>On April 27, 1947, "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star.
Archive for April, 2009
>I don’t understand this. I have been getting this message from some blogs, the blogs are in my follow list, and I can read them in Google reader, but when I go to the blog, I don’t see me in the little follow widget thing. So I click on follow button, thinking maybe I need to click on it for my pic to show up and I get this message.
What is really strange, is these are bloggers that are following me. So if they are following me, shouldn’t I be allowed to follow them?
I am very confused.
>On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately.
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Started at 5:00 a.m. when I got up to get ready to go to the zoo for the walk to save the gorillas. It was 5 kilometers which is 3.107 miles. It took me about an hour to walk it. I thought that was pathetic, but Em said it was a healthy pace.
Last night when I took my bath and washed my hair, I braided it in two braids. I left them in while I was walking, then took them out when I changed clothes. So my hair had that wavy, curly look that most people like to see my hair in. Took us a while to find the subway but we did and headed for Tribeca. We were on a local, I counted the stops, when I got to 16 stops I stopped counting. We go off at 79th Street so we could go to Cafe Frida for lunch. We went across the street where they were having a street fair but didn’t see anything we wanted. Em had a headache so she hailed a cab and we went to Tribeca for the film festival, but we couldn’t find anything going on. We did find a Marie Belle on Broome Street, New York, NY and had the most luscious iced chocolate drink(it was spicy) and dessert.
I bought a bracelet for Gwen that is made up of charms with pictures of NYC in them. She liked it.
There was more that we did, but right now I am so tired, and I took a Tylenol® PM, so I really want to go to bed. See you later.
>On April 25, 1945, United States and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.
On April 25, 1908, Edward R. Murrow, the influential American radio and television broadcaster during the industry’s early years, was born. Following his death on April 27, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.
Today was a regular work day, nothing special, I do have a few things to blog about however. 
When Gwen and I went to see Phantom, I wore a dress and the Crocs pictured at left (the blue ones). It is a bad habit of mine to wear new shoes when I have to do a lot of walking. I guess I thought that since they were Crocs and they weren’t heels like my Cyprus Crocs I would be alright.
Well, I was wrong, by the time we got to Central Park my feet were starting to develop blisters.
My dermatologist is near Central Park and on Tuesday when I got the prescription I dropped it off at the Duane Reade. They had to order it, which I was ok with since I knew we were going to be in Manhattan on Wednesday. So we went in to get my medicine and look for bandages. Gwen had some but I wanted the special kind for blisters.
It was there that I found my new best friend (relatively speaking). Band-Aid® Friction Block™. Claims to prevent blisters and it does! It looks like a little tiny deodorant stick and you just rub in on your foot where your shoes rub. You are not supposed to use it on already formed blisters (I did, and it kept it from getting worse). At the end of Wednesday, the only blister on my foot was the one that I had before I put this stuff on.
So today I decided to put it to the test, I took it to work and wore my Cyprus Crocs, all day with no tape on my toes, just the Band-Aid® Friction Block™. No blisters, not even any red spots, and no tape residue on my feet. I am definitely taking it with me tomorrow.
For those of you who are expecting pictures from tomorrow, I have some bad news, I lost my camera today.
>On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
>On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.
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Was so cool, so very, very cool. I loved everything about it, from Christine and Raoul, to Carlotta to the ballet teacher/coach to the little blond girl that would run across the stage, stop, face the audience and sing, ♪♫’The Phan-tom of the Op-er-a’♫♪, then continue across the stage. I have been wanting to see it since, I can’t remember, it become real and I have been actually waiting since the 25th of February when I bought the tickets.
Today started early, I woke up at 5:00 a.m. with a headache. A bad headache, I couldn’t even get up to take the medicine for my rosacea. I finally managed to get up and take it. I went back to bed and then Em started texting me at 6:18 a.m. That is when she left for the city. Gwen was down soon after that because she wanted to have breakfast in the city and ‘explore’. So I struggled out of bed and we caught the train at 7:30 a.m. or so. We had breakfast at Pershing Square. Have I mentioned that Pershing Square is my favorite place for breakfast? I will have to blog about that later.
Then we walked up to Saks and got our make-up done at the Lancôme counter, I really liked the colors he used on my face so I bought them, bronzer, eye shadow and lipstick, I was going to get the gloss but they didn’t have it. I have the name though for later. We continued walking uptown to Central Park, Gwen wanted to go down by the water so we took a little walk through the park. No I do not have pictures, I didn’t bring my camera since we were going to be in a theater later and I know taking pictures is not allowed.
We started back toward the theater stopping for lunch at a place called the Applejack Diner (no they did not serve Applejacks for breakfast, Gwen’s little joke) and got to the theater in plenty of time. I could have brought my camera, after all there were a bunch of teenagers there with their cameras and they did not search us, they didn’t even look in the bag Gwen had, she brought the tote bag she takes to college. I keep remembering how D, Em and I got searched at Radio City Music Hall. Well anyway, it was great. The white spots on the cover of the playbill are where it got damaged from being in my pocketbook. At the end, during the curtain call, as the actors were coming forward, first the ensemble then the main characters, Raoul and Christine and the applause was getting louder with each one, I leaned toward Gwen and said, ‘Wait till the Phantom comes out.’ He came out last and the audience started screaming and everyone was standing, as Gwen later said, ‘It takes a lot of acting skill to play a role like that.’
Then we met up with Em, did a little more walking and went to Annie Moore’s for dinner. It was very late when we got home and I was very tired. I knew Kay would like to see a picture of me with my makeup done, so I took this picture when I got home.
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This morning was my follow up with the Dermatologist, she was not happy about the bumps still on face, she wasn’t the only one. She gave me script for Oracea. Since her office is near Central Park and I had some time before I had to go to work, I walked around Columbus Circle for a while where I took this picture. Before I took the picture I was standing looking at it and eating fritos out of a bag, I looked down at the step in front of me and there was this bold little sparrow, as I watched it hopped off the step towards me, I think it was waiting for me to drop a chip. So, shhh, don’t tell the parks department that I was feeding the sparrows, dropping my chips.
At one time I was posting weird things I saw in New York, I stopped not because I stopped seeing them, I guess they started to not seem weird to me. Here are some random things I saw this morning.
Walking to GCT I saw a man with his pug, he stops and the dog sits and looks up at him with that, ‘You’re sharing your lunch with me right?’ face,
I got a sandwich for my lunch and resisted the urge to take all the Splenda packets. (I steal Splenda packets from restaurants, I don’t use them, I just can’t resist the yellow packets for some reason) It was hard but I did it.
I saw a girl smelling her hair, it made me want to smell mine.
I saw a woman holding an ice pack to her jaw. I resisted the urge to ask her ‘Dentist or husband?’
Belleza
just a (transplanted) city girl 