-air. Plant foods include acorns, beechnuts, corn, berries and seeds, which are cached in natural cavities. Starlings and jays often raid cache sites. Compare nest site maps from 1980-85 to those from 2000-05 in the newly published Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State by viewing the atlas’s database comparison map on DEC’s website.
Yesterday I went out to lunch in the cold snowy weather, very icky, I was wearing my crocs and not the fuzzy ones and no socks. In my head I wrote a blog post complete with snazzy title and calling myself an intrepid girl reporter and bemoaning the fact that I didn’t check the weather report and so didn’t have the proper footwear but had worn my gray jacket. As you can see the post never made it here.
This post that was in my head never made it to my blog and if you are a regular reader you know this is not the first time this has happen. What I want to know is why? Why can’t it go from head to blog?
>In the last several years, there has been a push from those that provide electrical power and those concerned with the environment to use fluorescent and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for lighting to conserve energy. The theory is that the less energy consumed, the less energy power plants need to produce. This in turn creates less stress on the environment due to fewer greenhouse gas and mercury emissions, which lead to global warming and mercury poisoning of our natural resources.
Compact fluorescent bulbs use 75% less energy than incandescent (standard) bulbs and last up to 10 times longer. In comparison, a coal-fired power plant emits 13.6g of mercury to produce the electricity required to use an incandescent bulb but 3.3mg to produce enough energy for a compact fluorescent bulb.
When fluorescent bulbs burn out, what do you do with them? Should they be thrown away in the trash or do they need to be recycled? Fluorescent bulbs contain trace amounts of mercury. The bulbs contain anywhere from 5mg, about the size of a ballpoint pen tip, down to 1.4mg. Mercury is essential to these bulbs’ efficiency.
If bulbs are broken or disposed of in landfills and break, the mercury can leach into the soil, groundwater and eventually into rivers, lakes, streams and our food supply. According to the U.S. EPA’s Energy Star program (www.energystar.gov), if your state or local environmental regulatory agency permits you to put used or broken CFLs in the garbage, seal the bulb in two plastic bags and put it into the outside trash or other protected outside location for the next normal trash collection. Never send a fluorescent bulb or any other mercury-containing product to an incinerator. Other options may be available, such as local recycling programs or retail recycling locations like most Home Depot, IKEA and Ace Hardware stores. Other recycling options can be found at these Web sites: www.epa.gov/bulbrecycling or www.earth911.org.
In the end, compact fluorescent bulbs are a good way to help save Mother Earth and save consumers money when disposed of properly.
For a selection of recycling products from LSS, please click here.
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just a (transplanted) city girl 